Public lecture: Mike Hulme – ‘(Still) Disagreeing about Climate Change: What Way Forward?’
Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomMike 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...
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...
STEPS Africa launch – Low carbon Africa: Development Pathways out of Poverty
Crowne Plaza Hotel Nairobi, KenyaThe 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 KingdomThis 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 KingdomThe 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, FranceFrom 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 KingdomThis 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 KingdomResource 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...