FW: Open Forum on COVID-19 and Sustainability Transitions-- opportunities for collaboration!
Philip Vergragt
Dear SCORAI-ers,
Please see the message of the KAN SSCP below. I think our KAN colleagues did a great job organizing this open forum; and now summarizing the results and creating a follow up process. I encourage all of us to read the outcomes and get engaged in follow-ups.
If you want to organize a follow-up activity in the context of SCORAI you are welcome too.
We as SCORAI Board will of course analyze the results and see what we can do to capitalize on this initiative. Suggestions are always welcome, either to the listserv or to individual Board members.
I hope that all of you and your families and love ones are healthy and protected; and please take care for yourselves and the community.
Warm regards,
Philip
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Subject: Open Forum on COVID-19 and Sustainability Transitions-- opportunities for collaboration!
Dear SSCP KAN Colleagues,
As a follow-up from the March 26th Open Forum on how COVID-19 and Sustainability Transitions, a group of us have summarized the extensive comments, questions, and ideas that emerged from the discussion. We share this with the KAN now as we feel there were many topics that may resonate with the interests of KAN members and Working Groups. This is a great opportunity for KAN members to work together with others interested in exploring this critical moment in time and how it might lead to more sustainable consumption and production.
We compiled the ten the most salient themes from the discussion
1. Designing sustainability-enhancing actions by government
2. New strategies for global governance
3. Reinforcing and locking in new lifestyle practices
4. Designing new systems of sustainable consumption and production
5. Social solidarity during the era of COVID-19 and beyond
6. COVID-19 and the often unacknowledged importance of the “care economy”
7. Lessons and insights from the global South
8. Developing new narratives for prosperity and well-being in the post-COVID-19 world
9. Comparative consideration of responses to crisis over time
10. COVID-19 as an opportunity for transdisciplinary research
Please take a look at the summary and if you see a topic/theme that interests you, sign-up!
Following up from the Open Forum could take various forms, including:
- Organizing a follow-up open forum on a more specific topic
- Writing a blog post for the Future Earth website
- Writing an op-ed for a newspaper or online venue (The Conversation etc.)
- Making a Youtube video
- Writing an academic paper
- Writing a petition that people can sign
- Conducting a survey
- Writing a funding proposal for a transdisciplinary project
- Recruiting additional members if you are a small group or need people with specific skills or resource
If there are additional themes or topics that you feel could galvanize interest or might align better with Working Group' goals, feel free to add them to the bottom of the list, write a description, and add a sign-up table.
The summary and sign-up is here:
During the Open Forum we asked for "offers" from the group and received a few that may be of interest-- the offers are here:
A recording of the open forum is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eD6QXa4pP8
A prior blog posting is here: https://futureearth.org/2020/03/13/covid-19-can-help-wealthier-nations-prepare-for-a-sustainability-transition/
In addition...
A press release article from the New Jersey Institute of Technology summarizing the Open Forum is available here:
Finally, if you haven't done so already, please take some time to fill out this foresight survey on "COVID-19 Crisis: Where do we go from here?" organized by Future Earth: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RXW2RCQ
Maurie Cohen, Joseph Sarkis, Patrick Schroeder, Magnus Bengtsson, Steven McGreevy, and Paul Dewick
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Valentina Aversano-Dearborn
Here is a suggested follow-up action initiative inspired by the Open Forum for all of us:
Everyone who wants to support the Friday4Future movement as a "Scientist for Future" is invited to contribute tomorrow, Friday 10th of April (and all following fridays) to the global climate strike --> Amidst COVID-19 the Youth movement took their Friday demonstrations online, giving us all an easy chance to join their #digitalstrike on social media, keep momentum and remind our politicians about the importance of not forgetting about the parallel ongoing climate crisis. By tagging your respective @politicians and sharing with them your key scientific insights and/or political demands you can raise your voice as a #scientist4future and build momentum by building on an existing movement
See our simple example for economic aid packages that have the future in mind here --> https://twitter.com/Forum_ViA/status/1246139745106788352/photo/1
Context:
On March 26th we discussed in the Future Earth Open Forum (COVID-19 and Sustainability Transitions) that this is a decisive moment in which we all have to convince our elected leaders to not use tax money to bail out the wrong kind of industries and lock us into economically, socially and environmentally unsustainable pathways. How can we raise our voices and use our scientific insights to hold our politicians accountable to invest into the future - not the past? The time is now! (read here why)
Luckily, we don’t have to start from zero: Many organizations and advocacy groups that we are part of or that we follow, have already launched initiatives (e.g. open letters, petitions, participatory social media campaigns etc.) on science-informed policy recommendations (UBI, health care reforms, green new deal, educational reforms etc.). The Friday for Future movement is one of them (see above). Another acute initiative along the same lines is this one: https://stay-grounded.org/savepeoplenotplanes/ (#save people not planes - red line for aviation bailouts)
Thanks for sharing, if you know of any other initiatives that need a few minutes of our online support these days!
ViA: Youth forum for Sustainable Visions in Action (Forum-ViA)
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