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GUS Partners with THE NAT

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Global University Systems Partners with THE NAT to Advance Nature-Positive Education

Global University Systems (GUS), a leading international education group, is proud to announce its partnership with THE NAT – a bold new cultural platform launched during London Climate Action Week to drive global awareness, action, and investment for nature.

THE NAT, supported by influential figures including Stella McCartney CBE and Harrison Ford, aims to close the US$710 billion nature finance gap by uniting voices from across business, science, culture, and philanthropy. As a partner, GUS will play a key role in embedding nature-positive thinking across its global network of institutions.

Through the collaboration, GUS will contribute to THE NAT’s year-round Solutions Series, focusing on food, fashion, finance, and futures – sectors critical to nature conservation and restoration. Students across GUS’s institutions will have access to sustainability-focused curricula, real-world research opportunities, and mentorship from global environmental leaders.

GUS joins a strong coalition of partners supporting THE NAT, including The Climate Pledge, Deloitte, Mastercard, Salesforce, and UNICEF. Additional contributors to the Solutions Series include The EAT Foundation, Nature2, and EcoAdvisors.

“We couldn’t be more excited to launch THE NAT,” said Gail Gallie, Founder of THE NAT. “This is a first-of-its-kind cultural celebration of nature, bringing together the creative power of art, fashion, film, food, and music to spotlight nature on the global stage and unlock the funding it so urgently needs.”

THE NAT is also backed by leading voices from the conservation and creative industries, including M. Sanjayan, CEO, Conservation International, Joerg Koch, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, 032c, and Sabrina Elba, Actor and UN Advocate, as well as the platform’s honorary NATure Stewards – a group of globally recognised advocates and experts such as Wanjira Mathai, Managing Director for Africa and Global Partnerships at the World Resources Institute, Xiye Bastida, Titouan Bernicot, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, and Sophie Hunter.

The launch precedes the highly anticipated NAT Gala in New York City this September, held on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly. The event aims to raise US$20 million to support high-impact nature restoration projects in partnership with Conservation International.

GUS is proud to support this groundbreaking initiative, helping to empower the next generation of students to become leaders in sustainability, biodiversity, and environmental innovation.

Global University Systems becomes CANIE Accord signatory

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Global University Systems, the international education group, announces it has become a signatory to the CANIE Accord (Climate Action Network for International Educators), as part of its long-term ESG and group impact strategy.

Global University Systems is a higher and life-long learning group with a network of internationally recognised education institutions. The group empowers students to transform their lives through education. Becoming an accord signatory is an important step for the global business and its impact strategy.

CANIE is an organisation that is catalysing climate action in the international education sector. Concentrating its efforts on action-oriented advocacy, education, and connection, the Accord is a public commitment to climate action. It was developed to engage international education bodies, associations, higher education institutions, university networks, as well as media, national governments, corporations, supranational bodies, scholarship bodies.

The CANIE Accord, and accompanying Glasgow Paper, represent the international education sector’s climate ambitions and commitment to align with scientific recommendations and global climate agreements. Global University Systems is strengthening and accelerating the international education sector’s collective response to the climate crisis by becoming a Signatory.

Yuliya Etingen, Chief Impact Officer, Global University Systems says, “We’re committed to having a positive effect on the world around us, creating a brighter, more sustainable world through education. Committing to ESG principles and ensuring that they’re seamlessly woven into our Group and our institutions’ strategy is paramount.

“Becoming a signatory to CANIE is an important step for our organisation as part of our ESG strategy. It enables us to meet challenges head on and we are harnessing the abundant energy and commitment within our network to foster necessary positive change across our group.”

CANIE co-founder and President of the Board, Ailsa Lamont says, “I applaud Global University Systems on showing such leadership in our sector’s transition to more climate-conscious operations. By signing up to the CANIE Accord, international education leaders commit to real, practical action to combat global temperature rise and, crucially, to doing so in a way that is grounded in social justice.’’