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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&lang=en
- French:
http://enquete.univ-reims.fr/limesurvey/index.php?sid=94616&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
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