8:00-8:30 - WELCOME BREAKFAST -
8:30-8:45 Opening remarks
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
Sponsors: RCC; Complutense University of Madrid; Politecnica University of Madrid; CEI Campus Moncloa, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. Government of Spain.
LOCATION:RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20171201T130000Z DTEND:20171201T223000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR