Tackling tough trade-offs while leaving no one behind
Media advisory for 2 September 2020
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm University and Stockholm Environment Institute are proud to present the Gordon Goodman Memorial Lecture with Professor Joyeeta Gupta. The lecture will focus on the critical connections between energy and health, and the tough trade-offs these issues present for global development.
Joyeeta Gupta is professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam, and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Her lecture will build on the recent United Nations Environment Programme’s “Global Environment Outlook-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People”, which she co-chairs. Professor Gupta’s lecture will focus on two issues: energy and health (COVID-19). She will address some of the tough trade-offs these issues present for global development.
The lecture will examine how leaving fossil fuels underground and addressing global pandemics will affect development as we currently understand it. Professor Gupta will also shed light on some of the inequalities between the Global North and Global South in international cooperation on climate action.
Åsa Persson, Deputy Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, said: “Whether the disruptions in society from the pandemic will spill over into major disruptions in the ongoing climate transition is still an open question. It is crucial to shed more light on how the climate transition – in the new context of a pandemic and economic recovery packages – can properly address equity, or whether inequalities between communities and between countries will continue to grow.”
Online webinar: Tackling tough trade-offs while leaving no one behind: on fossil fuels and pandemics
Date: 2 September 2020
Time: 15:00 – 17:00 CET. 16:30-17:00. Interview opportunity for media with Professor Joyeeta Gupta and
Senior Scientist Sivan Kartha, SEI.
Registration: Journalists are welcome to sign up to the webinar 15:00-16:30 and the press briefing 16:30-17:00.
Programme
15:00 Welcome and introduction by co-organizers
Åsa Persson, Deputy Director, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Johan Kuylenstierna, Senior Advisor to the President on Sustainability and Adjunct Professor at Stockholm University; Vice Chair, Swedish Climate Policy Council
15:05 Memorial lecture: “Tackling Tough Trade-offs While Leaving No One Behind”
Joyeeta Gupta, professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam, and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education.
15.35 Panel discussion
Ulrika Modéer, Assistant Secretary General and Director of Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy, United Nations Development Programme
Nonette Royo, Executive Director, The Tenure Facility
Jonas Ebbesson, Professor of Environmental Law, Stockholm University
Sivan Kartha, Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute, US, and co-leader of SEI’s Gender and Social Equality Programme
Moderated by May Thazin Aung, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute, Asia
16.25 Concluding remarks
Åsa Persson, Deputy Director, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
For interviews, please contact:
Ylva Rylander, Press Officer, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
+46 73 150 33 84 ylva.rylander@sei.org @YlvaSEI
Twitter: #GGLecture @SEIresearch @Stockholm_Uni @vetenskapsakad
Professor Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta is professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam, and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in Delft.
She is the co-chair of the United Nations Environment Programme’s “Global Environment Outlook-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People”. She is also co-chair of the Earth Commission, a group of leading scientists convened by Future Earth.
She was a lead author at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which, with Al Gore, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for “efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”.
Photo: Joyeeta Gupta / IHE Delft
About the Gordon Goodman Memorial Lecture
This annual memorial lecture is held in honour of Gordon Goodman, founding director of the Beijer Institute at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1977–1989) and the Stockholm Environment Institute (1989–1991). The Gordon Goodman Memorial Lecture is organized by:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded in 1739 and is an independent non-governmental organization, whose overall objective is to promote the sciences and strengthen their influence in society. The Academy promotes science of the highest quality by fostering development and innovation in Swedish research. It enhances the status of science in society by drawing attention to key social issues, examining them in scientific terms and communicating the results, and joins in cooperation on global issues, with the aim of being an international scientific proponent of sustainable development. @vetenskapsakad
Stockholm Environment Institute is an international non-profit research and policy organization that tackles environment and development challenges. We connect science and decision-making to develop solutions for a sustainable future for all. Across our eight centres in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, we engage with policy processes, development action and business practice throughout the world. @SEIresearch @SEIclimate
Stockholm University, in the capital of Sweden, stands for openness, innovation and collaboration in a global world. @Stockholm_Uni
