Food-Water-Energy Nexus Workshop

Newnham College, Cambridge, UK

26th of June 2018, 09.00 – 19.00 hrs.

9:00 – 9:30 Registration.

9:30 – 10:40 Introduction to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus and the BRIDGE Project 

• 09:30 – 09:40 - Dr Pablo Salas, C-EENRG, University of Cambridge.
  Welcome message and introduction to the BRIDGE project.

• 09:40 – 10:00 - Dr Jean-Francois Mercure, Radboud University, Netherlands.
  Overview of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus science.

• 10:00 – 10:20 - Prof Baltazar Andrade Guerra, UNISUL, Brazil.
  The Brazilian Nexus, stakeholder engagement and pilot action projects.

• 10:20 – 10:40 - Eliot Whittington, CISL, University of Cambridge.
  Introduction to the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15 Assessing Nexus complexities throughout policy analysis and sectoral modelling 

• 11:00 – 11:25 - Dr Maria Augusta Paim, C-EENRG, University of Cambridge.
  Hydrological risk in Brazil and diversification of the electricity mix.

• 11:25 – 11:50 - Dr Neil Edwards, Open University.
  Climate and biodiversity modelling in South America.

• 11:50 – 12:15 - Dr Soeren Lindner, Radboud University, Netherlands.
  Modelling land use change with FTT: Agriculture.

12:15 – 13:20 Lunch

13:20 – 15:20 Food security in a complex Nexus network

• 13:20 – 13:50 - Prof Howard Griffiths, Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
  The challenge of an evergreen revolution.

• 13:50 – 14:20 - Dr Luiz Alberto da Cunha Bustamante, Queen Mary University of London.
  The new Brazilian biofuels policy: RenovaBio.

• 14:20 – 14:50 - Dr. Celso Lopes de Albuquerque Junior, João Marcelo Pereira Ribeiro, UNISUL, Brazil.
  Food stability, urban agriculture practices as initiatives for mitigation and adaptation to climate change and BRIDGE's pilot module.

• 14:50 – 15:20 - Issa Ibrahim Berchin, UNISUL, Brazil.
  Education for sustainable development and the WEF Nexus: a Sustainable Development Goals’ perspective.

15:20 – 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 – 17:40 Nexus networks and stakeholders beyond academia. Linking the Food-Water-Energy Network and sustainable development 

• 15:40 – 16:10 - Claudio Bacigalupi, European Commission Directorate for Development Cooperation.
  The NEXUS approach as a way to address water efficiency in development actions.

• 16:10 – 16:40 - Dr Gemma Cranston, CISL, University of Cambridge.
  The Nexus Network.

• 16:40 – 17:10 - Secretary Pedro Tiê Cândido Souza, Embassy of Brazil in London.
  The integrated approach to sustainable development: the Brazilian experience.

• 17.10 – 17.40 - Benny Dembitzer, Managing Director of Grassroots Africa.
  The Death of Empathy.

17:40 – 18:00 Closing remarks