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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151204T150000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151201T150000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151201T163000
DTSTAMP:20170209T213053Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150907
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150910
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150715T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150715T173000
DTSTAMP:20170209T214544Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150708T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150710T170000
DTSTAMP:20170209T214706Z
CREATED:20150703T201206Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150610T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150612T170000
DTSTAMP:20180322T170739Z
CREATED:20170125T150404Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150513T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150513T203000
DTSTAMP:20170209T215316Z
CREATED:20150319T154703Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150420T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150421T170000
DTSTAMP:20170125T165031Z
CREATED:20170125T165031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170125T165031Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150414T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150414T130000
DTSTAMP:20170209T215601Z
CREATED:20161111T165438Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150203T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150203T170000
DTSTAMP:20170209T220353Z
CREATED:20150123T171457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T220353Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141013T091500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141014T173000
DTSTAMP:20170209T221523Z
CREATED:20141009T131930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T221523Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141007T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141007T140000
DTSTAMP:20170209T222224Z
CREATED:20141003T130947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T222224Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140708T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140710T170000
DTSTAMP:20170209T222801Z
CREATED:20140602T091219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T222801Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140515T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140515T193000
DTSTAMP:20170209T223150Z
CREATED:20140507T140704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223150Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140325T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140325T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T223744Z
CREATED:20140312T112708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223744Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140320T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140320T180000
DTSTAMP:20170209T223921Z
CREATED:20140320T104412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223921Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140311T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140311T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T224016Z
CREATED:20140304T103842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T224016Z
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131106T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131106T140000
DTSTAMP:20170209T225154Z
CREATED:20131031T101532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225154Z
UID:5763-1383742800-1383746400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Putting the Power in 'Socio-Technical Regimes'- E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process
DESCRIPTION:Dr David Tyfield\, Co-Director\, Centre for Mobilities Research\, Lancaster University\nOne of the greatest challenges regarding contemporary research into socio-technical transition concerns the possibility of ‘sustainable transport’.  Transportation\, which accounts for at least one quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions\, is key to efforts to mitigate ‘climate change’.  But with the particularly ‘locked-in’ and entrenched socio-technical system of ‘automobility’ at the core of contemporary mobility\, it is also arguably a uniquely challenging case for low-carbon transition.  In this respect\, perhaps the most significant single development is the recent transformation of mobility within contemporary China.  In little more than 3 decades\, China has gone from a society dominated by bicycles and beasts of burden to the largest car market in the world\, and with prospects for massive further growth.  Conversely\, China is also engaged in an experiment regarding electric vehicles that is receiving globally unique levels of governmental and corporate support. \nThe talk will introduce a new 30-month ESRC project – involving colleagues at Lancaster\, SPRU\, the STEPS Centre and in China – that will explore the broader prospects for low-carbon transition in China.  Focusing on the work package on low-carbon e-mobility by way of illustration\, the talk will ask in particular how thinking about low-carbon transition in the entirely different socio-economic\, political and cultural context of China forces a confrontation with some key challenges for contemporary theories of low-carbon innovation and system transition.  In particular\, while acknowledging the significant insights and benefits of two theoretical perspectives emerging as dominant in this field – the ‘multi-level perspective’ and practice theory – both need also to place issues of power at the heart of their analyses.  In this way\, the specific and different challenges of constructing an ‘entrepreneurial state’ in China (vs. for example in the UK) may also be illuminated. \nEveryone welcome.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/e-mobility-china/
LOCATION:Room G22\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130724T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130724T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T225611Z
CREATED:20130723T093138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225611Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS/IDS Seminar: Jon Morris - Reimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet \nProfessor Jon Morris\n24 July 2013 at 13.00 – 14.30\nRoom 221\, Institute of Development Studies \nAbout the seminar: \nThe need to ‘re-imagine’ development studies in today’s world arises because of sweeping changes which invalidate the earlier globalization emphasis which has guided social science involvement in applied policy.  Business analysts tell us we work now in World 3.0\, with a rise of emerging markets and a digital world\, where also unexpected events occur frequently.  Drawing on this business literature by Ghemawat and Ramo (and others)\, this seminar explores implications of these changed circumstances\, which suggest we craft Development 3.0 to address planetary needs.  Such an emphasis would privilege sustainability over efficiency\, would look at all nations\, would anticipate urban problems and populations\, and would try to cope more effectively with ‘mashups’: unexpected\, major changes (such as we faced in 2008 and now again in the Arab Spring).  The aim here will be to explore better narratives and changed metrics\, to break out of the earlier assumptions (taken as facts) which guided Development 2.0\, looking to globalization to yield a better world.  \n\nAbout the speaker: \nProfessor Jon Morris is based in southeast Utah\, where he teaches courses in his retirement on Southwest Indian Nations for Utah State University.  His career began in East Africa in the mid-1960s\, on topics related to land settlement\, rural development\, extension\, and education\, finishing as Professor in what is now Sokoine University of Agriculture\, Tanzania.  In the 1980s he worked on pastoralism for ODI\, London\, and on Tanzanian development for Uma Lele in the Bank. In the 1990s\, his focus became African Irrigation and livestock policies\, under USAID funded projects.  For this occasion he looks back on a half century’s development efforts\, tracking how emphases and assumptions change but persistent problems remain. \nAll welcome
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/stepsids-seminar-jon-morris-reimagining-development-3-0-for-a-changing-planet/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Understanding sustainability
ORGANIZER;CN="STEPS Centre / IDS":MAILTO:h.corbett@ids.ac.uk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130520T203000
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SUMMARY:Public debate: Fuel poverty\, climate change and social justice
DESCRIPTION:Public debate at the Jubilee Library\, Brighton\, UK. Part of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2013.\nFind out more about the 2013 STEPS Summer School \n  \nWatch the video of this debate (on YouTube) \nPanel: \n\nKirsty Alexander\, Head of Communications\, Nuclear Industry Association\nThurstan Crockett\, Head of Sustainability\, Brighton and Hove City Council\nDoug Parr\, Chief Scientist\, Greenpeace\nJim Watson\, Research Director\, UK Energy Research Centre\n\nChair: Alice Bell\, Research Fellow\, SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research\, University of Sussex \nAt a time of rising unemployment\, energy and food costs\, many families are struggling to heat their homes. But can fuel poverty be tackled without tackling climate change? And will tackling climate change – and other planetary boundaries such as water and land use – and keep the planet safe but make the poor poorer? \nThis debate will use the local issues such as fuel poverty and fracking to look at the global issues of environmental sustainability\, poverty and social justice. \n \nAbout the event\nThis debate is co-organised with SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex. \nIt is part of a series of public events during the 2013 STEPS Centre Summer School on pathways to sustainability. \nOther events in this series: \n13 May: Michael Jacobs (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)\nPublic lecture: ‘Capitalism\, carbon and climate change’\nFulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex \n16 May: CANCELLED: Johan Rockström\, Stockholm Resilience Centre
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/public-debate-fuel-poverty-climate-change-and-social-justice/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130516T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130516T173000
DTSTAMP:20170209T230126Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Public lecture: Prof Johan Rockström\, Stockholm Resilience Centre
DESCRIPTION:Planetary boundaries and Sustainable Development Goals \nUnfortunately Johan Rockström\, Stockholm Resilience Centre\, will no longer be able to give this lecture.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/johan-rockstrom-lecture-may2013/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130513T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130513T190000
DTSTAMP:20170209T230158Z
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SUMMARY:Public lecture: Prof Michael Jacobs\, Grantham Research Institute
DESCRIPTION:‘Capitalism\, carbon and climate change’ \nFulton A Lecture Theatre\nUniversity of Sussex\, Falmer\nBrighton \nPublic lecture\, followed by drinks reception\nAll welcome \nMichael Jacobs is a Visiting Professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics\, and in the School of Public Policy at University College London. He is a former Special Adviser at the UK Treasury and 10 Downing St. \nAbout the lecture\nClimate change is now upon us: the science is incontrovertible.  But the economic downturn has turned public and political attention to more immediate concerns\, and climate policy in Britain and the EU is going into reverse. \nIn this keynote lecture\, Michael Jacobs will draw parallels between the financial crisis and the crisis of climate change\, both rooted in a failure of orthodox economic theory and political debate to understand the systemic risks built up by an under-regulated capitalism.  Tackling both crises will require a new way of thinking about economic value and economic policy\, and a reassertion of the role of politics in securing the public good. \nOther events\nThis lecture is part of a series of public events linked to the 2013 STEPS Centre Summer School on pathways to sustainability. \nSee the Spring Series events page for more details. \n \nOther events in this series: \n20 May: Fuel poverty\, climate change and social justice\nPublic debate with Jim Watson (UK Energy Research Centre)\, Kirsty Alexander (Head of Communications\, Nuclear Industry Association)\, Doug Parr (Chief Scientist\, Greenpeace) and Thurstan Crockett (Head of Sustainability\, Brighton & Hove City Council). Chaired by Alice Bell (SPRU – University of Sussex)\nJubilee Library\, Brighton \nThe previously advertised lecture by Johan Rockström on 16 May has been cancelled.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/public-lecture-prof-michael-jacobs-lse/
LOCATION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9SJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:steps-events@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130227T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130227T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T230439Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Alex Arnall\, University of Reading
DESCRIPTION:‘A climate of control: flooding\, displacement and planned resettlement in the Lower Zambezi River valley\, Mozambique’ \nAlexander Huw Arnall\nSchool of Agriculture\, Policy and Development\, University of Reading \nIn recent years\, the potential role of planned\, internal resettlement as a  climate change adaptation measure has been highlighted by national governments and the international policy community. However\, in many developing countries\, resettlement is a deeply political process that often results in unequal distribution of costs and benefits amongst relocated persons. \nThis seminar will examine these tensions in central Mozambique. It will use a political ecology approach to show how a dominant narrative of climate change-induced hazards for small-scale farmers in the Lower Zambezi River valley is contributing to their involuntary resettlement to higher-altitude\, less fertile areas of land. The findings add weight to the argument that a depoliticised interpretation of climate change can deflect attention away from underlying drivers of vulnerability and poverty\, as well as obscure the interests of governments that are intent on reordering poor and vulnerable populations.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-alex-arnall-university-of-reading/
LOCATION:Room 100\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy
ORGANIZER;CN="STEPS Centre":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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