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Technological Positive Tipping Points: Restoring our Planet’s Environmental Health Challenge

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PROFILE Undergraduate Degrees
DATE 15th February 2025
TIME 15:00 - 16:30 (GMT +01:00)
LANGUAGE English
EVENT FORMAT Online events
Technological Positive Tipping Points: Restoring our Planet’s Environmental Health Challenge

In this challenge, participants will propose innovative technological solutions that address a key environmental challenge in their country, while showcasing how these solutions can be scaled and applied globally. The focus is on using local insights to tackle global environmental issues, demonstrating how small, targeted actions can lead to positive tipping points—transformative shifts where individual or collective efforts spark large-scale environmental restoration.

Positive tipping points represent the turning moments when focused interventions create cascading benefits, such as regenerating degraded ecosystems, reducing carbon footprints, or fostering sustainable practices. Participants will explore how technology, collective action, and effective communication can mobilize communities, create momentum, and amplify impact locally while paving the way for global change.

By combining creativity, innovation, and a deep understanding of their local environment, students will develop solutions that address urgent ecological challenges and inspire worldwide action. This challenge highlights the power of local solutions with global potential to restore the planet’s environmental health.