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Sustainability Team introduced to combat carbon emissions and climate change

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

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  • Business student Ethan Menhard

    Business student Ethan Menhard

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The UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) is a framework established by the United Nations to realise the Sustainable Development Goals through responsible management education, and in 2019 the School of Business and Law (SBL) formally became an advanced signatory. This gives an explicit commitment to integrating sustainability, responsible management and ethics in the School’s teaching and learning, research and operations.

Soon after becoming an advanced signatory, the school developed a PRME and Sustainability Team. The team led by Dr. Mehran Nejati (Director of PRME and Sustainability), has representatives from a variety of disciplines including students, academic and professional staff.

The SBL PRME and Sustainability Team advocate for and promote tree planting as a way to reduce carbon and combat climate change. In 2020, staff and students planted 208 trees in Whiteman Park, Mundy Regional Park, Booyeembara Park, and ECU, to name a few.

More recently, business student Ethan Menhard led the charge in his undergraduate Foundations of Business unit (SBL1100), to plant trees to offset the class’s carbon footprint throughout the semester.

The PRME and Sustainability Team welcomes members from around the university, and aims to continue planting more trees in coming years and involve more of our students in caring for the environment and biodiversity.

To find out more, or to join please email sustainablesbl@ecu.edu.au

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