Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a New Social Contract
Hosted at the University of Reims on June 19-20, 2013 Organized by International Research Center on Sustainability (IRCS) with the participation of Ignacy Sachs and Carlo Rubbia In 2013, the United Nations will take stock of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). It is inevitable that the question of what to do next will be asked. What to do after the expiry of the MDG in 2015? The goal of the Third Rencontres Internationales de Reims in Sustainability Studies is to contribute to this debate, to produce some elements to answer to this question about sustainability. Particular attention will be paid to environmental governance, regional development and social justice. The Millennium Declaration proclaimed the “collective responsibility to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level.” Of course, but how to go beyond lip service and do it concretely? More precisely, how to take into consideration new global phenomena such as and of the dimension of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, financial crises, demographic dynamics, migrations and mobility. Moreover, the political, environmental and economic context has deeply changed. Emerging countries have become the center of all attentions, given that their economies make the world go around. In the mean time, disparities among developing countries and within them are still too high. Environmental performance indicators greatly suffered at the same time, particularly in developing countries. With the diffusion of the transition to sustainability, new actors have emerged, especially in the private, associative and local sphere. They joined traditional institutional actors such as states and international organizations. It is not an accident that the two major topics of Rio+20—during which the negotiations of the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals were launched—were “the green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication” and “the institutional framework for sustainable development.” Indeed, the institutional framework for sustainable development is not yet very stable, as shown by the Second Rencontres de Reims in Sustainability Studies last September. In particular, the recurring question of coordination mechanisms – be it at the local, regional, national or international level – is far from settled. But that’s not all: the effectiveness of sustainable policies lies largely in their acceptance, in their collective appropriation, which is indirectly related to institutional arrangements. To think about post-2015 also means—in the tercentenary of the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau—to define a new social contract and to include stakeholders, neighborhood communities and groups of individuals capable of forming voluntary associations among the major players of sustainable development. To determine the conditions and forms of this new social contract is the third objective of the Third Rencontres Internationales de Reims in Sustainability Studies. This is done in the footsteps of Elinor Ostrom, who showed that communities of interest or neighborhoods could be more effective in collectively managing commons than the market or traditional organizational structures. It is important, in fact, in order to shape truly sustainable policies, to define what constitutes a “good” environment for the societies involved: one in which the improvement of environmental conditions strictly speaking (water quality, air pollution, biodiversity, rational use of resources, soils and energy, etc.) will lead to the improvement of living conditions; one in which technical devices and technologies, deployed in spaces large enough to accommodate imported sustainability, may be appropriate through new lifestyles. François Mancebo Director of the IRCS Draft Program Wednesday, June 19th 9:00 AM Welcome around a coffee pot 10:00 AM Welcome speech Gilles Baillat, President, Rheims University 10:10 AM Opening François Mancebo, Professor, Rheims University - Director, International Research Center on Sustainability (IRCS) Inaugural Speech 10:20 AM ... Carlo Rubbia, Scientific Director, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam - Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1984 10:45 AM Rousseau, Rio and the Green Economy Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) 11:10 AM Integrating equity considerations into the SDGs Leena Srivastava, President, TERI University, and Executive Director, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Delhi 11:35 AM Debate - Lunch Toward A New Social Contract? 2:30 PM Issue Linkage and the Prospects for SDGs Contribution to Sustainability Peter Haas, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2:55 PM Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance Frank Biermann, Professor and Head, Department of Environmental Policy Analysis, VU University Amsterdam, and Director-General, Netherlands Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment 3:20 PM Debate - Break 4:05 PM Putting the Individual at the Centre of Development: Indicators for a New Social Contract Arthur Dahl, President, International Environment Forum (IEF), and former Deputy Assistant Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 4:30 PM Reflections on Global Energy Governance and Post-2015 SDGs Nigel Jollands, Principal Policy Manager for Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) 4:55 PM Debate - Break Sponsor Interventions 5:40 PM Suez Environnement Thomas Perianu, Director of Sustainable Development 5:55 PM UNITAR Alexander Mejia, Manager of the Local Development Programme, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) 6:10 PM Debate - End of the First Day Thursday, June 20th 9:00 AM Welcome around a coffee pot Panel 1 10:00 AM Plea for a new social contract Ignacy Sachs, Honorary Professor of Development Economics, School of Advanced Social Studies (EHESS), Paris 10:25 AM The Future of Global Environmental Governance Maria Ivanova, Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Governance and Sustainability, McCormack - Graduate School, University of Massachusetts, Boston 10:50 AM Debate 11:20 AM A global social pact, can we conceive development objectives across the world? Christian Comeliau, Honorary Professor of Development Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva 11:45 AM The collaboration paradigm: a new pact for the knowledge economy Ladislau Dowbor, Professor of Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo 12:10 AM Debate - Lunch Panel 2 2:30 PM Legitimacy of global energy governance Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy, Wagenigen University 2:55 PM The rescaling of global environmental governance Liliana Andonova, Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, as well as Co-Director, Center for International Environmental Studies, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva 3:20 PM Debate - Break 4:05 PM Governance options for steering transition to low-carbon cars Marc Dijk, Research Fellow, International Center for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development (ICIS), Maastricht University 4:30 PM Sustainable development governance in transboundary mountain regions: lessons and prospects Jörg Balsiger, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH), as well as Senior Researcher, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Geneva 4:55 PM Debate 5:30 PM Closure François Mancebo (Professor, Rheims University and director of the IRCS Downloads - English: http://www.sustainability-studies.org/ircs/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Progra mme_en_troisiemeRencontresReims.pdf - French: http://www.sustainability-studies.org/ircs/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Progra mme_en_troisiemeRencontresReims.pdf Registration (free of charge) - English: http://enquete.univ-reims.fr/limesurvey/index.php?sid=94616 <http://enquete.univ-reims.fr/limesurvey/index.php?sid=94616&lang=en> &lang=en - French: http://enquete.univ-reims.fr/limesurvey/index.php?sid=94616 <http://enquete.univ-reims.fr/limesurvey/index.php?sid=94616&lang=fr> &lang=fr Jon Marco Church Maître de conférences en aménagement, durabilité et politique territoriale Université de Reims, Institut d’aménagement des territoires, d’environnement et d’urbanisme (IATEUR) EA 2076 HABITER, International Research Center on Sustainability (IRCS) 57 rue Pierre Taittinger 51096 Reims Cedex, France Port. : +33 6 31 82 41 32 Fax : +33 326 91 38 25 [email protected] www.univ-reims.fr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. 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