Fwd: Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production: A Future Earth and Belmont Forum global scoping process

[Cohen, Maurie]

Greetings!

Members of the SCORAI community may be interested in participating in the consultative process currently taking place in connection with a White Paper on research priorities pertaining to the field of sustainable consumption and production. Further details below.

Best wishes,

Maurie

MAURIE J. COHEN

Professor of Sustainability Studies | Director of Science, Technology, & Society Program 

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Editor, Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy | Associate Editor, Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions

Management Team Member | Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption & Production

Website | https://mauriecohen.net/

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From: Craig Starger <craig....@futureearth.org>
Date: Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 12:19 PM
Subject: Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production: A Future Earth and Belmont Forum global scoping process
To: Future Earth <con...@futureearth.org>

Dear Colleagues,

Future Earth invites you to contribute to research priorities and recommendations on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production, as input to a Belmont Forum scoping process for a potential Collaborative Research Action major funding opportunity.

Future Earth and the Belmont Forum have recently developed a white paper on knowledge gaps and research priorities for Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production. The white paper outlines potential topics and priorities for research for transdisciplinary, multinational teams. Additionally, we are seeking input on approaches to be encouraged and avoided in the design of a funding call on this topic, as well as policy and action impacts, and key references.

We now invite the global community to review the white paper and give feedback in order to see if there are any missing pieces that have not yet been addressed. We invite feedback from both individuals and institutions. Feedback will be incorporated into a final version of the document that will then serve as input to a Belmont Forum scoping process for a future Collaborative Research Action. 

The consultation will be open until August 14, 2019. If you have any questions regarding this consultation, including any technical problems, please contact craig....@futureearth.org.

To access the survey, please click here.

Please forward this to anyone who may be interested, and please feel free to post this on relevant website and list serves.

http://futureearth.org/news/systems-sustainable-consumption-and-production-future-earth-and-belmont-forum-global-scoping

Thank you for your kinda attention.

Sincerely,

Craig Starger

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Craig J. Starger, Ph.D.

Research Liaison Officer, Colorado Global Hub, Future Earth

Research Scientist, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University

Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

 

http://futureearth.org

http://sustainability.colostate.edu

[Jean Boucher]

I finally read this document and offered recommendations; thanks to those who wrote it, a quality read - Jean

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[Tom Abeles]

One of my favorite quotes comes from Bruce Sterling's SF novel, Green Days in Brunei:

"The technical elite" were errand boys. They didn't decide how to study, what to work on...Money decided that....

Recently The Transnational Institute released a volume, Public Finance for the Future We Want. In that volume there are two papers of interest here:

Reyes, Oscar, Public Investment for Financial Systems Change, Not Climate Change ( a larger paper is forthcoming)

Morois, Thomas, Public Banking on the Future We Want.

Also of interest:

Parrique, T, et.al., Decoupling Debunked: Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability

Basically, the "white paper" makes the investment finance community invisible while the focus is parsed into 17 SDG's and 169 problem sets which can be aligned to areas which fit into traditional academic research.

After the global banking meltdown of 07-08 where the banks and owners were rescued and with the rise of the FinTech's, the financial sector is changing and its impact on the SDG's is becoming apparent. This requires a rethinking of how to address the issues identified by those who struggled to define the SDG's. That history, too, has not been addressed.

tom

tom abeles

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