BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aa516fc12648acb6d6fb50e856704687 DTSTAMP:20260607T231330Z SUMMARY:ELI-T: Policies and politics of (agro)ecological transitions: evide nce from Latin America and Africa DESCRIPTION:On June 18\, the Earth and Life Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. Carolina Milhorance for a new ELI-Sustainability Talk. \; \;& nbsp\;AbstractEcological and food systems transitions have become central to global policy agendas\, yet progress remains uneven\, contested\, and a t times reversed. Recent years have made clear that ambitious policy frame works and increasingly elaborate policy mixes can coexist with persistent implementation gaps\, and that hard-won socio-environmental gains can be a ctively dismantled under shifting political coalitions.This seminar argues that such trajectories cannot be understood as coordination problems to b e solved through better institutional design. Transitions are inherently p olitical processes — complex\, contested\, and shaped by coalition dynam ics\, institutional legacies\, and asymmetries in resource access. \;D rawing on research in Brazil\, with comparative perspectives from other La tin American countries and from Southern and West Africa\, the seminar pro poses a relational and context-dependent perspective on the politics throu gh which transition pathways are built\, blocked\, or unmade.Through cases of climate\, water\, and land use governance\, three threads run across t he discussion: how transition policies are built — often gaining authori ty through situated practices rather than formal design\; how their politi cization can take troubling forms\, including polarization\, active disman tling\, and democratic backsliding\; and what enables some policies\, tran sition pathways\, and democratic institutions to prove resilient under pre ssure\, while others give way. \;The guestDr. Carolina Milhorance is a Political Science Researcher at the Center for International Development and Agricultural Research (CIRAD)\, Environment and Societies Department ( ES\, Art-Dev Research Unit)\, and the University of Montpellier. \;Car olina Milhorance has participated in several research and consultancy proj ects in Latin America\, Southern and West Africa. Building on political so ciology\, network analysis\, and extensive field research\, her work focus es on topics such as climate policy\, environmental governance and conflic ts\, food and nutritional security\, south-south cooperation\, internation al organizations and soft norms\, policy transfer and diffusion\, and cros s-sectoral policy challenges. \;She is the author of the book « New G eographies of Global Policy-Making: South-South Networks and Rural Develop ment Strategies »\, Routledge. \;PracticalThis seminar will be held o n June 18 from 14:30 to 15:30 in Ocean room (de Serres building\, Place Cr oix du Sud 2\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, Belgium).Registration for the talk is ap preciated but not required. Registration form.The seminar is free and open to everyone.The seminar can also be attended online. Follow online here: TEAMS link. URL:https://www.uclouvain.be/en/calendar/eli DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260618T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260618T153000 LOCATION:Ocean room (B.002) 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:abf278728eedbe2aa9e3f167401de098 DTSTAMP:20260607T231330Z SUMMARY:How can agriculture contribute to EU climate targets? DESCRIPTION:Prof. Alan Matthews (University of Dublin Trinity College\, Ire land) will give this seminar\, organized by the ELI-A department. \;Ab stract \;This talk examines how agriculture can contribute to achievin g the EU’s climate targets\, taking account of the sector’s distinctiv e emissions profile. \;Agricultural emissions are dominated by methane and nitrous oxide from biological processes\, which are diffuse\, heterog eneous\, and difficult to measure with precision. These characteristics co mplicate both mitigation and policy design\, and help explain why emission s reductions have been modest to date\, with projections suggesting only l imited further declines under current policies.The discussion distinguishe s between technical mitigation options\, which remain relatively constrain ed in the short to medium term\, and broader structural changes. While eff iciency gains and improved management can reduce emissions intensity\, dee per reductions will require changes in production systems and land use\, a longside shifts in consumption patterns\, particularly dietary change.&nbs p\;The EU’s evolving climate policy architecture\, including targets for 2030\, 2040 and climate neutrality by 2050\, implies the persistence of r esidual agricultural emissions that must be balanced by removals.The talk also assesses the role of existing policy instruments\, notably the Common Agricultural Policy\, where incentives for mitigation remain limited. It reviews recent proposals\, including by the European Scientific Advisory B oard for Climate Change\, to introduce a pricing mechanism for agricultura l emissions\, highlighting both its potential efficiency benefits but also its technical\, distributional and political challenges. \;Pricing ag ricultural emissions could have a negative impact on competitiveness\, whi ch could justify the introduction of border measures to avoid carbon leaka ge\, but their administration in the context of EU food trade would give r ise to its own set of challenges. \;The conclusion reflects on the pol itical economy constraints that continue to shape the pace and ambition of agricultural climate action in the EU. \;The guestAlan Matthews is Pr ofessor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy at the University of Dubl in Trinity College\, Ireland. \;His research has focused on EU agricul tural policy\, particularly on agricultural trade policy and agricultural trade and development issues\, and more recently in incentivising climate action in agriculture. He served as a member of Ireland’s first Climate Change Advisory Council 2015-2020. \;He is a former President of the E uropean Association of Agricultural Economists and is currently President of the Agricultural Economics Society in the UK in its centenary year in 2 026. \;Currently living in Denmark\, he is a regular contributor to th e blog capreform.eu on issues relating to the EU’s Common Agricultural P olicy. \; URL:https://www.uclouvain.be/en/calendar/eli DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260626T123000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260626T133000 LOCATION:Ocean room (B.002) 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f35b1e5cdc49a3082fe039f690db550c DTSTAMP:20260607T231330Z SUMMARY:Land use\, sustainability\, and democratic backsliding DESCRIPTION:The LUDEMO Team (Patrick Meyfroidt\, Focas Bacar\, Alina Bychko va\, Fairlie Kirkpatrick Baird\, Mégane Pourtois\, Gabriel Soyer) will gi ve this seminar\, organized by the ELI-C department. \;AbstractLand us e and land systems\, i.e. how human societies manage and interact with lan d through social-ecological systems\, are at the core of sustainability is sues. \;Democratic backsliding\, i.e. the decline or degradation of th e institutions and social norms that sustain democratic societies\, is a w idespread and impactful trend\, with strong but understudied two-ways link ages with land use dynamics. \;In this talk\, we present the ERC LUDEM O project\, which aims to assess and explain the linkages between these is sues. \;We will first present the general context of democratic backsl iding and what we know about its linkages with land use dynamics and susta inability issues. \;We will then present the work already done and in progress on the three focal cases of reactionary forces and agrarianism in Europe’s consolidated rural areas\, extractive populism in Canada’s N orthern frontiers\, and agrarian authoritarianism in Mozambique’s smallh older landscapes\, as well as on analyzing discourses linking these issues \, and cross-country econometric studies. \; URL:https://www.uclouvain.be/en/calendar/eli DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260609T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260609T140000 LOCATION:Mercator 12 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d939e87cb3d0ed05d85915590ab291a6 DTSTAMP:20260607T231330Z SUMMARY:Eddies ‘hiding’ under Antarctic sea ice: what can we learn from high resolution models? DESCRIPTION:Stephy Libera will give this seminar\, organized by the ELI-C d epartment. \;Abstract \;Like the storms in the atmosphere\, there are many swirling eddies in the ocean that last from weeks to months\, tra nsporting heat and nutrients across regions of strong gradients. \;In the Southern Ocean\, mesoscale eddies play a key role\, linking the local dynamics to the global overturning circulation\, a major pathway of anthro pogenic carbon and heat sink. How these eddies behave under the sea ice co ver is less well known. \;Using new high-resolution atmosphere-ocean c oupled Earth System Models from the Horizon Europe project European Eddy-R ich Earth System Models (EERIE) we explore the world of mesoscale eddies\, and how they impact the sea ice and the atmosphere. \; URL:https://www.uclouvain.be/en/calendar/eli DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260623T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260623T140000 LOCATION:Mercator 12 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9e32b783484e6885b141dd64de0e9494 DTSTAMP:20260607T231330Z SUMMARY:Mechanisms of Devonian ocean anoxic events: insights from Earth sys tem modelling DESCRIPTION:Public thesis defense of Justin Gérard: "Mechanisms of Devonia n ocean anoxic events: insights from Earth system modelling" \;Summary Recurrent events of severe ocean deoxygenation during the Devonian Period represent major disruptions of the marine environment\, yet many mysteries still surround them. \;To address specific aspects of these events\, we use the Earth system model of intermediate complexity cGENIE to investi gate the controls on ocean oxygenation through a series of targeted numeri cal experiments. \;Our results highlight the dominant role of continen tal configuration in shaping ocean circulation and modulating the response of oxygenation to other environmental and climatic forcings. \;We fur ther show that astronomical forcing can strongly influence ocean oxygen th rough its control on continental nutrient weathering fluxes and biological productivity\, producing substantial spatially contrasted responses\, and intervals of eccentricity maxima associated with increased anoxia. \; Finally\, model–data comparisons for the Kellwasser events indicate that increased nutrient availability can adequately reproduce the extent and s eafloor fraction of anoxia\, providing quantitative benchmarks against whi ch different mechanisms and hypotheses can be tested. \;Jury membersPr of. Michel Crucifix (UCLouvain) (Supervisor)Prof. Anne-Christine Da Silva (ULiège) (Supervisor)Prof. Qiuzhen Yin (UCLouvain) (President)Prof. Hugue s Goosse (UCLouvain) (Secretary)Dr. Alexandre Pohl (Biogéosciences Dijon) Prof. Georg Feulner (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)Dr. Pam Vervoort (University of Birmingham) \; \; URL:https://www.uclouvain.be/en/calendar/eli DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260619T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260619T170000 LOCATION:SUD11 auditorium 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8343c50a174488c52340a4e7835457e5 DTSTAMP:20260607T231330Z SUMMARY:Glissements de terrain et érosion ravinante en Afrique centrale DESCRIPTION:Dr. Guy Ilombe Mawe (1)\, Dr. Jean-Claude Maki Mateso (2)\, and Dr. Toussaint Mugaruka Bibentyo (3) will give this seminar\, organized by the ELI-E department. \;(1) Géologue\, Professeur au Département de Géologie et chercheur au Centre d'Informations et de recherche sur les r isques d'origine naturelle (CIRRiNa) à l'Université Officielle de Bukavu (UOB).(2) Géographe\, Professeur au Département d'Environnement à l'Un iversité Officielle de Bukavu (UOB) et Chercheur au Centre de Recherche e n Sciences Naturelles de Lwiro (CRSN/Lwiro).(3) Géologue\, Professeur au Département de Géologie et chercheur au Centre d'Informations et de rech erche sur les risques d'origine naturelle (CIRRiNa) à l'Université Offic ielle de Bukavu (UOB). \;Abstract \;Les glissements de terrain et l’érosion ravinante représentent des aléas géomorphologiques majeurs en Afrique centrale\, particulièrement dans les régions montagneuses du Rift Albertin\, autour des lacs Kivu et Tanganyika et dans plusieurs espa ces urbains de la République démocratique du Congo. \;Au cours de ce séminaire\, nous explorerons comment ces phénomènes résultent d’int eractions complexes entre facteurs naturels\, dynamiques climatiques et pr essions anthropiques croissantes. \;De plus\, nous nous intéresserons à leur impact significatif se traduisant par la destruction des terres a gricoles\, les pertes humaines\, le déplacement des populations\, la dég radation des infrastructures\, l’ensablement des rivières et l’augmen tation de la vulnérabilité socio-économique des populations. URL:https://www.uclouvain.be/en/calendar/eli DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260625T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260625T140000 LOCATION:Ocean room (B.002) 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR