The Sustainability Festival 2024

Do you want to find out why addressing climate change matters to saving the Oslo Fjord? Do you want to understand what it could be like to evacuate from a climate disaster as a disabled person? Do you want to contribute your insight into what an agriculture transition needs to look like? Are you curious about how energy policies differ between countries?

– Join us at the Sustainability Festival and explore a variety of engaging activities organized by students from the Climate Change and Society course!

Expect a dynamic program filled with presentations, posters, videos, and interactive activities crafted by students, exploring the many dimensions of climate-resilient development and delving deeper into different arenas of engagements. Whether you're interested in local initiatives or global strategies, this festival will spark important conversations and inspire new ideas on how to build a sustainable future.

This is a student-led event aimed at creating space for discussions and reflections on how we can collectively contribute to a climate-resilient world.

Everyone is welcome—come, learn, and engage!

Where: University Library, VET Building 
When: November 5th, 12:00 - 15:30

Program

12.00: The doors open, informal mingling,

12.10: Welcome by Astrid Sinnes, vice-rector for sustainability  

12.15: Overview by Siri Eriksen

Introduction of key themes from the student groups - each of these themes are elaborated in interactive stands.

12.25: Introducing the local context: The Oslo Fjord

• The Oslo Fjord is dying
• How Climate Change and Local Actions Threaten the Oslo Fjord

12.35: Equity locally and globally

• Vulnerability, disabilities and climate change
• Climate-Induced Displacement in the Lake Chad Region

12.45: Transformation and system transitions

• Agricultural Transition in Norway
• The role of urban agriculture for climate change adaptation
• Ecosystems transition: Make your own city – biodiversity edition

13.00: Enabling change

• Where do you get your electricity? Electricity mix, energy policy, and climate politics in various countries
• Adaptation or maladaptation? Exploring unintended consequences of climate change adaptation

13.10: A musical perspective on Climate Resilient Development. (Video)

13.15: The program with workshops and stand starts.
Stands in Innsikten, the writing center and the VET foyer

14.40: Collecting lessons – What reflections and insights from the festival have you gained?
Share your thoughts by adding a note on the Climate resilient figure in the Library.

15.00-15.30: Panel discussion – How can NMBU and societal actors engage in transformation towards climate resilient development in Follo and beyond?

Panel:  

Cecilie Dahl-Jørgensen Pind (Mayor Nordre Follo)

Aksel Fidje Zeiner (BIT-center)

Finn Arne Weltzien (pro rector for research and innovation)

Stian Stensland (Professor MINA, Leader if the Oslofjord innitiative NMBU)

Linn Bråthen Browning (student from Climate Change and Society)

Celine Weiseth (Future in our hands Ås)

Find the activities

Innsikten:

Stands from EDS355:

Climate-Induced Displacement in the Lake Chad Region

Ecosystems transition: Make your own city – biodiversity edition.

Where do you get your electricity? Electricity mix, energy policy, and climate politics in various countries

The Oslo Fjord is dying

Other activities in Innsikten:

Fiskelauget – bring your own clothes to mend!

The VET Foyer:

Stands from EDS355:

How Climate Change and Local Actions Threaten the Oslo Fjord

Vulnerability, disabilities and climate change

Agricultural Transition in Norway

The role of urban agriculture for climate change adaptation

Adaptation or maladaptation? Exploring unintended consequences of climate change adaptation

Stands from student organizations:

Rethinking economics

Bua

Spire

Globalis

Effective Altruism

Tour

- with landscape architect Ingrid Merete Ødegård about blue green infrastructure and nature-based solutions on NMBU campus.

Meet up at the VET entrance from: 13.15, and 14.00.

Inspection of the Open Waterways and Student Gardens at NMBU. Open waterways represent sustainable stormwater management in a climate with increased rainfall. The Student Gardens demonstrate urban agriculture in practice, as part of a course where students can learn and experience firsthand how to grow their own food in collaboration with others.