ELI-T: Rethinking environmental action today and tomorrow: strategic insights navigating the international geopolitical context

On March 2, the Earth and Life Institute is delighted to welcome Dr. Sébastien Treyer for a new ELI-Sustainability Talk. 

The conference is now available on replay.

Abstract 

At a moment when bilateral transactional deals and brutal force seem to have set an end to the rules based order as it had been known in the last decades, individual national interests seem to prevail over cooperation, solidarity, and the preservation of environmental common goods. 

But long term structural trends of transformation of the world economy and of all supply chains also need to be taken into account to make sense of the current situation. 

On one hand, unilateral action by the US government make the daily headlines. On the other hand, Chinese economic and technological dominance in many supply chains is in the mind of all economic decision makers. 

Following Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, middle powers need to build coalitions of the willing to defend their interests, is there a possibility to integrate international solidarity and environment protection into coalitions that will be first and foremost centred on defense and economic security? 

This presentation will be based on IDDRI's experience as a Paris based sustainability think tank organising dialogues among EU member states and between EU and other regions, to indicate some elements of a strategy to rethink environmental action in this context.

The guest 

Dr. Sébastien Treyer is currently the Executive Director of the think-tank IDDRI (Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales, France), and has extensive experience in environmental policy, agricultural systems, and governance. 

Sébastien Treyer is also Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM) and member of the Lead Faculty of the Earth System Governance Network. 

A graduate from École Polytechnique, general engineer of the Corps of Bridges, Water and Forests, and PhD in environmental management, he was in charge of foresight studies at the French Ministry of the Environment, and played an active role in leading the interface between science and policy and scientific programming at the European Commission, the French National Research Agency, and territorial actors such as the Seine Normandy Water Agency.

Practical 

You are cordially invited to take part in this seminar, to be held on March 2 from 13:00 to 14:00 in SUD01 auditorium (Place Croix du Sud, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

A lunch with the guest speaker will be held in the cafeteria of the de Serres building (Place Croix du Sud, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) between 12:15 and 13:00 for participants at the ELI-T seminar.

If you would like to attend, please register here. 
Please note that registration is mandatory and essential for us to plan the right amount of food.

The seminar and lunch are free and open to everyone, whether or not you are an ELI member or a UCLouvain member, as long as you are registered. 

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