Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:00:00 IST - Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:00:00 IST, 9.00

At AM 214, Arts Millennium Building

Organised by NUI Galway's MSc (Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security) Programme

Climathon (https://climathon.climate-kic.org) is a global 1 day initiative that brings together the climate change challenges of the world¹s cities with the people who have the passion and ability to solve them. It will involve over 60 cities across the world where teams in each city will brainstorm to identify solutions to future climate change challenges facing their city. This year Galway, for the first time, is a participating city along with Dublin and Cork. You can follow Climathon Galway 2016 on Twitter: @GalwayClimathon<https://twitter.com/GalwayClimathon

Topics covered will include:

• Flooding


• Low-energy buildings


• Sustainable transport


• Low carbon footprint diets


• Food waste and recycling


• Water quality and air pollution


• Renewable energy


• Galway's carbon footprint