10.06.2020 Webinar Social Innovation and the Climate Emergency

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Dear Colleagues, please join us for a

Webinar Social Innovation and the Climate Emergency

Date: 10 June 2020

Time: 8:00-10:00 EST; 14:00-16:00 CET, 17:30-19:30 India Time

This session brings together research on the important relationship between social innovation and the climate emergency. It will ask: What are the central issues in research on this relationship so far? What is the contribution of the capabilities approach and human development?

The webinar will start with 10 minute inputs by

Rafael Ziegler (Social innovation and climate emergency: from social to (militant) democratic?),

Josephine Balzac (Climate lawyering),

Sylvia Lorek (Energy sufficiency through social innovation) and

Asanga Ranasinghe (Climate emergency, social innovation and technology).

followed by a joint discussion moderated by Anna Colom (Open University and Co-ordinator TG Technology, Innovation and Design).

The webinar is organized by TG Innovation, Technology and Design in cooperation with SERI (Sustainable Europe Research Institute).

Please register in advance by sending a brief email to GETIDOS (get...@uni-greifswald.de). Once registered, participants will receive further instructions on how to participate.

Dr. Sylvia Lorek

Adjunct Professor in Consumer Economics, University of Helsinki

SERI, Sustainable Europe Research Institute Germany e.V.

Schwimmbadstr. 2e;

51491 Overath; Germany

phone: +49 2206 84848;

mobile: +49 171 4548550

skype: sylvialorek

Now available:

Why only strong consumption will make a difference

Further publication:

Sufficiency and consumer behaviour: From theory to policy