{"id":8294,"date":"2023-04-11T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8294"},"modified":"2023-04-11T14:16:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:16:29","slug":"a-weec-is-a-long-time-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2023\/04\/11\/a-weec-is-a-long-time-in-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"A WEEC is a long time in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weec2024.org\">WEEC<\/a> is following in FIFA's footsteps by holding its next global extravaganza in the Gulf. \u00a0WEEC 2024 \u2013 the 12th congress \u2013 will be in Abu Dhabi over 5 days next January \/ February.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers say that \"WEEC 2024 seeks to facilitate the exchange of ideas, to advance progress towards a sustainable, resilient, and adaptable future. The event will encourage exploratory dialogue on the different dimensions involved in EE (educational, ethical, economic, political, <em>etc<\/em>.) to facilitate progress in this future\". \u00a0Just so.<\/p>\n<p>There's a nice welcome video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weec2024.org\/en\/congress\/invitation\/\">here<\/a>, but the big news is that it will be paper and plastic free. \u00a0Huzzar!<\/p>\n<p>Whilst not everyone will think Abu Dhabi a suitable place for an environmental education congress, others will no doubt see it is an opportunity to open doors, develop connections, expand horizons, break fresh ground, establish relationships, create opportunities, establish bonds, overcome barriers, build bridges, or [please insert your own clich\u00e9]. \u00a0This is not only mostly hogwash, it's greenwashed hogwash.<\/p>\n<p>The 32 members of the international socio-scientific committee \u2013 all of whom presumably approve of the venue and of WEEC \u2013 can be seen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weec2024.org\/en\/committees\/international-socio-scientific-committee\/\">here<\/a>. \u00a0You will notice a few of the usual suspects.<\/p>\n<p>I'll not be going although it will be far warmer than the UK and there will be much better choice of dates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that WEEC is following in FIFA's footsteps by holding its next global extravaganza in the Gulf. \u00a0WEEC 2024 \u2013 the 12th congress \u2013 will be in Abu Dhabi over 5 days next January \/ February. The organisers say...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}