The Human Environment - New Challenge for the United Nations
The Human Environment - New Challenge for the United Nations Credit: UN Photo
Challenges of sustainability
Webinar 3
Challenges of sustainability
Date: 17 february 2021
Start: kl 10:00-11:30
What are the main messages from the UN panels and how should NTNU meet this challenges?
Do we need a higher priority and more commitment to research on climate change, biodiversity and resource use at NTNU?
This is the third webinar of the strategic process for increased attention to sustainability at NTNU.
We address some main messages from the United Nations panels, i.e. the climate change panel (IPCC), the nature panel (IPBES) and the international resource panel (IRP), by short presentations from NTNU researchers who have been involved in synthesis reports from these panels.
Following these presentations we invite a conversation, to reflect upon how NTNU should meet these challenges.
The webinar is open to anyone, and we would appreciate students and employees to attend.
Tor Grande is Vice-President for Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and professor in materials science. He was previously Vice-Dean of Research at the Faculty for Natural Sciences and Head of Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Hans K. Stenøien
Hans K. Stenøien is a professor of biology and head of Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum. He has been working with various questions related to sustainability and management of biodiversity, including biology of rare plants and the history of Scandinavian wolves. He will later this year start as director at the NTNU University Museum.
Siri Granum Carson
Siri Granum Carson is director of NTNU Oceans, and Professor of Applied Ethics at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Her main research areas are corporate social responsibility and responsible innovation, and she is the PI of AFINO, a national network project for responsible research and innovation. She is also Professor II at the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Bergen, connected with the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management.
Elizabeth Barron
Elizabeth Barron is an Associate Professor of Human Geography in the Geography Department at NTNU. She holds a PhD in geography from Rutgers University, and subsequently completed three years of postdoctoral work at Harvard University, during which time she worked extensively on social and institutional dimensions of fungal conservation. Her current research is on place-based sustainability theory and practice. From 2018-2022 she is serving as a coordinating lead author for the IPBES Assessment on the Sustainable Use of Wild Species.
Bjørn K. Myskja is professor in ethics and political philosophy and Vice Dean for research at the Faculty of Humanities. His main research interests concern the ethics of biotechnology. He has participated or led several interdisciplinary research projects.
His main research interests are in the field of i) climate change impacts from anthropogenic emissions and disturbances of terrestrial ecosystems, ii) environmental sustainability analysis (e.g., LCA), iii) sustainable land management and bioresource potentials, and iv) analysis and process development of advanced biofuels and biorefinery systems.
