2012 World Student Environmental Summit

The World Student Environmental Network (WSEN) organizes every year a summit where students from around the world meet and discuss how they can facilitate a more sustainable lifestyle in their everyday lives. To find out more about the WSEN, please check www.wsen.org. This page was created for the World Student Environmental Summit (WSES) that took place in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2012.

In September 2012, the University of Lausanne hosted the 5th World Student Environmental Summit (WSES). Student delegates from the five continents once more gathered to discuss pressing environmental issues, sharing their experiences and backgrounds to build up momentum for change towards more sustainability on campuses worldwide and in their local communities, and, if possible, on a larger scale. The 2012 summit was organised around the theme "LET'S CHANGE !" It is obvious nowadays that without a radical change in the behaviour of mankind, the environment - and by way of consequence, mankind itself -, will undergo irreversible damage. What is Change? How do we pursue change on different levels? A fully-booked three-day program greatly discussed all these questions thus raising a sense of critical thinking amongst student representatives and delegates. "CHANGE" was addressed at three levels, each time discussing the implementation, obstacles, illusions, difficulties but also the solutions, first steps and actions that we can take:

- International organisations and institutions;
- National, regional and local communities;
- Individual actions.