ISR in conversation with Holden & Linnerud on sustainable development gaps

Join us for the fifth UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR) 'ISR in Conversation' seminar to hear Erling Holden and Kristin Linnerud discuss sustainable development gaps and social justice.

Summary: Meeting one sustainable development goal on human needs, social justice, or environmental limits can make it harder (or easier) to meet others. The extent to which countries succeed in reconciling these goals is context specific but depends largely on how we organise society and on what policy options and strategies we use. We develop a model for sustainable development to show that some countries have clearly been better than others at reconciling these goals, and many have reduced their sustainable development gap over time.

About the 'ISR in Conversation with...' Series: This public event series will feature insightful and honest conversation on key environmental and societal topics between UCL ISR experts and guests from academia, policy, industry and civil society, and is chaired by Dr Matthew Winning (comedian, environmental economist, and author of ‘Hot Mess’). Our intention for the “In Conversation Seminar” is to create a space for diverse perspectives to share their expertise and experiences of building the sustainable future now to help inform others on their own sustainable transformation journey. The format of the public event series includes a short twenty-minute presentation from the guest speaker, a five-minute response from an ISR researcher, and then twenty-five minutes Q&A, with refreshments and networking afterwards. The UCL ISR delivers world-leading research, teaching and enterprise in the sustainable use of global resources. Our research themes range from financing the low carbon transition, to sustainability at the water-food-land nexus, to electricity market reform. While our teaching has a strong track record for equipping our graduates with the tools and knowledge to become sustainability leaders in their chosen careers.