Capacity to transform unsustainable development pathways into sustainable ones

This virtual seminar will feature: Steve Nicholls (Senior Advisor: Mitigation, South Africa’s Presidential Climate Commission) who will speak about South Africa’s pathway towards an equitable, low-emissions and climate-resilient economy. Chuck Rumsey (President and CEO, Ecotrust Canada) who will speak to Ecotrust Canada’s place-based approach to transformations that emphasizes radical, practical changes to economic systems; and Amanda Woodrum (Co-Director, ReImagine Appalachia) who will speak to grassroots efforts to find common ground, envision and build an economy that is good for workers, communities, and the environment in the Ohio River Valley. The seminar will be moderated by Alicia Harley (Senior Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School). This seminar is the third in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development. The series seeks to integrate insights from scholars and practitioners on how to get things done in tackling the multiple intertwined crises of the Anthropocene: climate change, extinction, war, inequality, and rising authoritarianism. Additional information on the series is available here.

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The series is organized by M-RCBG, Sustainability Science Program, Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Center for International Development, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.