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  • Energías renovables. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades de desarrollo y qué obstáculos enfrenta la búsqueda de alternativas energéticas sustentables?

    Centro Cultural Borges – UNTREF, Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Centro Cultural Borges – UNTREF, Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3 Organizan: CENIT/UNTREF, Centro STEPS para América Latina El actual régimen de generación de electricidad en Argentina depende en exceso de la producción de gas y otros hidrocarburos que requieren grandes inversiones en exploración y explotación mientras que cierran el camino a otras alternativas. Sin embargo,...

  • UNFCCC Workshop: Strengthening national systems of innovation in developing countries (+ live webcast)

    Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn, Germany

    On 13–14 October, the Technology Executive Committee (TEC) of the UNFCCC will hold a workshop on Strengthening national systems of innovation in developing countries, covering the entire technology cycle for climate technology. This workshop will be webcast (see link below). The workshop includes a presentation by David Ockwell, convenor of the STEPS Centre's Energy and...

  • Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low carbon energy and development in Africa

    Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London

    The ‘Rising Powers, Clean Energy and the Low Carbon Transition in Southern Africa’ team, are running a one day international workshop titled ‘Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low carbon energy and development in Africa’  in London on February 3rd 2015. The workshop will mark the culmination of our ESRC project on The Rising...

  • Innovation for Sustainability in a Changing China: Exploring Narratives and Pathways

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    Adrian Ely and Sam Geall, STEPS Centre / SPRU 14 April 2015 at 11am - 1pm Venue tbc China is the global leader in renewable energy investment and has adopted ambitious targets for low carbon development. Given the environmental impacts of the country’s current development trajectories and China’s increasing role as a source of innovation...

  • Pathways to Sustainability in a Changing China

    The Pathways to Sustainability in a Changing China conference marked the launch of the STEPS China Sustainability Hub, and provided a valuable opportunity for STEPS Centre members, colleagues from across China and international partners from our Global Consortium to share insights, experiences and plans for future research and engagement. The conference was hosted by Beijing Normal...

  • Public lecture: Mike Hulme – ‘(Still) Disagreeing about Climate Change: What Way Forward?’

    Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Mike Hulme, King’s College London STEPS Public Lecture, followed by drinks reception - all welcome Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Download a poster (pdf) Climate change is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is reshaping the way people think about themselves, their societies and their Earthly futures. Climate change is therefore a...

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  • Low Carbon Development in Africa

    This event aimed to shape the research, policy and practice agendas for low-carbon development in Africa. It was also the launch event for the STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub. Low Carbon Development in Africa workshop. Photo: STEPS Centre In Sub-Saharan Africa, two-thirds of people still lack access to electricity. Working for economic development and reducing poverty,...

  • STEPS Centre events at ‘Our Common Future’ conference

    Various Paris, France

    From 8 - 10 July, STEPS Centre members will be participating in the international conference Our Common Future Under Climate Change in Paris. The conference comes ahead of the UN's COP21 conference in December. It looks at the state of knowledge about, and the range of responses to, climate change. Find out about our research...

  • STEPS Seminar: Yixin Dai – Chinese Renewable Energy Policy

    ‘Chinese Renewable Energy Policy – Policy Implementation, and Participation’ Yixin Dai, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University In order to reach its ambitious emissions targets, China has been promoting renewable energy through a series of top-down policies since 2006. Recent successes have seen wind turbine installation capacity exceed 100GW in 2014, and nuclear...

  • STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Resource Politics: Transforming Pathways to Sustainability Why now? Contexts and debates In the build up to the confirmation of the post-2015 sustainable development goals, the politics of resource access, allocation and distribution are high on global policy agendas. The limits to economic activity in the face of ‘planetary boundaries’ are being fiercely debated, and even...

  • COP21 side event: Mitigation contributions from developing countries

    Room OR03, Side events area Le Bourget conference centre, Paris, France

    Mitigation contributions from developing countries: innovation, technology and scenario analysis Side events area, Room OR 03 Le Bourget conference centre, Paris 1 December at 15.00- 16.30 The Paris Agreement requires country-level implementation, where institutional capabilities and integrated assessment modelling capacities are needed. With colleagues from Colombia and Kenya we show how collaboration on scenario analysis...

  • COP21 side event: Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs)

    Salle 1, Climate Generations Area Le Bourget conference centre, Paris, France

    Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs): how to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism Climate Generations area, Salle 1 Le Bourget Conference Centre, Paris 4 December at 15.00-16.30 Listen to the audio recording COP21 side event: How to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism by Stepscentre on Mixcloud About this session The session focuses on how the UNFCCC...

  • Asia’s Giants: media briefing + drinks reception

    When: Friday, December 4th from 7pm-9pm; short briefing and Q&A at 7.30pm Where: Holiday Inn Paris Gare de l’Est, 5, rue du 8 Mai 1945 75010 Paris How is China shifting to a low-carbon economy? Will low-carbon innovation in China affect decarbonisation pathways elsewhere? Why do Indian policymakers insist on low-carbon rather than no-carbon? What are the prospects of India's...

  • Leverhulme Lecture: ‘The Degrowth hypothesis’

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Leverhulme Lecture: 'The Degrowth hypothesis' Giorgos Kallis, ICREA professor at ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona; visiting professor at SOAS Monday 8 February at 4-5.30pm Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Brighton, UK If we are to radically reduce carbon emissions and material use, we have to abolish the pursuit of economic growth and develop institutions...

  • How can the ecological impact of the richest 1% be reduced at a time of extreme inequality?

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom

    Seminar with Dario Kenner 1.00-2.30 Friday 26 February 2016, IDS room 221 Recent research by Oxfam and French economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel indicates that the richest 1% of people in many countries, including the United Kingdom, have huge per capita carbon footprints compared to the rest of the population. The fact that richer...

  • Seminar: Helene Ahlborg on power and politics in energy transitions

    Global Studies Resource Centre Arts C175, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

    Towards a conceptualization of power and micro-level politics in energy transitions STEPS Centre Seminar: Helene Ahlborg 12.00-1.30, Monday 11 April 2016 Room C175 (Global Studies Resources Centre meeting room), Arts C, University of Sussex Helene Ahlborg will share her research about rural mini-hydropower electrification in Tanzania  and societal transformation. She will explain why and how...

  • Can we govern the climate?

    Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Public lecture by Prof Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography at Durham University, on 16 May 2016 at the University of Sussex.

  • STEPS: to a systemic ecology of mind – seminar with Ray Ison

    Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, UK This seminar will cover a broad sweep of issues under the general rubric of building systemic governing capability in the context of the Anthropocene. Prof Ison's starting point will be to lay down a challenge as to whether those present have a systemic ecology of...

  • Kolya Abramsky: ‘Towards a Class-Based Approach to Global Energy Transition: Shifting Energy Demand, Expanding the Renewable Energy Sector and Phasing Out Fossil Fuel’

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    STEPS Seminar - all welcome Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, BN1 9RE Abstract: Terms such as “energy democracy” and “climate justice” have gained increasingly widespread usage and acceptance over the last 5 years. In order to give weight to these slogans, it is necessary to understand the class relations behind the...

  • STEPS Seminar: Todd Crane – Interdisciplinary science and subjectivities in research for development

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom

    ‘Interdisciplinary science and subjectivities in research for development: What are the implications of methods and measures?’ STEPS Seminar - all welcome Socio-ecological research continues to grapple with how to represent social and biophysical phenomena in integrated and balanced ways. Methodological choices, especially regarding representation of the social, have important implications for the robustness of the...

  • STEPS Seminar: Charles Tonui on the co-management of mangrove forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom

    ‘The Role of Community Based Organisations and Associations in Co-management of Forests in Kenya: The case of Mikoko Pamoja Community Based Organisation (MPCBO) and Gogoni-Gazi Community Forest Association (GOGACFA) in the Co-management of Mangrove Forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya’ STEPS Seminar with Charles Tonui, African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Kenya. All are welcome to...

  • STEPS Annual Lecture: Achim Steiner

    Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    DOOMED TO FAIL OR BOUND TO SUCCEED? Sustainable Development and the Green Economy Agenda - Revisited Achim Steiner delivered the 2017 STEPS Annual lecture at the University of Sussex on 15 May. Steiner is former Executive Director of UNEP and now director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. In April 2017...

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  • STEPS Seminar – Channing Arndt: ‘Faster Than You Think: The Global Energy Revolution and Developing Countries’

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom

    STEPS Centre seminar with Channing Arndt, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute Institute of Development Studies, Room 221, 15 December 2017 An energy revolution is underway. Driven by an enormous and unexpected downward shift in the full cost of renewable generation technologies, global investment in renewable electricity generation has exceeded investment in conventional...

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  • When the Wolf Guards the Sheep: Green extractivism and confronting the industrial machine

    Room G22, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

    As part of the Politics of Nature reading group, Dr Alexander Dunlap, co-hosted by the CGPE and STEPS centre, presents a seminar on the merits of an anarchist political ecology in assessing extractive projects and charting new directions in (re)imagining ecological, unruly and dignified futures.   Drawing on case studies of Europe’s largest opencast coal mine, the Hambach...

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  • Public event: Meeting Energy – EASST 2018 conference panel

    Lancaster Town Hall Dalton Square, Lancaster, United Kingdom

    Lancaster Town Hall, Dalton Square Lancaster LA1 1PJ STEPS member Prof Andy Stirling (SPRU) is among the panel for this public event on energy, as part of the annual EASST conference. The other panellists are Gillian Kelly and João Camargo, and the meeting is chaired by Maggie Mort of Lancaster University. From the website: "With...

  • Understanding Uncertainty and Climate Change: Views from India

    Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    **THE DATE OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED** Seminar with Lyla Mehta, Shilpi Srivastava and Lars Otto Naess Research Fellows, IDS The scale and impacts of climate change remain deeply uncertain. This is particularly true at the local level, where climate related uncertainties combined with accelerated growth trajectories often exacerbate social and political inequities and the...

  • Transformations conference: Transformative Responses to Climate Uncertainties in South Asia

    This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. In this session we present and open for debate experiences and challenges (methodological and conceptual) from carrying out project research on transformation from ‘below’ in marginal environments in South Asia marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties and where transformative changes are being...

  • Change mural

    Transformations Conference: Theories and Perspectives of Transformations

    This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. A live Q&A session with the authors of the presentations in this Interactive Session will take place at the scheduled time. Registered participants can watch the pre-recorded presentations from 7/06/2021 until 31/08/2021. Speakers: Bruce Goldstein Cristina Costa Salavedra Neha Mungekar Paulina Aldunce Andy Stirling...

  • T-Lab: Transformation As Praxis – Responding To Climate Change Uncertainties In Marginal Environments In South Asia

    This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. In this session we present and open for debate experiences and challenges (methodological and conceptual) from carrying out project research on transformation from ‘below’ in marginal environments in South Asia marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties and where transformative changes are being assembled...

  • The politics of climate change and uncertainty in India

    31 March 2022 at 17.00 (UK time) **Please note the new time of this event** This Sussex Development Lecture will introduce the themes of uncertainty explored in the new book The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India. More information and registration details are on the IDS website. Find out more