Ihobe and APIA launch the Environmental Communication School on biodiversity and natural heritage at the UPV/EHU Summer Courses

It will be held as part of the Sustainability Forum at the Miramar Palace in San Sebastián on 21 and 22 September.

The School is being run for the second time and will analyse how communication can contribute to better knowledge and protection of biodiversity and natural heritage.

The challenge of conveying humanity’s “toxic relationship” with nature

The Donostia Sustainability Forum held as part of the UPV/EHU-BBVA Foundation Summer Courses featured a dialogue on key environmental challenges and their communication to society between Matt McGrath, the BBC’s environment correspondent and winner of the 1st BBVA Foundation Biophilia Award, and Pedro Jordano, CSIC research professor in the Department of Integrative Ecology at Doñana Biological Station and committee secretary for the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology.

Donostia Sustainability Forum closes the cycle of open conferences by internationally renowned scientists and experts, with a very positive balance

The main event of this edition has been a dialogue organized by the BBVA Foundation, between the BBC's environment correspondent Matt McGrath (BBVA Foundation Biophilia Award 2019) and Pedro Jordano (CSIC Research Professor). They have emphasised the importance of communication in the fight against climate change, as well as addressing the challenge of communicating with passion, enthusiasm and clear examples.

The Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development is to study the increasingly close link between environmental deterioration and health

A member of the WHO Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development chaired by Mario Monti, which is to guide countries on how to prepare their health systems for future pandemics, Rafael Bengoa was explaining why this commission will be closely linked to the environment. One of its jobs in the next 10 months will be to study and demonstrate the ever-closer link between environmental deterioration and world health.

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