16 June 14.00-15.30

STEPS Centre and Stockholm Resilience Centre have convened a session  ‘Transforming Innovation for Sustainability’ within the two-day IIED ‘Fair Ideas’ event.

Speakers:

• Glauco Arbix (Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology)
• Lidia Brito (UNESCO)
• Melissa Leach (STEPS Centre)
• Johan Rockstrom (Stockholm Resilience Centre)
• Kevin Urama (African Technology Policy Studies Network)

Informed by the STEPS Centre’s ‘3D agenda’ for innovation and the Stockholm Resilience Centre’s work on ‘planetary boundaries’, this session will focus on new approaches to governing innovation that give more power to the grassroots to address social and economic aspirations, whilst also keeping within the ‘safe operating space for humanity’.  An institutional framework that fosters innovation for local, national and global sustainable development objectives may be a key theme at Rio+20, but guiding principles for such a framework are proving elusive. The session will hear proposals from an international panel of leading researchers and practitioners who are closely engaged with these debates.

Participation in the Fair Ideas event is free, but you are encouraged to register in advance: see www.fairideas.org for the full programme and registration details.