Day Zero: Wednesday 9 February 2022

Jose Frantz, University of the Western Cape Team  
jfrantz@uwc.ac.za  

Contributing to changing the narrative as we all strive to reach the 2030 SDG goals is essential. How do we flip the script so that the voices from the South are heard? Perhaps sharing exemplars and ideas and co-creating solutions will help contribute to the debate. As part of this workshop and conversation we share exemplars from the South focusing on key areas that need focusing on.

As part of this workshop we aim to focus on enhancing societies and economies through an interdisciplinary approach. Through work done at UWC we aim to share the idea of how collective thinking and engagement can address two key areas that challenge society in South Africa.

Exemplar 1: South Africa has the highest unemployment rate in world at 34%. A country such as Norway has an unemployment rate of 4%. Why is the unemployment rate in Norway so low.

Exemplar 2: A second example is the need for leadership. Delivering on the SDGs needs a focus on leadership to drive this agenda.

Exemplar 3: SANORD: South -North exemplar of collaborative partnerships for the SDG's.

Exemplar 4: Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Social innovation and entrepreneurship can be used to drive the SDGs.

This event is relevant for:
SDG 5: Gender Equality 
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth 
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities 
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Kjersti Fløttum, CLIMLIFE project, LINGCLIM group, UiB
kjersti.flottum@uib.no   

Climate change concerns all aspects of our lives and affects how we think about our lifestyle as consumers, our political behaviour as citizens and how we perceive the future of humanity. In addition to political measures, the willingness among individuals seems to be a prerequisite for necessary actions. However, citizens require better guidance and facilitation for “green choices” from politicians; and the youth, who will have to live with the consequences of climate change today and in the future, are calling for more action.

We suppose that people’s motivation to make a personal effort is affected by how they perceive the efficiency of climate policies, on the one hand; on the other, that politicians’ support for climate policies is strongly influenced by how they perceive the citizens’ motivation to change their lifestyle. And all seem influenced by how the motivations of the other part are represented in media coverage.

In this event, we will focus on different voices: 1) the rhetoric of people’s (notably young people’s) motivations, 2) how politicians perceive and prioritize people’s everyday matters and 3) how journalists consider covering everyday lifestyle matters.

The event is organized by the CLIMLIFE project, focusing on lifestyle matters in a climate perspective, affiliated to the cross-disciplinary LINGCLIM research group, at the Department of foreign languages, University of Bergen (UiB).

Panellists:- Professor Kjersti Fløttum, Head of CLIMLIFE and LINGCLIM, Department of foreign languages, UiB: Lifestyle in a climate change perspective, An introduction.- Postdoctoral fellow, Ida Vikøren Andersen, Department of foreign languages, UiB: Voices of young people - Doctoral fellow, Runa Falck, Department of foreign languages, UiB: Voices of politicians- Professor Dag Elgesem, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, UiB: Voices of journalists- Senior Lecturer Maria Wolrath-Söderberg, Södertörn University, Sweden

Most of us are well aware of the climate crisis, and want to live sustainable lives. Still, we often have hight emissions. How do we reason when making climate harmful choices? And what impacts those who change, to get over the threshold?

This event is relevant for:
SDG 4: Quality Education 
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy 
SDG 12: Responsible Production and Consumption 
SDG 13: Climate Action

Silje Bue, NHHS Green team
silj-bu@hotmail.com

Former leader of NHHS Green team, Silje Bue, and CEO of World Saving Hustle, Martin Skadal are going to talk about the environmental impact of our industrialized way of producing meat, as well as the ethical aspect related to it. How much of the world's emissions are related to agriculture, and how big is the potential to cut emissions by changing what we eat? Is it fair to treat animals the way we do and is it sustainable?

These questions, as well as facts and myths related to a plant-based lifestyle, such as deficiency diseases and protein sources, will be discussed in this 90-minute seminar.

This event is relevant for:
SDG 2: Zero Hunger 
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being 
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 
SDG 12: Responsible Production and Consumption 
SDG 13: Climate Action 
SDG 15: Life on Land

Marit Ubbe, The Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills
marit.ubbe@hkdir.no

The complexity of global challenges and the interconnectedness of the sustainability goals demand a conscious and active understanding of the world. This session will present different perspectives on the concept of formation and how it can be used as a structured approach to raise awareness of the complexities of sustainable development. What paradoxes occur when working with sustainability in higher education? If new insight can arise from intellectual and moral unrest, how can this be achieved through teaching?

Speakers:
Professor Eivind Engebretsen, SHE - Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education, University of Oslo
Associate Professor Jan Reinert Karlsen, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen
Professor in climate change, sustainability and education Kjellrun Hiis Hauge, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences 

The session will include open discussions.

This event is relevant for all the SDGs.

We must take care of our planet today, for ensuring a home for all forms of life in the future.  

Organizers: Christi Krybbe Skoler, 3rd grade.
Teachers: René Wik (rene.wik@bergen.kommune.no) and Brit Reidun
Djursvoll (brit.djursvoll@bergen.kommune.no).
Parents: Mari Bergsvåg and Yves Aubert.

Children from the West Coast of Norway share their visions, concerns, experiences and solutions for a planet that can provide a healthy home for future generations of all forms of life.

This event is relevant for:
SDG 12: Responsible Production and Consumption 
SDG 13: Climate Action 
SDG 14: Life Below Water

Caroline Armitage / Marta Lorenz, Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen
caroline.armitage@uib.no     

Skulle du ønske det var lettere å finne forskning knyttet til bærekraftmålene? Kunne du tenke deg å bruke forskning mer om den var enklere å få tak i? Da vil vi gjerne snakke med deg, enten du er student, forsker, lærer, bibliotekar, ansatt i kommune, næringsliv, en fagforening eller NGO, eller bare generelt interessert.

Vi inviterer personer som er engasjert i bærekraftmålene til å delta i diskusjon. Vi vil gjerne høre hvordan dere bruker og finner forskning om bærekraftsmålene, og hva dere kunne ha nytte av i et verktøy til formålet. Å gi enkel, åpen tilgang til forskningspublikasjoner relatert til FNs bærekraftmål for alle i samfunnet er viktig for å spre kunnskap og gjøre det mulig å nå nettopp disse målene. Men ofte er forskningspublikasjonene vanskelige å oppdrive, særlig for alle dem som ikke tilhører en utdannings- eller forskningsinstitusjon.

I vårt prosjekt, «Bærekraftforskning for alle», skal vi bygge en portal som gir oversikt over forskning knyttet til bærekraftmålene, med lenker til åpne versjoner. Der skal det være lett å finne forskning om et undermål eller tema.

I verkstedet vil vi gi en kort presentasjon av portalen og ideen bak prosjektet, før vi deler oss opp i diskusjonsgrupper. Vi kommer til å bruke innspill fra verkstedet i arbeidet med å utforme portalen som et nyttig og lettbrukt verktøy. Har du spørsmål, ta gjerne kontakt!

Dette arrangementet er relevant for:
SDG 1: Utrydde fattigdom 
SDG 2: Utrydde sult
SDG 3: God helse og livskvalitet 
SDG 4: God utdanning 
SDG 7: Ren energi for alle
SDG 11: Bærekraftige byer og lokalsamfunn 
SDG 13: Stoppe klimaendringene
SDG 14: Livet under vann 
SDG 17: Samarbeid for å nå målene

Kai Grieg, United Nations Association of Norway, Vestland
kai.grieg@fn.no

Target 4.7 of the SDGs emphasizes that all learners should acquire both the knowledge and the skills needed to promote sustainable development. United Nations Association of Norway has been teaching sustainable development for several decades. In this session we will share some of the most important lessons learned and invite participants to share their insights. 

This session is for educators at all levels of the educational system and for students that want to look into how teaching the SDGs can be improved. 

The session will be chaired by student democracy expert Agathe B. Waage and anthropologist Kai Grieg from the United Nations Association of Norway. 

This event is relevant for:
SDG 4: Quality Education 
SDG 13: Climate Action 
SDG 14: Life Below Water

Ola Marin Abrahamsen, Jussformidlingen
rpu@jussformidlingen.no

SDG 16 focuses on peace, justice, and strong institutions. Norway is considered the 14th most peaceful country out of 170 countries when it comes to crime and violence, and number seven out of 179 countries with the least corruption. Relative to other countries, Norway is doing well in terms of SDG 16.

However, Norway still has a way to go. Norwegians do not have adequate and equal access to legal protection. Additionally, several institutions in our legal system lack resources and competence, which affect those who receive incorrect decisions after a long period of processing.

Jussformidlingen invites you to a digital panel discussion on the current state of legal protection in Norway and whether the Norwegian legal institutions sufficiently safeguard it.

Here are the panelists of the event:

• Hans Petter Graver, Professor at the University of Oslo
• Advokatforeningen
• Jussbuss
• Haakon Hertzberg, Acting Legal Director of NAV
• Lara Marie Wik, Lawyer and team leader at Gatejuristen

This event is relevant for:
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Amund Maage, Marine Director, UiB  
amund.maage@uib.no   

WATCH THE RECORDING OF THE SESSION

More foods from the oceans and aquatic environments have been an important aspect for increasing health and healthy food availability. However the feed ingredients have come under criticism for not been sustainable on basis of volume, transport and land use in terms of terrestrial products.

This event puts focus on possible alternative marine and land based products which can differentiate from mainly soy based feed to more marine or more locally produced ingredients. Examples could be marine low trophic alternatives such as micro algae, blue mussels, aquatic macro plants, mesopelagic fish but also locally produced terrestrial products and food waste. The latter could also lead to a more circular economy in the aquaculture business.

Programme:
Introduction to challenges of high volume high quality sustainable fish feed
Amund Maage, Marine Director at UiB and former Head of Research at NIFES (now Institute of Marine Research), will introduce the field. For several year, Maage led the Food Authority project on Norwegian Fish Feed Monitoring. He holds a PhD in fish nutrition.

More locally produced marine ingredients such as blue mussels and kelp to improve the sustainability of Norwegian fish farming
Harald Sveier is Research and Innovation Manager in the large stock listed seafood company Lerøy Seafood Group ASA. He holds a PhD in fish Nutrition from UiB/NIFES. Sveier will focus his talk on new marine ingredients underdevelopment in Lerøy with focus on blue mussels and kelp.

The important oils in fish feed. Potential of local production of lipid rich raw materials.
Bente E. Torstensen is Division Director for aquaculture at NOFIMA, a division that covers the whole chain of seafood production. Torstensen holds a PhD in fish nutrition. She has been Head of Research and Research Director at NIFES, and Global R&D manager of feed and fish performance in MOWI.

Insects, the quintessential circular feed ingredient. Important lessons learned on the path to  a more circular solution for sustainable fish feed.
Erik-Jan Lock is research group leader for Feed and Nutrition at IMR and is working on both the legal aspects of feed raw materials (“licence to operate”) and innovations into fish feed. He has led innovative projects on the possible use of farmed insects as a new ingredient in fish feed.

The session is summarized through a discussion on future research and legal needs to achieve goals on sustainability and increased Norwegian aquaculture production. This will be led by Marine Dean and professor Øyvind Fiksen.

This event is relevant for:
SDG 2: Zero Hunger 
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 
SDG 14: Life Below Water 
SDG 15: Life on Land 
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Maria Handal, UN Global Compact
maria.handal@globalcompact.no

ARRANGEMENTET ER AVLYST!

Tiden fram til 2030 er knapp. Bærekraftsmålene fordrer nye og styrkede partnerskap for å nå målene - både globalt, nasjonalt og lokalt. Hvordan kan akademia og arbeidslivet samarbeide bedre?

UN Global Compact, FNs organisasjon for bærekraftig næringsliv, inviterer til parterapi mellom akademia og næringslivet. I løpet av litt over en time skal vi utforske parforholdet. Forhåpentligvis kommer vi litt nærmere å løse noen av barrierene.

UN Global Compact er FNs organisasjon for bærekraftig næringsliv og verdens største bedriftsinitiativ for bærekraft. Over 12 000 bedrifter er medlemmer globalt og over 300 av dem i Norge. UNGC har lokale organisasjoner i 158 land.

Dette arrangementet er relevant for:
SDG 17: Samarbeid for å nå målene

Brooke Wilkerson and Jakob Grandin, CET/Arqus  
brooke.wilkerson@uib.no   

Open Research Agenda Setting (ORAS) is a process of engaging stakeholders in charting out areas of interest and developing priorities for research. ORAS is especially relevant for urban climate transformation, where the research agenda and outputs can have a direct impact on people’s lives and livelihoods, and where people’s lived experiences and insights can make a valuable contribution to identifying research questions.

In this workshop, we will involve participants in developing an agenda for urban climate transformation research. The overarching challenge will first be introduced with short presentations by decisionmakers and researchers working in this field in Bergen. Participants will then be introduced to activities such as systems mapping or scenario development that will help identify areas where further research or knowledge sharing is needed.

Through the workshop, participants will gain a greater understanding of the challenges of urban climate transformation from multiple perspectives and contribute to a research agenda that will be disseminated at UiB and through the Arqus network.

This event is relevant for:
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities 
SDG 13: Climate Action

Fabian Rocha Aponte, SINTEF Industry 
fabian.rocha.aponte@sintef.no   

Addressing the interlinkages and trade-offs between different SDGs across global value chains (GVC) is fundamental for promoting sustainable development. Direct and indirect impacts on SDGs appear in all stages of value chains, from the extraction of raw materials to the operation of businesses, the final use and end-of-life management of products with different effects on the environment, society, and the economy. Thus, these interlinkages at a global scale calls for a variety of modelling approaches to properly capture the interactions in global value chains.

This session will present and discuss the interlinkages and trade-offs on SDG indicators across GVCs. We will feature researchers working with sustainability impact assessment, evaluating the effects of current and new technologies in cross-border SDG indicators.

Afterward, researchers and practitioners working on SDG implementation will share their experiences and insights about their challenges and outcomes. The session will end with questions and open discussion.

Join us to learn and contribute about the relevance of understanding SDG interlinkages across global value chains!

This event is relevant for:
SDG 1: No Poverty 
SDG 2: Zero Hunger 
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being 
SDG 4: Quality Education 
SDG 5: Gender Equality 
SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation 
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy 
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth 
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities 
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities 
SDG 12: Responsible Production and Consumption 
SDG 13: Climate Action 
SDG 14: Life Below Water 
SDG 15: Life on Land 
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions 
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Elina Troscenko, GRIP, Action for Children's Environments Trust, Equity for Children
elina.troscenko@uib.no   

“Leaving No Child and No Adolescent Behind” is the call of a new book edited by Sudeshna Chatterjee, Alberto Minujin and Katie Hodgkinson. It shines a spotlight on the world’s most vulnerable children and adolescents living in poverty and exclusion.

The book draws on experiences from some 35 countries and provides in-depth analysis of rich empirical evidence while reflecting on the meaning of ‘inclusion’ for children and adolescents who are often left behind. It reminds us that SDG targets and goals cannot be met unless we focus attention on pockets of inequity and deprivation. The book also provides unique insights on how knowledge, information, data collection, measurement and monitoring make the realities of children’s and adolescents’ lives more visible.

This event will use the book as a springboard for discussion on new analyses and policies to fight poverty, exclusion, and violence against children to measure and track progress against SDG targets. The editors and some of the contributing authors will discuss some key ideas and invite participants to share their experiences of strategies and innovations for implementing the SDGs.

Participants:     

• Sudeshna Chatterjee (Twitter)  (Founder, Action for Children’s Environments)
• Alberto Minujin (Professor at the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School)
• Marguerite Daniel (Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Development, UiB)
• Enrique Delamonica (Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring-Child Poverty and Gender Equality, UNICEF HQ)
• Thomas George (Global Lead for Urban, UNICEF HQ)
• Elina Troscenko (Advisor, Global Research Programme on Inequality)

This event is relevant for:
SDG 1: No Poverty 
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities 
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities 
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions 
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Bente E. Moen, Thorkild Tylleskär Centre for International Health, UiB
bente.moen@uib.no

We will hear status on the COVID-19 vaccination in 3 partner countries UiB has in Low- and middle income countries (Uganda, Pakistan, Guatemala), and discuss how we in Norway have tried to contribute to a fair distribution of the vaccines in the world. 

Introduction and presentation – Tylleskär and Moen

Information from three countries (10 minutes each with 5 minutes questions/discussion. Presentations include general information about the country; population size; impact of the pandemic; numbers of cases, restrictions in the society, hospitalizations, intensive care capacity/oxygen/respirators; and vaccination status; when and who and priorities.

• Ahmad Wali, National TB Program, Health Ministry, Pakistan
• Walter Flores, CEGSS-, Centre for the Study of Equity and Governance in Health Systems, Guatemala
• Grace Ndeezi, Makerere University, Uganda

Discussion by panellists

• Erlend Grønningen, PhD candidate at UiB
• Paul Richard Fife, Norad.

Moderator: Tylleskär and Moen

This event is relevant for:
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being

Johanna Johansson, Ogoori AS  
Johanna@ogoori.eco 

The world is producing enormous amounts of waste every single day. Handling these lost resources requires money, time, and energy. Some trash is recycled, but too much is incinerated, landfilled, or lost in nature. Cleaning up waste after it´s gone astray has proven both difficult and costly, while no one claims responsibility.

Most of our society and our economic system promotes and supports continued economic growth based on extracting resources, and using them for a short time before disposing of them, to make room for new products. This way of constructing our societies damages the health of our planet, of humans, and treathens the survival of animals on land and below water. Ogoori addresses this systemic failure and the lack of awareness that has brought us to this point.

During this workshop, we will teach the participants how to translate an environmental problem within their area of passion, into a business opportunity. We will use Ogoori as a case for the method and guide the participants through a thought process serving as a fundament for their own regenerative business development.

This event is relevant for:
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth 
SDG 12: Responsible Production and Consumption 
SDG 14: Life Below Water 
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Christian Hermanrud, William Helland-Hansen and Atle Rotevatn, Department of Earth Science, UiB
christian.hermanrud@uib.no  

The energy transition is happening. It will include decision-masking that shapes our society, performed by governments, investors, companies and citizens. The decision will be based on knowledge from a multitude of disciplines. It is important that discipline experts are involved, and they need broad knowledge bases outside their main competence areas in order to identify the most desirable actions.

The course SDG207 (10 ECTS) aims at providing students with a multidisciplinary background for future decision making towards net-zero emission society. The course involves lecturers from a variety of faculties and institutes at UiB (including mathematics and natural sciences, social sciences law, psychology and politics) as well as external experts. The course was run as a Flipped Classroom course in 2021. The course is open to students from all UiB faculties, and a shortened and 100% digital version of the course (SDG607, 5 ECTS) is offered to participants outside the UiB.

SDG 207 targets students with at least two years of University background, irrespective of what discipline they study. SDG 607 targets individuals which have completed their education, including teachers and individuals who (want to) work with energy (and energy transition)-related challenges.

This event is relevant for:
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy 
SDG 13: Climate Action

Julie Klausen, Student committee at masters in sustainability  
julie.s.klausen@gmail.com  

Based on student-focused learning, we are intent on creating an interactive workshop/lecture or panel by us at the masters in sustainability.

We have focused on interdisciplinarity and ways of knowing this semester, and in doing this we have reflected on two specific cases. One of these, the climate lawsuit of 2020, was increasingly a wicked problem emerging before us as the research process continued.

We would like to present a form of module that engages and invites to discussion. We would like to discuss ways of knowing like law, politics, climate science and philosophy, risk management and how they all create different outlooks on cases like these.

This event is relevant for:
SDG 13: Climate Action 
SDG 14: Life Below Water 
SDG 15: Life on Land 
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions 
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Digital Presentation of EGU2030 Report 

Contact: Annette Kathinka Servan, UiB
Annette.Servan@uib.no

The Global Independent Expert Group on the Universities and the 2030 Agenda (EGU2030) was launched in October 2020 by UNESCO in collaboration with the University of Bergen. The Expert Group’s mandate was to reflect on the necessary knowledge and transformations required for higher education institutions to contribute to the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The result was a one-year collaboration of 14 experts from around the globe, whose report will be officially launched at the World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022) to be held 18-20 May 2022. Their report is entitled: Knowledge-driven actions: Transforming higher education for global sustainability.

This digital event is not only a celebration of the work of the EGU2030, but an occasion to critically engage in discussions on the role of higher education institutions in achieving the 2030 Agenda. One of the preliminary aims of the report is to inspire and invigorate such discussions among the higher education community on why and how they can contribute to the SDGs, and not shying away from conversations on the challenges of doing so.

This event is an opportunity to do just that. In sharing about the EGU2030 report, we can begin to critically engage with its recommendations and implications. The aim is to encourage discussions and generate critical reflections about this report and the contributions of higher education institutions to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.

• Welcome by moderator – Peter Wells, Chief, Higher Education, UNESCO
• Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
• Margareth Hagen, Rector, University of Bergen
• Overview of report from EGU2030 Co-chairs – Dag Olav Hessen, University of Oslo, and Sylvia Schmelkes, Mexican National Institute of Educational Evaluation
• Engagement with EGU2030 Report. Discussant – César Guadalupe, Professor, Universidad del Pacífico (Perú)
• Discussion Period. Moderator – Peter Wells, Chief, Higher Education, UNESCO
• Closing – Peter Wells, Chief, Higher Education, UNESCO

This event is relevant for: 
SDG 4: Quality Education 

Stian Antonsen, SAIH  
stian.antonsen@saih.no   

Academia often overlooks the knowledge that indigenous communities have built for centuries. The IPCC highlights indigenous knowledge as an important asset for solving the climate crisis. At the same time, we see that indigenous knowledge is given very little space in the SDGs and the Agenda 2030. But when indigenous people are excluded from the educational system, it does not only affect the individual, but the whole society. In this discussion, we want to explore the importance of indigenous research and knowledge in reaching the SDGs.

In a world with different ways of knowing, what kind of knowledge do we listen to and let guide our actions? What are the characteristics of indigenous approaches to research? How can we include indigenous knowledge and systems of knowledge production in mainstream academia and western institutions?

Tentative panel:

- A representative from the intercultural university URACCAN in Nicaragua or UAIIN in Colombia

- Representative from the Sami University of Applied Sciences- Roy Krøvel from OsloMet

- Introduction from Norhed

Moderator: Katrine Ringhus from SAIH

This event is relevant for: 
SDG 4: Quality Education 
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities 
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities 
SDG 13: Climate Action 
SDG 15: Life on Land

Anders Stokka Meling, Enviro  
anders.stokka.meling@gmail.com  

I løpet av de siste årene har flere og flere sett seg lei politikere som ikke greier å kutte nok utslipp, og som dermed går rettens gang for å tvinge frem fortgang. Skal det vise seg at det er lov og rett som faktisk til for å «redde» klimaet? 

Klimasøksmål, Paris-avtalen, lover om forurensing, arealbruk og naturvern er alle eksempler på hvordan juss kan spille sentrale roller i deler av den grønne omstillingen. Gjennom stadig tettere arbeid med EU på klimafronten ser vi også hvordan omfattende rettslig regulering brukes for å nå EUs mål om å være «fit for 55» i 2030.  

Samtidig står dagens rettssystem overfor strukturelle utfordringer knyttet til å imøtegå de globale miljøutfordringene: Klimaproblemet er et kumulativt problem (i ekstrem forstand). "Alle" bidrar til problemet, og klassiske ansvarsnormer kan derfor vanskelig anvendes. Dette, og andre eksempler på miljørettens «grunnproblemer», bidrar til at jussen i mange tilfeller er utilstrekkelig i møte med klimaendringer. Mange vil derfor mene at det er behov for nyskapning som kan utfordre de etablerte rettslige konstruksjonene.

Juss spiller med andre ord utvilsomt en rolle i den grønne omstillingen, men kan (og bør) juss redde klimaet? 

Enviro ønsker med dette seminaret å ta opp og diskutere disse ulike sidene ved temaet «klima og juss», og samtidig vise hvordan jurister i Norge i dag jobber med spørsmål som knytter seg til klima. 

Til panelet som skal ta for seg dette veldig aktuelle og spennende temaet har vi fått med oss noe av landets ledende skikkelser innen klima-, miljø- og energirett:

• Jenny Sandvig: fagdirektør i Norges institusjon for menneskerettigheter (NIM)

• Nikolai Winge: daglig leder Holth & Winge AS (tidligere førsteamanuensis ved UiO)

• Fredrik Holth: partner Holth & Winge AS, dosent ved NBMU

• Odd-Harald Wasenden: partner Arntzen de Besche 

Denne sesjonen er relevant for:
SDG 13: Stoppe klimaendringene
SDG 14: Livet under vann 
SDG 15: Livet på land
SDG 16: Fred, rettferdighet og velfungerende institusjoner

Jeroen van der Sluijs, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, UiB  
jeroen.sluijs@uib.no   

Pressing complex issues such as climate adaptation, biodiversity loss, chemical risks and pandemics exemplify society’s heavy reliance on institutionalised expertise to inform and justify action. But in deploying knowledge for action, a narrow selection of knowledge is privileged, while other knowledge is silenced.

Faced with uncertainty, high stakes, disputed values and urgent decision-making, a plurality of knowledges must be considered when finding ways to properly scope the decision space. This requires a new practice of transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation within extended partnerships for actionable knowledge.

About the event
How to engage a wider range of knowledge-holders in how societies identify, select, quality assure and mobilize knowledge that informs societal responses to pressing issues.

This event presents and discusses the ideas of our ongoing bid in SFF V - the Centre of Excellence call of the Norwegian Research Council - for a Centre of Actionable Knowledges. 

Our proposed CoE will explore and assess whether a turn to a more inclusive and socially robust knowledge base, attentive to epistemic pluralism, can expand the range of policy options, avoid addressing the wrong problems and reduce unforeseen impacts. The CoE seeks to enable and catalyse a reform of the social organisation of expertise.

The event consists of short perspectives and discussions by the proposed PIs and other leading scholars on how to accommodate diversification of knowledge forms in the co-creation of actionable knowledge.

Programme:
15:30 Partnerships for Actionable Knowledge
Jeroen van der Sluijs (UiB)

15:40 Weaving Knowledge Systems in Policy Advice: Lessons from IPBES15.50
Maria Tengö (Stockholm University)    
Discussant: Gunilla Öberg (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

15.55 Finding your Peers in a Pandemic fog: Marco Polo as Post Normal Science
David Waltner-Toews (University of Guelph)
Discussant: Esperanza Diaz (Pandemic Centre UiB)

16:10 The EU’s Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy    
Ângela Guimarães Pereira (European Commission) 
Discussant: Siri Gloppen (UiB)

16:25 Transdisciplinarity and Universities: A Path Ahead    
Matthias Kaiser (UiB)
Discussant: Laura Maxim (LISIS, CNRS, Paris)

16:40 General discussion

17:00 Close

This event is relevant for:
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Rafael Rosales, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET), UiB  
rafael.rosales@uib.no   

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!

Private car owners have their own interest union in Norway, as do cyclists, whilst bus drivers as a collective group do not. For this reason, a group of researchers joined forces with an art collective and started a Bus Riders’ Union (Bussbrukernes Landsforening). The goal of this union is to visualise the experiences of bus riders in Norway, including the benefits of riding the bus and the barriers they face to convenient bus travel.

Additionally, the union seeks to unite bus riders in their claims for improved investment on bus infrastructure. There is a tendency for the most vulnerable groups in society to be the ones who depend on bus infrastructure, as opposed to cycling, railways, or private vehicles. We therefore take into account how a bus riders’ union addresses issues of inequality, urban sustainability, and consumption.

We invite with us representatives from bus riders’ unions in the United States and Norwegian mobility companies to display how it is possible to pursue changes in transport systems. We seek insight from participants through a brainstorming activity that BLF can take forward.

This event is relevant for:
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities 
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities 
SDG 12: Responsible Production and Consumption

Omar Hernandez, UN Academic Impact  
omar.hernandez@un.org  

The event aims at highlighting the critical role of younger generations in addressing local and global challenges, particularly in these complex times derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, to advance the 2030 Agenda with innovative ideas and solutions.

Students have been role models on campuses and beyond, to show how small-scale projects can make a significant contribution to the SDGs.

We will hear stories from member institutions of the UN Academic Impact (UNAI), notably the SDG Hubs, but also from alumni of the UNAI-MCN Fellowship Program. 

This event is relevant for:
SDG 1: No Poverty 
SDG 2: Zero Hunger 
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being 
SDG 4: Quality Education 
SDG 5: Gender Equality 
SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation 
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy 
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth 
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities 
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities 
SDG 12: Responsible Production and Consumption 
SDG 13: Climate Action 
SDG 14: Life Below Water 
SDG 15: Life on Land 
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions 
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Morgane Kerdoncuf, PhD student, Department of Biological Sciences (BIO), UiB  
morgane.kerdoncuf@uib.no  

The aim of this workshop is to brainstorm around a student-led dissemination event around sustainability, open to the public. Many of you are involved in one or more UiB courses related to the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, where you discuss and investigate in groups on specific issues you decide to be of upmost importance for a more sustainable world. You present the outcomes of your work to the academic communities (students, researchers, technicians) with a manuscript and a poster, but how about pushing the idea a bit further by communicating your research to the public during a dedicated event?

What could be the ideas, tools or approaches to make your findings appealing for anyone a bit curious but without scientific education? How to convey your message in a fun and efficient way so it could spontaneously diffuse through Bergen municipality? Let's all meet across the different SDG courses and discuss around the table to create this student-led arena for sustainability!

Practical information: this workshop will be hybrid, with group discussions on the potentialities and the feasibility of such an event, either around the table or in break-out rooms for people attending digitally. For each group/room, a moderator will guide the exchanges and will summarise the main outputs for the different sessions. We will use interactive tools (e.g. Menti, Miro) to make the discussions more dynamic and easiest for everyone to provide inputs.

Organiser: Morgane Kerdoncuff, PhD (PhD project). I work on grazing systems in the Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve, and more particularly on how different managements and types of livestock affect biodiversity (plant communities, beetle assemblages) and ecosystem services delivery (fodder production, carbon storage…). I am also teaching assistant on SDG215 (Life on Land) and BIO300A (Academic writing) courses, and lab assistant on BIO201 (Ecology) and BIO241 (Behavioural ecology) courses.

This event is relevant for:
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being 
SDG 4: Quality Education 
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy 
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities 
SDG 12: Responsible Production and Consumption 
SDG 13: Climate Action 
SDG 14: Life Below Water 
SDG 15: Life on Land 
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Shayan Shokrgozar and Siddharth Sareen, Department of Geography, UiB
shayan.shokrgozar@uib.no   

Environmental change has hit a pace without analogy. Fossil fuel combustion has become a major driver of anthropogenic climate change. The roll-out of lower-carbon energy infrastructures to replace existing energy systems is central to decarbonisation and constitutes an opportunity to involve formerly marginalised members of society.

Empirics bring into question both the extent of energy transitions – as humanity burns more fossil fuels every year – and the roll-out of lower-carbon energy, which has created new or exacerbated existing environmental injustices from extraction to decommissioning. As affluent world economies pursue growth-driven agendas (e.g., SDG 8), and developmental efforts with questionable socio-ecological consequences, new energy infrastructures are implemented without much consideration, premised on their entanglements with the dominant modality.

Workshop participants will explore how to implement energy technologies in ways that justify harnessing vital flows (e.g. sun & wind) to produce renewable energy. Contributors will draw on manuscripts under development for a special issue of the Norwegian Journal of Geography.

This event is relevant for:
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Bærekraft er ordet på alles lepper - også i universitets- og høyskolesektoren.

Det er vanskelig å finne noen som er uenig i at kampen mot klimaendringene er viktig, men det gjenstår ennå å bli enig om hvordan man skal kjempe. Hvilken rolle skal utdanningsinstitusjonene ha i arbeidet om å nå FNs bærekraftsmål? Hva er egentlig akademias ansvar overfor den globale verden, og hva skylder de studentene som står foran et liv langt mer preget av klimaendringene enn tidligere generasjoner?

Studentparlamentet UiB og Norsk studentorganisasjon inviterer til debatt, og rektorene ved Norges fem største universiteter må svare på hvordan de jobber for å nå klimamålene. Fossile fond, klimanøytral drift og flyreiser for feltarbeid er fritt vilt når studentene får stille sine overhoder til veggs.

Day Zero kickstarter den femte nasjonale Bærekraftskonferansen i Bergen. Her møter universitets- og høyskolesektoren i Norge beslutningstakere, frivillige organisasjoner, næringsliv, fagbevegelse og andre for et kritisk blikk på hvordan sektoren skal jobbe med Bærekraftsmålene. Hva er akademias samfunnsansvar i klimadebatten? Er Akademia egentlig bærekraftig, og hva kan vi gjøre bedre?

Panelet består av:

• Margareth Hagen, rektor ved UiB
• Mette Halskov Hansen, viserektor ved UiO
• Dag Rune Olsen, rektor ved UiT
• Anne Borg, rektor ved NTNU
• Curt Rice, rektor ved NMBU

Programledere for kvelden er Ole Jacob Broch, student ved UiB og leder av studentparlamentets bærekraftskomite, og Tuva Todem Lund, leder av NSO (Norsk studentorganisasjon).

Debatten går digitalt kl 17:30, og er i likhet med resten av konferansen helt gratis.

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