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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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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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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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