PROGRAMME

Kontaktperson: Tom Skauge, Institutt for økonomi og administrasjon, HVL, i samarbeid med Naturvernforbundet.Arrangementstype: Fysisk og digitalt

Parallel session 4: Indigenous Peoples’ Capacity to Act for SustainabilityA PDF version of the programme for parallel session 4.

Contact person: Aase Kristine Lundber, Nordland Research Institute (Nordlandsforskning)Type of event: Digital event ONLY

Parallel session 5: Social justice, sustainability and the SDGs: What role for economic growth?

Parallel session 3: Integrated and Inclusive SDG City Transitions in the Global South

Åsa Persson, Deputy Director of the Stockholm Environmental InstituteDr Åsa Persson is Research Director and Deputy Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, where she is a member of the executive team and leads the development and implementation of the institute’s research strategy. As a social scientist and governance scholar, her research currently focuses on policy coherence in the national implementation of climate policy and SDGs.Her previous research has looked at environmental governance as international and national levels, including follow-up and review of the SDGs, global governance of climate change adaptation, environmental policy integration, and development of the planetary boundaries concept. Ms Persson has more than 80 publications, including peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Nature and Nature Climate Change and reports for policy-maker audiences.Day Zero Debate Moderator: Dorothy DankelDiscussants:
Siri Vatsø Haugum, University of Bergen
Siddharth Sareen, University of Stavanger
Cristina Dorador, University of Antofagasta 

Keynote lecture 2: Public engagement, scientific literacy and the science-society nexus                                   Dr. Daya Reddy, President of the International Science Council and Professor at the University of Cape Town

Keynote lecture 3: Urban Pathways to SDG SuccessDr. Edgar Pieterse, Director of the African Centre for Cities and Professor at the University of Cape Town

Parallel session 1: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

Welcome and formal opening of the SDG Conference Bergen 2021Ms. Ine Eriksen Søreide, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of NorwayDr. Margareth Hagen, Rector, University of BergenMr. Andreas Trohjell, President, National Union of Students in Norway

Keynote lecture 1: It's time to create regenerative and distributive economiesDr. Kate Raworth, Professor at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford