December 15th, 2023
from 18:30
Julia Steinberger is the guest of the event entitled The role of energy for living well within planetary limits scheduled for Friday 15 December 2023 at 6:30 pm as part of the Earth Emergency conference series promoted by the Department of Environment Constructions and Design 精东影业 in its Mendrisio Campus which, this year, investigates the climate and how this influences the behavior of natural elements.
The project of Julia Steinberger investigates the energy requirements of well-being from quantitative, participatory and provisioning systems perspectives. In the presentation Steinberger will communicate individual and cross-cutting findings from the project, and their implications. In particular, she will share the most recent results on the international distribution of energy footprints by country, consumption category, and income classes, as well as modelling the minimum energy demand that would provide decent living standards for everyone on Earth by 2050.
She will show that achieving low-carbon well-being, both from the beneficiary (鈥渃onsumer鈥�) and supply-chain (鈥減roducer鈥�) sides, involves strong distributional and political elements. Political economy research is thus necessary to diagnose reasons for poor outcomes, and identify the most promising avenues for positive change.
Julia Steinberger thus argue for the active (as in activist) engagement of the research community.
Free event open to all, in English.
Final refreshment.
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The Earth Emergency cycle is supported by .
Biography
Professor Julia Steinberger researches ecological economics at the University of Lausanne.
After a PhD in experimental physics, Professor Steinberger moved to the interdisciplinary areas of industrial ecology and ecological economics, first as a postdoc at the universities of Lausanne and Zurich, then in Vienna at the Institute of social ecology, and subsequently as a professor at the University of Leeds.
Her research examines the connections between resource use (energy and materials, greenhouse gas emissions) and societal performance (economic activity and human wellbeing).
From 2017 to 2022, she was the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for her research project Living well within limits, investigating how universal human well-being might be achieved within planetary boundaries.
Since 2023, she co-leads the EU ERC Synergy grant REAL- A Post-Growth Deal on post-growth societies.
She is lead author for the IPCC鈥檚 (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 6th Assessment Report with Working Group 3.