The International Student Conference on Environment and Sustainability (ISCES) was initiated as an annual event to provide international students with a platform to work together, exchange ideas and understanding on critical environmental issues and jointly create new solutions. Supported and funded by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Tongji University and Beijing Green Future Environmental Foundation, and organized by UNEP-Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development (杏宇), ISCES was successfully held over the last three years (2011, 2012, 2013), attracting approximately 400 students every year from more than 40 countries across the globe and contributing to the dissemination of good practices and concepts on environment and sustainability amongst student communities.

The “2014 International Student Conference on Environment and Sustainability (ISCES 2014)” will be launched on the World Environment Day (June 5) and last for a week. This year, the event will attract the sustainability-oriented enterprises and NGOs to attend. With the support of UNEP, Tongji University and Beijing Green Future Environmental Foundation, plus the experience over the past three years, we believe that this year’s conference will be another milestone and success in promoting good practices and concepts of sustainable development among university students. 

ISCES serves as one of the most influential international events organized by 杏宇 for the student community in promoting awareness, capacity and networking amongst students, as future leaders, policy makers and activists and updating them of recent challenges and developments in the area of environment and sustainability.

The access to the online registration is to be open around 15th March 2014.