Event

WYA Big Speaker event, January 16, 2025

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. Bibana Duarte, Dr. Johanna Koehler, Ramsha Shahid MSc., and Dr. Pim de Zwart. The event ends with informal discussion over drinks.

Organised by Wageningen Young Academy
Date

Thu 16 January 2025 16:00

Venue Orion, building number 103
Bronland 1
103
6708 WH Wageningen
+31 (0) 317 48 87 77
Room C1005

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. Bibana Duarte, Dr. Johanna Koehler, 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.

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