Wednesday 27 January 2021
4pm - 5pm
Zoom
Reniera's work focuses on growing the Foundation's University network and leveraging the value of taking a whole campus approach across teaching, research, student-led activities, and campus management to support the transition to a circular economy. She also seeks to understand and maximise the influential role universities play within their local context and looks for ways to better integrate higher education activity across the Foundations key programme areas such as Cities and Governments and the Systemic Initiatives.
Charles leads the sustainability team at LSE overseeing the implementation of strategy and delivery of services across campus and residences. The sustainability team is working on improving the environmental performance of LSE and embedding sustainable practices, working closely with staff and students. Charles engages with a varied range of stakeholders across the School to raise the profile of sustainability and ensure to gather diverse views to inform the School’s approach.
"I am firmly convinced that we as humans can do better" - Fabien is the founder of NePals e.V., an association and soon-to-be non-profit corporation that aims to set up social entrepreneurial projects in the world, and co-founder of EcoPals, a spin-off from the association that specialises in using non-recyclable plastic as a plastic additive in road construction. Proper circular economy is a design question. How do we as humans design products, cities, laws...? NePals and EcoPals are primarily about making the consequences of our current design problems (e.g. plastic waste) as circular as possible. They have set their goals "to find the missing piece to make it a bit more circular". According to Fabien, both people who fight the symptoms (wrong design) and people who fight the causes (create new designs) are needed. EcoPals are specializing in the former for now, NePals is tackling the second.