PRME Webinar

In the context of the World Business Summit on Climate Change (24-26 May), the Copenhagen Business School hosted a virtual meeting (webinar) with PRME interested signatories and World Business Summit participants in order to exchange views about the state-of-the-art in the introduction of climate change concerns in the curricula of business schools in the era of sustainable leadership. Furthermore, the event was a first step towards discussing the agenda, nature and expected outcomes of the PRME/CBS International Conference on Sustainable leadership in an Era of Climate Change (23-24 November 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark).

Manuel Escudero, Head of the PRME Secretariat, started the webinar by outlining the agenda and the secretariat’s great interest in the topic underlining the importance of a curriculum change to also accommodate climate change.

Peter Mollgaard gave a presentation on “Proactive climate strategies and responsible management education” focusing on climate strategies and emerging proactive strategies for an increasing number of business leaders and how this feeds into management education including lessons learned from setting up the CBS Climate Strategies for Business initiative (CBS-CSB).

Mollgaard proposed to start with curricula and faculty exchange and also mentioned the current ideas at CBS to set up a Wiki system for faculty, companies and students which might be possible to extend to the wider PRME network.

Jonas Eder-Hansen added that the PRME network could be an obvious starting point for encouraging cross-disciplinary partnerships and the PRME Secretariat might be interested in focusing on the further attraction of technical universities into PRME.

Manuel Escudero rounded off the discussion by inviting all participants to join the preparatory working group that will work on formulating the 23-24 Nov conference programme. Furthermore, it was decided to arrange another webinar once the conference programme draft has been finalized to get final input from the network.