Sumários

Remate/ Closing

17 Dezembro 2022, 11:00 • João Guerra

A última sessão representou a oportunidade de aferir, com os alunos, a pertinência das apresentações anteriores, os métodos de avaliação e, sobretudo, as temáticas que, por falta de tempo e espaço, acabaram por ficar de fora, mas configuram temas importantes para uma reflexão clara e abrangente da sustentabilidade.

Foi, ainda apresentado um filme sobre os incêndios de 2017 que serviram de mote para refletir sobre o conceito de solastalgia.

The politics of the green transition Portuguese Lithium

9 Dezembro 2022, 16:00 • João Guerra

Os oradores convidados (Paul Chakroff e Tim O`Riordan) introduziram a sessão com a apresentação do tema dos elementos de terras-raras (ETR) e materiais críticos (MC), enfatizando a existência de uma incompatibilidade entre as enormes quantidades de ETR e MC atualmente exigidas para a produção da ‘tecnologia verde’, associada à transição para energias renováveis, para o cumprimento do compromisso carbono zero em 20501, nomeadamente para a produção de baterias elétricas para veículos elétricos e para geradores de energias renováveis (solar, eólico, etc). Esta incompatibilidade é agravada pelo curto período temporal no qual as políticas internacionais se propõem fazer a transição integral para fontes de energia renováveis, assumindo-se que as quantidades energética e de equipamentos necessários irá aumentar dada a tendência mundial de desenvolvimento económico e tecnológico sempre crescente.

Destes factos surgiu uma discussão profícua que envolveu todos os estudantes.

Transition: Transformation & Shaping Futures

3 Dezembro 2022, 09:00 • João Guerra

The session was led by Dr. Olivia Bina. During the first part of the session, attendants exposed their own ideas of what needs to change. During the second part, Dr. Bina exposed main theories of transformative change, structuring the lecture on three parts: why we need to change our global system; what we should change; and how to change it.

Two weeks before the session, the attendants were asked to send a picture of something that represented for them the most important “thing” that needed changing. Alongside the image, students were asked to send three words that, in their view, best described what needs changing. The images were presented during the first half of the lecture, and students were invited to explain, in one minute, their choice of words and image.

Transition I - What & How to Change?

25 Novembro 2022, 16:00 • João Guerra

Olivia Bina began by deconstructing the idea that today's society is more like a web or a network, where multiple parameters can interfere with the operation of multiple sections, rather than a machine filled with individual and separate parts. This was a different take on a topic that is commonly mentioned in classes: the role and importance of the environment as supported by society. It is frequently measured or compared to socioeconomic measures, which divides these worlds, but it is rarely seen as a fully integrated and complex system. In fact, the recent concept of balancing our relationship with the environment was highlighted as one of the main issues that has led to a momentum in our behaviour and the “symbols” we carry and stand by, and it is at the root of the resistance in the behaviour change and in the implementation of measures for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Conspiracy and climate change perceptions

19 Novembro 2022, 11:00 • João Guerra

The session´s icebreaker dealt with the concept of climate tipping points, how seriously should we take them into consideration, what is the correlation between tipping points and the reduction of global forecast temperatures, and how to communicate these concepts and communicate them to the public, either through schools and/or policymakers themselves.