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Conference | Symposium

LUGO Sustainability Day

Date
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Time
Address
Academy Building
Rapenburg 73
2311 GJ Leiden

Can't make it to the event?

The keynote by Jan Willem Erisman and the climate and justice talk by Shivant Jhagroe will be live streamed on this page.

The planetary boundaries concept defines the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate, that is, the Earth System processes that set safe boundaries for human activities.

Of the original nine proposed boundaries, as of April 2022, we have crossed six. NOT GOOD NEWS. Crossing these boundaries increases the risk of generating large-scale abrupt or irreversible environmental changes.

The theme for this year's big Sustainability Day event will tackle these boundaries, and what it means that we've crossed them. The keynote speech will be held by Jan Willem Erisman. 

After the programme has ended, everyone is invited for drinks and snacks at the LUGO office and terrace at Rapenburg 38.

Programme

 
Remember to register, especially for the events with a maximum number of available places for participants (first-come, first-serve).

 
Theme: The Planetary Boundaries

Runs: 14:00 - 18:00

14:00 - 14:45 

  • Opening by Annetje Ottow (President of the Leiden University Executive Board). Location: Telders Auditorium, Academy Building.
  • Keynote by Jan Willem Erisman (professor at CML, Chair of the Dutch Scientific Climate Council) on the 9 planetary boundaries. Location: Telders Auditorium, Academy Building.

14:45

Symposium opens (closes at 17:45). Location: Faculty Club Restaurant. (If you're waiting inbetween activities, why not take a look?).

14:45

Case study on ecosystem restoration: Loess Plateau (closes at 17:45).  (Biosphere integrity boundary). Location: Faculty Club Restaurant. (If you're waiting inbetween activities, why not take a look?).

15:00 - 15:30

  • Climate and justice talk with Shivant Jhagroe. (Covered: climate change boundary). Location: Telders Auditorium, Academy Building.
  • Moderated discussion on the ethics of pollutants with Wouter Kalf. (Covered: Novel entities boundary). Location: Faculty Club (room nr tba).

  
If interested, remember to register! Maximum amount of participants is 10.

15:00 - 16:00

Nitrogenous game: optimal policy solution game, with Berent Baris (Covered: Biogeochemical flows boundary). Location: Faculty Club (room nr tba).


If interested, remember to register! Maximum amount of participants is 14. Required: bring a laptop to this event.

15:35 - 16:45

Workshop: Land use change trade-off modelling with Nynke Schulp. (Covered: Land system change boundary). Location: Faculty Club (room nr tba).

Required: bring a laptop to this event.

 
Registration for this workshop is closed.

15:40 - 17:00

Montreal protocol negotiation simulation. Activity lead: the Young Diplomat. (Covered: Stratospheric ozone depletion boundary). Location: Faculty Club (room nr tba).


If interested, remember to register! Maximum amount of participants is 18.

16:00 - 16:30
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16:30 - 17:00

Screening of Acid Test documentary. (Covered: Ocean acidification boundary). Location: Telders Auditorium, Academy Building.

16:15 - 17:00

Visualisation challenge: Looking to space – Aerosol particle impact (collective collage-making, guided). (Covered: Atmospheric aerosol loading boundary). Location: Faculty Club (room nr tba).


If interested, remember to register! Maximum amount of participants is 14.

16:45 - 17:30

Poetry workshop by LUGO. Theme: bodies of water. (Covered: Freshwater use boundary). Location: Faculty Club (room nr tba). 


If interested, remember to register! Maximum amount of participants is 10.

17:30 - 18:00

Closing and award ceremony for ‘Beyond the Safe Space: Spring Podcast Competition’.

Join us for drinks and snacks afterwards

After 18.00 all attendees (and everyone else!) are invited to join the LUGO team and its volunteers for free drinks and snacks across at the LUGO office and terrace across the road (Rapenburg 38). We also have a clothes swap, as well as books and trinkets.

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