Thursday 21 October 2021 (Day Two)
15:45 – 17:00 CST / 09:45 – 11:00 CEST
Panel Discussion: The Land-Water-Energy-Biodiversity Nexus
Drawing on their expertise, panelists will present their work and address the following questions:
- How can the nexus help us identify robust and comprehensive long-term pathways towards sustainable solutions to jointly meet water, energy, biodiversity and land demands at the regional and global levels?
- What are examples of specific nexus challenges in Asia?
- How can the nexus approach deliver insights and tools that improve cross-sectoral policy-making and support the achievement of the SDGs?
Moderator:
Makoto Taniguchi, Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)
Panelists:
Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Awardee of the 2021 IIASA Strategic Initiatives Program; Research Scholar, Equity and Justice Research Group, Population and Just Societies Program
Junguo Liu, Chair Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China
Woo Kyun Lee, Professor, Environmental Science & Ecological Engineering, Korea University
K.S. Rao, Professor, Department of Botany, University of Delhi
Madjid Abbaspour, Sharif University of Technology, Iran; Head, Board of Iranian Society of Environmentalists (IRSEN); Board member, Sharif Energy Water Environment Institute (SEWEI)
