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ECR STA is being praised by its ECR participants on Linkedin
Just to name a few: we are very happy they've enjoyed the STA and found it beneficial to their learning and professional experience! We are very grateful to IGSD, Sustainability Spotlight, COP29 and IDD of ADA University for supporting this important initiative.
Diana Rincon Vabuena: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-rincon-valbuena-125971b6/
Igor Santos melo: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7313235052165787649/
Genevieve Sekumbo: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7317883160715747328/
Victor Rezende Moreire: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7315316959561048067/
Abbas Babyev: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7314949648865976320/
ECR STA, 30 March-5 April 2025, at Warwick's Venice Centre has been a success!
Warwick's Sustainability Training Academy (STA) in Venice (WVC) has now come to a close, but what an event it was bringing together 21 ECRs from 13 countries, to share and develop their creative skills, and engage with critical theories and interdisciplinary methods! Blue skies, organic food from Sant'Erasmo farm, and new CA'Foscari friends; amazing cookies from Chiara at WVC and loads of pasta, pizza and aperol spritz - what else you could wish for!! All of these however was made so special and possible by the whole bunch of people and we at IGSD are indebted to them - Prof Harini Nagendra, Dr Bryan Brazeau, Dr Harriet Richmond, Dr Adela Glyn-Davies, Nargiz Ismayilova, Dr Anar Valiyev, and Dr Fariz Ismailzade!
We are also immensely fortunate to gather such a fantastic group of ECRs, and we hope to keep in touch with every single one of them! We are also grateful to our former ECR @TieazaSantos from NASA Open Science, for sharing NASA learning resources with us, and to everyone who made this STA a success, including the support from Warwick's Sustainability Spotlight and COP29 Scientific Council Azerbaijan. Watch the space for 2026!
Warwick's Sustainability Training School is about to kick off!
Between 30 March – 5 April 2025, over 21 next-generation climate leaders from eight countries (and 13 nationalities), will attend Warwick’s pioneering Sustainability Training Academy in Venice. Launched in 2023 by the Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD), and supported by the COP29 Scientific Council, the Sustainability Training Academy equips early career researchers (ECRs) with the interdisciplinary analytical, methodological, and practical skills needed to address the systemic challenges of climate change, climate justice and climate transition.
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An ECR from STS 2.0 reflected on her IGSD global experience
Maria Anjelica Ancheta, a PhD student from the Asia Institute of Technology in Thailand, who joined our IGSD STS Global in 2024, recently published a blog reflecting about her experience and how it enriched her thinking. The blog is titled 'From Research to Resilience: My Journey at the CR STS 2.0 at Warwick', and is also featured on Anjelica's University's social media site here.
It is amazing to see how ECRs can grow both in their intellectual and cultural journeys when are given the right opportunities to engage!
SHAPEDEM-EU co-authors a report on carbon pricing
Dr Aijan SharshenovaLink opens in a new window, SHAPEDEM-EULink opens in a new window Research Fellow, co-authored (with a Harvard University Research Fellow Dr Rahat Sabyrbekov) a large report on opportunities and barriers to introducing carbon pricing in the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia. The report employs mixed methods to estimate the possibility and the extent of difficulty to introduce such climate mitigation mechanism in a land-locked lower income country. The report is funded by the CAREC InstituteLink opens in a new window's research grant and is available online at https://www.carecinstitute.org/publications/exploring-carbon-pricing-in-central-asia-new-insights-from-the-kyrgyz-republic/