On May 27 and 28, 2025, Business Schools for Climate Leadership brought together emerging climate scholars in its first workshop. Keynote speaker Frank Wijen was one of the highlights of the event.
Is academic research into sustainability doing its job, moving the cursor forward in a time of unprecedented climate crisis? It’s a question Professor Frank Wijen discusses in the context of dramatic ecology-related incidents around the globe. “Researchers are taking snapshots and not movies,” he says, and this static orientation is not answering the urgency of real-life crises.
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Young scholars at the Business Schools for Climate Leadership Workshop 2025, at HEC Paris campus.
