SEI SCIENCE FORUM 2018 - INNOVATING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

We are delighted to announce that the annual SEI Science Forum will take place on 24 April 2018 in Stockholm. This year's forum will explore what it takes to innovate and motivate action to unlock delivery on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. With partners from the policy world and industrial sectors the Forum will highlight the latest research, impacts and achievements on sustainability and debate the latest trends. The programme includes high-profile guest speakers from the research and policy world together with expert SEI researchers from four continents. The evening will conclude with refreshments and networking opportunities. SEI looks forward to seeing you at Science Forum 2018. Register now!

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

12.15 Registration opens

13.00 Welcome to SEI Science Forum 2018 – Måns Nilsson, Executive Director of SEI.

13.10 Session 1: Innovative Tools: For visualizing, enabling and activating the Sustainable Development Goals

Description: This session will look at enabling action on the SDGs using data, tools and technology. Speakers will explain how data and transparency can and are driving accountability in supply chains and reducing deforestation, present the NDC-SDG connection tool, which assists decision makers understand and visualize how climate action supports the SDGs, and describe how the SDG interactions framework is being used to highlight the most critical SDG action areas facing governments and stakeholders. The session will also ask how far the application of these tools and technologies can take us in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Moderator: Henrik Carlsen (SEI Stockholm), Speakers:

Lena Meintrup (SEI Stockholm) - trase.earth
Karina Barquet (SEI Stockholm) - Mapping the interactions between Sustainable Development Goals
Georgia Savvidou (SEI Stockholm) - NDC-SDG Connections
Ebba Dohlman (Senior Advisor, Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development at OECD)

13.40 Session 2: Unlocking Innovation for a Sustainable Future (Followed by Q&A)

Description: How do we unlock innovation to match the level of ambition of the SDGs? What new business opportunities do the SDGs present? Green finance as a means to boost innovation and deployment is in the spotlight now, but is it undermined by controversial finance?

Moderator:Åsa Persson (SEI Stockholm) ,Speakers:

Mårten Görnerup (CEO of Hybrit) - Transition to low carbon steel
Margareta Groth (Head of Industrial Technologies Department, Vinnova)
Luca De Lorenzo (SEI Stockholm - Stockholm Sustainable Finance Centre)

14.40 Coffee Break

15.00 Session 3: Impact Stories through the lens

Description: See the impact of SEI’s work through the medium of film

15.10 Session 4: Innovating on climate policy: taking on the supply-side

Description: This session will outline cutting-edge developments from the global to the local scale on managing the decline in fossil fuel production required to meet global climate goals. Panelists will address questions such as: What policies can government and non-government actors pursue to scale down extraction in an effective, efficient, and equitable manner? Who are the leaders in this space and what have they done? How is the topic being addressed in the global climate negotiations and within specific countries? How do we ensure workers and communities are supported in the transition to a fossil-free economy?

Moderator: Michael Lazarus (SEI US) Speakers

Harro van Asselt (SEI Oxford): Prospects and benefits of supply-side climate policy
Claudia Strambo (SEI Stockholm): Promoting dialogues on transitioning from coal in Colombia
May Thazin Aung (SEI Asia): Challenges and opportunities to transition from coal in Indonesia
Cleo Verkuijl (SEI Oxford): Aligning fossil fuel production with and through the Paris Agreement

15.55 Session 5 : Promoting equality and rights in situations of resource conflicts (Followed by Q&A)

Description: This panel discussion will shed light on the multiple dimensions of equality and how they impact rights. The panel will present examples of how individuals and communities have confronted and overcome inequalities and to identify clear approaches to research and policy that reduce marginalization, increase participation and ensure that sustainable development has a human face.

Moderator: Rasmus Kløcker Larsen (SEI Stockholm)

Speakers:

Annika Ben David (Swedish Ambassador for Human Rights)
Rocio Diaz Chavez (SEI Africa)
Albert Salamanca (SEI Asia)
Per Nordlund (Lead Policy Specialist Democracry - Sida)

16.55 Concluding Remarks - Åsa Persson (SEI Stockholm)

17.00 Networking mingle with refreshments

SEI SCIENCE FORUM 2018-INNOVATING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE