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SYDNEY, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Associate Professor Melissa Edwards of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Business School has been chosen by the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) to assist business schools round Australia take motion on climate change.
In her new place as inaugural Climate Action Fellow, Professor Edwards will coordinate the transformation of Australia’s business training in keeping with the organisation’s Declaration on Climate Action.
The ABDC is the collective voice of all Australian business schools. The organisation established the Declaration on Climate Action in April 2022, committing to develop training and analysis requirements specializing in business responses to climate change.
According to ABDC president Professor Keryn Chalmers, the place of Climate Action Fellow was created to coordinate the ABDC’s method to climate motion.
“This involves identifying opportunities to collaborate on educating the next generation of business leaders on the importance of a net zero future, policy research and business responses to ensure sustainable development,” she says.
As the director of the Executive Master of Business Administration packages at UTS, Professor Edwards has labored extensively to co-develop and handle progressive greater education schemes specializing in sustainable business fashions.
“Climate action should be business as usual for business schools and their students who want to understand and be able to use their professions to reverse, mitigate and adapt to climate change,” she says.
Professor Carl Rhodes, Dean of UTS Business School, praises Edwards’ appointment.
“She has taken a leading role in bringing together colleagues to collaboratively develop the UTS Business School’s climate action plan, our statement on climate action, and working across UTS to further our commitment to sustainability,” he says.
UTS Business School is dedicated to performing on climate change and acknowledges its accountability to forestall additional climate crises. This consists of implementing climate-positive methods, frameworks for bodily transition climate threat analytics and nature-based and progressive technological options for adaptive challenges.
The University of Technology Sydney is a number one college of expertise, ranked fifteenth on the earth and 2nd in Australia within the 2022 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, which assesses universities in opposition to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Discover UTS Business School, a socially dedicated business college targeted on growing and sharing information for an progressive, sustainable and affluent economy.
