WEBINAR: Integrating climate change policies into sustainable development strategy using the Sustainomics framework
It is my sincere pleasure to invite you for this webinar by Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Mohan Munasinghe, called
"Integrating climate change policies into sustainable development strategy using the Sustainomics framework".
The webinar is planned for Tuesday 6th of November 2012, 6:00 PM (18:00) Indo-China Time (ICT = UTC+7)
(an overview of time-zones is presented below).
You can register for this webinar through the following link:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/481409126
A webinar invitation with in-depth information on the content can also be downloaded through the following link:
http://www.seachangecop.org/node/1056
Summary:
This webinar will introduce a comprehensive framework to practically address two major global challenges – sustainable development and climate change. The most effective approach is to integrate climate change policies into national sustainable development strategy, using the sustainomics framework. Development problems like poverty are already formidable. Climate change is the ultimate risk multiplier, worsening the other crises. Its worst impacts fall on the poor who are least responsible for the problem, and reducing their vulnerability to such impacts is critical.
A brief background review shows how the world currently faces multiple economic, social, and environmental threats. The economic collapse is the most urgent. The social crisis arises from global poverty, and inequity and inappropriate governance. Finally, mankind has caused severe environmental damage, including climate change. Present trends could destabilize global society. The way forward requires better use of economic stimulus packages to support green investments, social safety nets, and better price policies. A longer term vision goes beyond our current focus on surface level indicators. Instead, deeper issues need to be addressed systematically focusing on both the immediate drivers and underlying pressures.
Key principles of the sustainomics framework are outlined. First, is the practical, step-by-step approach of “making development more sustainable” (MDMS). Second, we need a balanced and integrated analysis from three main perspectives: social, economic and environmental. Third, the analysis must transcend conventional boundaries imposed by discipline, space, time, stakeholder viewpoints, and operationality. Finally, sustainomics provides many practical tools.
This approach is applied globally to reconcile climate change risk management and development aspirations. Some practical national level applications are also described involving integration of adaptation and mitigation policies into sustainable development strategy. Specific cases include macroeconomic policy adjustment, sustainable pricing policies, climate impacts on food security, agriculture and water, and renewable energy projects. Although the issues are complex and serious, both sustainable development and climate change problems may be solved together, if we begin immediately.
The presenter:
Prof. Mohan Munasinghe
Prof. Munasinghe shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace, as Vice Chairman, UN IPCC-AR4, for work on global warming and sustainable development. Currently, he is Chairman, Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Colombo; Professor of Sustainable Development, SCI, University of Manchester, UK; Distinguished Guest Professor, Peking Univ., China; and Visiting Professor, Vale Institute of Sustainable Development, Federal University, Belem, Brazil.
He is also Board Member of Green Cross International, Switzerland; Member of the Club of Rome, Switzerland; and Vice President of the Canifex International Socio Economic Development Centre, Montreal, Canada. He is President-Emeritus and Founder of the Sri Lanka Energy Managers Assoc. (SLEMA).
He is recognized as a leading expert on sustainable development, climate change, energy and environment. He is especially known for having developed at Rio 1992, the Sustainomics framework that applies trans-disciplinary thinking to make development more sustainable, and for proposing the novel idea of Millennium Consumption Goals. He has had direct field experience in climate change, disaster management, economics, environment, energy, telecommunications, transport, urban infrastructure, and water resources projects in many countries. He has won many international prizes and medals for research and authored 94 books and over 350 technical papers. He is Fellow of several international Academies of Science, and serves on the editorial boards of over a dozen professional journals.
When? Tuesday November 6, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM (18:00 – 19:30 ICT = UTC+7):
Tuesday November 6: 06:00 – 07:30 in New York and Washington, DC (UTC-5)
Tuesday November 6: 11:00 – 12:30 in London (UTC)
Tuesday November 6: 12:00 – 13:30 in Amsterdam and Paris (UTC+1)
Tuesday November 6: 16:30 – 18:00 in New Delhi and Colombo (UTC+5:30)
Tuesday November 6: 17:00 – 18:30 in Dhaka (UTC+6)
Tuesday November 6: 18:00 – 19:30 in Bangkok, Jakarta, Phnom Penh and Hanoi (ICT / UTC+7)
Tuesday November 6: 19:00 – 20:30 in Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Beijing and Perth (UTC+8)
Tuesday November 6: 20:00 – 21:30 in Tokyo, Kyoto and Seoul (UTC+9)
Tuesday November 6: 21:00 – 22:30 in Brisbane (UTC+10)
Tuesday November 6: 22:00 – 23:30 in Sydney and Melbourne (UTC+11)
Tuesday November 6: 00:00 – 01:30 in Auckland (UTC+13)
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Mac®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer
Mobile attendees
Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet
Best wishes,
Dennis Bours
Team Leader SEA Change CoP