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In our first Twilight Talk of 2025, speaker Roy Kareem from the Centre for Sustainable Energy spoke about ‘Engaging Young People in the Net Zero Transition’, introducing concepts around the values and strengths-based work he’s done at the intersection of young people and net-zero thus far, along with a new framework he’s been recently working with known as the Inner Development Goals.
The recording from this session is below. Please click here to access the chat, and please click here to access the slides. All previous Twilight Talks can be viewed on our YouTube page.
Further resources:
- Bright Green Future – CSE’s environmental leadership programme for young people. And then see here for all of CSE’s youth engagement work.
- Inner Development Goals
- Values work:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Holding Back from Life – article discussing importance of values based intentions
- Strengths finder tool (there are lots, but this one is free!)
- Impact Tool – CSE’s community carbon calculator. Solar Wizard is another tool that CSE have developed that might be used with their Bright Green Future students to explore solar potential in their communities.
- Resilience Through Nature – the programme Roy developed for students at the University of Bristol
- Black and Green Ambassadors
For further training opportunities, check out our upcoming events (and save 10% if you book before the end of January using the code JAN2025):
- Our brand new RICS training is next up on January 28th. This event will cover a practical route to achieving carbon assessments on any built asset, from the stages of concept design through to as-built.
- Biodiversity Net Gain mandatory requirements came into force in 2024. Do you know what you need to do to comply? In our online training session ‘Understanding Biodiversity Net Gain Requirements and Rewards‘, Kalia Symeonidou of Eight Versa will fully explain the implications of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) requirements, including how to integrate BNG into development plans to avoid costly mistakes and achieve planning permission.
- Our ever-popular technical training course covering emerging research, best practice and case studies in the field of upgrading traditional and historic buildings is back next month! Nick Heath’s Retrofitting Traditional Buildings covers current issues, solutions and emerging best practice in how to de-risk projects and achieve ‘responsible retrofit’ and is one of our most popular sessions for a reason.
- How can you reduce the embodied carbon of small structures? In our new training course, Sustainability Quick Wins, our speaker will highlight ‘quick wins’ – simple yet effective changes that designers can implement in their structures to decrease embodied carbon, even when this isn’t a key project driver, and there is little or no available time for carbon calculations and options assessments.