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The potential for energy efficiency and the deployment of renewable energy at
universities is substantial, and these represent promising ways to meet an institution’s
energy needs, on the one hand, and reduce its contribution to climate change, on the
other. However, in order to optimize investment and achieve successful results, it is
imperative to understand the level of current commitment to energy actions (Leal
Filho et al. 2019).
Humans are at the center of global climate change and The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are promoting sustainability with proactive, global,
social goals, moving us away from the Brundtland paradigm of ‘do nothing today
to compromise tomorrow’s generation’. This promotes a regenerative shift in the
sustainability concept, no longer only considering resources and energy, but also
significant human-centric attributes (Sonetti et al. 2019).
The role of universities in climate change education (CCE) is of great importance
to the scientific, social, environmental and political challenges facing the world.
Future leaders must make decisions from an informed standpoint, including climate
change mitigation tools in their work and private life. Therefore, it is essential to
understand the scope of CCE strategies adopted globally by higher education institutions (HEIs) and to explore and analyze ways in which HEIs can better address
this challenge (Molthan-Hill et al. 2019).
Cooperation between HEIs through collaborating in international conferences is
an important measure to promote and disseminate research regarding global sustainability and sustainable development. Moreover, in addition to cooperation, participation and collaboration between institutions, international conferences sponsored or
organized by HEIs have the potential to promulgate interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to addressing global sustainability challenges. The implementation of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches within HEIs is important for the discussion and promotion of sustainability and sustainable development.
International conferences may be used for communicating the scientific results to
stakeholders and to send strong messages on sustainability-related issues (Berchin
et al. 2018).
3 Method
Firstly, the authors performed a literature review. The data considered were collected
from the Web of Science Core Collection (http://webofknowledge.com), an electronic database made available by Clarivate Analytics, which is one of the most
widely used in applied social sciences. The Web of Science (WoS) database was
used because of its wide coverage of social science publications, as it indexes the
main international periodicals in the field. Furthermore, WoS is compatible with the
Bibexcel software used in the cocitation analysis. Persson et al. (2009) state that only
Web of Science and Scopus database include the bibliographic references needed to
quantify the author or paper citations, through the computerized processing and
analysis of these references. The selection of the sample occurred through research
C. R. M. de Lima et al.
The potential for energy efficiency and the deployment of renewable energy at
universities is substantial, and these represent promising ways to meet an institution’s
energy needs, on the one hand, and reduce its contribution to climate change, on the
other. However, in order to optimize investment and achieve successful results, it is
imperative to understand the level of current commitment to energy actions (Leal
Filho et al. 2019).
Humans are at the center of global climate change and The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are promoting sustainability with proactive, global,
social goals, moving us away from the Brundtland paradigm of ‘do nothing today
to compromise tomorrow’s generation’. This promotes a regenerative shift in the
sustainability concept, no longer only considering resources and energy, but also
significant human-centric attributes (Sonetti et al. 2019).
The role of universities in climate change education (CCE) is of great importance
to the scientific, social, environmental and political challenges facing the world.
Future leaders must make decisions from an informed standpoint, including climate
change mitigation tools in their work and private life. Therefore, it is essential to
understand the scope of CCE strategies adopted globally by higher education institutions (HEIs) and to explore and analyze ways in which HEIs can better address
this challenge (Molthan-Hill et al. 2019).
Cooperation between HEIs through collaborating in international conferences is
an important measure to promote and disseminate research regarding global sustainability and sustainable development. Moreover, in addition to cooperation, participation and collaboration between institutions, international conferences sponsored or
organized by HEIs have the potential to promulgate interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to addressing global sustainability challenges. The implementation of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches within HEIs is important for the discussion and promotion of sustainability and sustainable development.
International conferences may be used for communicating the scientific results to
stakeholders and to send strong messages on sustainability-related issues (Berchin
et al. 2018).
3 Method
Firstly, the authors performed a literature review. The data considered were collected
from the Web of Science Core Collection (http://webofknowledge.com), an electronic database made available by Clarivate Analytics, which is one of the most
widely used in applied social sciences. The Web of Science (WoS) database was
used because of its wide coverage of social science publications, as it indexes the
main international periodicals in the field. Furthermore, WoS is compatible with the
Bibexcel software used in the cocitation analysis. Persson et al. (2009) state that only
Web of Science and Scopus database include the bibliographic references needed to
quantify the author or paper citations, through the computerized processing and
analysis of these references. The selection of the sample occurred through research