The lecture series of the TU Student Council's Department of the Environment will focus on climate activism and action in the summer semester of 2023. The individual lectures of the lecture series will be held in English.
World leaders have finally woken up to the fact that a global strategy is needed to address one of the biggest environmental threats facing our planet: plastic pollution. In March 2022 UN member states agreed to negotiate a new legally binding global plastics treaty. This is an unmissable chance to shift from today’s dangerous business-as-usual pathway, but it must be the right kind of treaty—one that really tackles the plastic problem.
Jakob Franke is an Associate at Systemiq, a hybrid between a sustainability consultancy and a system change think tank that fights the climate crisis. He is a policy expert and most interested in projects that drive disruptions of our unsustainable economic system. He holds a Master of Public Policy and Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
