C-EENRG // Food-Water-Energy Nexus Workshop
The workshop is organised in the context of the project BRIDGE: Building Resilience In a Dynamic Global Economy: Complexity across scales in the Brazilian Food-Water-Energy Nexus.
Where and when
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DF
United Kingdom
26 Jun 2018
9am-6pm
Agenda
9:00 – 9:30
Registration
9:30 – 10:40
Introduction to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus and the BRIDGE Project
- 09:30 – 09:40
Dr Pablo Salas, C-EENRG, University of Cambridge
Welcome message and introduction to the BRIDGE project - 09:40 – 10:00
Dr Jean-Francois Mercure, Radboud University, Netherlands
Overview of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus science - 10:00 – 10:20
Prof Baltazar Andrade Guerra, UNISUL, Brazil
The Brazilian Nexus, stakeholder engagement and pilot action projects - 10:20 – 10:40
Eliot Whittington, CISL, University of Cambridge
Introduction to the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
10:40 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:15
Assessing Nexus complexities throughout policy analysis and sectoral modelling
- 11:00 – 11:25
Dr Maria Augusta Paim, C-EENRG, University of Cambridge
Hydrological risk in Brazil and diversification of the electricity mix - 11:25 – 11:50
Dr Neil Edwards, Open University
Climate and biodiversity modelling in South America - 11:50 – 12:15
Dr Soeren Lindner, Radboud University, Netherlands
Modelling land use change with FTT: Agriculture
12:15 – 13:20
Lunch
13:20 – 15:20
Food security in a complex Nexus network
- 13:20 – 13:50
Prof Howard Griffiths, Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
The challenge of an evergreen revolution - 13:50 – 14:20
Dr Luiz Alberto da Cunha Bustamante, Queen Mary University of London
The new Brazilian biofuels policy: RenovaBio - 14:20 – 14:50
Dr. Rafael Ávila Faraco, Dr. Celso Lopes de Albuquerque Junior, João Marcelo Pereira Ribeiro, UNISUL, Brazil
Food stability, urban agriculture practices as initiatives for mitigation and adaptation to climate change and BRIDGE's pilot module - 14:50 – 15:20
Issa Ibrahim Berchin, UNISUL, Brazil
Education for sustainable development and the WEF Nexus: a Sustainable Development Goals’ perspective
15:20 – 15:40
Coffee break
15:40 – 17:40
Nexus networks and stakeholders beyond academia. Linking the Food-Water-Energy Network and sustainable development
- 15:40 – 16:10
Claudio Bacigalupi, European Commission Directorate for Development Cooperation
The NEXUS approach as a way to address water efficiency in development actions - 16:10 – 16:40
Dr Gemma Cranston, CISL, University of Cambridge
The Nexus Network - 16:40 – 17:10
Secretary Pedro Tiê Cândido Souza, Embassy of Brazil in London
The integrated approach to sustainable development: the Brazilian experience - 17.10 – 17.40
Benny Dembitzer, Managing Director of Grassroots Africa
The Death of Empathy.
17:40 – 18:00
Closing remarks
18:00 – 19:00
Reception
About the Project
The BRIDGE project aims to develop a framework of analysis and policy engagement to improve the resilience of the Brazilian Food-Water-Energy (FWE) nexus to global environmental and economic change, in close cooperation with Brazilian policy makers and academic community. It combines established UK expertise and specifically developed, state-of-the-art analytical capacity in socio-economic and environmental modelling to build a robust environmental policy assessment methodology for the Brazilian FWE nexus in the context of global change.
BRIDGE is a project funded by the Newton Fund, and is led by the University of Cambridge (UK), University of the South of Santa Catarina UNISUL (Brazil), Radboud University (Netherlands), Cambridge Econometrics Ltd (UK) and The Open University (UK).
Organiser
Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG)
C-EENRG’s core mission is to conduct integrative research on the governance of environmental transitions, understood as social and technological processes driven by environmental constraints that lead to fundamental changes in social organisation. Our work draws upon the knowledge of the drivers and implications of environmental change generated in various centres across the University of Cambridge and focuses on the law and governance dimensions of environmental transitions.
Organising Committee
Dr Pablo Salas
Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.
Dr Maria Augusta Paim
Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.
Dr. Sanna Markkanen
Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge.
Dr. Jean-Francois Mercure
Assistant Professor in Energy, Climate and Innovation at the Environmental Science Department, Radboud University. Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).
Speakers
Benny Dembitzer
Managing Director of Grassroots Africa. Member of the team awarded the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear Weapons).
Prof. Howard Griffiths
Co-Chair of the Cambridge University Strategic Initiative in Global Food Security and Professor of Plant Ecology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
Claudio Bacigalupi
Head of Sector Water at European Commission Directorate for Development Cooperation.
Prof. José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra
Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development (GREENS), Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL). Principal Investigator of BRIDGE project in Brazil.
Dr Neil Robert Edwards
Reader in Earth System Science and Director of Research, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, School of Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences, Open University.
Dr Luiz Alberto da Cunha Bustamante
Legislative Advisor of the Brazilian Senate and Chevening Scholar at Queen Mary University of London.
Pedro Tiê Cândido Souza
Head of the Environment and Climate Change Section at the Brazilian Embassy in London.
Eliot Whittington
Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge.
Dr Gemma Cranston
Programme Director, Natural Capital Portfolio, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge.
Prof Rafael Ávila Faraco
Director of Campus Tubarão, Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL).
Prof Celso Lopes de Albuquerque
Agronomy Programme Coordinator at Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL).
Issa Ibrahim Berchin
Researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Development (GREENS), Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL).
João Marcelo Pereira Ribeiro
Researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Development (GREENS), Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL).
Dr Soeren Lindner
Post-Doc Researcher at Radboud University and Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).
Director of BRIDGE at University of Cambridge
Prof Jorge E. Viñuales Harold Samuel
Professor of Law and Environmental Policy, Department of Land Economy. Chairman of the Compliance Committee of the UN-ECE/WHO-Europe Protocol on Water and Health. Founder and former Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).