#  Workshop on New Trends on Sustainability 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **December 1, 2017** 

 08:00AM - 05:30PM EST 

####  pin\_drop 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 A*tmospheric 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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