STEPS Centre Seminar “Will Africa Feed China?”
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomThe STEPS Centre Seminar on 'Will Africa Feed China?" was by Professor Deborah Bräutigam and took place at the IDS Convening Space, on 16th November 2015, 13:00-14.30. Audio recording: Is China building an empire in rural Africa? China has nine percent of the world's arable land, six percent of its water, and over 20 percent...
Nexus network conference: ‘Scales, levels and spaces of the nexus’
The Nexus Network second Annual Conference will be held on Thursday 19 November 2015, in central London. Questions of scale are crucial in addressing the linked nexus challenges of food, energy, water and the environment. The nexus is often framed as a global security problem, but this can obscure alternative understandings of interactions and trade-offs...
‘The ethos of scientific advice’ Seminar
SPRU Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomArthur Peterson, from STEaPP, UCL, will give a seminar on ‘The ethos of scientific advice’ as part of the SPRU Friday Seminar Series on Friday, 20th November 2015. The seminar will be chaired by Andy Stirling (SPRU), and followed by a Roundtable on 'Dilemmas of Uncertainty in the Politics of Science and Innovation’, with James Wilsdon and Erik Millstone...
Seminar: ‘Development without Growth?’
Room 221, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom‘Development without Growth?’ Ray Cunningham, Jonathan Essex, Tom Lines Friday 27th November, 13.00 - 14.30, Room 221, Institute of Development Studies This seminar is jointly held with the Resource Politics cluster at IDS. In 2013, the green think tank Green House published ‘The Post-Growth Project’, which argues that economic growth, as conventionally measured, is over for the UK in...
COP21 side event: Mitigation contributions from developing countries
Room OR03, Side events area Le Bourget conference centre, Paris, FranceMitigation contributions from developing countries: innovation, technology and scenario analysis Side events area, Room OR 03 Le Bourget conference centre, Paris 1 December at 15.00- 16.30 The Paris Agreement requires country-level implementation, where institutional capabilities and integrated assessment modelling capacities are needed. With colleagues from Colombia and Kenya we show how collaboration on scenario analysis...
COP21 side event: Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs)
Salle 1, Climate Generations Area Le Bourget conference centre, Paris, FranceClimate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs): how to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism Climate Generations area, Salle 1 Le Bourget Conference Centre, Paris 4 December at 15.00-16.30 Listen to the audio recording COP21 side event: How to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism by Stepscentre on Mixcloud About this session The session focuses on how the UNFCCC...
Asia’s Giants: media briefing + drinks reception
When: Friday, December 4th from 7pm-9pm; short briefing and Q&A at 7.30pm Where: Holiday Inn Paris Gare de l’Est, 5, rue du 8 Mai 1945 75010 Paris How is China shifting to a low-carbon economy? Will low-carbon innovation in China affect decarbonisation pathways elsewhere? Why do Indian policymakers insist on low-carbon rather than no-carbon? What are the prospects of India's...
COP21 side event: Scaling-up investment in clean energy in developing countries
OR12, Side events area Le Bourget Conference Centre, Paris, FranceScaling-up investment in clean energy in developing countries Side events area, Room OR 12 Le Bourget conference centre, Paris 9 December at 16:45 - 18.15 Many policies and donor initiatives target renewable energy and energy efficiency, yet investment levels remain low. Participants will discuss how they are addressing finance and policy gaps, de-risking nascent markets...
STEPS Lunchtime Seminar: ‘The Making and Unmaking of Agricultural Knowledge’
Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomPlease join us for an upcoming STEPS lunchtime seminar on ‘The Making and Unmaking of Agricultural Knowledge’, given by Professor Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), on Thursday, 10th December 2015, from 12.30-2pm, at the IDS Convening Space. In this talk, Glenn Stone will draw on long-term research on various technological regimes in agriculture...
Workshop: Climate Change and Uncertainty from Above and Below
27-28 January New Delhi, India For more details, see the workshop page.