Speaker: May East, CEO CIFAL Scotland, UNITAR Associated Training Centre

May will just have returned from the UN General Assembly in New York where Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) will be at the top of the agenda.  Based at the UN Habitat Best Practice Designation Findhorn Ecovillage since 1992, May has been leading a whole generation of sustainability educators delivering trainings in 34 countries in both urban and rural contexts. A UNITAR Fellow, she has a diploma on Climate Change Diplomacy and is the UN House Scotland Director of Sustainability and Climate Change. May has delivered Transition Training since 2008 creating pathways for low-carbon global to regional performance and is currently advising a series of projects seeking to scale up low-carbon investment in Brazil. Awarded one of the 100 Global SustainAbility Leaders 2011 and 2012.

The talk will be followed by a drinks reception.

Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow

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The event is free and everyone is welcome to attend.  To register, please visit http://sdnevents.eventbrite.co.uk/