ACROPOLIS KLIMOS Generating Capacity for the Sustainability Transition

Year 2: Looking back

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KLIMOS workshop, Brussels 19/04/16

Belgian

Development

Cooperation

Partners in the

South

NGOs

BTC

Multi-

lateral

negotia-

tions CGIAR

Own

attachés

in the

south

Ministries

Local

NGOs

Local

univer-

sities

Local

commu-

nities

Environment

Sustainable Development

Agriculture

Health

Education

Belgian Aid

Policy:

InfrastructureInfrastructure

KLIMOS

Research outputs- Knowledge base

- A-papers

- Conf. presentations

- PhDs, MScs, BScs

- Policy briefs

- Helpdesk

- Training

- Outscaling

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Coordinator

+ Core team

Sustainable Energy

& Infrastructure

Sustainable

Natural

Resource

Management

KaHo St

LievenKU

Leuven

UCL

UA

+ Core team

Environmental/

Sustainability

Monitoring &

Evaluation

Governance for

Environment &

Sustainability

UGent

ULBVUB

UCL

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The KLIMOS TeamCoordinator: Prof. Bart Muys, KULeuven

Academic stakeholders:

• KAHO-KULeuven: Prof. Alexis Versele, ir. Koen Claes, ir. Sabien Windels

• KULeuven: Prof. Jos Van Orshoven, Prof. Miet Maertens, Prof. Ben Somers, Prof. Jan Wouters

• UA: Prof. Aviel Verbruggen

• UCL: Prof. Marnik Van Clooster

• UGent: Prof. Thomas Block, Prof. Patrick Van Damme• UGent: Prof. Thomas Block, Prof. Patrick Van Damme

• ULB: Prof. Edwin Zaccaï, Prof. Wouter Achten

• VUB: Prof. Nico Koedam, Dr. Karolien van Puyvelde

Research fellows:

• Jean Hugé (UGent, UA) …. (ULB)

• Samuel Lietaer, Marine Lugen & Romain Weikmans (ULB)

• Axel Marx (KULeuven) … Emilie Bécault (KU Leuven)

• Bruno Verbist (KULeuven)

• Tom Waas (UGent, UA) …. (UGent)4

Environment: Is there a problem?

Planetary boundaries

Rockström et al. (2009)

Nature 461 A safe operating

space for humanity.

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Outputs year 2

• 12 A1 articles, 1 conference papers, 2 working papers, 8 book chapters, 2 policy briefs

• Organisation of 4 KLIMOS seminars at DGD

• Further continuation of KLIMOS case studies in DRC, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda

• Fund raising activities for new case studies in Belgian partner countries, and where possible in collaboration with BTC and DGD (successful for Vietnam, DRC and Burkina Faso)

• A 2-day training workshop for DGD about “Ecosystem services, biodiversity and reward mechanisms” in collaboration with CeBIOS/RBINS

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12 A-1 papers• Hugé, J., Mukherjee, N., Fertel, C., Waaub, J-P., Block, T., Waas, T., Koedam, N. and Dahdouh-Guebas, F. (2015).

Conceptualizing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Assessment in Development Cooperation. Sustainability. 7(5), pp. 5735-5751.

• Benitez-Capistros, F., Hugé, J., Dahdouh-Guebas, F. & Koedam, N. 2016. Exploring conservation discourses in the Galapagos Islands: a case study of the Galapagos giant tortoises. AMBIO http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-016-0774-9

• Van der Stocken, T., Hugé, J., Deboelpaep, E., Vanhove, M. P.M., Janssens de Bisthoven, L. & Koedam, N. 2015. Academic capacity building: holding up a mirror. Scientometrics http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-015-1811-3

• Huq, N., Hugé, J., Boon, E. & Gain, A.K. 2015. Climate change impacts in agricultural communities in rural areas of coastal Bangladesh: a tale of many stories. Sustainability 7: 8437-8460. http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/7/8437/htm

• Hawinkel, P., Swinnen, E., Lhermitte, S. J., Verbist, B., Van Orshoven, J., Muys, B A time series processing tool to • Hawinkel, P., Swinnen, E., Lhermitte, S. J., Verbist, B., Van Orshoven, J., Muys, B A time series processing tool to extract climate-driven interannual vegetation dynamics using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) Remote sensing of Environment (accepted).

• Soto, I.,Achten, W., Muys, B., & Mathijs, E. (2015). Who benefits from energy policy incentives? The case of Jatrophaadoption by smallholders in Mexico. Energy policy, 79, pp. 37-47.

• Achten, W., Muys, B., Mathijs, E., & Vantomme, P. (2014). Opportunities and constraints of promoting new tree crops - lessons learned from Jatropha. Sustainability, 6 (6), pp. 3213-3231.

• Almeida, J., Moonen, P., Soto, I., Achten, W., & Muys, B. (2014). Effect of yield and farming system in the life cycle assessment of Jatropha-based bioenergy in Mali. Energy Sustainable Development, 23, pp. 258-265.

• Marx, A. & J. Wouters (accepted) Is Everybody on Board? Voluntary Sustainability Standards and Green Restructuring, in, Development, the Quarterly Journal of the Society for International Development.

• Van Kerckhoven, S., Bécault, E. & A. Marx (2015) Ecological tax reform initiatives in Africa, in, International Journal of Green Economics, 9, 1, pp.58 - 76

• D’Hollander, D. & A. Marx (2014) ‘Strengthening Private Certification Systems through Public Regulation: The Case Of Sustainable Public Procurement’, in, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 5, 1, pp. 2-22 (awarded as the 2014 Outstanding Paper of the Journal)

• Marx, A. (2014) ‘Legitimacy, Institutional Design and Dispute Settlement. The Case of Eco-certification systems’, in, Globalizations, 11, 3, pp. 401-416 0.63 (Reprinted in Bexell, M. (2015)(ed.) Global Governance, Legitimacy and Legitimation. London: Routledge). 7

Working & Conference papersWorking papers

• Lugen M. (2016). The role of climate services for adaptation to climate change in developing countries, with a case study from South Africa. KLIMOS working paper 10, KLIMOS, Belgium

• Weikmans R. (2015). The Climate Finance Transparency Gap -Implications for the Belgian Development Co-operation. KLIMOS working paper 9, KLIMOS, Belgium

Conference papers

• Hugé, J., & Waas, T., 2015. Sustainability science in practice: discourse and action in a university-wide transition initiative. In: Nesbit, S. & Froese, T. M. (Eds.) 2015. Proceedings of EESD15: The 7th Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. June 9-12. https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/53822

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Books & Book chaptersBook(s) & Book chapters

• R. Weikmans, « Le rôle de la coopération au développement dans le financement international de

l’adaptation au changement climatique », in Zacharie, A. (Ed.), La nouvelle géographie du développement.

Coopérer dans un monde en mutation, La Muette, Bruxelles, à paraître au printemps 2016

• Zaccai E. & Lugen M. (2016), « Common but differentiated responsibilities against the realities of climate

change », Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie Philosophy, in Law, and the Environmental Crisis,ed. by

Alain Papaux and Simone Zurbuchen

• Hugé, J. & Waas, T. 2016 in press. Sustainability Science in practice: discourse and practice in a university-

wide transition initiative. In: “New Developments in Engineering Education for Sustainable Development",

edited by Filho, W. & Nesbit, S (publication in process). World Sustainability Series. edited by Filho, W. & Nesbit, S (publication in process). World Sustainability Series.

http://www.springer.com/series/13384?detailsPage=titles

• Waas T., Hugé J. & Verbruggen A. 2015. Navigating Towards Sustainability: Essential Aspects of

Assessment and Indicators. In: Kopnina H. & Ouimet E. 2015. Sustainability: Key Issues, Routledge. Oxford,

United Kingdom.

• Wouters, J, Marx, A., Natens, B. & D. Geraets (eds.)(2015) Global Governance Through Trade. Cheltenham:

Edward Elgar

• Wouters, J., Marx, A., Geraets, D. & B. Natens (2015) ‘Conclusion: Possibilities and Limitations of

Governing Through Trade’, in, Wouters, J, Marx, A., Geraets, D. & B. Natens (eds.) Global Governance

Through Trade. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

• Marx, A., Wouters, J., Natens, B. & D. Geraets (2015) ‘Non-traditional Global Governance: The Case of

Governing Through Trade’, in Wouters, J, Marx, A., Geraets, D. & B. Natens (eds.) Global Governance

Through Trade. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

• Marx, A. & J. Wouters (2015) ‘Competition and Cooperation in the Market of Voluntary Standards

Sustainability Standards’, in Delimatsis, P. (ed.) International standardization – Law, Economics and

Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Reports

Reports

• Marx, A., Sharma, A. & E. Bécault (2015)

Voluntary Sustainability Standards: An

Overview. Report prepared for the KLIMOS Overview. Report prepared for the KLIMOS

research platform (VLIR-UOS – Ministry of

Foreign Affairs)

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4 Seminars1. “After COP 21: which implications for the South?” Brussels, DGD, 4 Februari 2016

“Accord de Paris – Un tournant dans la lutte contre le changement climatique“ by Etienne Hannon (Lecturer – ULB and Advisor for SPF Environment – Climate Change Unit (Belgium)

“De internationale klimaatonderhandelingen na COP 21 en de (financiële) gevolgen voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking” by Jos Buys (Directorate-General for Development Cooperation; Member of the Green Climate Fund Board):

“Analysis of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC’s) : what to expect from implementation ? A focus on some Belgian partner countries “ by Prof. Edwin Zaccai (Head of the Centre for Sustainable Development CEDD-ULB) and Marine Lugen (Asp. FNRS at the Centre for Sustainable Development CEDD-ULB)

2. Third Pre-Paris KLIMOS Climate Change Seminar - Forest, Energy and Climate change Brussels, DGD, 13 November 20152015

"Status of REDD + in the climate negotiations" by Kelly Hertenweg (Federal Public Service of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment)

"Impact of FLEGT and REDD + in tropical forest and its importance for climate change mitigation" by Christoph van Orshoven (European Forestry Institute, EFI)

"Energy and climate change mitigation: Can COP21 ever become a success?" By Prof. Aviel Verbruggen (University of Antwerp)

3. Second Pre-Paris KLIMOS Climate Change Seminar, Brussels, DGD, 13 October 2015

Stand van zaken onderhandelingen COP21 door Ulrik Lenaerts, FOD Buitenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking

Loss & Damage in the Climate Change negotiations door Geert Fremout , FOD Buitenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking

“Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change Adaptation. From institutional « silos » to a progressive convergence?”par Christophe Buffet, ULB & Centre Koyré (EHESS/CNRS)

4. Environmental impacts of biofuel projects, How to analyze/evaluate? By Prof. Wouter Achten, ULB, 4 May 2015 at DGD followed by How To Analyse the Environmental Impacts of Biomass Project ? Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) for Community-based Biomass Energy in Burundi, by L. Nkunzimana

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Policy support

Demand for academic services Delivered output

Review of planned Renewable Energy

interventions in Rwanda (bio-energy) by

BTC

Technical suggestions on the conversion

technology to make charcoal.

Suggestions regarding agroforestry.

Training for civil servants of DGD on Two-day training workshop in November

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Training for civil servants of DGD on

“Ecosystem services, biodiversity and

reward mechanisms”

Two-day training workshop in November

2015 at DGD in collaboration with

CeBIOS

Review indicators for Agenda 2030: Report

of the Committee of Experts on

Environmental Economic Accounting

Written feedback on the document in

collaboration with Cebios.

Review Draft Medium Term Strategy 2018-

2021

Written feedback on the document.

Proposal development

Successful

• A VLIR-UOS TEAM project : Water management and urban development in relation to climate change in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam, (WAMADE) collaboration with Vietnam National University Hanoi, BTC, ... (Bruno, Ben, Marnik, Patrick, Alexis, ...)

• The VLIR-UOS South Initiative : Intégration des données spatio-temporelles et connaissances en systèmes d’exploitations agro-silvo-pastorales pour améliorer la sécurité alimentaire et énergétique des populations actuelles et futures au Burundi en collaboration avec UB, ISABU …. But planned operations at the fieldBurundi en collaboration avec UB, ISABU …. But planned operations at the fieldsites could not be carried out (JvO & BV)

• A VLIR-UOS CO2 compensation proposal was written by KLIMOS (Bruno & Bart). The implementation will be carried out by Mekelle University, Trees for Farmers and Bos+ in Tigray, Ethiopia. KLIMOS will provide scientific backstopping

• Enhancing REDD+, FLEGT and Sustainable Forest Management interactions (ERFS) for bilateral cooperation between University of Hamburg - SURF and partner institutions in Suriname, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture; KLIMOS is member of SURF) started in September 2015 (Bart & Bruno)

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Unsuccesful proposals

• “SILVicultural and AGRicultural systems’ resilience Assessment in Tshopo district, Orientale province, DRC” SILVAGRA” to the BELSPO: BRAIN-call “Assess The Effects Of Human Consumption And Production Patterns On Sub-Saharan Africa Ecosystem Health Patterns On Sub-Saharan Africa Ecosystem Health (KULeuven, RMCA-Tervuren, Botanic Garden Meise & ULiège Gembloux, ERAIFT, UNIKIS) (Bruno)

• A proposal EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Actions European Training Network REFLEX “Reflexive Governance applied to REDD+ & FLEGT “Training proposal Deadline 10/1/2015 with activities in DRC and Ghana (Bart, Ben & Bruno)

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Pending proposals

• EU-proposal Transformative Knowledge Network

on Sustainable Global Market Transitions

(TranSuMa) to the International Social Science

Council - ISSC Transformations to Sustainability

Programme (Axel Marx)Programme (Axel Marx)

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Thanks for your attention

• Questions?

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