GSS Interdisciplinary seminar will be held as below.
 

“Let’s Work Together toward Achieving Sustainable Development Goals”
 

Speaker:

Gerald Singh, University of British Columbia (UBC)

Mika Shimizu, Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research (C-PiER)

Yuichi Ikeda, GSAIS

Michal Shinwell, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

 

Date: December 10th 2018

Venue:Symposium Hall, International Science Innovation Building (West Building) 5F,

Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University

Access: Bldg. #69 on the map that can be downloaded from the link below

http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/yoshida/main.html

 

Course type: 1-session course

Summary:A part (the morning session) of the 7th International Symposium on Human Survivability“ Let’s Work Together toward Achieving Sustainable Development Goals” organized by the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS/ Shishukan) is counted as a GSS interdisciplinary seminar. Specifically, the following sessions are required to attend:

 

Program

09:30 – Registration of the Participants

10:00 – 10:10 Opening Remarks Kaoru Takara, Dean, GSAIS, Kyoto University

10:10 – 11:30 Session 1 (SDGs: Trade-off and Synergy)

Session Chair: Liang Zhao, GSAIS, Kyoto University

10:10 – 10:30 Keynote Lecture: “Using the Sustainable Development Goals as a

Basis for Strategic Sustainability Research and Policy”

Gerald Singh, University of Brithish Columbia (UBC)

10:30 – 10:35 Questions

10:35 – 10:50 Presentation: “Roles of Resilience Approach in Implementing Sustainable Development Goals”

Mika Shimizu, Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research (C-PiER)

10:50 – 11:05 Presentation: “Micro Grid with 100% Renewable Energy in Small Island Developing States —Nexus of Energy, Environment and Economic Growth—”

Yuichi Ikeda, GSAIS, Kyoto University

11:05 – 11:25 Keynote Lecture: “Measuring Distance to the SDG Targets: An Assessment of Where OECD Countries Stand”

Michal Shinwell, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

11:25 – 11:30 Questions

 

If you would like to participate in the sessions, please 1) make a registration through GAIS Symposium Websitehttp://www.gsais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/symposium2018/reg/ by December 5 (WED) 17:00, and also 2) see Assoc. Prof. Mika Shimizu at the Symposium site to make sure of your attendance. If possible, it is recommended to attend the whole program to learn the possibilities and challenges around SDGs. You can see the whole Symposium program:

http://www.gsais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/symposium2018/

 

GSS IS Number: [#76-(1)]