Put Climate Resilience, Green Growth and ‘Impact Travel’ in Curricula – Lipman Urges Deans

Put Climate Resilience, Green Growth and 'Impact Travel' in Curricula - Lipman Urges Deans

Addressing 350 Business School Deans at the EFMD Conference – Professor Geoffrey Lipman said that the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) – provide a massive opportunity for the academic world, but they need to be approached with a big reality check on the tensions between aspiration, implementation, and finance. He also drew attention to the 15-year timeframe for delivery, with a bottom -up local action framework, reviewed and adjusted every 5 years.

In a session with EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc, UN Advisor Jeffrey Sachs and Per Cramer, Dean of Gothenburg Business School, Lipman noted that there are not just 17 Goals covering every aspect of life on the planet, but 169 targets and 304 indicators. He also underscored that every network across the world is establishing its own priorities and identified 3 key areas that would add to Business Schools traditional focus.

This is an excerpt from an article first published by Travel Industry Wire. Read the original article here: Put Climate Resilience, Green Growth and ‘Impact Travel’ in Curricula – Lipman Urges Deans

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