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SUMMARY:UNIL-EPFL CLIMACT Workshop
DTSTART:20210126T140000
DTEND:20210126T170000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Various speakers from Unil and EPFL\n14:00 Welcome (Claudia Bi
 nder\, Frédéric Herman)\n14:10 CLIMACT Introduction (Julia Steinberger\,
  Michael Lehning)\n14:30 Short presentations on platforms and working grou
 ps\n\n	MOUNTEGAL (Rizlan Bernier-Latmani\, Stuart Lane)\n	Modelling Platfo
 rm (Grégoire Mariéthoz\, Athanasios Nenes)\n	Seminar Series (Julia Stein
 berger\, Athanasios Nenes)\n	Communication and interface with society (Aug
 ustin Fragnière\, Charmilie Nault\, Samuel Jaccard)\n\n14:50 Break\n15:00
  Examples of potential future CLIMACT programs\n\n\n	SWEET Edge “Decentr
 alized renewable energy” (Evelina Trutnevyte\, Michael Lehning)\n	Sinerg
 ia “Health and environment” (Nicolas Senn)\n\n15:20 Short explanations
  of the Breakout Working Groups\n15:30 Breakout Working Groups on CLIMACT 
 topics – towards developing interdisciplinary programs and projects with
 in CLIMACT (topics list see below)\n16:15 Break\n16:30 Summary reports fro
 m working groups and next steps\n17:00 Workshop ending\n\nNote: this is an
  internal event for UNIL and EPFL researchers.\nIf you would like to regis
 ter\, please contact Charmilie Nault (charmilie.nault@epfl.ch).\n\n***\nLi
 st of topics:\n\n\n	Climate and health: Moving from Planetary Health globa
 l principles to meaningful community actions\n	Climate and social sciences
 \, from individual behavior to collective action\n	Climate\, economics\, p
 olitical and legal science: A focus on governance\, public policy and just
 ice\n	Urban challenges\, mobility and territorial management\n	Natural haz
 ards and how they change\n	Technology driven change (will be discussed wit
 hin topic 12)\n	Natural environment \n	Modelling Platform - taking Earth 
 System Models to society\n	Observation platform: MOUNTEGAL Multi-site Obse
 rvatory of Urban and Natural Environments and Testing Ground in an Alpine 
 Landscape \n	Open data and analysis for climate \n	Communication activit
 ies and interface with society\n	Energy system\, buildings\, climate and s
 ustainability\n\nSee below the description of the breakout working groups.
  \nDuring the workshop\, the participants will be invited to self-select t
 he group they would like to join.\n**\n\n\n	Climate and health: Moving fro
 m Planetary Health global principles to meaningful community actions\n\nMo
 derators: Nicolas Senn (Unil)\, Maria del Rio (Unil)\, Nicola Banwell (EPF
 L)\nDuring this workshop\, we will discuss the role of health care profess
 ionals and sketch a possible framework for research that integrates health
  and climate change into clinical and public health meaningful interventio
 ns.\n \n\n	Climate and social sciences\, from individual behavior to coll
 ective action\n\nModerators: Fabrizio Butera (Unil)\, Claudia Binder (EPFL
 )\nThe goal is to discuss possible ways to stimulate individual\, collecti
 ve and institutional behaviors aiming at addressing climate change. Much i
 s known about factors that facilitate vs. hinder such behaviors\, but rese
 arch is needed to address the challenges of actual large-scale implementat
 ion\, from education to social movements\, to policy making. Large-scale i
 mplementation requires new research on how to reconcile possible contradic
 tions between individual and collective interests\, how to articulate indi
 vidual and collective action in a multi-level fashion\, and how to identif
 y thresholds that determine when it is possible to move from individual be
 havior to collective action.\n \n\n	Climate\, economics\, political and l
 egal science: a focus on governance\, public policy and justice \n\nModera
 tors: Julia Steinberger (Unil)\, Dominic Rohner (Unil)\, Dominique Foray (
 EPFL)\nThis breakout group’s goal is to explore how economics\, politica
 l and legal sciences in EPFL & UNIL can contribute to raising climate ambi
 tion and action\, either with other programs/projects (assisting with loca
 l climate plans\, energy scenario/modelling\, accompanying industrial poli
 cy) or through projects with major focus on getting economic incentives ri
 ght for protecting the climate\, legal changes\, institutions and governan
 ce and evidence from political science. The goal here is to align diverse 
 scientific approaches of economic/legal/political science and capacities t
 o develop new research and engagement directions on climate relevant to go
 vernance\, public policy and justice. Our aim is that evidence-based publi
 c policies can contribute to save the planet.\n \n\n	Urban challenges\, m
 obility and territorial management \n\nModerators: Dieter Dietz (EPFL)\, L
 ucía Jalón Oyarzun (EPFL)\nThe breakout group will discuss how to addres
 s the challenges posed by climate change in Swiss urban and territorial se
 ttings through geographical\, environmental\, urban and architectural tool
 s.\nWith a specific focus on the links between health\, mobility and biodi
 versity\, we will consider two potential stages of collaboration\, a) urba
 n and territorial analysis linking the quantitative and qualitative aspect
 s of the urban and territorial to address both the ecological and sociotec
 hnical issues at stake in a holistic way\, and b) which systemic and trans
 calar schemes could bring together the different approaches and levels of 
 intervention present at both Unil and ENAC/EPFL to actively intervene in o
 ur cities and territories towards a more sustainable future (from material
  science to building design\, urban\, infrastructural and territorial plan
 ning\, mobility networks\, etc.)\n \n\n	Natural hazards and how they chan
 ge\n\nModerators: Marie Violay (EPFL)\, Niklas Linde (Unil)\nThe breakout 
 group will discuss how climate change is intensifying natural hazards that
  can cause tremendous impacts on societies\, the environment\, and economi
 c wealth of affected regions.\n \n\n	Technology driven change \n	(this to
 pic will be discussed within topic 12)\n	 \n	Natural environment\n\nModer
 ators: Julia Schmale (EPFL)\, Marie-Elodie Perga (Unil)\nThis breakout gro
 up’s goal is to explore how research on natural environments in EPFL & U
 NIL can contribute to raising climate ambition and action\, either by conn
 ecting different research fields and disciplines\, or by making the conseq
 uences of climate change more tangible for the public.\n \n\n	Modelling P
 latform - taking Earth System Models to Society\n\nModerators: Grégoire M
 ariéthoz (Unil)\, Athanasios Nenes (EPFL)\nModels are ideal tools to expl
 ore the possible effects of actions on a complex system\, such as the glob
 al climate\, a catchment\, or the economy. While individual models are oft
 en tailored for a specific type of data\, combining different modeling fra
 meworks and associating the related expertise can bring unprecedented adva
 nces. This working group will discuss ways to bridge numerical representat
 ions of natural and social systems\, such as to address questions that can
 not be tackled with disciplinary frameworks.\n \n\n	Observation platform:
  MOUNTEGAL Multi-site Observatory of Urban and Natural Environments and Te
 sting Ground in an Alpine Landscape \n\nModerators: Rizlan Bernier-Latmani
  (EPFL)\, Stuart Lane (Unil)\nThe observatory and testing ground aims to p
 rovide a platform that allows integrated projects that probe the intricaci
 es of implementation of technological and policy actions in the diverse mo
 untain ecosystems. The observatory aspects will include instrumented plots
  while the testing ground intends to offer the opportunity for real-life d
 eployment of technologies and policies.\n \n\n	Open Data and Analysis for
  Climate\n\nModerators: Charlotte Weil (EPFL)\, Michael Lehning (EPFL)\nCL
 IMACT will use and generate a lot of (open) data across all disciplines co
 ncerned. Giving the rapid development of data repositories and data infras
 tructures\, this workshop discusses the needs of CLIMACT groups for suppor
 t through dedicated data infrastructure and data analysis.\n \n\n	Communi
 cation activities and interface with society\n\nModerators: Samuel Jaccard
  (Unil)\, Augustin Fragnière (Unil)\, Charmilie Nault (EPFL)\nThe objecti
 ve of this discussion is to assess the role that CLIMACT can play as an in
 terface with different social groups and local authorities\, and as a foca
 l point to create synergies between actors and partners active in climate 
 change policies and research.\n \n\n	Energy system\, buildings\, climate 
 and sustainability\n\nModerators: François Maréchal (EPFL)\, Manuele Mar
 gni (HES-SO - EPFL)\, Suren Erkman (Unil)\nEnergy system encompasses the s
 upply of the society's energy services from resources. Its emissions contr
 ibute to about ¾ of Global Warming Potential. The transformation of the c
 urrent fossil based energy system to CLIMACT compatible and renewables bas
 ed system is a challenge that implies changes in behaviors\, technologies\
 , infrastructures and business models. The transformation needs to focus o
 n the mitigation of GHG emissions but also the resiliency\, security of su
 pply\, sustainability and economic viability. A holistic and systemic appr
 oach addressing the competition between technologies within given physical
  and socioeconomic constraints\, accounting for the  life cycle perspecti
 ve & multiple impact indicators and considering the nexus between energy a
 nd material circularity is key to go beyond a-priori solutions and shed li
 ght on the numerous trade-offs of a sustainable solution.\n\n 
LOCATION:online via zoom
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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