EUROPEAN SUSTAINABILITY ACADEMY

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TEDx Countdown Videos - Climate Change

17th October 2020

Making Sense of Climate Change on Crete - Taking Action.

This online event was part of the TED Countdown global launch to share ideas and showcases solutions, technologies and actions for addressing the global climate change emergency.

Professor Phoebe Koundouri

Professor Theocharis Tsoutsos

Sofia Yialama

Due to the current pandemic restrictions, diverse speakers gave live talks via webinar. Attendees were from diverse locations with many from island states, suffering similar climate change crisies as Crete. Discussions were built in to the agenda for knowledge sharing and collaborative networking. The event closed with a CALL TO ACTION! The content of these talks is very practical and grounded in suggestions for local action. There is no more time for abstract theories.

Michael Spanos

An insightful talk about how climate change is driving banking, insurance, and investments. Incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues into business strategy and finance.

Kostas Bouyouris

Networks for sustainable food destinations - inspiring people and businesses to perform their optimum 'sustainability potential'.

Dr. Dawid Hanak

Let's talk about the climate emergency – can islands lead the green energy transition? We have a negative impact on our planet. It is undeniable. We need to act now to prevent drastic climate change.

Evelyn Bakinta

Nature and Humans in Crete: how to make this relationship work. A personal account of how Climate Change is affecting Crete and how everybody can take action.

Gonca Kara Demir, Rafael Pascual-Leone, Camille Bon

Sharing experiences of Malta's urban mobility scene and setting up of EIT Urban Mobility Hub Malta, the need for systems innovation and human-centric design as well as engagement of the community.

Vee Bougani

Co-Founder of the Sustainable Food Movement Greece, focusses on the concerns and actions of how Greece will respond to the climate crisis from the perspective of food production, supply management and policy infrastructure.

Professor Phoebe Koundouri

A talk about the Sustainability Transition in Greece in the context of sustainable recovery post the 2020 covid19 virus pandemic. Making sense of climate change on Crete: Taking Action

Professor Theocharis Tsoutsos

Sustainable mobility on EU islands. An enlightening overview of engaging a wide range of stakeholders across the city of Rethymno, Crete, to improve the sustainability impacts of mobility

Sofia Yialama

Climate change impact on food security. Climate change is the current mainstream risk for our people, businesses and prosperity

News updates

Essential skills development for Sustainability Activators

This is what the participants said about the new ESA Sustainability Activator and Changemakers skills development workshop
Post date: 29th March 2023.

Sustainability Activators and Changemakers Skills Development Workshop

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Post date: 18th July 2022.

Health and wellbeing impact of Green Buildings

Our research on the health and wellbeing impact of Green Buildings on people (Biophilia), has been PUBLISHED in SpringerNature Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation (ASTI) series.
Post date: 2nd October 2021.

What we do

Since 2012, ESA has delivered international, high calibre, leadership and management education, with a focus on the knowledge, skills and behaviours that are necessary to futureproof organisations and preserve the planet, through the practical application of sustainable business models.

Sustainable business needs new thinking, innovation and creativity which is rarely provided by mainstream business teaching. ESA founder Sharon Jackson has been teaching and lecturing on sustainable leadership and management since 2000 and believes that busy executives can focus on the principles of sustainability in a more meaningful and practical way when energised by a rich ecological backdrop.

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Powered only by Cretan sunshine, ESA is a beautiful building rooted in the earth amongst ancient rocks and olive trees, surrounded by nature. Its construction is a leading example of sustainability in practice. ESA is an experiential and creative place where people feel enlivened, uplifted and creative. Great living and great learning happen at ESA. A perfect setting for:

Leading sustainable enterprise

Our passion is contributing towards co-created sustainable enterprise for positive impact on communities and the natural environment on a global scale. Leadership and entrepreneur issues of adaptation, resilience, authenticity, sustainable-self, values connected sense-making and the continued emancipation of women (WISE) to take up more leadership roles in the world are at the core of the ESA sustainability experience.

Make sense of sustainability

Crete is the sustainable destination of the past and of the future.

Home of the Minoans, one of the earliest civilisations on earth, nestled between Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Crete is rich with mythology, gastronomy, music, art and agriculture. You can have your own authentic experience of a sustainable lifestyle and feel first-hand the strong connection between nature and community.

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