IAU 2019 International Conference

Transforming Higher Education for the Future

Session: Towards Sustainable Societies with higher education

Dr. Stacy Richards-Kennedy

Director, Office of Global Partnerships and Sustainable Futures

The University of the West Indies

• 1 University, 5 Campuses

• Serving 17 countries of the English speaking Caribbean.

• Approx. 50,000 students including 9000 graduates annually and more than 120,000 alumni

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Our Approach

Teaching

Partnerships

Research

Advocacy

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Teaching

• Over 40+ Postgraduate programmes in sustainable environmental management, with emphasis on Small Island States (SIS)

• A few examples:

Cave Hill-CERMES

• MSc in Natural Resource and Environmental Management

Mona- ISD

• PhD Sustainable Development

Open Campus

• Advanced Certificate in Leadership for Sustainable Development

St. Augustine

• MSc Biodiversity Conservation & Sustainable Development in the Caribbean

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Research Clusters, Centres & Institutes

• Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD)• Centre for Policy Studies in Sustainable Development• Centre for Environmental Management (CEM)• Disaster Risk Reduction Centre (DRCC)

• Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES)

• Climate Studies Group, Mona Campus

• Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES)

• Institute for Gender & Development Studies (IGDS)

• Seismic Research Centre (SRC)

• Global Institute for Climate Smart and Resilience Studies (GICSRS)

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Science Diplomacy

• IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL) – 2019

• IPCC Special Report on Global Warming – 2018

• ‘1.5 to Stay Alive’ Global Campaign

• Global Sustainable Development Report

• University Consortium of Small Island States (UCSIS)

• Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)- Caribbean

• Caribbean Climate-smart Accelerator

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Example: UWI supporting SDG Implementation in Jamaica

• SALISES developed a ‘Leaving No One Behind’ report to assess the extent to which marginalised groups in Jamaica will impact the achievement of the SDGs.

Achieving Inclusiveness

• 2018 Conference on “Sustainable Futures for the Caribbean: Critical Interventions and the 2030 Agenda”

Thought Leadership

• Developed Jamaica’s 1st Sustainable Development Goals Report.

• This report informed Jamaica’s VNR in 2018.

Applied Research

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Advocacy

• UWI-UNDP Think-tank on Public Policy for a Blue Economy

• UWI-UNDP SDG Youth Advocacy Campaign• Short video series “Youth Action on the SDGs”

• Photography competition “Through the eyes of Caribbean youth”

• Youth Forum on the SDGs

• Regional Conference on the SDGs 8

UN HLPF and Climate Summit Events

• July 2019

• UN Headquarters, NYC

• September 2019

• SUNY Global Center, NYC

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Partnerships

• SUNY-UWI Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development

• Canada-Caribbean Studies Institute (Brock University)

• Strategic Alliance for Hemispheric Development (UNIANDES)

• UWI-China Institute for Information Technology

• UNILAG-UWI Institute of African Diaspora Studies

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Partnerships

• Institute for Global Africa Affairs (University of Johannesburg)

• UWI-Coventry Institute for Industry-Academic Partnership

• Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development & Research

• Hemispheric University Consortium (HUC)

• Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)

• International Association of Universities (IAU)

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Global University Consortium on SDG 13

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For more info

• ISD• http://www.uwi.edu/isd/

• CERMES• https://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/cermes/home.aspx

• Climate Studies Group• https://www.mona.uwi.edu/physics/csgm/home

• SALISES• http://www.uwi.edu/salises/

• IGDS• https://sta.uwi.edu/igds/

• SRC• http://uwiseismic.com/

• Global University Consortium on SDG 13• https://www.universities4climateaction.org/

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Dr. Stacy Richards-KennedyDirector, Office of Global Partnerships and Sustainable Futures

The University of the West Indies

Email: stacy.kennedy@sta.uwi.edu

www.uwi.edu

www.uwi.edu/uod

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