Ailsa Lamont on the role of higher education in propelling climate action

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Ailsa Lamont has had a long career in Australian universities, leading various international and social innovation departments. In 2016, she founded Pomegranate Global, a start-up dedicated to helping the education sector to tackle climate change, and co-founded the Climate Action Network for International Educators.

With Ailsa, we talked about Scotland, the value of studying abroad, being a climate reality leader, universities’ carbon footprint, the challenges with top-down university management, and having more women at the decision-making table.

References mentioned in the episode:

• Pomegranate Global
• Climate Action Network for International Educators (CANIE)
• International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA)
• NoFlyClimateSci
• International Education Association of Australia (IEAA)
• Australasian Campus Towards Sustainability (ACTS)
• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
• Climate science deniers at forefront of downplaying coronavirus pandemic, The Guardian
• Domestic violence is on the rise with Coronavirus lockdown. The responses are missing the point, The Intercept
• Edward Snowden says COVID-19 could give governments invasive new data-collection powers that could last long after the pandemic, Business Insider Australia
• An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore, directed by David Guggenheim
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
• Guy Gavriel Kay