BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//STEPS Centre - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:STEPS Centre X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://steps-centre.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for STEPS Centre REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20120325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20121028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20130331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20131027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20140330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20141026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20150329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20151025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20140101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Atlantic/Azores BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:+00 DTSTART:20140330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:-0100 TZNAME:-01 DTSTART:20141026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:+00 DTSTART:20150329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:-0100 TZNAME:-01 DTSTART:20151025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:+00 DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:-0100 TZNAME:-01 DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170502T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170502T143000 DTSTAMP:20220411T105344Z CREATED:20170502T075440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T105344Z UID:11846-1493730000-1493735400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Todd Crane - Interdisciplinary science and subjectivities in research for development DESCRIPTION:‘Interdisciplinary science and subjectivities in research for development: What are the implications of methods and measures?’ \nSTEPS Seminar – all welcome \nSocio-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 science\, subjectivities that emerge from different modes of representation and for the politically situated nature of the scientific endeavour. \nTodd Crane has recently published several papers addressing these issues\, but he will not give any definitive answers because he doesn’t have them. Instead\, seminar participants are invited to think through these issues with him\, especially in terms of how to integrate these considerations in research practice\, both reflexively and analytically. \nTodd Crane is a Senior Scientist at the Sustainable Livestock Systems group at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi\, Kenya. Trained as an anthropologist\, he specializes in climate change adaptation and mitigation issues in sub-Saharan Africa\, including cross-scale governance\, adaptation as socio-technical process\, and low-emissions dairy development. His work in research for development often involves collaboration with biophysical scientists. It also involves working with institutional actors looking for simple solutions and easily measured indicators for complex problems. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-todd-crane-interdisciplinary-science-subjectivities-research-development/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Food & agriculture,Research methods ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T143000 DTSTAMP:20170209T163120Z CREATED:20160718T144049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T163120Z UID:8787-1474376400-1474381800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Kolya Abramsky: ‘Towards a Class-Based Approach to Global Energy Transition: Shifting Energy Demand\, Expanding the Renewable Energy Sector and Phasing Out Fossil Fuel’ DESCRIPTION:STEPS Seminar – all welcome \nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE \nAbstract: 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 global energy sector\, and the sector’s worldwide division of labour. As a key means of production and consumption in the world-division of labour\, the energy sector as a whole\, both in the short term and in the long term\, are determined (and determinant of) class relations. \nThe energy sector is already an important site of struggle throughout much of the world. These struggles are likely to intensify in the years ahead. The question of “energy transition” is a central axis of class struggle in the world-economy in the years ahead. Like all class struggle\, its outcome is highly uncertain and unpredictable. \nAbout Kolya Abramsky\nKolya Abramsky is a freelance researcher\, educator and consultant on the global energy sector. Over 15 years\, he has focused on the social relations in the sector\, including land\, work\, ownership and choice of technology. Formerly\, he was the International Energy Officer for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa; coordinator of the World Wind Energy Institute (Denmark); Visiting International Scholar/winner of Manfred-Heindler Award for Energy and Climate Change Research at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Science\, Technology and Society\, at the Interuniversity Research Centre for Technology\, Work and Culture in Austria. He has edited two books: Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World\, and Restructuring and Resistance: Diverse Voices of Struggle in Western Europe. He has advised policy makers and addressed universities in five continents. He initiated and built\, jointly with Focus on the Global South\, the website Understanding China’s Energy Landscape. He has a Sociology MA from State University of New York\, Binghamton. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/kolya-abramsky-towards-a-class-based-approach-to-global-energy-transition-shifting-energy-demand-expanding-the-renewable-energy-sector-and-phasing-out-fossil-fuel/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160627T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160627T143000 DTSTAMP:20170209T163237Z CREATED:20160621T115021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T163237Z UID:8691-1467032400-1467037800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:STEPS: to a systemic ecology of mind - seminar with Ray Ison DESCRIPTION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\, UK \nThis 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 mind. \nHe will then unpack what he considers to be significant limitations in much contemporary scholarship because of failures to understand: the ‘feral concept’ of system; praxis\, or more specifically systems praxis; complexity\, or complex adaptive system; transformation and governance\, or governing. He will ground the seminar in examples from recent research projects that employ\, or are concerned with\, social learning and systemic inquiry. \nRegardless of framing choice\,  governing in the circumstances of ‘the Anthropocene’ requires major innovations in governance and institutional designs such as social learning and systemic co-inquiry.  Water/river governance research undertaken within the ASTiP (Appied Systems Thinking in Practice) Group at the Open University will be used to exemplify governance innovation. Recent research in Victoria\, Australia will be used to exemplify how  systemic co-inquiry can be harnessed for more effective NRM. \nIn the discussion we can explore implications for the STEPS programme. \n \nAbout Ray Ison\nRay Ison has an international reputation in\, and has been a major contributor to\, ‘cybersystemics’. What is this field you may well ask? Ray’s rationale for using this term was explained in the presentation last year at ISSS2016 in Berlin of his Presidential Address for the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS)\, and also in a special ‘systemic inquiry’ at Herrenhausen Palace\, Hanover. \nAmongst other matters raised at these events was the significant institutional complexity in the cybersystemic field and the lack of intellectual and political influence for investment in and the furtherance of cybersystemic scholarship – particularly in key policy and research funding fora associated with the UN\, Brussels\, Washington and the like. This is despite the growing awareness that the issues of our time\, the Anthropocene\, if you will\, are systemic in nature and thus require systemic responses\, i.e.\, transformations. \nRay has been Professor of Systems at The Open University (OU)\, UK since 1994. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-to-a-systemic-ecology-of-mind-seminar-with-ray-ison/ LOCATION:Convening Space\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy,Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160516T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160516T193000 DTSTAMP:20170209T211313Z CREATED:20160405T091733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211313Z UID:8422-1463419800-1463427000@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Can we govern the climate? DESCRIPTION:Public lecture by Harriet Bulkeley\, Professor of Geography\, Durham University \nFulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton \n \nThe recent conclusions of COP21 in Paris appear to offer another hopeful juncture on the long road to reaching a global agreement on how society should respond to climate change. Commitment has been renewed\, new goals articulated and\, perhaps most surprisingly\, a host of other actors have been brought into the multilateral domain to add momentum (and legitimacy) to the ongoing international effort. While the impacts and implications of the Paris agreement continue to be pored over\, what is clear is that the ideal of a multilateral agreement universally adopted and cascaded into implementation through the public arena has given way to a much more complex political imagination in which actors public and private\, local and global jostle for attention and the fate of one seems to be irrevocably bound up with the others. \n \nWithin the research community the emergence of this domain\, what is termed global environmental governance\, has been subject to debate for over a decade. A substantial body of work attests to the role of a range of actors\, from cities to corporations\, and the multitude of governing arrangements of which they are part in responding to climate change. While we have learnt a great deal about who is now engaging in climate governance\, their motivations\, interventions and the challenges this poses\, I want to suggest that this work remains limited in helping us understand where\, how and with what consequences climate governance takes place. Focusing on the actors and institutions involved\, we are left with only a partial understanding of the situations\, processes\, practices and socio-material configurations through which the governing of climate change is (and is not) taking place – in short\, we have a limited engagement with how climate governance is being accomplished. \nThis matters critically for our ability to answer a simple but central question: can we govern the climate? Drawing on research conducted in the UK over the past decade that has sought to examine the ways in which governing climate change is being accomplished in a range of arenas that cut across traditional divides between the state\, private sector and community\, I will make the argument that addressing this question means opening up our analyses of global environmental governance to new conceptual entry points. Understanding whether we can govern the climate means that we ask (again) how governing is configured in relation to climate change. Using examples from the banking\, retail\, and energy sectors as well as community initiatives and urban responses to climate change\, the paper explores the ways in which the governing of climate change is authorised\, ordered\, articulated and made to matter through distinct socio-material assemblages and diverse publics. Such an approach not only opens up what it might mean to govern climate change\, but also the range of sites and practices through which it can and is being accomplished. From this perspective\, governing the climate is not a single project\, but an unfolding and ongoing programme embedded in different economies and societies in multiple ways. Accomplishing climate governance requires not that we seek to harmonise and integrate all such responses\, but rather that we enable multiple socially and environmentally progressive transitions to be realised. \nAbout Harriet Bulkeley\nHarriet Bulkeley is a Professor of Geography\, Durham University. Her research focuses on the processes and politics of environmental governance. Her recent books include Governing the Climate: new approaches to rationality\, power and politics (Ed. CUP 2014) Transnational Climate Governance (CUP\, 2014)\, An Urban Politics of Climate Change (Routledge 2015)\, and Accomplishing Climate Governance (CUP\, 2016). She is currently involved in researching the politics and practice of smart grids in the UK\, Australia and Sweden and continuing work on urban responses to climate change through the JPI Urban and ESRC project Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions (GUST 2014 – 2017). Harriet has undertaken commissioned research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation\, Friends of the Earth\, UN-Habitat and the World Bank. In 2014\, she was awarded the King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Professorship in Environmental Science and a Visiting Professorship at Lund University\, Sweden. \n\nThis lecture is the only public part of the programme of the STEPS Centre’s 2016 Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/can-we-govern-the-climate/ LOCATION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160415T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160415T150000 DTSTAMP:20170209T211556Z CREATED:20160412T072133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211556Z UID:8452-1460725200-1460732400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Innovation governance for sustainable agri-food systems in China DESCRIPTION:Adrian Ely and Sam Geall\, SPRU\nLecture Theatre 144\, Jubilee Building\nSPRU\, University of Sussex \nThe seminar will be chaired by Rob Byrne (SPRU). It is followed by a Roundtable on ‘Innovation governance and sustainability in China’.  Panellists: Jenny Lieu; Erik Millstone; Justin Pickard. \nAll welcome \n \nAbstract:  China is the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter\, with per capita emissions now on a par with those in Europe. At the same time\, the growing capabilities within China’s dynamic innovation system have drawn significant interest from innovation scholars\, with many pointing to China’s increasing role in pioneering low carbon (or sustainability-oriented) innovation. Whilst these studies are informative\, they tend to downplay questions about the politics of socio-technical change in China and the importance of user perceptions and practices. Drawing from a recent ESRC-funded research study that involved six institutions from the UK and China\, this seminar begins to address these gaps. Focussing on two phenomena in the agrifood system (public resistance to GMOs and civil-society initiatives around sustainable food)\, it asks how these are influencing dominant pathways of change\, and whether these are indicative of wider shifts in the country’s approach to innovation governance. \nFor more information on the project\, see the Low Carbon Innovation in China page. \nAbout the speakers\n\nDr Adrian Ely is a senior lecturer at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex and Deputy Director/ Head of Impact and Engagement at the ESRC STEPS Centre. He is leading the efforts to establish a STEPS Centre hub in China. He is interested in innovation for sustainability\, but his research focuses in particular on international\, trans-disciplinary studies of the regulation and governance of emerging biotechnologies\, for example co-authoring the book ‘Regulating Technology: International harmonisation and local realities’ in 2010. Adrian is involved in ongoing research projects focussing on grassroots innovation for sustainability (Argentina\, India)\, low-carbon innovation (China) and collaborative research in the life sciences (Europe-Asia). \nDr Sam Geall is Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at University of Sussex\, Executive Editor of chinadialogue.net and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. His research focuses on environmental governance\, media and civil society in China. His writing on Chinese affairs has appeared in many publications\, including The Guardian\, The New Statesman\, Foreign Policy and Index on Censorship. He is on the board of the EU-China NGO Twinning Exchange and has worked as an International Coordinator for the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED). He also edited the book China and the Environment: The Green Revolution (Zed Books\, 2013). \nOther events\nOther seminars in this series are on the SPRU Friday Seminars website. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/innovation-governance-for-sustainable-agri-food-systems-in-china/ CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160411T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160411T133000 DTSTAMP:20170209T211615Z CREATED:20160309T105801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211615Z UID:8370-1460376000-1460381400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Seminar: Helene Ahlborg on power and politics in energy transitions DESCRIPTION:Towards a conceptualization of power and micro-level politics in energy transitions \nSTEPS Centre Seminar: Helene Ahlborg 12.00-1.30\, Monday 11 April 2016\nRoom C175 (Global Studies Resources Centre meeting room)\, Arts C\, University of Sussex \nHelene Ahlborg will share her research about rural mini-hydropower electrification in Tanzania  and societal transformation. She will explain why and how electrification processes simultaneously reinforce social inequality and enhance social mobility. \nAhlborg studies the co-development of technology and society and how the provision of electricity services\, based on small-scale renewable energy resources\, impacts on people’s lives and transforms rural communities. She also looks at how the local context and relations of power influence the electrification process and impact on the long–term viability of the energy system. \nHelene belongs to the interdisciplinary research group STEEP-RES (Socio-Technical-Ecological Evaluations of Potential Renewable Energy Systems) at Chalmers University of Technology\, Göteborg\, Sweden. Find out more about Helene Ahlborg. \nEveryone welcome! URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-helene-ahlborg-on-power-and-politics-politics-in-energy-transitions/ LOCATION:Global Studies Resource Centre\, Arts C175\, University of Sussex\, BN1 9SJ\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars,Understanding sustainability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160226T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160226T143000 DTSTAMP:20170209T211932Z CREATED:20160203T110916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211932Z UID:8257-1456491600-1456497000@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:How can the ecological impact of the richest 1% be reduced at a time of extreme inequality? DESCRIPTION:Seminar with Dario Kenner\n1.00-2.30 Friday 26 February 2016\, IDS room 221 \nRecent 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 people have a larger ecological impact is not that surprising. The question is what to do about it. Dario Kenner\, who has recently published a working paper on the inequality of overconsumption\, will talk about the difficulty in getting the richest 1% to reduce their negative impact on the environment. \nAbout Dario Kenner\nDario Kenner is an independent researcher who launched whygreeneconomy.org in 2013 as a space to share ideas on the policies that should be adopted to address climate change and biodiversity loss. He has extensive experience of working on the environment and in international development\, including lobbying at UN climate change conferences and Rio+20. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. \nHosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and the STEPS Centre. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/how-can-the-ecological-impact-of-the-richest-1-be-reduced-at-a-time-of-extreme-inequality/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160208T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160208T173000 DTSTAMP:20170209T212309Z CREATED:20160203T102126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212309Z UID:8256-1454947200-1454952600@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Leverhulme Lecture: 'The Degrowth hypothesis' DESCRIPTION:Leverhulme Lecture: ‘The Degrowth hypothesis’\nGiorgos Kallis\, ICREA professor at ICTA\, Autonomous University of Barcelona; visiting professor at SOAS \nMonday 8 February at 4-5.30pm\nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nBrighton\, UK \nIf we are to radically reduce carbon emissions and material use\, we have to abolish the pursuit of economic growth and develop institutions and structures that secure social sustainability under conditions of economic contraction. \nHosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and the STEPS Centre. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/leverhulme-lecture-the-degrowth-hypothesis/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Understanding sustainability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160127T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160128T170000 DTSTAMP:20220411T105548Z CREATED:20160113T105944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T105548Z UID:8211-1453881600-1454000400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Workshop: Climate Change and Uncertainty from Above and Below DESCRIPTION:27-28 January\nNew Delhi\, India \nFor more details\, see the workshop page. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/workshop-climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/ CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Research methods END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151204T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151204T210000 DTSTAMP:20170209T212858Z CREATED:20151203T200948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212858Z UID:8108-1449255600-1449262800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Asia's Giants: media briefing + drinks reception DESCRIPTION:When: Friday\, December 4th from 7pm-9pm; short briefing and Q&A at 7.30pm \nWhere: Holiday Inn Paris Gare de l’Est\, 5\, rue du 8 Mai 1945 75010 Paris \nHow 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 ambitious solar programme? \nJoin us for a briefing at 7.30pm from: Adrian Ely\, Co-Investigator\, Low Carbon Innovation in China project; Isabel Hilton\, CEO and Editor\, chinadialogue; Joydeep Gupta\, Editor\, India Climate Dialogue; Sam Geall\, Research Fellow\, University of Sussex; and Yu Jie\, Climate Analyst at chinadialogue. \nThere will also be drinks\, opportunities to talk to experts\, and copies of the reports China’s Low Carbon Future Offers Global Opportunities and Hot Air: Climate negotiations and India available. \nPlease confirm attendance by email: info@chinadialogue.net \n\nAbout the reports\nChina’s Low Carbon Future Offers Global Opportunities\, by chinadialogue\, the Low Carbon Innovation in China project and the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit\, illustrates the dynamism of China’s low-carbon development and asks if China’s more ambitious approach to climate change could create incentives for other countries to move in a similar direction. \nHot Air: Climate negotiations and India\, by India Climate Dialogue\, traces the evolution of India’s climate policy and its stance at climate negotiations over the last few decades; how India has championed the cause of the developing world. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/asias-giants-media-briefing-drinks-reception/ CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Resource politics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151204T150000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151204T163000 DTSTAMP:20170209T212940Z CREATED:20151111T150140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212940Z UID:7998-1449241200-1449246600@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:COP21 side event: Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs) DESCRIPTION:Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs): how to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism\n \nClimate Generations area\, Salle 1\nLe Bourget Conference Centre\, Paris\n4 December at 15.00-16.30 \nListen to the audio recording\n \n\nCOP21 side event: How to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism by Stepscentre on Mixcloud \n\n\nAbout this session\nThe session focuses on how the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism can be strengthened to promote the building of national systems of innovation (NSIs) in developing countries. NSIs are essential to fostering the development and transfer of technology for both climate change adaptation and mitigation. Speakers will examine what policies\, institutional arrangements\, capabilities and interventions the Technology Mechanism can promote to support NSI-building. The panellists will draw from research undertaken in a range of developing countries\, focussing especially on Africa but with reference to developing Asia and Latin America\, to provide practical recommendations on ways forward. \nSpeakers: Dr Rob Byrne (STEPS Centre/SPRU\, University of Sussex)\, Dr Cosmas Ochieng (ACTS)\, Dr Heleen de Coninck (Radboud University)\, Jonah Osore (Kenya Office of the Deputy President)\, Adrian Ely (STEPS Centre/SPRU\, University of Sussex). \nPolicy Briefing: CRIBs (Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders) A powerful new focus for international climate technology policy \n\nThis is a side event at the UN COP21 conference on climate change. \nRead more on our activities at COP21 \nView a list of all the side events at COP21 (UNFCCC website) \n  \nUpdates\nSign up to our special COP21 mailing list for updates on our events\, new articles and comment direct from the conference. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/cop21-side-event-climate-relevant-innovation-system-builders-cribs/ LOCATION:Salle 1\, Climate Generations Area\, Le Bourget conference centre\, Paris\, France CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151201T150000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151201T163000 DTSTAMP:20170209T213053Z CREATED:20151111T145833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213053Z UID:7995-1448982000-1448987400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:COP21 side event: Mitigation contributions from developing countries DESCRIPTION:Mitigation contributions from developing countries: innovation\, technology and scenario analysis\nSide events area\, Room OR 03\nLe Bourget conference centre\, Paris\n1 December at 15.00- 16.30 \nThe 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 and work through the Technology Mechanism can contribute. \nSpeakers (some tbc): Rob Byrne (STEPS Centre/SPRU\, University of Sussex)\, Cosmas Ochieng (African Centre for Technology Studies)\, Heleen de Coninck (University of Nijmegen)\, Ambuj Sagar (Indian Institute of Technology)\, James Falzon (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands). Chair: Gabriel Blanco (UNICEN / UN Technology Executive Committee) \nThis is a side event at the UN COP21 conference on climate change. \nRead more on our activities at COP21 \nView a list of all the side events at COP21 (UNFCCC website) \nUpdates\nSign up to our special COP21 mailing list for updates on our events\, new articles and comment direct from the conference. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/cop21-side-event-mitigation-contributions-from-developing-countries/ LOCATION:Room OR03\, Side events area\, Le Bourget conference centre\, Paris\, France CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation ORGANIZER;CN="Unnamed Organizer":MAILTO:R.P.Byrne@sussex.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150907 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150910 DTSTAMP:20170209T214405Z CREATED:20150119T120133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214405Z UID:6911-1441584000-1441843199@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics DESCRIPTION:Resource Politics: Transforming Pathways to Sustainability \nWhy now? Contexts and debates \nIn 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 humanity’s survival in the age of the Anthropocene is questioned. Some suggest a ‘perfect storm’ of factors is combining to present ever growing threats\, often assumed to be at the ‘nexus’ of food\, water\, energy and climate change issues. Among the responses are advocates of ‘green economy’ strategies\, seeking transformations to more sustainable economies. \n  \nBut the ‘sustainability’ framing of these issues needs interrogating. How do these debates draw on earlier neo-Malthusian visions of ‘Limits to Growth’\, blind to social difference\, distributional implications\, and failing to disaggregate local users and politics concerning resource use\, consumption and production? What politics and power relations are hidden by the apocalyptic framings of environmental disaster? What interests are supported by particular framings of ‘scarcity’ or ‘limits’\, justifying appropriation of resources by some to the exclusion of others? \n  \nFood\, water\, fuel and minerals have become the focus of global and local political contests. Land\, water and green ‘grabs’ have re-allocated existing resources to so called ‘efficient’ and economically productive users\, causing local resource scarcities and dispossessions\, damaging livelihoods and infringing basic rights. Resources have become valued\, marketised and commodified\, with a range of unforeseen consequences. At the same time\, activism has flourished\, contesting dominant perspectives. As we seek pathways to sustainability that assure both environmental integrity and social justice\, now is a critical time to ask tough questions about the politics of resources. \nWhy a conference? \nThe STEPS Centre and its partners hope this conference can help unpack assumptions\, question simplistic prescriptions and debate alternatives about the politics of resources and pathways to sustainability. The conference will present research evidence from varied locations revealing multiple pathways of change\, linking conceptual challenges of understanding ‘resource politics’ with institutional and practical dimensions\, from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is hoped this debate – with academics\, practitioners\, policymakers and activists taking part – can provide the basis for open and balanced debate about future options. \n  \nResearch challenges \nIn conceptual terms\, the focus on political ecology\, long concerned with understanding the politics of access to\, and control over\, resources from local to global\, is increasingly combined with a concern with the politics of knowledge\, emerging from fields such as science and technology studies. Resource politics should be seen in relation to complex combinations of artefacts\, people and knowledges. Resource control and ‘grabbing’ debates have reinvigorated a concern for earlier Marxist concerns with accumulation and dispossession\, while new perspectives are required to understand the commodification and financialisation of nature. Pathways to sustainability are thus constructed through this complex interplay\, with analysis of power dynamics at the core. This means engaging critically with questions of environmental and social justice and what these mean to different people in diverse contexts in both the global South and North. Increasingly a conceptual perspective on ‘pathways’ combining an understanding of material and structural forces\, the politics that underpin them and the discursive knowledge politics that frame such dynamics\, is essential. \nThe STEPS Centre’s work on resource politics \nThe STEPS Centre’s ‘pathways approach’ has been developed as a way of understanding contending and conflicting pathways of change\, in complex\, highly contested settings. Building on earlier work on ‘scarcity’ and the politics of allocation\, we have highlighted the multiple framings of and responses to climate uncertainty. Similarly\, an earlier focus on ‘institutions’ for resource control and access\, has been extended to looking at resource access in diverse settings from peri-urban India to rural China. Historical work on the politics of landscapes\, including forests or rangeland areas\, has been built on to investigate the commodification of carbon in African forests. Work on water resources has linked issues of access to notions of security\, highlighting political contestation\, for example\, dam construction in southeast Asia. And we have highlighted the variegated consequences of land\, water and green grabbing in different sites across the world. \n  \nConference themes\nSix themes will run throughout the conference\, with panels clustered within each theme. This will allow delegates to take part in fulsome discussions around particular themes. \n\nScarcity\, politics and securitization\nResource grabbing\nGovernance\, elites\, citizenship and democracy\nFinancialisation and markets\nGrowth\, waste and consumption\nGender\, race\, class and sustainability\n\nFind out more on the conference website URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/resource-politics2015/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Resource politics ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150715T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150715T173000 DTSTAMP:20170209T214544Z CREATED:20150706T130415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214544Z UID:7564-1436976000-1436981400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Yixin Dai - Chinese Renewable Energy Policy DESCRIPTION:‘Chinese Renewable Energy Policy – Policy Implementation\, and Participation’ \nYixin Dai\, School of Public Policy and Management\, Tsinghua University \nIn 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 installation capacity reach 23GW in June 2015. The questions are: can we attribute this to strong central government? What is the role of local implementation in promoting renewable energy policies? Will any bottom-up effort influence future development of Chinese renewable energy policy?  This seminar addresses these questions by drawing on two of the speaker’s papers on the implementation gap and perception gap in Chinese renewable energy (RE) policy development. \nYixin Dai is an assistant professor in School of Public Policy and Management\, Tsinghua University. Her research interests focus on theory of innovation and technology transfer\, technological innovation in the environment and energy area\, and technology governance. Her current research studies different low carbon innovation paths between China and other parts of the world\, technology governance at local levels\, as well as the national innovation system in China. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/yixin-dai-chinese-renewable-energy-policy/ CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars,Technology & innovation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150708T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150710T170000 DTSTAMP:20170209T214706Z CREATED:20150703T201206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214706Z UID:7547-1436342400-1436547600@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:STEPS Centre events at 'Our Common Future' conference DESCRIPTION: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. \nFind out about our research and engagement work around COP21 and Our Common Future \n\n  \nBreakdown of events featuring STEPS members \nWednesday 8 July at 17.30 \nAdrian Ely and Rob Byrne: ‘Building pro-poor\, low carbon innovation systems through international and indigenous efforts’\, by Adrian Ely\, Rob Byrne and David Ockwell \n\n4413(a) – Technology\, transformations and capabilities in developing countries\nUPMC Jussieu – ROOM 309 – Block 24/34\n\nThursday 9 July at 15.00 \nPeter Newell: ‘The political economy of contending pathways to de-carbonisation’ \n\n4409(a) – Climate Governance: Driving Societal Transformations\nUPMC Jussieu Ampi Herpin\n\nThursday 9 July at 16.30 \nSam Geall and Adrian Ely: Low carbon innovation in China \n\n3333 – China’s climate policies and low-carbon innovation\nUNESCO Fontenoy – ROOM XI.\n\nFriday 10 July at 14.00 \nAdrian Ely: STEPS work in China and Africa \n\n4417 – Transforming Society and Science for Sustainability – Addressing Challenges in Transdisciplinary Research\nUNESCO Bonvin – ROOM XIV.\n\n  URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-at-our-common-future/ LOCATION:Various\, Paris\, France CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Understanding sustainability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150610T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150612T170000 DTSTAMP:20180322T170739Z CREATED:20170125T150404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180322T170739Z UID:10600-1433923200-1434128400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Low Carbon Development in Africa DESCRIPTION: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. \nLow Carbon Development in Africa workshop. Photo: STEPS Centre\nIn Sub-Saharan Africa\, two-thirds of people still lack access to electricity. Working for economic development and reducing poverty\, while addressing climate change\, is a complex and pressing challenge. \nTo debate ways forward\, this event in Nairobi brought together over 100 international delegates drawn from government\, industry\, universities and civil society. It was jointly hosted by the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, the STEPS Centre\, the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS)\, the Stockholm Enviroment Institute Africa (SEI Africa)\, and Practical Action. \nThe workshop also marked the official launch of the STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub\, one of five hubs in the Pathways to Sustainability Consortium. \n\nWorkshop report\nDownload the workshop report (pdf 532 KB) \n\nProgramme\nProf Judi Wakhungu\, Cabinet Secretary for Environment\, Water and Natural Resources\, Kenya\, gave the keynote address on behalf of the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury on Kenya\, Hon. Henry Rotich. \nSessions covered at the workshop included: \n\nLow-carbon pathways out of energy poverty\nCase studies of research in Africa\nEnergy access\nKnowledge gaps and inclusion\nAfrican priorities for research\, policy and practice\n\nDownload the programme (pdf\, 360KB) \n\nMedia coverage and blog posts\nEvent Storify – a selection of tweets\, links and images from the workshop \nPress coverage\n\nSciDev.Net Low-carbon hubs could help solve Africa’s energy gap 3 July 2015\nOther coverage: Coastweek / ScienceAfrica / SpyGhana\n\nBlogs\n\nAfrica Sustainability Hub will promote low-carbon opportunities by David Ockwell\, 19 June 2015\nPro-poor\, low carbon energy conversations across the STEPS global consortium by Adrian Ely\, 16 June 2015\nSTEPS Africa Sustainability Hub launched in Nairobi by Ian Scoones\, 10 June 2015\nKenyan Finance Minister: STEPS Africa “a huge contribution” by Ian Scoones\, 10 June 2015\nKnowledge is power: towards low carbon energy in Africa by Nathan Oxley\, 10 June 2015\nWhy access to energy is crucial for economic growth and poverty reduction by Ian Scoones\, 10 June 2015\n\n  URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/low-carbon-development-in-africa/ CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150513T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150513T203000 DTSTAMP:20170209T215316Z CREATED:20150319T154703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T215316Z UID:7154-1431538200-1431549000@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Public lecture: Mike Hulme - '(Still) Disagreeing about Climate Change: What Way Forward?' DESCRIPTION:Mike Hulme\, King’s College London\nSTEPS Public Lecture\, followed by drinks reception – all welcome\nFulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex \n\n \n\nDownload a poster (pdf) \nClimate 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 major instance where scientific knowledge and symbolic imagination interact in multiple and complex ways. \nIn an earlier book\, Why We Disagree about Climate Change\, I considered the different ways people think about climate change in the contexts of science\, economics\, religion\, psychology\, risk communication\, development sociology\, and politics. In the six years since that book was published\, new developments have occurred in nature\, science\, politics and culture\, yet climate change continues to be an idea which both unites and divides us. In this talk I will consider why this is and what it tells us about the emerging narrative of the Anthropocene. My normative claim is that we need a variety of insights about climate and its cultural and political manifestations to offer a sufficient number of entry points for human actors to work creatively with the idea of climate change. \nAbout Mike Hulme \nMike Hulme is professor of climate and culture in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. His work explores the idea of climate change using historical\, cultural and scientific analyses\, seeking to illuminate the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public and political discourse. \nHis latest book is Can Science Fix Climate Change? A Case Against Climate Engineering (Polity) and is currently writing Cultured Weather: The Idea of Climate and What We Do With It (SAGE). He is also the author of Exploring Climate Change Through Science and In Society (Routledge) and Why We Disagree About Climate Change (Cambridge). \nDrinks reception \nThis public lecture will be followed at about 7.30pm by a drinks reception in the same venue. All participants at the lecture are welcome to stay for drinks afterwards. \nThis event is part of the annual STEPS Centre Summer School. It is the only public event on this year’s programme. \n  URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/mike-hulme-still-disagreeing-about-climate-change/ LOCATION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150420T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150421T170000 DTSTAMP:20170125T165031Z CREATED:20170125T165031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170125T165031Z UID:10622-1429516800-1429635600@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Pathways to Sustainability in a Changing China DESCRIPTION: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. \n \nThe conference was hosted by Beijing Normal University School of Social Development and Public Policy in partnership with the STEPS Centre and under the auspices of the Ministry of Education’s 2011 Cooperative Platform on Innovation\, Governance and Development. \nFunding for this conference was provided by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through the Newton Fund. \n\n“变迁中的中国的可持续发展路径” 国际会议\n2015年4月20日—21日 \nSTEPS中心目前正致力于建立一个全球性的“可持续发展路径”研究联盟。作为这一行动中的一部分，我们与长期合作伙伴——北京师范大学——协作建立了北京可持续发展研究中心。 \n本次会议在教育部2011创新、治理与发展合作平台的支持下，由北京师范大学社会发展与公共政策学院和STEPS 研究中心合作主办。会议旨在从中国的视角探讨可持续发展路径，促进国际讨论。 \n本次国际会议将标志着北京可持续发展研究中心的正式启动，这也将为STEPS中心及其中国、国际合作伙伴提供宝贵的交流机会。 \n\nProgramme\n\nSTEPS-BNU Conference programme (PDF 168KB)\n\n We were delighted to have keynote speeches from Zhang Xiulan (Director\, BNU-SSDPP) and Melissa Leach (Director\, IDS; Former Director\, STEPS Centre). Sessions throughout the conference covered: \n\nInstitutional innovation and health reform in China\nSocial innovation in agriculture and natural resources\nAntimicrobial resistance\nLow Carbon Energy Transitions that Serve the Needs of the Poor\nFuture directions for seeds and agricultural development\nPoverty Reduction and Social Finance\nSustainable and equitable urban transformations\nEnvironment\, health and food safety\n\n\n \n Melissa Leach keynote at Pathways to Sustainability in a Changing China conference. from STEPS Centre\nConference video\nWatch the keynote speeches by Melissa Leach and Zhang Xiulan embedded below. Scroll down for links to parallel presentations. \n \nLinks to specific presentations: \nKeynote talks\nMelissa Leach and Zhang Xiulan – Pathways to Sustainability in a changing China \nPanel talks\nInstitutional innovation and Health Reform in China\nLewis Husain: Institutional innovation and health reform in China \nLijie Fang: New direction in social policy of China: the interaction between social services and social organizations \nYue Xiao: MCH and Family planning service delivery in China \nSocial innovation in agriculture and natural resources\nAdrian Ely: Social innovation in agriculture and natural resources \nGongbuzeren: Tibetan pastoral institutional responses to a changing socio-ecological system in China \nJoel Houdet: A cost-benefit analysis of mining in Karamoja \nLow carbon energy transitions that serve the needs of the poor\nRob Byrne: Low carbon energy transitions that serve the needs of the poor \nYixin Dai: Wind and Solar as energy transition in China \nGiuseppina Siciliano: Large dams in Southeast Asia and Africa: risks and opportunities \nSandra Pointel: Pro-poor low carbon energy access in Ghana – what role for China? \nJoel Houdet: Experiences from Africa \nAnti-microbial resistance\nGerry Bloom: Addressing resistance to antibiotics in plural health systems \nZhang Xiulan: Understanding the implementation of antibiotic regulations and other strategies in China \n Fang Jing: Reducing antimicrobial resistance: what can we do and how? \nDing Shijun: Knowledge of producers\, doctors and vets on pig antibiotic use \nFuture directions for seeds and agricultural development\nAnabel Marin: The future of seeds \nAndy Stirling: Alternative innovation pathways for seed development \nDing Shijun: Chinese seed firms ‘going abroad’ \nJames Keeley: AgriTT: Working in partnership for agricultural technology \n Yichun Song: Seed sovereignty\, sustainable agriculture and continuity \nPoverty reduction and social finance\nLi He: Needs and the questions of social finance based on the thinking of an environment project \nXu Hui: Social finance for for poverty alleviation: innovations since 2009 \nZhang Qian: Poverty trap and elite capture in pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia under climate change \nZhao Jia: Poverty reduction and social finance: reflections on the ‘Nong Shang Dai’ programme of creditease \nSustainable and equitable urban transformations\nYing Chen: Urbanization and sustainable development of cities in China \nZhao Zheng: China’s urban green development efficiency\, based on urban data analysis of Silk Road Economical Belt \nEnvironment\, health and food safety\nChao Cai: Food safety in China: two problems in focus \nFang Jing: Field building leadership initiative: advancing eco health in Asia \nLu Jixia: Historicizing sustainable livelihoods: a pathways approach to lead mining in rural central China \nDavid Tyfield: Towards sustainable and equitable urban transformations \n\nMasterclass\nThe conference was preceded by a one day Masterclass at BNU SSDPP\, involving early career researchers and students from BNU and other Chinese universities with STEPS Centre members and alumni. \nThe event explored the STEPS pathways approach and pathways methods and methodologies. Presentations were made to winners of the Sustainability Hub research proposal competition (see photo below). A South-South Cooperation Forum with international students at BNU contributions from STEPS Global Consortium partners from Africa and Argentina was also convened. \n \n\nBlog series\nReflections and learning from the conference \n\nAndy Stirling on New Pathways: Learning from China’s greenization\nMelissa Leach Made in China? Mutual learning in a global development era\nSandra Pointel Between ‘greenization’ and ‘citizenization’: Welcome to China’s New Normal\nSandra Pointel South-South Cooperation: Voices from Africa and Latin America resonate in China\n\n\nMedia coverage\nResearch hub helps China’s sustainable development\, China Daily\, 29 April 2015 \n\nMore information\nSTEPS China Sustainability Hub \n  URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/pathways-to-sustainability-in-a-changing-china/ CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Food & agriculture,Governance & policy,Health & disease,Technology & innovation,Urbanisation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150414T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150414T130000 DTSTAMP:20170209T215601Z CREATED:20161111T165438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T215601Z UID:7182-1429009200-1429016400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Innovation for Sustainability in a Changing China: Exploring Narratives and Pathways DESCRIPTION:Adrian Ely and Sam Geall\, STEPS Centre / SPRU\n14 April 2015 at 11am – 1pm\nVenue tbc \nChina 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 \, progress towards these targets are of vital importance to the whole world. \nThis seminar will explore some of the key political narratives that have underpinned China’s policies in these areas\, and in wider debates around sustainable development. At the same time\, we outline emerging Chinese narratives around the concept of innovation\, and the ways these link to environmental objectives. Drawing on theoretical insights from work in the STEPS Centre (Leach et al 2010) that investigate the role of power in shaping narratives\, knowledge and action around specific ‘pathways to sustainability’\, we explore the ways in which dominant policy narratives in China are driving particular forms of innovation for sustainability\, and potentially occluding or constrainin g others. \nThis event is part of the Sussex China Seminar Series. Participants are asked to register in order to attend. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/innovation-for-sustainability-in-a-changing-china-exploring-narratives-and-pathways/ LOCATION:tbc CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars,Understanding sustainability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150203T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150203T170000 DTSTAMP:20170209T220353Z CREATED:20150123T171457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T220353Z UID:6952-1422954000-1422982800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low carbon energy and development in Africa DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe workshop will mark the culmination of our ESRC project on The Rising Powers\, Clean Energy and the Low Carbon Transition in Southern Africa\, a project affiliated to the STEPS Centre. \nThe workshop will be a platform to present findings from the research and engage with various stakeholders working on similar themes in Africa. It will draw together the key findings from the international research community working on the opportunities and challenges of addressing development\, climate change\, and low carbon energy in Africa together with the experiences of policy-makers and practitioners in this field. \nFor inquiries about the event please email Ankit Kumar; ankit.kumar@durham.ac.uk URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/realising-transition/ LOCATION:Royal Society\, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace\, London\, SW1Y 5AG CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy ORGANIZER;CN="Ankit Kumar":MAILTO:ankit.kumar@durham.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141013T091500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141014T173000 DTSTAMP:20170209T221523Z CREATED:20141009T131930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T221523Z UID:6663-1413191700-1413307800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:UNFCCC Workshop: Strengthening national systems of innovation in developing countries (+ live webcast) DESCRIPTION: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). \nThe workshop includes a presentation by David Ockwell\, convenor of the STEPS Centre’s Energy and Climate Change domain\, on the subject of Transferring climate technology knowledge and developing national capacity to absorb knowledge. \nThe TEC is organizing the workshop to facilitate the implementation of its 2014-2015 rolling workplan. The workshop will support the TEC’s work on enhancing enabling environments for and addressing barriers to technology development and transfer\, in accordance with its mandated functions. It will have three sessions: \n\nStrengthening national systems of innovation\nIssues related to knowledge transfer between national systems of innovation\nKnowledge transfer mechanisms: enhancing collaboration.\n\nFull details of the event\, including an agenda\, background note and speaker biographies\, can be found on the TEC web page about the workshop. \nWebcast and virtual participation\nAll stakeholders are invited to follow the workshop through the live webcast and participate in the workshop discussions via social media. By using the Twitter hashtag #climatetech\, you may tweet questions for the consideration of the workshop participants.\n \n\nView webcast\nTweet questions using #climatetech\n\n  URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/unfccc-workshop-strengthening-national-systems-innovation-developing-countries-live-webcast/ LOCATION:Wissenschaftszentrum\, Bonn\, Germany CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141007T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141007T140000 DTSTAMP:20170209T222224Z CREATED:20141003T130947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T222224Z UID:6643-1412683200-1412690400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Energías renovables. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades de desarrollo y qué obstáculos enfrenta la búsqueda de alternativas energéticas sustentables? DESCRIPTION:Centro Cultural Borges – UNTREF\, Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3 \nOrganizan: CENIT/UNTREF\, Centro STEPS para América Latina \nEl 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\, existen alternativas energéticas como el desarrollo de la energía eólica. En la actualidad\, el sector de energía eólica en Argentina es relativamente pequeño\, con 140 kW de capacidad instalada (ya sea en o fuera de la red general de suministro de electricidad)\, que representa alrededor de 0\,4% del total de capacidad de generación de electricidad\, aunque se prevé una expansión considerable para los próximos años. Al mismo tiempo\, empresas estatales y nacionales han desarrollado competencias y se muestran activas en todos los eslabones de producción y generación. Esto incluye: la fabricación de turbinas de gran potencia (IMPSA y NRG Patagonia); manufactura de turbinas de pequeña escala (INVAP y otras pequeñas empresas); una amplia cadena de suministro\, ahora organizada como un cluster industrial; y la construcción\, instalación\, operación y mantenimiento de los parques eólicos. Por último\, la utilización de energías eólicas de baja escala permite crear nichos que favorecen a actores tales como las cooperativas eléctricas que\, a pesar de jugar un papel minoritario en el sistema energético\, cumplen una importante función social. \nEn conjunto\, estos puntos ponen en evidencia que existe la oportunidad de promover el desarrollo de una industria doméstica en este sector\, lo cual resulta crucial dado su alto potencial de creación de empleo\, de desarrollo industrial y regional\, y de exportaciones. En este marco\, proponemos debatir ¿Cuáles son las posibilidades y obstáculos para el desarrollo de las energías renovables\, y en particular la energía eólica para presentar alternativas complementarias a la matriz energética actual? ¿Por qué no se invierte más? ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que se presentan para el desarrollo de la industria doméstica en el futuro? ¿Qué tipo de actores y procesos deberían incentivarse para el desarrollo? ¿Qué podemos aprender de la experiencia internacional (43% de la inversión para generar nuevas capacidades de generación eléctrica a nivel mundial en 2013 fue en energías renovables)? \nModeradores: Patrick van Zwanenberg y Mariano Fressoli \nPanelistas: Daniel Hugo Bouille (Fundación Bariloche)\, Santiago Garrido (Investigador Conicet y IESCT – UNQ). \nEvento en Facebook URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/energias-renovables-cuales-son-las-oportunidades-de-desarrollo-y-que-obstaculos-enfrenta-la-busqueda-de-alternativas-energeticas-sustentables/ LOCATION:Centro Cultural Borges – UNTREF\,\, Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3\, Buenos Aires\, Argentina CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140708T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140710T170000 DTSTAMP:20170209T222801Z CREATED:20140602T091219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T222801Z UID:6377-1404806400-1405011600@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:International Conference: Green Economy in the South DESCRIPTION:Green Economy in the South – Negotiating Environmental Governance\, Prosperity and Development \nThe momentum gathering behind the idea and practice of the Green Economy is coinciding with financial instability and continued economic woe in the North\, but generally happier economic circumstances in the South. Economies are growing and ‘green economic initiatives’ are part of these changes. Carbon payments\, ecotourism\, community-based wildlife management\, Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and offsets by mining companies exploiting new resources are all a part of a landscape offering new commodities\, opportunities for commercialization and integration into wealth-generating markets. And so too are growing incidents of land (and water) grabbing\, displacement and alienation of resources required for wealthy tourists\, bitter local conflicts over the locally-defined rules of access to carbon (e.g. firewood) purchased by wealthy northerners\, green washing and other harmful activities that either cause poverty\, or else distribute the fortune and misfortune of the green economy inequitably. Equally demands for alternatives to market-driven environmental degradation\, and for market-dominated solutions are also gaining strength and coherence. \nThe conference will be held in Tanzania and builds on a series of sister conferences held in Europe and North America (most recently Grabbing Green and Nature Inc). We are convening it in Tanzania because we want the focus of this conference to be about the growth of the Green Economy in the South\, and therefore this conference must be more accessible to Southern speakers\, researchers and activists. \nIn addition to the conference itself we will also be organizing field trips to sites after the conference is formally finished to locations where interventions of the green economy are unfolding\, in carbon forestry\, wildlife management and eco-tourism. \nThe conference is hosted by the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies\, University of Dodoma\, Tanzania\, and co-hosted by the Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)\, University of the Western Cape; the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM)\, University of Manchester; The Institute for Social Studies (ISS)\, Erasmus University; and\, the Sustainability Platform\, Copenhagen Business School (CBS). \nSpeakers include Martin Kijazi and others from the STEPS Centre’s Political Ecologies of Carbon in Africa project. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/international-conference-green-economy-south/ LOCATION:University of Dodoma\, Dodoma\, Tanzania\, United Republic Of CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140515T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140515T193000 DTSTAMP:20170209T223150Z CREATED:20140507T140704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223150Z UID:6277-1400176800-1400182200@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Public lecture: Michael Grubb on Planetary Economics: Energy\, Climate Change and the Three Domains of Sustainable Development DESCRIPTION:The Sussex Energy Group at SPRU in association with the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand\,  invites you to a public lecture \n\nProfessor Michael Grubb presenting findings from his recently published book: Planetary Economics: Energy\, Climate Change and the Three Domains of Sustainable Development \nChaired by Prof. Johan Schot\, Director of SPRU and with discussants Prof. Jim Watson\, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex and Research Director of UK Energy Research Centre and Mariana Mazzucato\, RM Phillips chair in the Economics of Innovation at SPRU\nthe University of Sussex\nThursday 15 May 6.00-7.30pm\, followed by a drinks reception\nJubilee Lecture Theatre\, School of Business\, Management and Economics\, University of Sussex\n\nSummary:\nHow well do our assumptions about the global challenges of energy\, environment and economic development fit the facts? Energy prices have varied hugely between countries and over time\, yet the share of national income spent on energy has remained surprisingly constant. The foundational theories of economic growth account for only about half the growth observed in practice. Despite escalating warnings for more than two decades about the planetary risks of rising greenhouse gas emissions\, most governments have seemed powerless to change course. \nIn this public lecture\,  Professor Michael Grubb\,  Chair of Energy and Climate Policy at the Cambridge University Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research\, and Senior Advisor on Sustainable Energy Policy to the UK Energy Regulator Ofgem\, presents findings from his new book Planetary Economics  which shows the surprising links between these seemingly unconnected facts. He will argue  that tackling the energy and environmental problems of the 21st Century requires three different domains of decision-making to be recognised and connected. Each domain involves different theoretical foundations\, draws on different areas of evidence\, and implies different policies. \nThe book shows that the transformation of energy systems involves all three domains – and each is equally important. From them flow three pillars of policy (standards and engagement\, markets and prices\, innovation and infrastructure)  – three quite distinct kinds of actions that need to be taken\, which rest on fundamentally different principles. Any pillar on its own will fail. \nIn this lecture\, hosted by  SPRU\, Professor Grubb will focus in particular on the third pillar of innovation and infrastructure. He will set out the evidence and explain why energy is “different” in terms of innovation\, the elements of successful innovation strategies\, and the factors that tend to lock us in to high-carbon energy systems. \nJoin us for this unique opportunity to hear about and discuss analysis which brings together the lessons from 25 years of research and implementation of energy and climate policies. \nBiography\nProfessor Michael Grubb is Chair of Energy and Climate Policy at the Cambridge University Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research\, and Senior Advisor on Sustainable Energy Policy to the UK Energy Regulator Ofgem . He is editor-in-chief of the journal Climate Policy \, is on the editorial board of Energy Policy and was recently the Specialist Advisor to a House of Lords European Committee enquiry: ‘No Country is an Energy Island: securing investment for the EU’s Future’ (2013). His former positions include Chair of the international research organization Climate Strategies; Chief Economist at the Carbon Trust; Professor of Climate Change and Energy Policy at Imperial College London; and Head of Energy and Environment at Chatham House\, and he continues to be associated with these institutions. In 2008 he was appointed to the UK Climate Change Committee\, established under the UK Climate Change Bill to advise the government on future carbon budgets and to report to Parliament on their implementation. \nMichael Grubb is author of seven books\, fifty journal research articles and numerous other publications. He has held numerous advisory positions with governments\, companies and international studies on climate change and energy policy\, and has been a Lead Author for several reports of the IPCC on mitigation\, including the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. \n  URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/grubb/ LOCATION:Jubilee Lecture Theatre 144\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Brighton CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Schepers":MAILTO:s.m.schepers@sussex.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140325T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140325T143000 DTSTAMP:20170209T223744Z CREATED:20140312T112708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223744Z UID:6100-1395752400-1395757800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: In the Eye of a Cyclone: The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change in the Sundarban Delta DESCRIPTION:Dr Debojyoti Das\, ERC Post-Doctoral Research Associate\, Dept. of History\, Classics and Archaeology\, Birkbeck\, University of London \nTropical Cyclones are a yearly event in the Bay of Bengal coastal seaboard. The deadliest cyclones in the world have formed here\, including the 1970 Bhola super cyclone\, which killed 500\,000 people. The misery and destruction caused by cyclones along the coast of Bengal has been greater than anywhere else in the world\, and the environmental and social problems that set the stage for disaster continue to be exceptionally severe. There is very little interest among social scientists in India to study cyclones from a range of disciplinary perspectives: historical\, anthropological and economic. The extensive and sophisticated historiographies of environment in India do not deal at all with maritime hazards. Therefore\, it is a case in point to analyse cyclones from a critical political\, economic and ecological standpoint \nI contend in this presentation that cyclone disasters\, like any other natural calamity owing their origin solely to natural causes\, are also politically and socially produced. Like revolutions and wars\, they are moments of extreme stress that can reveal the underlying structures of social and political life. I want to rethink the cyclone in the Sundarban delta as trans-national disaster—as an event that are shaped\, and in some sense created\, by the unequal power relations characteristic of British imperial policies and the consequence of political violence triggered by partition and the creation of Bangladesh during 1947 and 1971 respectively\, that led to the forced migration of people across the newly created national boundaries. There is a dialectical relationship between nature\, society and disaster that lead to environmental change with deep impact on marginalised communities. \nEveryone Welcome! URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/stepsseminardas/ LOCATION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, University of Sussex\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140320T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140320T180000 DTSTAMP:20170209T223921Z CREATED:20140320T104412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223921Z UID:6150-1395324000-1395338400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:IDS Rising Powers & Rio+ Centre High-Level Round-Table: BRICS & the Green Transformation: Mutual Learning for Sustainability DESCRIPTION:Speakers will debate the dynamics and drivers for low-carbon development policies in Brazil\, India and China\, and the implications for Africa. \nAdrian Ely\, Deputy Director and Head of Impact and Engagement\, STEPS Centre\, is taking part in this event and wrote a blogpost to coincide:\nMore than just a “clean energy race”? BRICS invesment and innovation could lead the way on green transformation \nThe ‘BRICS and the Green Transformation – Mutual Learning for Sustainability’ round-table will explore the BRICS’ contribution to the Green Transformation\, drawing out the positive lessons which arise from these countries’ own experience in this\nfield. The event will be co-hosted by the Rising Powers in International Development programme at the Institute of Development Studies; and the RIO+ Centre\, set up as a joint venture between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Brazil after the Rio+20 Summit in 2012 to promote\, articulate\, inform and inspire policies in sustainable development globally. \n14:00-14:30 Registration \n14:30-14:40 Welcome\, Layla Saad (Rio+) \n14:40-15:00 Hubert Schmitz (Institute of Development Studies) Who drives low carbon policies: lessons from China \n15:00-15:20 Emilio Lèbre La Rovere (Centro Clima\, COPPE-UFRJ) Low carbon policies in Brazil: insights from Rio de Janeiro \n15:20-15:40 Ambuj Sagar (Indian Institute of Technology) Meeting multiple energy challenges: lessons from India \n15:40-16:00 Coffee break \n16:00-16:10 Adrian Ely (STEPS Centre) Diversity of Pathways \n16:10-16:20 Nozipho Mabebe Wright (Energia-Africa) What does this mean for Africa? \n16:20-17:00 Q&A\, facilitated discussion\, Leisa Perch (Rio+) \n17.00-18.00 Reception URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/bricsrio/ LOCATION:Hotel Sheraton\, Leblon\, Av Niemeyer\, 121 - Leblon\, Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy ORGANIZER;CN="Rio+ World Centre for Sustainable Development":MAILTO:rio.plus@undp.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140311T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140311T143000 DTSTAMP:20170209T224016Z CREATED:20140304T103842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T224016Z UID:6096-1394542800-1394548200@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Changing political climates: Chinese environmental journalism and sustainable development DESCRIPTION:Sam Geall\, Research Fellow SPRU and executive editor Chinadialogue\nChina’s current leadership recently made “Beautiful China” and “Ecological Civilization” two of its most prominent official slogans and enshrined sustainable development as core state policy\, but what are the dynamics of this drive for “low-carbon development” and how are those dynamics framed? \nExploring how Chinese environmental journalists make framing decisions around the science and politics of climate change helps to illustrate how spaces for political engagement have emerged in a restrictive and changeable media and governance environment\, one that not only reflects a changing history of attitudes towards the environment in China\, but also debates within the international arena of sustainable development. \nSam Geall is Research Fellow at SPRU\, working on Low Carbon Innovation in China: Prospects\, Politics and Practice\, an international research project led by Lancaster University\, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and an affiliate project of the STEPS Centre. Sam is also Executive Editor of chinadialogue.net\, editor of China and the Environment: The Green Revolution (Zed Books: 2013)\, and was recently the International Coordinator of a Special Policy Study for the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED). \nEveryone welcome! \n  URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/samgeallseminar/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy,Seminars ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131127T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131127T120000 DTSTAMP:20170209T225007Z CREATED:20131101T111215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225007Z UID:5771-1385542800-1385553600@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Our Future in the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:STEPS Centre director Melissa Leach will be giving a talk entitled ‘science-governance challenges in the Anthropocene’ as part of a half-day seminar\, Our Future in the Anthropocene\, hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. \nThe other speakers are: \n\nStaffan Normark\, Permanent Secretary the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (introduction)\nWill Steffen\, chair of the Prize Jury (The epoch of the Anthropocene)\nJohan Rockström (Planetary boundaries and resilience)\nQin Dahe (The role of the glaciers and poles in the earth system)\nElisabet Lindgren\, KI (Human health and global environmental change)\nGarry Peterson\, SRC (A positive Anthropocene) URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/future-anthropocene/ LOCATION:Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences\, Sweden CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131122T131500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131122T144500 DTSTAMP:20170209T225034Z CREATED:20131023T192931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225034Z UID:5742-1385126100-1385131500@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:COP19 side event: Beyond Technology Transfer DESCRIPTION:The STEPS Centre’s energy and climate change co-convenor Dr Rob Byrne is presenting at a side event for COP19 entitled: Beyond Technology Transfer: Insights for the Technology Mechanism from low C energy policy research\, organised by The Sussex Energy Group (University of Sussex) and SusTec (ETH Zurich) \nSummary \nLow-carbon technology transfer is a central aim of the Technology Mechanism (TM). This event will draw on insights from new social science research on innovation and development to discuss how the TM can best deliver on its mandate. The event will focus on the role of national technological capabilities in low-carbon technology research\, development and deployment (RD&D) that fulfill the needs of developing countries. We will also discuss implications for the specification and implementation of supportive and collaborative actions under the TM. \nShort inputs from international organizations and academic researchers will be followed by a plenary session on experiences with capacity building\, local private sector involvement\, and the various aspects of ‘national appropriateness’ of mitigation and adaptation actions. \nProgramme \n\n\n\nTime\n\nTopic\nPresenter\n\n\n13.15\n13.20\nIntroduction by the Chair\nDr. Oliver Johnson\, SEI   International (Kenya)\n\n\n13.20\n13.30\nOverview   over the NAMA registry\nJules   Williams\, UNFCCC Secretariat\n\n\n13.30\n13.40\nLocal and   global knowledge – the role of value chains and technology differences\nJoern Huenteler\, ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)\n\n\n13.40\n13.50\nEnergy   Efficiency – the case of India (tbc)\nProf. Ambuj   Sagar\, IIT Delhi (India) (tbc)\n\n\n13:50\n14:00\nDe-risking   renewable energy investment – the role of building local capabilities\nMartin   Krause\, UNDP\n\n\n14:00\n14:10\nIncremental   innovation for pro-poor technology transfer\nDr. Rob   Byrne\, University of Sussex (UK)\n\n\n14:10\n14:40\nPanel   discussion on experiences with capacity building\, local private sector   involvement\, and the various aspects of ‘national appropriateness’\nPresenters\nShikha Bhasin\, DIE/GDI (Germany)\n\n\n14.40\n14.45\nWrap-up\nDr. Oliver   Johnson (SEI International)\n\n\n\n  \nContacts: \nUniversity of Sussex–Sussex Energy Group (SEG) & STEPS Centre: Dr. Rob Byrne\, r.p.byrne@sussex.ac.uk \nETH Zurich – Group for Sustainability and Technology (SusTec): Dr. Tobias Schmidt tobiasschmidt@ethz.ch \n  URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/cop19-side-event/ LOCATION:Torun Room (B3)\, National Stadium\, Al. Ks. J. Poniatowskiego 1\, Warsaw CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy ORGANIZER;CN="Rob Byrne":MAILTO:R.P.Byrne@sussex.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131107T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131107T210000 DTSTAMP:20170209T225239Z CREATED:20131003T144419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225239Z UID:5678-1383850800-1383858000@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Controlling the climate? Public debate on geoengineering DESCRIPTION:As climate change intensifies\, some scientists suggest the need for a ‘plan B’ if immediate emissions reductions don’t prove feasible. Research into geoengineering (the large scale intentional manipulation of the climate) has begun\, and includes research into technologies that might enable us to cool the planet by shielding some sunlight from the earth\, or technologies that might speed up the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But research in this area is controversial. Could the very idea of a technological solution take momentum away from the need for emissions reductions? If research continues\, might there be a ‘slippery slope’ to eventual deployment? Should we even be contemplating attempting to control nature in this way? \nThis public debate on geoengineering research will bring leading scientists and campaigners together with members of the public to explore the complex ethical and political questions associated with research on climate engineering\, to debate the motion: \n‘We need to do more research on geoengineering.’ \nSpeakers: \n\nDr Matt Watson (Bristol University)\nOliver Morton (The Economist)\nProf. Andy Stirling (Sussex University and co-director of the STEPS Centre)\nHelena Paul (Econexus)\n\nPart of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2013. \nRelated project: Climate geoengineering governance URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/controlling-climate-public-debate-geoengineering/ LOCATION:The Old Market\, 11A Upper Market Street\, Hove\, BN3 1AS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy ORGANIZER;CN="Sussex Energy Group":MAILTO:b.zenz@sussex.ac.uk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR