High North Dialogue Side Event: Less Talk – Take Action on the UN Sustainability Goals

In this workshop you will learn how to create curiosity about the UN Sustainability Goals. A simple, research-based methodology helps you select which of the UN’s Sustainability Goals are meaningful for you and your business. You will immediately be able to use tools and knowledge in internal change processes and externally with customers, partners and investors.

Program

1. DIALOGUE AND ACTION ON THE UN’S SUSTAINABILITY GOALS!

Group work: Warm-up dialogue around the tables.
How do you and your project or business measure sustainability today?
What will the future bring?
“Future Urban Imaginaries” example Svalbard.
Lisbeth Iversen, Researcher, #LoVeSe-SDG project, UiB (University of Bergen) in collaboration with NERSC (Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center)

2. THE GAME IS ON, WHICH CARDS DO YOU PLAY?

Group work: Engage your team, localize and select meaningful goals for your Sustainability work.
We use the physical Sustainability Cards (SDGCARDS.NO) for linking the UN’s Sustainability Goals to concrete sustainability issues:
“Windmills, Tourism and mining? A balancing act for Sustainability.
Whose voice count? Nature, society, or? example Svalbard.
Grete Kaare Hovelsrud, President, IASSA (International Arctic Social Sciences Association) and Professor, Nordland Research Institute, Nord University & CICERO.

3. HOW TO GO THROUGH ALL THE UN’S 17 SUSTAINABILITY GOALS and 169 SUB-GOALS IN 1 HOUR?

Group work: Based on a simple, research-based methodology, you choose relevant targets for you and your business (the “SDG Target Relevance Tracing” methodology).

4. SUMMARY, LEARNING POINTS AND THE WAY FORWARD.

– Did you achieve your learning ambitions?

Panel:

The aim of the Workshop is to engage the participants, the panelists/speakers will present case studies for practical use during the workshop:

  • Lisbeth Iversen, Researcher, #LoVeSe-SDG project, UiB (University of Bergen) in collaboration with NERSC (Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center), Public Sector PhD candidate, AHO, and Chair of the Board of SSSI (Svalbard Social Science Initiative).
  • Grete Kaare Hovelsrud, President, IASSA (International Arctic Social Sciences Association) and Professor, Nordland Research Institute, Nord University & CICERO.
  • Karin Berentsen, founder and developer, ARCT & SDGCARDS.NO & workshop organizer.
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