{"id":18573,"date":"2021-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icrea.cat\/webinar-93rd-icrea-colloquium-why-sustainability-science-endorses-fairy-tales-and-policy-legends-2\/"},"modified":"2021-03-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T23:00:00","slug":"webinar-93rd-icrea-colloquium-why-sustainability-science-endorses-fairy-tales-and-policy-legends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icrea.cat\/ca\/webinar-93rd-icrea-colloquium-why-sustainability-science-endorses-fairy-tales-and-policy-legends-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WEBINAR 93rd ICREA COLLOQUIUM \u2013 Why sustainability science endorses fairy tales and policy legends?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong>: ICREA Research Professors <strong>Mario Giampietro<\/strong> and<strong> Giorgos Kallis<\/strong>, both from ICTA-UAB<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:&nbsp;<\/strong>2nd of March 2021, 18:00h<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where<\/strong>:&nbsp;Zoom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstracts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mario Giampietro <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Uncomfortable Knowledge Hub (<a href=\"https:\/\/uncomfortableknowledge.com\/\">https:\/\/uncomfortableknowledge.com\/<\/a>) is one of the results of a 4-year EU project (<a href=\"http:\/\/magic-nexus.eu\/\">http:\/\/magic-nexus.eu\/<\/a>) having the goal of checking the robustness of the narratives used by the European Commission to frame and solve sustainability problems. The UKH flags the blunder of using \u201cscientific evidence\u201d to inform policy.&nbsp; At the moment the proposed efficient environmentally friendly innovations for a circular bioeconomy, a quick decarbonization of the economy, a more sustainable CAP, are based on policy legends (socio-technical imaginaries).<\/p>\n<p>* Giampietro M &amp; Funtowicz SO 2020, &#8216;From elite folk science to the policy legend of the circular economy&#8217;, <em>Environmental Science &amp; Policy<\/em>, vol. 109, pp 64-72. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envsci.2020.04.012\">10.1016\/j.envsci.2020.04.012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giorgos Kallis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the prevalent policy legends in climate and environmental policy is that <em>green growth is possible<\/em> \u2013 i.e. continuous economic growth is not only compatible with, but also necessary for, sustainability. However, when looking at the latest data on resource use and carbon emissions empirical records disprove the knowledge claim about the possibility of absolute decoupling (separating GDP growth from environmental damage). Addressing sustainability challenges requires going beyond \u2018fairy tales of growth\u2019 where technology and markets will solve soon and smoothly all environmental problems.&nbsp; This strategy avoids the need of grappling with the tough social and institutional changes at stake.<\/p>\n<p>* Hickel J &amp; Kallis G 2019 \u2018Is Green Growth Possible?\u2019 <em>New Political Economy<\/em> 25(7576):1-18 DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/deref\/http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1080%2F13563467.2019.1598964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/13563467.2019.1598964<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The reflection from the colloquium: the social construction of ignorance<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How is it possible that young scientists cannot say in public that the circular economy is absurd since it goes against the principle of thermodynamics (complex adaptive systems must be open)?&nbsp; How is it possible that sobering stories \u2013 \u201cHouston we have a problem\u201d \u2013 trying to identify the real nature of sustainability problems are getting neither attention nor funding?<\/p>\n<p>* Steve Rayner, 2012. Uncomfortable knowledge: the social construction of ignorance in science and environmental policy discourses. <em>Economy and Society<\/em> 41(1): 107-125.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers: ICREA Research Professors Mario Giampietro and Giorgos Kallis, both from ICTA-UAB &nbsp; When:&nbsp;2nd of March 2021, 18:00h &nbsp; Where:&nbsp;Zoom &nbsp; Abstracts: &nbsp; Mario Giampietro The Uncomfortable Knowledge Hub (https:\/\/uncomfortableknowledge.com\/) is one of the results of a 4-year EU project (http:\/\/magic-nexus.eu\/) having the goal of checking the robustness of the narratives used by the European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activitats"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WEBINAR 93rd ICREA COLLOQUIUM \u2013 Why sustainability science endorses fairy tales and policy legends? 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