Sumários

Apresentação de conceitos, temáticas e metodologias a explorar na disciplina

30 Setembro 2023, 11:00 • João Guerra

A primeira sessão procurou, antes de mais, apresentar a disciplina e seus objetivos, bem como as metodologias a usar nas 13 sessões subsequentes. Globalmente apresentou-se a UC com os seguintes propósitos:

a)     reforçar a identidade interdisciplinar do Programa;

b)    promover o conhecimento mútuo entre docentes e respetivas orientações letivas;

c)     marcar o carácter de saber constituinte (e não saber constituído) do Programa, que procura conhecer, pensar e sugerir modalidades de intervenção diversificadas;

d)    contribuir para uma maior aproximação entre docentes e discentes, salientado o facto de que o Programa é uma obra em construção, aberta ao contributo de todos.

Connecting sustainability to climate change policies

30 Setembro 2023, 09:00 • João Guerra

Positioning the role of climate change in creating tipping points which chaotically disturb the normally stabilising
natural processes of the Earth into wholly unexpected outcomes
• The implications of combinations of tipping points for overwhelming human capacities and actions for reaching
fair and progressive means of achieving sustainability
• The relationships between science and politics in creating the barriers to achieving sustainability science
• The role of sustainability science in higher education and its purpose in this PhD course and in your research
• Implications for your research when incorporating sustainability science into your work

Critical materials for low carbon futures and the challenge of sustainability

22 Setembro 2023, 18:00 • João Guerra

"Today, the data shows a looming mismatch between the world’s strengthened climate ambitions and the availability of critical minerals that are essential to realising those ambitions.“
This session has thus discussed the significance of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) and other Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) for a net zero economy.

The politics of getting to net zero

15 Setembro 2023, 18:00 • João Guerra

The 26th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in Glasgow in Nov 2021. The 27th meeting of the COP was held in Sharm el Sheikh in November 2022. These are critical events for reaching a global commitment to limit the rise of global temperatures to below 2 ⁰C by 2100.  A colossal test for governance which was analized with the Portuguese and the Brazilian cases.