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William C Clark Mar 29, 2025

The Fifth Food+ Symposium will take place on May 2nd, 2025 at Harvard, bringing together researchers in the Boston area who work on food-related topics including health, environment, climate, justice and #sustainability . More information and link to submit abstracts (by April 4, 2025) here: https://globalfoodplus.org/ .

Global Food+ Conference

William C Clark Mar 29, 2025

Congratulations to Prof. Noelle Selin (@noelleselin) for her election as a AAAS Fellow (https://eaps.mit.edu/news-impact/noelle-selin-elected-to-2024-class-of-aaas-fellows/ ). Together with her leadership of the new MIT Center for #sustainability Science and Strategy (https://cs3.mit.edu/ ), this is great news for efforts to bring science to bear on the challenges of #sustainable development.

Noelle Selin elected to 2024 class of AAAS Fellows

Noelle Selin, professor of atmospheric chemistry in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), was elected as a Fellow of […]

MIT EAPS

William C Clark Mar 20, 2025

CAPACITY BUILDING TO PROMOTE #EQUITY FOR #SUSTAINABILITY

Virtual seminar on 3/26 with Nasif Khan (BRAC - Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee), Sharmila Murthy (formerly Environmental Justice at the White House), Grant Wilson (Earth Law Center), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).

Capacity to promote equity both within and among generations

This seminar is the fourth in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development.

William C Clark Mar 10, 2025

CAPACITY TO TRANSFORM DEVELOPMENT toward #sustainability

Virtual seminar #SustainabilityTransformation n 3/12 with Steve Nicholls (SAfrica Climate Com), Chuck Rumsey (Ecotrust Canada) & Amanda Woodrum (ReImagine Appalachia), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).

Registration & further info here: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capacity-transform-unsustainable-development-pathways-sustainable-ones

Capacity to transform unsustainable development pathways into sustainable ones

This seminar is the third in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development.

William C Clark Feb 24, 2025

CAPACITY TO ADAPT IN SUPPORT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Virtual seminar on Feb. 26 featuring Carolyn Kousky (EDF), Aditi Mukherji (CGIAR), and Claudia Thyme (IDF). Moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).

Registration and additional information available here: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capacity-adapt-development-pathways-protect-human-well-being

Capacity to adapt development pathways to protect human well-being

This seminar is the second in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development.

William C Clark Feb 1, 2025

CAPACITY TO MEASURE PROGRESS TOWARD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Virtual seminar on Feb 12 featuring Carrie Exton (OECD), Eli Fenichel (Yale University / OSTP), Mary Ruckelshaus (Natural Capital Project) and Alicia Harley (Harvard).
#sustainability #CapacityBuilding

Registration & additional information available here:
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/sustainability-science-program/c4sd-seminar-series

Building Capacity for Sustainable Development: a seminar series

This series brings together ideas from experts and practical experience to address major problems facing the planet. We will focus on six essential capacities for sustainability. The seminar series will include conversations with practitioners on how to develop and maintain these skills over time.

William C Clark Jan 28, 2025

PostDoc Fellowships in #sustainability science at Univ Minnesota.

Applications due Feb 2 for the IonE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at University's Inst on the Environment (IonE).

How to Apply: Visit IonE Postdoc Fellowship "Apply Here" page: https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/ione-postdoctoral-fellowship/apply-here

Accepting applications until 11:59 p.m. U.S. Central Time on February 2, 2025.

Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions.

Apply Here

Cohort 3 (2025-27) Applications Open: Link to Application Form

William C Clark Jan 2, 2025

New "Synthesis of evidence yields high social cost of carbon due to structural model variation and uncertainties" by Moore et al in @PNASNews combines literature review & expert opinion for insights on #sustainability . Available #OA here: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2410733121 . See other works by coauthors @jrising, @gwagner

William C Clark Dec 22, 2024

#Inequalities strain the efficacy of local #governments & citizen satisfaction with them. Top down interventions don't relieve those strains. Bottom up ones do & thus can foster #sustainability . So conclude Andersson, Cook, Trautmann and Valdivieso in this nice 2025 article published (sadly behind another Elsevier paywall) in World Development, 188, 106855 (doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106855).

William C Clark Dec 17, 2024

#‪Food system #metrics are proliferating. This new blog by Fanzo et al reviews current offerings, argues importance of covering full spectrum of consumption-production components in relevant #nature-society-systems & assessing #resilience to shock. Valuable addition to the #CGIAR Foresight Initiative series: What do we know about the future of food systems?

https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/what-do-we-know-about-the-future-of-measuring-food-systems/

#sustainability

What do we know about the future of measuring food systems?

Many food system-related databases, tools, and dashboards are available, but need to be harmonized to be helpful for decision-makers.

CGIAR

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