Urban Institute (Germany)

About Just Transitions to Decarbonisation

Abstract In this interview, Sascha Klaus, Chairman of the Board of Berlin Hyp AG (Germany), reports on the experiences made in the Lockdown 2020 for motivating and managing the staff that started working remotely and provides insights into the future direction of the business strategy as well as office space demands.

Este trabalho objetiva o resgate da memória e cultura da população friburguense através do olhar da paisagem sob o patrimônio residencial de Nova Friburgo, RJ. Tendo em vista a vulnerabilidade dos imóveis residenciais acerca do processo de renovação, atribuído ao desenvolvimento da cidade e a diversidade da arquitetura dado à sua colonização suíça e alemã, e posteriormente acrescida de imigrantes outras nacionalidades, o património da cidade se mostra diversificado e presente, porém pouco preservado. A partir dos conceitos de paisagem abordados por Augustin Berque e Pierce Lewis parte-se de uma ótica de que o patrimônio residencial compreende a base do cotidiano da população e que, por meio do olhar para essas edificações pela da definição de paisagem-marca e paisagem-matriz e os axiomas, dos respectivos autores, entende-se os processos de relação da população e a cidade, além de seu estudo e formação, e cria-se uma abordagem para a preservação desses imóveis. Busca-se trazer à superfície, por meio da habitação, o significado de patrimônio, como algo que foi preservado, não somente pelas questões estéticas mas pelo seu valor imaterial. Para isso, buscou-se criar um material que apresente essas edificações utilizando os guias da paisagem apresentados por Lewis instigando um senso crítico e de análise a respeito das mesmas, a partir de um catálogo dos bens, com foco nas vilas operárias, dispostos por meio de um mapa interativo, que apresenta os imóveis georreferenciados, buscando suprir a lacuna de informação de forma clara e acessível.

Abstract A review of global and national energy research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) investments between 2000 and 2018 reveals that global public energy RD&D and cleaner energy RD&D investments dramatically increased, but then plateaued after 2009. In absolute values, nuclear energy has held steady, fossil energy contracted, and clean energy RD&D quadrupled. As a percentage of overall investments, both fossil fuel and nuclear investments contracted during the period. This review compares the energy innovation priorities of the world's largest economies using the metric of public expenditures on energy RD&D. China and India have become important global public investors in energy innovation, now among the top five globally. Priorities set by the Chinese and Indian governments will thus influence new energy technology breakthroughs in the coming years. The US and Chinese governments are now competing for first place in clean energy RD&D, depending on whether or not nuclear and cross‐cutting technologies are included. India has dedicated substantial funding to indigenizing nuclear power technologies. Energy RD&D by state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in major emerging economies remains skewed toward fossil fuels and nuclear. Reforming SOE expenditures to move away from fossil fuels could have a major impact on global energy technology trajectories, making a material difference in the quest to decarbonize the energy system.This article is categorized under: TheCarbon Economy and Climate Mitigation > Policies, Instruments, Lifestyles,Behavior

Abstract This chapter focuses on the manifestations and characteristics of right-wing terrorism in twentieth-century Europe, particularly on developments in Germany and Italy. When viewed from a comparative perspective, a central characteristic for right-wing terrorism is the Tatglaube, the faith in deeds. Although the worldview justifying such terrorism is grounded in racism, ethnocentrism, and nationalistic concepts of superiority, the decisive factor is violence as an end in itself, a violence that generally forgoes any justifying pattern of argument and strives to annihilate the enemy physically. The repertoire of actions taken and the formulized language of right-wing terrorism have remained largely unchanged throughout the twists and turns of twentieth-century history. Nevertheless, it is possible to differentiate various phases of right-wing terrorism, which were also influenced, in turn, by the political and societal environment. Despite the ethnocentric and nationalistic worldview from which this terrorism springs, it also becomes evident here that right-wing terrorism has always been marked by transnational influences, particularly since the end of the twentieth century.

How might we conceptualise and research everyday urbanism? By examining the making of everyday life in a low‐income neighbourhood in Uganda, we argue that a dialectics of everyday urbanism is a useful approach for understanding urban poverty. This dialectical approach examines how marginalised urban dwellers navigate the city in the relative absence of formal infrastructure systems, service provision and state welfare, and in turn exceed those limitations through forging connections, capacities and opportunities. We reveal the ‘social infrastructures’ that people put together to sustain life, as well as the limits of and placed on these infrastructures, from the legacies of structural adjustment to ongoing forms of demolition and disinvestment. We identify a set of practices that operate alongside social infrastructure – ‘coordination’, ‘consolidation’ and ‘speculation’ – important in the composition of everyday urban life. In doing so, we reflect on how we might research the dialectics of everyday urbanism, and here a ‘follow‐along participant observation’ (FAPO) methodology has significant potential. Our arguments emerge from research with residents in Kampala, but open out questions for how we conceive and research everyday life and urban infrastructure more generally.

The vision of ISBE is to enable Life Scientists from all sectors across Europe to tackle complex biological problems from a systems perspective. Training of scientists, at all levels, in all relevant fields of Systems Biology, is regarded as an essential prerequisite to implement Systems Biology approaches on a broad scale throughout Europe. This will require a major cultural change in training in the Life Sciences in order to develop the integrated approach required to generate the skilled work force necessary to exploit Systems Biology to its full potential. With this in mind, ISBE has hosted two workshops jointly with ERASysAPP to consider these issues in detail and to develop a core curriculum for Systems Biology which is described in WP10 Deliverable 10.2 (An ISBE document which defines a core curriculum for Systems Biology). The aim of this report (Deliverable 10.3) is to describe potential mechanisms for the dissemination and implementation of this core curriculum. The need for trained staff to manage and operate European research infrastructures has also been identified as a key issue for the effective running and use of these infrastructures. A strategy for training in this area has been developed in discussion with other Research Infrastructures in the Biomedical Sciences and has now been funded by the EC through two H2020 projects; CORBEL and RItrain.