Sustainability and Climate Action: Addressing Knowledge and Training Gaps to Facilite Synergies

The School of Sustainability hosted Jose Lobo as part of a series of research seminars that bring together faculty and students engaged in sustainability research to present and discuss their work.
The question is no longer if we can halt global warming at 1.5°C but how large the overshoot will be and for how long we will be in an overshoot phase. Adapting to the consequences of climate change is a now a pressing task in many parts of the world and the urgency of adaptation will grow as the frequency and severity of the consequences of climate change increase. As concentrators of population and human activities, cities worldwide are at the forefront of experiencing the effects of climate change---marginalized, poor, politically underrepresented and historically excluded urban populations are at great risk. Achieving sustainable urban development necessitates urban adaptation to climate change. In the Global South, where the process of urbanization is still unfolding and where urbanization needs to continue its historic role as a driver of socioeconomic development, cities present both a major challenge as well as an opportunity for focusing on climate and development synergies. Realizing the possible synergies will require knowledge and training gaps to be addressed. In this talk (intended to spark vigorous dialogue) I will highlight some of the gaps and their implications for the School of Sustainability in particular and Sustainability academia more generally. I will also describe an incipient effort to bring the insights about and experiences in building resilient communities accumulated by informal urban communities ("slums") into the emerging global discussion on tackling climate and SDG action together.
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