Workshop on New Trends on Sustainability

Date: 

Friday, December 1, 2017, 8:00am to 5:30pm

Location: 

RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA

 

8:00-8:30              - WELCOME BREAKFAST -

8:30-8:45              Opening remarks

  • José Manuel Martínez Sierra. RCC Director
  • Alberto Garrido. UPM Vice-Rector for Quality and Efficiency
  • Julio Lumbreras. UPM Representative to RCC.                      

8:45-9:10              William C. Clark

Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development
Harvard Kennedy School
“Pursuing Sustainability”

SUSTAINABILITY IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: AN INCONVENIENT CONTEXT

9:20-9:45              John D. Spengler

Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Climate Change Requires Radical Collaborations”

9:50-10:15           Rafael Borge

Professor of Environmental Engineering
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
“How Climate Change and Air Quality is reshaping urban life”

10:20-10:45        Ricardo Francisco García Herrera

Professor of Atmospheric Physics and Director of the Complutense Foundation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
“Mechanisms and Variability of the Climate System in a Warming Environment”

10:50-11:15        Kerry Emanuel

Professor of Atmospheric Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Rethinkning Climate change as a problem of risk assessment and management: a cross-sectoral approach to the near future”

11:15-11:35        - COFFEE BREAK -

11:35-12               Charles Davis

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Curator of Vascular Plant Collection
Director, Harvard University Herbaria

“Old plants, new tricks: Creating and leveraging a virtual natural history collection for climate change research”

ARE SUSTAINABLE CITIES POSSIBLE? THE SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE CONDITIONS

12:00-12:45        Quinton Mayne & Fernando Fernandez-Monge

Associate Professor of Public Policy & Research Fellow of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
Harvard Kennedy School
“The Political Foundations of Urban Sustainability: The case of Pittsburgh.”

12:50-1:15           Thomas W. Malone

McGovern Professor of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
MIT Sloan School of Management

1:20-2:00              - LUNCH BREAK -

LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION TO FULFILL THE PROMISES OF URBAN SUSTAINABILITY

2:05-2:30              Eva Ponce

Executive Director, MITx MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management
MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
New Trends, Technologies & Impacts in Supply Chains”

2:35-3:00              María Eugenia López-Lambas

Associate Professor on Urban transport and planning
Deputy Director of TRANSyT-UPM
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Reimagining urban mobility for the city of the future”

3:05-3:30              Alberto Garrido

Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Vice-Rector for Quality and Efficiency
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
“Linking the local with the global sphere to find paths for sustainable agricultural and food systems”

3:30-3:45              - COFFEE BREAK -

BEYOND URBAN BORDERS: PRESERVING NATURAL SITES

3:50-4:15              Francisco Pulido

Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Conservation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
“Assessment and conservation of biodiversity in the face of global change”

4:20-4:45              Antonio Molina

Professor of Biotechnology and Plants Genomics
Director of the Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP, UPM-INIA)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Plants Adaptation to Environmental Changes: Challenges and Biotechnological Solutions”

4:50-5:15              Emilio Cerdá

Professor of Economic Analysis
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
“Environmental Economics, Climate and Energy

5:20-5:30             Final remarks and closing              

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Sponsors: RCC; Complutense University of Madrid; Politecnica University of Madrid; CEI Campus Moncloa, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. Government of Spain.

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