ERASME Circular Economy Webinar: “Governance for Circular Business Models and Circular Products – A critical perspective”

Posted on March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 by erasme.centre

In this Webinar, Carl will discuss why we need governmental policies in order to move towards a Circular Economy. He will focus on European policies for circular products and circular business models. He will also provide a critical perspective on the Circular Economy, and the implications for governance. He will also discuss the different roles of citizens in this transition: as purchasers, maintainers, sharers etc.

Date: Friday, March 25th, 2022 at 12h30 CET (13H30 EET)

Location: Online, hosted on Zoom.

Event access information will be provided all registered attendees 24 hours, and 1 hour, prior to the event start.

REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/cWDKusjdGAGFjb6BA

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Carl Dalhammar (LL.M., M.Sc., Ph.D.) is associate professor at IIIEE, Lund University. His research interests include law and innovation, government-industry interactions, technology transfer, and product-oriented environmental policy. His research projects have analyzed a number of product oriented environmental policies, including laws, eco-labels, and government procurement. Carl currently teaches environmental law and politics in seven European master programs and several undergraduate programs and has supervised over 50 master theses. He was invited panel member at the seminar “Energy savings in practice: the role of the EU Ecodesign Directive”, held at the European Parliament, Brussels in April 2011. Carl is a member of the Council for Research Issues at the Swedish Competition Authority

Circular Economy Webinar “Governance for Circular Business models and Circular Products – A Critical Perspective

Posted on March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 by erasme.centre

Date: Friday, March 25th, 2022
Time: 1:30 pm EET (12:30 pm CET).
Location: Online, hosted on Zoom.

REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/cWDKusjdGAGFjb6BA

Integrated Assessment Modelling Summer School

Posted on March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 by erasme.centre

Between 18-22th June 2018, ERASME and CNRS organised a summer school on future prospects in Integrated Assessment Modelling in Clermont-Ferrand (France). The goal of the summer school was to gather PhDs, postdocs and researchers working on climate, energy and/or economy in IAMs, and it focused on:

Exchange on the state of the art IAMs to provide transparent and open assessments to support the design and evaluation of mitigation policies in the short to mid-term;
Using IAMs covering the earth systems and economy to design reinforcing sectoral decarbonisation policies;
Providing new and more comprehensive knowledge on the design, requirements, governance and impacts of climate action at national, regional and global level;
Fostering innovative policy-making through robust methodologies and tools to reduce uncertainties for different types of stakeholders;
Creating a network on IAMs between PhDs, post-docs and research fellows to discuss and improve modelling skills;

The summer school aimed to put the future prospects of integrated assessment modelling into perspective and to update participants about the latest developments in the sector. Presentations at the summer school came from modellers from various institutions, including Stockholm University, Lancaster University, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis or the Joint Research Centre.

The event was structured in four parts: introduction and role of IAMs; transdisciplinary challenges for IAMs; technical and methodological challenges; and policy-making challenges. The ESRs were also engaged in discussions on the philosophy and methodology for transdisciplinary modelling and also had the chance to present their own models to the other participants in a world-cafe style part of the programme. The event concluded with a roundtable including three former Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), which answered some of the questions raised on the policy challenge topic.

Symposium: “Paradigms, Models, Scenarios and Practices for strong sustainability”

Posted on December 11, 2019March 11, 2021 by erasme.centre

During the three day event experts, practitioners and students from various backgrounds engaged in a dialogue on strong sustainability. The questions that were discussed included how to measure sustainability, which topics escape the discourse on strong sustainability and how this happens. Participants reflected on paradigms and world views in science and beyond that embody the concept of strong sustainability. Special focus was put on different methods and models and their ability to capture and assess strong sustainable development. Last but not least participants discussed and shared insights on how to finance a transitions towards strong sustainability. The results of this dialogue were graphically recorded and are displayed in the slider below or in the book “Paradigms, Models, Scenarios and Practices for strong sustainability“.

Sustainability Spring School: Systems Thinking for the SDGs

Posted on April 15, 2019March 12, 2021 by erasme.centre

This one week intensive course was co-organized and co-taught with the Millennium Institute (MI). It took place from April 8th to 13th in Clermont Ferrand. The course introduced Systems Thinking for sustainable development with an explicit focus on the SDGs. Students, junior and senior scientists from diverse academic backgrounds mapped various sustainability issues related to for example the energy and monetary system. They used the qualitative System Dynamics tool of Causal Loop Diagrams (CLDs) to comprehend the main elements and feedbacks of sustainable future system scenarios.

Beyond the classroom the participants engaged in hiking activities, which included interesting discussions, as well as they met to play the board game SDG architect.