sustainable modes of transport, and sustainable
modes of cities
In the sociSDG project, LUM University will focus on SDG12: RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION.
LUM Jean Monnet University is one of the most recognizable and valued universities in Southern Italy, providing high quality education in the field of economics, management and law. It features an International Ph.D. program focused on sustainable development topics, entitled "the Economics and Management of Natural Resources." It is a centre of academic excellence, committed to advancing teaching and research quality and creating top tier managers, professionals and researchers. LUM is modern organization capable of efficiently translating the principles of business and management into education equipped to deal with current trends of continuous change, globalization and internationalization. It is also member of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network – SDSN.
Leveraging on its localization, LUM is leading the way to create an academic network in the Adriatic Basin. The ALUm (Adriatic Linked Universities) network was born in 2012, institutionalizing this networking effort. Linking universities from Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Slovenia and Croatia, ALUm is shaped around the broad vision of being the leading and most recognized academic consortium in the Adriatic-Ionian region. It is focused on three area of common interest: education (international programs, Ph.D., masters, summer school), research and cooperation (in terms of students and professor exchange, participation in panels and conferences).
Visit their website here.
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within the activities of the SOCI SDGs Erasmus+ project
I'm coordinating at LUM, there are several activities we have to carry out.
Among the dissemination activities, we have to write 12
blogs, that will be published on the Project website, and then disseminated on
the web. I'm asking you your collaboration in being author of one (or more)
blog. Some indications below.
- blogs have to be on the topic "Responsible
production and consumption"
- blogs have to be written in a "fashion"
style; that means, not academic, but as an editorial piece
- lenght is 400-600 words (therefore, very short)
- content has to be related to some best practices (e.g.,
firms, bakns, supply chains, countries, etc.) and links to those best practices
have to be provided in the text
- of course, you will be the author of the text and
acknowledged
- blogs will be published periodically throughout the
next two years.
- gere are some example of a previous project (blogs
should be similar):
At this stage, I need for blogs asap. Deadline is
december 15th.
please find at this link a blog-table in which you can
indicate the (tentative title) of your contribution, so you can book it.
haring
Domenico Morrone
In the sociSDG project, LUM University will focus on SDG12: RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION.
LUM Jean Monnet University is one of the most recognizable and valued universities in Southern Italy, providing high quality education in the field of economics, management and law. It features an International Ph.D. program focused on sustainable development topics, entitled "the Economics and Management of Natural Resources." It is a centre of academic excellence, committed to advancing teaching and research quality and creating top tier managers, professionals and researchers. LUM is modern organization capable of efficiently translating the principles of business and management into education equipped to deal with current trends of continuous change, globalization and internationalization. It is also member of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network – SDSN.
Leveraging on its localization, LUM is leading the way to create an academic network in the Adriatic Basin. The ALUm (Adriatic Linked Universities) network was born in 2012, institutionalizing this networking effort. Linking universities from Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Slovenia and Croatia, ALUm is shaped around the broad vision of being the leading and most recognized academic consortium in the Adriatic-Ionian region. It is focused on three area of common interest: education (international programs, Ph.D., masters, summer school), research and cooperation (in terms of students and professor exchange, participation in panels and conferences).
Visit their website here.
Whythe SDGs?
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the largest global partnership agreement and development plan for the planet ever made. It was agreed upon by all UN member states in September 2015 and consist of 17 goals and 169 targets. The goals ultimately aspire to create a better, more inclusive and more prosperous world by 2030. To make this happen, we need to identify new solutions, create partnerships and UNLEASH the vast potential of young, innovative minds.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHARED VALUE • Develop disaster response capacity of transportation hubs (e.g. airports and ports) in countries at high risk of extreme climatic events.
• Inform public policies on urban design and transportation infrastructure (including multi-modal enabling transport corridors) to accelerate the transition to more sustainable cities and transport networks.
• Engage with governments and other stakeholders to reduce transit delays at land border checkpoints, ports and airports. • Invest in resilient systems, institutions and climate-smart technology to reduce, mitigate or adapt to climateinduced change. • Integrate climate risks into investment analysis and decision making. • Take steps to measure, reduce and report climate exposure and progress on actions to confront climate change, continuing to increase the level of transparency and consistency of reporting across the industry sector.
• Build on the work of the ‘Caring for Climate’ partners – the UN Global Compact, UNEP and the UNFCCC - to leverage sphere of influence to encourage other companies, people and Governments to disclose their environmental impacts, reduce their environmental footprint and decouple growth from energy use.
LEADING BY EXAMPLE
• Deutsche Post DHL Group’s (DHL) GoGreen program aims to improve carbon dioxide efficiency by 30% by 2020 compared with 2007 levels. The company operates a fleet of about 11,200 vehicles with alternative drive trains, fuels and technologies. For long-haul transport, the company is implementing alternative fuels such
as liquefied natural gas, as well as lightweight and aerodynamic trailers. For urban delivery, the company is increasingly focusing on transport by foot, bike and electric vehicles. This includes more than 400 electric vehicles for urban areas, which not only avoid carbon dioxide emissions while being powered with renewable electricity, but also
• Inform public policies on urban design and transportation infrastructure (including multi-modal enabling transport corridors) to accelerate the transition to more sustainable cities and transport networks.
• Engage with governments and other stakeholders to reduce transit delays at land border checkpoints, ports and airports. • Invest in resilient systems, institutions and climate-smart technology to reduce, mitigate or adapt to climateinduced change. • Integrate climate risks into investment analysis and decision making. • Take steps to measure, reduce and report climate exposure and progress on actions to confront climate change, continuing to increase the level of transparency and consistency of reporting across the industry sector.
• Build on the work of the ‘Caring for Climate’ partners – the UN Global Compact, UNEP and the UNFCCC - to leverage sphere of influence to encourage other companies, people and Governments to disclose their environmental impacts, reduce their environmental footprint and decouple growth from energy use.
LEADING BY EXAMPLE
• Deutsche Post DHL Group’s (DHL) GoGreen program aims to improve carbon dioxide efficiency by 30% by 2020 compared with 2007 levels. The company operates a fleet of about 11,200 vehicles with alternative drive trains, fuels and technologies. For long-haul transport, the company is implementing alternative fuels such
as liquefied natural gas, as well as lightweight and aerodynamic trailers. For urban delivery, the company is increasingly focusing on transport by foot, bike and electric vehicles. This includes more than 400 electric vehicles for urban areas, which not only avoid carbon dioxide emissions while being powered with renewable electricity, but also
Subject: PhD Activity: SOCI SDGs contribution
SDG INDUSTRY MATRIX FOR TRANSPORTATION
SDG 1 End poverty in all its forms everywhere 15 SDG 2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
16 SDG 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
17 SDG 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
19 SDG 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
21 SDG 6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
23 SDG 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
25 SDG 8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
27 SDG 9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
29 SDG 10 Reduce inequality within and among countries
31 SDG 11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
32 SDG 12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
34 SDG 13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
36 SDG 14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
38 SDG 15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
39 SDG 16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
40 SDG 17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Attending the World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur? Join SDSN Youth and the Local Pathways Fellows for our side-event at the Forum.
Local Pathways Fellowship: Empowering Youth to Implement the New Urban Agenda in Their Cities
Friday 9 February 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Room 402
Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Friday 9 February 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Room 402
Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: World’s national and local governments, technical experts and practitioners, business and civil society will gather for 9th Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF), ‘world’s premier conference on urban issues’ convened by UN-Habitat.
While it is the 9th time since 2002 that the world is gathering to discuss the future of our cities and urban areas - places that are now home to more than 3.5 billion people or half of humanity - this time is a little different.
This year’s session will be the first session since the adoption of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) in Quito, Ecuador at the Habitat III Conference in 2016. That’s why the primary focus will be on implementation of the NUA, grounded on the bold promise the world has made to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Given the sheer number of people to whom the forces of urbanization may either bring hope or despair, it is clear that bringing cities into the conversation about the Goals is an imperative. We believe that it is equally necessary to make sure that young people are included not only as representatives of the community whose needs and opinions must be accounted for, but as thought leaders and problem solvers, whose bold ideas and outstanding projects are worth the attention of not only other urban practitioners but also donors, mentors, and supporters.
With this in mind, SDSN Youth global cities program - the Local Pathways Fellowship - is bringing young leaders from Mexico City, Tehran, Tema, Istanbul, Paris, Dhaka, Quezon City and Melbourne to share their journey as Local Pathways Fellows and share their insights and ideas for change at a side event , with the support of Jeffrey Sachs Center for Sustainable Development, UCL City Leadership Laboratory, the World Federation of United Nations Associations, and the UN Major Group for Children and Youth.
An hour-long session ‘Local Pathways Fellowship: Empowering Youth to Implement the New Urban Agenda in Their Cities’ will provide a space to share urban initiatives led by fellows and learn about pathways they have envisioned for ‘inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’ cities.
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From my perspective
Smart and sustainable? Five tensions in the visions and practices of the smart-sustainable city in Europe and North America
Keywords
Smart cities
Sustainable urban development
Sustainable development
Smart sustainability
Visions
Practices
Auto industry rejects Trump's tariff threats
Employees install cable into a Mercedes-Benz GLC crossover on the assembly line at the automaker's factory in Bremen, Germany. Photo credit: Bloomberg
Automotive companies on both sides of the Atlantic pushed back on President Donald Trump's talk of a trade war with Europe using a similar refrain: Everyone will suffer if his rhetoric becomes reality.
"Tariffs are not good for anybody," Steven Armstrong, head of Ford Motor Co.'s European operations, said Tuesday in a Bloomberg Television story at the Geneva International Motor Show. "Any form of tariff is going to be bad news for us and lift our costs, and we're going to pass that through, probably to the consumer."
Big automakers such as Volkswagen AG and Toyota Motor Corp., smaller manufacturers such as Volvo Cars and PSA Group and even a group representing American auto dealers echoed the sentiment in the wake of a tit-for-tat between Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. The comments suggest the auto industry could form a unified front after the president tweeted he could slap levies on BMWs, Audis and other cars shipped from Europe if the U.S.'s planned tariffs on imported steel and aluminum are met with retaliation.
The war of words adds to uncertainty for the auto industry already dealing with disruption stemming from volatile political environments, the decline of diesel and the advent of self-driving technology.
"The world is already chaos, so a little bit more, a little bit less, it's already chaos," Carlos Tavares, CEO of PSA Group, the maker of Peugeot, Citroen and Opel vehicles, said in an interview in Geneva. "It's better that we have an open world where we can trade peacefully."
Trump tweeted over the weekend that European cars "freely pour" into the U.S. and have created a "big trade imbalance." But with more and more German cars made in America, the nation's deficit with Europe's largest economy narrowed to about 64,000 vehicles last year.
Volvo Cars CEO Hakan Samuelsson said that tariffs could affect the carmaker's plans to export from a plant it's building in South Carolina, where half of the 4,000 projected jobs are tied to shipping S60 sedans and XC90 crossovers to overseas markets.
The industry's future reads like a science-fiction novel
Visions and timetables vary, but it's expected that a dozen years from now, the auto business will be like a third cousin to the one we have today. Every automaker, supplier and dealership on the planet is working with a strategic Ouija board to construe the future, to itemize and organize for the radically reconstituted industry nearly everyone agrees will form between now and roughly 2030.
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'No winner'
"There's no winner in any trade war," Didier Leroy, executive vice president at Toyota, said in an interview in Geneva. "The risk is for the end customer, who'll feel the financial impact because he'll probably pay more."
The steel and aluminum tariffs Trump announced last week touched off a firestorm that could compromise negotiations to rework NAFTA. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said time is running out to redo the accord as Canada and Mexico pushed back against the levies that the president hasn't yet finalized.
"I think the American government knows that in the past we had agreements like NAFTA that shouldn't just be destroyed on a whim," Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller said. "We all put our efforts into globalization in the past decades, and I think we shouldn't give up that idea so easily."
Combined, German car factories in the U.S. produced 804,000 vehicles last year, with 430,000 of those exported outside the country. The number of German cars imported into the U.S. has slid about 20 percent since 2014, to 494,000 vehicles, the VDA said.
GM's exit
Trump's beef likely stems from the lack of U.S. automakers in Europe. While Ford is among the top mass-market brands in the region, General Motors sold its German unit last year after trying and failing to establish the Chevrolet nameplate in Europe. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles sells Jeep vehicles in the region, but Dodge and Chrysler models are rarities because of the region's preference for smaller cars.
German automakers have been pursuing U.S. expansion for years. Since 2013, brands like Mercedes, VW and BMW have added 5,700 jobs, increasing U.S. staffing to 36,500 people, according to the VDA. BMW's largest facility in the world is in Spartanburg, S.C., which makes crossovers including the X3 for customers in Germany and elsewhere, while Volkswagen is expanding production in Chattanooga.
"We are advocates of free trade and hope that's how it plays out," said Ford's Armstrong.
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