NEWS

SSCP KAN represented in Future Earth Assembly

Future Earth is making a bold shift to become a more inclusive, accessible, transparent, and transformative organization. Each entity of the Future Earth Community is allotted seats to an Assembly that will set priorities, strategic directions for Future Earth.  Through a voting process by the Steering Committee and the Management Team, Charlotte Jensen and Maurie Cohen have been selected to represent the SSCP KAN and both will attend the Assembly’s First Meeting on September 29-30, 2021.

Grappling with the Question of Sustainable Consumption in the Global South, A 3-part Webinar Series

September 15th, 22nd; and 28th (Time: 1:00PM to 2:30PM UTC; 6:30PM to 8:00PM India)

The Political Economy WG is organizing an exciting 3-part webinar series focusing on sustainable consumption and equity.  This is expected to generate provocative conversations addressing concerns of the Global South and galvanizing the Global North. These webinars are part of a pitch by Future Earth to contribute to Stockholm+50, a UN High Level meeting in 2022.  Find out more about this event on our website and flyer!

RECAP 

Showcasing and Agenda Setting Workshop March 3, 2021

The March 3 event was a great opportunity for new SC members and KAN members to be updated about accomplishments and plans of 5 WGs. Some highlights: Most WGs reported publication of joint papers, book chapters and development of project proposals for funding.  The PE, CE and Social Change WGs have organized numerous webinars on their respective themes. Some action-oriented activities included development of policy briefs (PE WG), engaging EU Commissioner in developing curriculum for CE (CE WG) and empowering youth for global eco-leadership (CoCo WG).  A prospectus for integrating a communications perspective in projects is being proposed by CoCo WG, a case study protocol is being developed by Cities WG and teaching methodologies are being explored by Social Change WG.

Some ideas for future directions were also shared: developing KAN-wide policy briefs, joint grant applications, reaching out to practitioners and using justice and equity as a shared theme. Finally, WGs were keen on exploring linkages between the groups and with the whole KAN.  For a more detailed recap, live notes and SC sign-ups to WGs can be found HERE.

 UPDATE

#action slack channel created for conversations about how to do more of the A (action) in the KAN

Vibrant exchanges in this channel led to a LIVE GOOGLE DOCUMENT containing a review of SSCP KAN’s Research and Engagement Plan, a listing of past and ongoing action initiatives, ideas for future actions and a proposed framework/model for the KAN’s approach to action-oriented activities.   A call was organized on April 16, 2021 to sift through the ideas and proposals. A summary of the discussions and a listing of more than a dozen action-oriented ideas from the channel can be found HERE.

Recent Publications from SSCP KAN

Guillen Mandujano G., Vergragt P., Fischer D. (2021) Communicating Sustainable Consumption. In: Weder F., Krainer L., Karmasin M. (eds) The Sustainability Communication Reader. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Joseph Sarkis, Paul Dewick, Joerg S. Hofstetter, Patrick Schröder, Changing of the guard: A paradigm shift for more sustainable supply chains, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Volume 170, 2021, 105587.

Daniel Fischer, Julia-Lena Reinermann, Georgina Guillen Mandujano, C. Tyler DesRoches, Sonali Diddi, Philip J. Vergragt, Sustainable consumption communication: A review of an emerging field of research, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 300, 2021, 126880.

Recent Publications on SCP from Our Partner Journal—Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy

The open access Taylor & Francis journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy regularly publishes work on sustainable consumption and production. Below is a sample of articles that have appeared over the past few months and may be of interest to affiliates of the SSCP KAN. For further information, refer to the SSPP website.

Ulrich Brand, Barbara Muraca, Éric Pineault, Marlyne Sahakian, Anke Schaffartzik, Andreas Novy, Christoph Streissler, Helmut Haberl, Viviana Asara, Kristina Dietz, Miriam Lang, Ashish Kothari, Tone Smith, Clive Spash, Alina Brad, Melanie Pichler, Christina Plank, Giorgos Velegrakis, Thomas Jahn, Angela Carter, Qingzhi Huan, Giorgos Kallis, Joan Martínez Alier, Gabriel Riva, Vishwas Satgar, Emiliano Teran Mantovani, Michelle Williams, Markus Wissen & Christoph Görg (2021) From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 17:1, 265-292

Åsa Callmer & Karin Bradley (2021) In search of sufficiency politics: the case of Sweden, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 17:1, 195-209 

Upcoming SSCP KAN Activities

• Sep 8-10, 2021: Session at ERSCP on SCP for Social Change: Sharing methods, from the real-world to the classroom
• Sep 15, 22, 28: Webinar: Grappling with the Question of Sustainable Consumption in the Global South
• Sep 29, 30 Future Earth First Assembly Meeting

*About News Xchange

This news Xchange will be regularly published in order to share information about the WG and KAN initiatives.  We hope that this can facilitate interaction and synergy among WGs and stimulate more activities of the KAN. WGs and SC members are invited to share calls for joint research, announcements of KAN events, info on publications by KAN members, and other news/activities of SSCP KAN and Future Earth. The frequency will depend on the availability of content, but we aim for a quarterly newsletter. Content should be sent to masami.oka@futureearth.org.