PaleoNet: Calls for abstracts - EGU24 session EOS 2.6 EGU General Assembly 2024 (Austria & Online - 14-19 April 2024).

[Francesca Maria Jolanda Lozar]

Dear Palaeonetters,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our EGU 2024
session *Where
do we stand on sustainable development? Geoscience education and UN 2030
Agenda,* convened by myself and co-convened by Dr. Andrea Fildani (Deep
Time Institute), Dr. Marco Tonon  (Turin University), Elena Egidio  (Turin
University), and Andrea Gerbaudo (Turin University).
This is a transdisciplinary session on geoscience education and
sustainability.
Since Geoscience education includes (of course!) Palaeontology, I ask you
the kindness to spread the call, which you find below, to your colleagues.
We hope that the session EOS 2.6, *Where do we stand on sustainable
development? Geoscience education and UN 2030 Agenda*, may be of wide
interest across  Europe, the US and beyond.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS EOS session 2.6 at EGU24


Title: *Where do we stand on sustainable development? Geoscience education
and UN 2030 Agenda*



Link: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessionprogramme/5217#
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessionprogramme/5217%23&source=gmail-imap&ust=1701430656000000&usg=AOvVaw1YwivMT2qq7reKZn5OuBZS>



Final deadline: 10 January 2024






*If geosciences education is a key component of education for
sustainability and has the potential to change human behavior towards
sustainability, then we should ask ourselves: How can earth science
educators promote this change? The appropriate time to ask thisquestion is
right now, since we are halfway on the road to 2030 assumed by the UN COP21
(Paris 2015) and many studies, including the UN 2023 Sustainable
Development Goals Report, have revealed weaknesses and delays in the path
toward the Goals, hindered by the impacts of the climate crisis, the wars
in critical regions, the fragility of the global economy, and the lingering
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.During this session we expect to receive
contributions from all fields of geoscience education; the idea is to
gather different Earth science teaching and learning experiences related to
the Sustainable Development Goals, in order to understand what has already
been done to put future geoscientists at the center of the problem,
considering that they will play a crucial role in implementing the SDGs and
moving society toward a more sustainable future (geohazards mitigation,
energy transition, wise management of georesources, climate change
adaptation, pollution reduction, among other issues). A direct outcome of
this first goal could be the creation of a Europe-wide network of teachers
active in geoscience education for sustainable development, who can
exchangemethodologies and best practices.A second, desirable outcome of the
session would be to outline a framework in which to move in the immediate
future, given the imperative urgency of aligning education with the
Sustainable Development Goals before it is too late, before - in the words
of UN Secretary General António Guterres – “the 2030 Agenda will become an
epitaph for a world that might have been”, with the ultimate goal of
empowering the young generation for achieving the Goals and move toward a
more sustainable society.*

Please submit your abstract by 10 Jan, 2024, 13:00 CET at this Link:
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessionprogramme/5217#
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessionprogramme/5217%23&source=gmail-imap&ust=1701430656000000&usg=AOvVaw1YwivMT2qq7reKZn5OuBZS>

All best wishes for the season, and hope to see you at EGU next year!
Francesca


Francesca Lozar
Micropaleontologist
Department of Earth Sciences
Torino University
Via Valperga Caluso 35
10125 TORINO ITALY
+390116705199
francesca.lozar at unito.it

"Our blindness to the presence of the past in fact imperils our future".
Marcia Bjornerud

“What will the world be like with carbon dioxide levels twice of today? We
simply don’t know; it will strongly depend on how fast we get there. We do
understand that it will be hotter. But if you want at least a clue to its
impact, ask a paleontologist. We’ve been there”. Roy Plotnick
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