Institutional development · Sustainability and civic impact · Brazil
Unesp professor to argue at COP31 for climate change in teaching and research
Henrique Tahan Novaes, an educator at Unesp's Marília campus in Brazil, will attend COP31 to debate how universities should respond to climate change.
Why it matters: Unesp's Marília campus will be represented at COP31 by an educator arguing for climate issues in university teaching, extension and research.
Unesp (São Paulo State University) reported that Henrique Tahan Novaes, a lecturer on its Marília campus, will attend COP31 to debate the part universities play in confronting climate change.
According to the university, Novaes is an educator who argues for changes to models of production and consumption.
The university said he also advocates fuller integration of the climate question into teaching, extension and research at higher education institutions.
Editor’s view
Abigail Taylor, Leadership and Governance Editor
Novaes, from Unesp's Marília campus, will take to COP31 the case that higher education institutions should build climate issues more fully into their teaching, extension and research.
