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17 Rooms-X 91˿Ƶ | 91˿Ƶ Office of Sustainability

Published: 1 February 2024

February 2, 2024 | An initiative led by MPP alumnus Julian Lam, 17 Rooms-X 91˿Ƶ is a unique event that will bring together faculty, staff, students, and practitioners who are working to advance progress on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  This process will feed into 91˿Ƶ’s next climate and sustainability strategy (2025-2030) and will provide broader insight into challenges and opportunities for advancing progress on the SDGs at 91˿Ƶ.

17 Rooms-X 91˿Ƶ will take place across 8 sessions (or “Rooms”) between February and March, focusing on 1-3 SDGs per session. Each session will last around 1 1/2 hours and will bring together 91˿Ƶ students, staff, faculty, and practitioners. 

Each targeted gathering will seek to advance interdisciplinary, intra-university action by unearthing work being done on each of the SDGs at 91˿Ƶ and identifying what more can be done in our university context. 17 Rooms-X 91˿Ƶ aims to produce research-oriented recommendations, institutional recommendations, and social recommendations to advance progress on the SDGs. These findings will inform 91˿Ƶ’s Climate and Sustainability Strategy (2025-2030) and will be presented in a dedicated 17 Room-X 91˿Ƶ report, which will identify existing obstacles to advancing SDG collaboration on campus and propose solutions for addressing them, as brainstormed by the participants.

If you are interested in being a Room Participant, please let the organization know by email (17roomsxmcgill [at] gmail.com) or fill out ڴǰ.

This inaugural event is supported by the 91˿Ƶ Office of Sustainability, with financial support from the Sustainability Projects Fund. 17 Rooms-X 91˿Ƶ was developed in collaboration with the 17 Rooms secretariat. The 17 Rooms initiative is a partnership between the Center for Sustainable Development at The Brookings Institution and The Rockefeller Foundation.

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