Event
Postponed - WYA Big Speaker event, December 3
Wageningen Young Academy is proud to welcome Professor Dr. Joyeeta Gupta for our WYA Big Speaker event. During this event, WYA aims to bring WUR students, staff, and public together for dialogue on urgent topics. Professor Gupta will first give a lecture entitled Unequal distribution of climate change impacts: How can issues related to the unequal distribution of climate change impacts be resolved equitably? Thereafter, Dr. Chris Seijger will moderate questions from the audience and a panel discussion with Dr. Bibiane Duarte, Dr. Johanna Koehler, Ramsha Shahid MSc., and Dr. Pim de Zwart. The event ends with informal discussion over drinks.
Unfortunately the event on December 3 will not take place, due to personal reasons of the speaker. A new date will probably be set in January/February. So keep an eye on the website!
Wageningen Young Academy proudly presents:
Professor Dr. Joyeeta Gupta
Unequal distribution of climate change impacts:
How can issues related to the unequal distribution of climate change impacts be resolved equitably?
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Schedule
- 15:45 doors open
- 16:00 Lecture Prof. Gupta
- 16:45 Panel Discussion
- 17:15 drinks
Open to students, staff and public
Moderator: Dr. Chris Seijger
Panel: Dr. Bibiane Duarte, Dr. Johanna Koehler, Ramsha Shahid Msc., Dr. Pim de Zwart
Professor Dr. Joyeeta Gupta is full professor of environment and development in the global south at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. She is also the Faculty Professor on Sustainability (2019-2024) and leads the programme group on Governance and Inclusive Development. Finally, she is also the Co-Convener of the University's Centre for Sustainable Development Studies. Prof. Gupta research focuses on: The need to phase out fossil fuels in an equitable manner; The influence of changing geopolitics and governance patterns on North-South issues in relation to environment and development; Relationship between the environment and development at Global to Local (Glocal) levels; and Promoting sustainable development through discourses on integration, coherence, mainstreaming, nexus approach.
Unfortunately the event on December 3 will not take place, due to personal reasons of the speaker. A new date will probably be set in January/February. So keep an eye on the website!