Events

Welcome to our events and actions page which will be regularly  updated with important dates for your diaries. Below you will find detail s for different events happening across the UK that are relevant to do with our Youth for Green Jobs campaign. We’ll let you know when we are planning to take action for our campaign and you can get involved too. If you come across an event that you think we might like to hear about and it’s not on this page then please feel free to get in touch.

May

12th-25th May, UK-wide: 1 Million Climate Jobs Caravan - Youth for Green Jobs will be on the road to a town near you!

We’re really pleased to be joining our friends on the 1 Million Climate Jobs Caravan. From May 12th-15th we’ll be jumping aboard the caravan to undergo a nationwide Green Jobs journey. We know that there are loads of young people around the UK ready to take action and to share hopes for a future full of green jobs for youth. We’re excited to bring our energy and creative ideas to the caravan and to learn lots from the people we meet. Stay tuned to Youth for Green Jobs to get updates on where we’ll be, what we’ll be up to and how you can join us when we get to a town near you!  Check out the One Million Climate Jobs Caravan website for the route  - soon to be updated with a range of events organised by our friends across the UK.

 

14th May, London. Workshop: How to Pitch for Green Investment

Seeking funding for your Green Business? Learn the techniques of successful pitching for investment! Investors have dozens of business opportunities pitched at them every month. In this practical, highly interactive workshop you’ll learn the things you ABSOLUTELY MUST DO to impress potential investors and help you to stand out from the crowd.

 

23rd- 24th Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre: All-Energy 2012

The largest renewable energy exhibition and conference ever held in the UK
http://www.all-energy.co.uk/Home.html

 

26th, London, Green in the City
The Green Deal – Can it Deliver?
This forum reviews the outcomes and impacts the Government’s Green Deal. Our evenings panel will discuss the question: Can the Green Deal really deliver?
http://www.eco-connect.org/events/?event_id=32

 

June

01-06th Eco refurbishment and The Green Deal @ Leamington Spa

The Green Register’s fascinating training course, based around actual case studies, is designed to provide all the information construction professionals need to advise their clients on sustainable refurbishment of their homes.

http://www.greenregister.org.uk/events.php

28th London, Green in the City @Bird & Bird
Forum: Cleantech entrepreneurship – Getting it right
This Forum will bring together serial entrepreneurs, support organisations and investors to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to sustainable innovation and growing technology businesses: product and service design, business development and investment.
http://www.eco-connect.org/events/?event_id=35

 

July
19th-21st Green Economics Institute Seventh Annual Green Economics Conference at Oxford University
Green Economy: rethinking growth: RIO + 20
being held at Mansfield College, University of Oxford
Rationale For The Conference
Reducing and preventing poverty, halting climate change, ending mass extinction of species, reclaiming economics for us all. Sharing the planet with each other and other species
http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/

September

3rd September,  London. Workshop: How to Pitch for Green Investment

Seeking funding for your Green Business? Learn the techniques of successful pitching for investment! Investors have dozens of business opportunities pitched at them every month. In this practical, highly interactive workshop you’ll learn the things you ABSOLUTELY MUST DO to impress potential investors and help you to stand out from the crowd.

 

December

3rd December, London. Workshop: How to Pitch for Green Investment

Seeking funding for your Green Business? Learn the techniques of successful pitching for investment! Investors have dozens of business opportunities pitched at them every month. In this practical, highly interactive workshop you’ll learn the things you ABSOLUTELY MUST DO to impress potential investors and help you to stand out from the crowd.