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  • Synthetic Biology & Global Health – Claire Marris seminar

    Room C233, Arts C University of Sussex, Brighton

    Synthetic Biology & Global Health: How to move beyond the promises/perils framing? Claire Marris, King’s College London A seminar co-organised by Centre for Bionetworking, STEPS Centre and Centre for Global Health Policy In a speech announcing the UK’s “eight great technologies” in 2012, Chancellor George Osborne stated that “synthetic biology will heal us, heat and...

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

    Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London

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

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

    Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London

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

  • Seminar: Providing scientific advice to the UK Parliament | Dr Chandrika Nath

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

    Dr Chandrika Nath, Deputy Director, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Dr Nath is Deputy Director of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), Parliament’s in-house source of scientific advice. In this talk Dr Nath will describe how POST works, and how research evidence is incorporated into the parliamentary process. She will also talk...

  • ‘India’s Risks’ book launch

    Book launch: ‘India’s Risks: Democratizing the Management of Threats to Environment, Health and Values’ With Professor M V Rajeev Gowda, Honorable Member of Parliament and Professor Ian Scoones, STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK Thursday 19 February at 6.00 – 7.30 pm at The British Council, New Delhi Live streamed video...

  • Seminar: Mission-Oriented Public Investments?

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

    Mission-Oriented Public Investments? State Investment Banks & Picking-Winner Policies Speakers: Mariana Mazzucato and Caetano Penna Discussants: Martin Bell and Stephany Griffith-Jones This event is jointly hosted by the STEPS Centre and IDS Business and Development Centre Live Streaming Tuesday 10 March 2015 12:30 to 14:00 Refreshments will be provided from 12:00 IDS Convening Space This...

  • The inclusive turn of neoliberal conservation? Opportunities and threats of REDD+ in Tanzania

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

    Seminar by STEPS visiting fellow Andreas Scheba The rise of new markets, or market-like instruments, in the realm of nature conservation is a key feature of global discourse and strategies around the ‘green’ economy. Innovative ways of measuring, valuing and trading nature have emerged that enjoy increasing support among public and private stakeholders. At the...

  • Critical Perspectives on the Financialisation of Nature – Theory, Politics and Practice

    University of Sussex , United Kingdom

    University of Sussex, 19-20th March 2015 Hosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy & STEPS Centre Update (2 March 2015): A public roundtable on this topic will be held in Brighton on 19 March, with contributions from Melissa Leach, Hannah Mowat, Larry Lohman, Antonio Tricarico and Bram Büscher. Download the conference programme (PDF) Carbon...

  • Public Roundtable: Nature As Commodity

    Friends Meeting House Ship St, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Download poster (PDF) Fishery bycatch offsetting in Canada, catastrophe bonds in the US, weather derivatives in Ethiopia… What is at stake with the financialisation of nature? Where do we go from here? Panel: Melissa Leach (Director, Institute of Development Studies) Hannah Mowat (Fern, Belgium) Larry Lohman (The Corner House) Antonio Tricarico (Re:Common, Italy) Bram Büscher...

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

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

  • International Conference: Pathways to Sustainability in a Changing China

    Room 2030 Room 2030, Beijing Normal University School of Public Policy and Management, Beijing, China

    The conference will be 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. With long-term partners around the world we are now establishing a Pathways to Sustainability global consortium,...

  • Pathways to Sustainability in a Changing China

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

  • Seminar: Low carbon innovation paths in Europe and Asia: Divergence or Convergence?

    Room 144, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Falmer, United Kingdom

    IDS/SPRU/STEPS Seminar The current technological shift from high to low carbon development coincides with a geographical shift: the rapid expansion of green production and innovation capacity in China and India. This constellation gives rise to the question: to what extent, how and why do the innovation paths in Europe and in Asia differ? The seminar...

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

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

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

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  • STEPS Seminar: Nora McKeon on Food Security Governance

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

    ‘Food Security Governance: empowering communities, regulating corporations’ Seminar with Nora McKeon. All welcome. Terra Nuova, Board Member, Roma 3 Masters in Human Development and Food Security, Lecturer, West African Network of Peasant and Agricultural Producers’ Organizations (ROPPA), Technical Adviser Today’s global food system generates hunger alongside of land grabs, food waste, health problems, massive greenhouse...

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  • STEPS Africa launch – Low carbon Africa: Development Pathways out of Poverty

    Crowne Plaza Hotel Nairobi, Kenya

    The STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub was officially launched on 12 June 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya at a workshop entitled Low carbon Africa: Development Pathways out of Poverty. The event brought together 100 international delegates drawn from government, industry, universities and civil society to explore and share ideas and approaches on pathways towards developing low carbon...

  • Low Carbon Development in Africa

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

  • Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Challenges of Nation-wide Scaling up and Sustainability

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

    This event will be live streamed (see below) and a video recording will be available afterwards. Since its innovation in Bangladesh in 2000, Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has spread to more than 65 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America where more than 400 million people are now living in open defecation free (ODF) environments....

  • Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities Workshop

    SPRU Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    The Nexus Network workshop on ‘Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities’, led by STEPS Co-Director Andy Stirling, will be held at the University of Sussex, UK on 29-30 June 2015. The workshop will be shaped around two key questions: What different kinds and interconnections of method in contrasting contexts, form the most practical basis for...

  • STEPS Centre events at ‘Our Common Future’ conference

    Various Paris, France

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

  • STEPS Seminar: Yixin Dai – Chinese Renewable Energy Policy

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

  • STISA-2024: Debating Africa’s “Blueprint” for Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Development

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

    This panel debate at the Institute of Development Studies examines responses to the recently-published Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024). In June 2014, the 23rd Ordinary Session of African Union Heads of State and Government Summit adopted a 10-year Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024). The strategy is part of the...

  • STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics

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

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

  • The Politics of Nature: reimagining power, resistance and critique from above, below and within

    Arts C 233, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK Speakers: Prof Dianne Rocheleau - Clark University Kathleen McAfee - San Francisco State University This interactive workshop is organised by the Centre for Global Political Economy and the STEPS Centre. It follows the conference 'Resource Politics: transforming pathways to sustainability'. Attendance is free, but registration is required....

  • STEPS Seminar: ‘Resource Politics: Future Directions’

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

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies, Library Road, Falmer, BN1 9RE, UK ‘Resource Politics: Future Directions’ Dianne Rocheleau and Kathleen McAfee A critical resource politics can contribute to reframing conservation sciences to bring science into the service of social and ecological justice. To this end, many of us are challenging the fetish of economic growth...

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