WORKSHOPONNEWTRENDSONSUSTAINABILITY

RCCATHARVARD.December1,201726TrowbridgeStreet,Cambridge,MA

8:00-8:30 -WELCOMEBREAKFAST-8:30-8:45 Openingremarks JoséManuelMartínezSierra.RCCDirector AlbertoGarrido.UPMVice-RectorforQualityandEfficiency JulioLumbreras.UPMRepresentativetoRCC. 8:45-9:10 WilliamC.Clark HarveyBrooksProfessorofInternationalScience,PublicPolicyandHumanDevelopment HarvardKennedySchool “PursuingSustainability” SUSTAINABILITYINTHEAGEOFCLIMATECHANGE:ANINCONVENIENTCONTEXT9:20-9:45 JohnD.Spengler AkiraYamaguchiProfessorofEnvironmentalHealthandHumanHabitation. HarvardT.H.ChanSchoolofPublicHealth “ClimateChangeRequiresRadicalCollaborations” 9:50-10:15 RafaelBorge

ProfessorofEnvironmentalEngineeringUniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid“HowClimateChangeandAirQualityisreshapingurbanlife”

10:20-10:45 RicardoFranciscoGarcíaHerrera ProfessorofAtmosphericPhysicsandDirectoroftheComplutenseFoundation UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid “MechanismsandVariabilityoftheClimateSysteminaWarmingEnvironment”

10:50-11:15 KerryEmanuel ProfessorofAtmosphericScience MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology

“RethinkningClimatechangeasaproblemofriskassessmentandmanagement:across-sectoralapproachtothenearfuture”

11:15-11:35 -COFFEEBREAK-11:35-12:00 CharlesDavis

ProfessorofOrganismicandEvolutionaryBiologyCuratorofVascularPlantCollectionDirector,HarvardUniversityHerbaria“Old plants, new tricks: Creating and leveraging a virtual natural historycollectionforclimatechangeresearch”

ARESUSTAINABLECITIESPOSSIBLE?THESOCIALANDGOVERNANCECONDITIONS12:00-12:45 QuintonMayne&FernandoFernández-Monge

AssociateProfessorofPublicPolicy&ResearchFellowoftheBloombergHarvardCityLeadershipInitiative

HarvardKennedySchool “ThePoliticalFoundationsofUrbanSustainability:ThecaseofPittsburgh.”12:50-1:15 ThomasW.Malone

McGovernProfessorofManagementandthefoundingdirectoroftheMITCenterforCollectiveIntelligenceMITSloanSchoolofManagement

1:20-2:00 -LUNCHBREAK-LEADERSHIPANDINNOVATIONTOFULFILLTHEPROMISESOFURBANSUSTAINABILITY2:05-2:30 EvaPonce

ExecutiveDirector,MITxMicroMastersinSupplyChainManagementMITCenterforTransportation&Logistics

“NewTrends,Technologies&ImpactsinSupplyChains”

2:35-3:00 MaríaEugeniaLópez-Lambas

AssociateProfessoronUrbantransportandplanningDeputyDirectorofTRANSyT-UPMUniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid

“Reimaginingurbanmobilityforthecityofthefuture”

3:05-3:30 AlbertoGarrido ProfessorofAgriculturalandResourceEconomics Vice-RectorforQualityandEfficiency UniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid

“Linkingthelocalwiththeglobalspheretofindpathsforsustainableagriculturalandfoodsystems”

3:30-3:45 -COFFEEBREAK-BEYONDURBANBORDERS:PRESERVINGNATURALSITES3:50-4:15 FranciscoPulido ProfessorofEvolutionaryBiologyandConservation UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid “Assessmentandconservationofbiodiversityinthefaceofglobalchange”4:20-4:45 AntonioMolina ProfessorofBiotechnologyandPlantsGenomics DirectoroftheCentreforPlantBiotechnologyandGenomics(CBGP,UPM-INIA) UniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid

“PlantsAdaptationtoEnvironmentalChanges:ChallengesandBiotechnologicalSolutions”

4:50-5:15 EmilioCerdá ProfessorofEconomicAnalysis UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid “EnvironmentalEconomics,ClimateandEnergy”5:20-5:30 Finalremarksandclosing

BIOGRAPHIESRafael Borge holds a degree on Forestry and Environmental Engineering and a Ph.D. onatmospheric modeling from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain. He leads theLaboratory of Environmental Modelling at the Department of Chemical and EnvironmentalEngineering of the UPM. Associated professor at this same University, he runs courses onenvironmentalengineering,airqualityandenvironmentalmodeling.Currently,hecoordinatestheTECNAIREresearchprojectthataimsatthedevelopmentandintegrationofnewtechnologiesandmethodsformultiscalemodellingandmeasuringofurbanairpollution.EmilioCerdáholdsaPhDinMathematicsfromComplutenseUniversityMadrid.HeisProfessorofEconomicAnalysisatUniversidadComplutensedeMadridsince1992,andtheDirectorofresearchinSustainabilityandEnvironmentalAnalysis,intheComplutenseInstituteofInternationalStudies(ICEI),since2007.HewastheDirectoroftheDepartmentofEconomicAnalysis2003-2007,thePresidentofSpanish-PortugueseAssociationofNaturalandEnvironmentalResourceEconomics2012-2014, the Coordinator of the PhD Program in Economics (UCM) 2013-2017, and theCoordinatoroftheresearchgroupinNaturalandEnvironmentalResourceEconomics(UCM).Hehasmorethan70academicpublications.WilliamClark is theHarveyBrooksProfessorof InternationalScience,PublicPolicyandHumanDevelopment at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Trained as anecologist,hisresearchfocusesonsustainabilityscience:understandingtheinteractionsofhumanandenvironmentalsystemswithaviewtowardadvancingthegoalsofsustainabledevelopment.He is particularly interested in how institutional arrangements affect the linkage betweenknowledgeandactioninthesustainabilityarena.AtHarvard,hecurrentlyco-directstheSustainabilityScienceProgram.Charles Davis is a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Curator of Vascular PlantCollectionandtheDirectorofHarvardUniversityHerbaria.Heisinterestedinplantdiversityandtheintersectionofevolutionandecology.Hisresearchusesphylogeneticmethodstostudybiomeevolution,floraldevelopment,molecularevolution,recentclimatechange,andplantclassification.KerryEmanuelisaProfessorofAtmosphericScienceatMassachusettsInstituteofTechnologyanda prominent meteorologist and climate scientist who specializes in moist convection in theatmosphere, and tropical cyclones. His research interests focus on tropical meteorology andclimate,withaspecialtyinhurricanephysics.Hisinterestsalsoincludecumulusconvection,therole of clouds, water vapor, and upper-ocean mixing in regulation of climate, and advancedmethodsofsamplingtheatmosphereinaidofnumericalweatherprediction.EmanuelreceivedanS.B.degreeinEarthandPlanetarySciencesandaPh.D.inMeteorology(1978)bothfromMIT.

RicardoGarcíaHerreraisaProfessoratDepartmentofEarthPhysics,AstronomyandAstrophysicsII, Complutense University ofMadrid. He holds a Ph.D. in Physical Science from ComplutenseUniversityofMadrid.HewasthePresidentoftheSpanishAgencyofMeteorology(AEMET);thePublicHealthDirector,RegionalMinistry of Health of the Basque Country between 1987-1991; Environmental HealthOfficer, Public Health Institute of Navarra between 1986-1987; Environmental Health Officer,RegionalMinistryofHealthofCastillayLeón,1985-1986.Alberto Garrido is Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy at the Technical School ofAgronomic,FoodandBiosystemsEngineering,UniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid(UPM),andVice-RectorofQualityandEfficiencyof theUPM(2016 -).Directorof theBotínFoundation'sWaterObservatory (since April 2016). Holds a Doctoral Degree in Agricultural and Natural ResourceEconomics from theUPM (1995), andMaster's degree from theUniversity of California, Davis(1992).WasAssistantDirectorofQuality andTeachingOrganizationof theTechnical SchoolofAgronomic,FoodandBiosystemsEngineering(2015-2016).AttheResearchCenterforAgriculturalandEnvironmentalRiskManagement(CEIGRAM),amixedR&DcenteroftheUPM,heservedasSecretary (2007-2010), Director (2010-2014) AndDeputy Director (2014-2015). Hewas visitingprofessorattheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,inthe2005-2006academicyear.HeisamemberoftheAdvisoryCommitteeoftheRosenbergInternationalForumofWaterPolicy(aprogramoftheUniversityofCalifornia)since1996.Hisresearchhasfocusedonthesustainabilityanalysisofagriculture,withafocusonwateruseandpolicy,Agriculturalandinsurancerisksandagriculturaland natural resource policies. He is the author of 197 publications, including 21 books and 70articlesinscientificimpactjournals.Hassupervised21DoctoralTheses.JulioLumbrerasholdsadegreeonChemicalandEnvironmentalEngineeringfromtheTechnicalUniversity ofMadrid (UPM), and aMaster in Public Administration from theHarvard KennedySchool (HKS). Julio is passionate about increasing sustainability in higher education, andtransforminguniversities in changeagentswithin cities.HegothisPhDonAirQuality in2003.Currently,heisAssociateProfessoratUPM,andVisitingScholaratHKS.HeistheUPM’sDirectorforNorthAmerica,andUPMrepresentativetoRCC.HeistheSpanishrepresentativeattheTaskForce on Integrated Assessment Modelling within the UN Convention on Long-RangeTransboundaryAirPollution(CLRTAP).Heisco-authorofmorethan60papersandbookchapters.Hehasparticipatedinmanyinternationalworkshopsandconferencesonurbanairquality,climatechangeandsustainabledevelopment.Hehascollaboratedinmorethan50researchworks.MaríaEugeniaLópez-LambasholdsaPhD.inLawbytheUniversidadComplutensedeMadrid,andSpecialistDegreeinLandTransportandSustainableTransport,bothbytheUniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid(UPM).SheisDeputyDirectorofTRANSyTUPM,wheresheworksasSeniorResearchersince2002.MaríaEugeniaisalsoAssociateProfessorsince2006atUPM’sCivilEngineeringSchool,Department of Civil Engineering. Transport and Urban Planning. She is specialized in urban

transport,urbansustainablemobilityplansandlanduseplanning.Shehasextensiveexperienceasamemberofinternationalscientificcommittees(ECTRI,FERSI,EC–IICivitasProgramme,ELTIS,etc.),asaresearcherin internationalandnationalresearchprojects(morethan16since2002),Shehasalsoexperienceas a consultant in thepublic andprivate sector (European InvestmentBank,Deloitte,SteerDaviesGleave,etc.).Sheisauthorofover40publicationsintopicsrelatedtodifferent aspects of urban transport (e.g. infrastructures, benchmarking, urban mobilitymanagement,etc.)ThomasW.MaloneisthePatrickJ.McGovernProfessorofManagementattheMITSloanSchoolofManagementandthefoundingdirectoroftheMITCenterforCollectiveIntelligence.Hewasalso the founder and director of theMIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the twofoundingco-directorsoftheMITInitiativeon"InventingtheOrganizationsofthe21stCentury."Professor Malone teaches classes on organizational design, information technology, andleadership,andhisresearchfocusesonhowworkcanbeorganizedinnewwaystotakeadvantageofthepossibilitiesprovidedbyinformationtechnology.ProfessorMalonehaspublishedover100articles,researchpapers,andbookchapters,includingawidelycited2010articleinSciencemagazineonmeasuringthecollectiveintelligenceofhumangroups.Heisalsoaninventorwith11patentsandtheco-editoroffourbooks:CoordinationTheoryand Collaboration Technology (2001), Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century (2003),OrganizingBusinessKnowledge:TheMITProcessHandbook(2003),andHandbookofCollectiveIntelligence(2015).In2012,hereceivedanhonorarydoctoratefromtheUniversityofZurich.JoseM.Martinez is theDirectorof theRealColegioComplutenseatHarvard, JeanMonnetadpersonamProfessorfortheStudyofEuropeanUnionLawandGovernment,FacultyAffiliateoftheMindadeGunzburgCenter forEuropeanStudiesatHarvardandFacultyAssociateof theDavidRockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. He teaches different courses about Europe andSpainatHarvardCollege.HeisaMemberoftheIGLPAdvisoryCouncilatHarvardLawSchool,chairof the Internationalization and Innovation in Higher Education Study Group, co-chair of theEuropeanUnion LawandGovernmentStudyGroupandco-chairof theStudyGroupACenter-Periphery Europe? Perspectives from Southern Europe at the Minda de Gunzburg Center forEuropean Studies at Harvard.Martínez is Academic Advisor of the European Horizons at YaleUniversity, and one of the faculty members involved in the European Conference at HarvardUniversity.QuintonMayne isAssociateProfessorofPublicPolicy intheKennedySchoolofGovernmentatHarvardUniversity.He receivedhisPh.D. inPolitics fromPrincetonUniversity.Hisdissertation,entitled The Satisfied Citizen: Participation, Influence, and Public Perceptions of DemocraticPerformance,wontheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation's2011ErnstB.HaasBestDissertationAwardinEuropeanPoliticsaswellasthe2011BestDissertationAwardinUrbanPolitics.Mayne'sresearch and teaching interests lie at the intersectionof comparative andurbanpolitics.He is

particularlyinterestedinhowthedesignandreformofdemocraticpoliticalinstitutionsaffectshowcitizensthinkandactpolitically.Antonio Molina is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Department ofBiotechnologyandPlantBiologyoftheUniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid(UPM).SinceFebruary2016heisDirectoroftheCentrodeBiotecnologíayGenómicadePlantas(CBGP),ajointresearchcenter between the UPM and the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria yAlimentaria(INIA)(www.cbgp.upm.es).Dr.MolinacompletedhisdoctoralthesisattheUPMunderthe supervision of Dr. Francisco García-Olmedo and did a postdoctoral at the AgriculturalBiotechnologyResearchUnit(ABRU)Syngenta(NC,USA)underthesupervisionofDr.JohnRyals.Fernando Fernandez-Monge holds aMPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, aM.A. in PublicFinanceandTaxation fromtheSpanish InstituteofFiscalStudies&UNED,andJDandaB.A. inPoliticalSciencefromtheAutonomaUniversityofMadrid.Heisanexpertonpublicsectorreformandurbanpolicy,andcurrentlya fellowwith theBloomberg-HarvardCityLeadership Initiative.Previously,hewasagovernancespecialistattheWorldBank,whereheledtechnicaladvisoryandinvestmentprojects,bothwithnationalandsubnationalgovernments,mainlyinLatinAmericaandthe Middle East. He has a deep interest on cities as engines of socially inclusive andenvironmentallysustainableeconomicgrowth.HehasworkedwiththeCityofBostontoanalyzeavenuesforexpandingitsrevenuesourcesandledaresearchprojectontheurbantransformationofPittsburgh,P.A.EvaPonceistheExecutiveDirectoroftheSupplyChainManagementMITxMicroMastersProgramaswellasaResearchAssociateattheMITCenterforTransportation&Logistics.Sheoverseesthefive online MITx courses in Supply Chain Management (CTL.SCx courses) that make up theMicroMasters Program. The courses are attended by tens of thousands of students in openenrollment frommore than 180 countries. Her current research focus is the design of urbandistributionmodels(freightdeliveries)withspecialfocusonomni-channeldistributionstrategies.ShealsoleadsresearchinitiativesonReverseLogisticsandClosed-LoopSupplyChains.Francisco Pulido is a Professor at the Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution atComplutense University of Madrid. He holds a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from University ofKonstanz (Germany). During his PhD (1993-1998), Francisco Pulido, was involved in the mostimportantscientificstudyonthecontrolofbirdmigrationinbirds(withPeterBertholdattheMPIofOrnithologyinRadolfzell).Inthisstudy,heinvestigatedthegeneticsandevolutionofmigratorybehaviorinblackcapsanddevelopedthe“thresholdmodel”,whichiscurrentlythe“nullmodel”for testingevolutionarychanges inmigratorybehavior.This study involved thestudyofalmost2000blackcapsincaptivity.Asapostdoc,hestartedstudyingenzymepolymorphismandgeneticvariationatcandidategenelociwiththeaimofunderstandingthephysiologicalandgeneticbasesof variation in migratory behavior. He has identified two genetic polymorphisms that are

associated with variation in migration in the blackcap, demonstrating, for the first time, themolecularbasisofvariationinmigratorybehaviorJohnD.SpengleristheAkiraYamaguchiProfessorofEnvironmentalHealthandHumanHabitationat the Harvard School of Public Health and director of the sustainability and environmentalmanagementprogramattheExtensionSchool.Spenglerhasconductedresearchintheareasofpersonal monitoring, air pollution health effects, indoor air pollution, and a variety ofenvironmentalsustainabilityissues.Severalofhisinvestigationshavefocusedonhousingdesignanditseffectsonventilationrates,theselectionofbuildingmaterials,energyconsumption,andtotalenvironmentalqualityinhomes.Heistheauthorofnumerousarticlesonairqualityandotherenvironmental issues, and co-author or co-editor of Health Effects of Fossil Fuel Burning:Assessment and Mitigation, Indoor Air Pollution: A Health Perspective, Particles in Our Air:ConcentrationsandHealthEffects,andIndoorAirQualityHandbook.

ATTENDEES

ÁngelAgudo,RCCFellow;VisitingResearcher,HarvardT.H.ChanSchoolofPublicHealth,HarvardUniversity.InmaculadaBorrella,PostdoctoralAssociateattheMITCenterforTransportationandLogistics,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology.RafaelCarbonell,ExecutiveDirector,TaubmanCenter,HarvardKennedySchool,HarvardUniversity.ManuelCollazo,EducationAttaché,SpanishGeneralConsulateatBoston,SpanishGovernment.JoséDomínguez,RCCFellow;VisitingResearcheratHarvardKennedySchool,HarvardUniversity.PaulaFernandez-Wulff,RCCFellow;Fulbright-SchumanVisitingResearcher,HarvardLawSchool,HarvardUniversity.ThomasGloria,ResponsibleforSustainability,HarvardExtensionSchool,HarvardUniversity.JoséGómez-Ibáñez,DerekC.BokProfessorofUrbanPlanningandPublicPolicy,GSDandHKS,HarvardUniversity.MªJesúsGarcía,RCCFellow;VisitingResearcher,AshCenterforDemocraticGovernanceandInnovation,HarvardKennedySchool,HarvardUniversity.JohnD.Macomber,SeniorLecturerofBusinessAdministration,HarvardBusinessSchool,HarvardUniversity.MouniaMostefaoui,Ph.D.Candidate,EconomicsandPoliticalScience,LaSorbonneUniversity,France,andProgramonNegotiationGraduateResearchFellowatHarvardLawSchool.JulieNewman,LecturerofEnvironmentalPlanningandSustainability;Director,MITOfficeofSustainability,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology.FlaviaPerea,Director,MindichPrograminEngagedScholarship,CenterforPublicService&EngagedScholarship,HarvardUniversity.RamonLorenzoLuisRosaGuinto.DoctorofPublicHealthClassof2019,HarvardT.H.ChanSchoolofPublicHealth.

RebecaSalguero,MasterinSustainabilityandEnvironmentalManagement,HarvardUniversity.AmandaSardonis,AssistantDirector,EnvironmentandNaturalResourcesProgram,BelferCenterforScienceandInternationalAffairs,HarvardKennedySchool,HarvardUniversity.BrookeSutter,MasterinPublicAdministration,HarvardKennedySchool,HarvardUniversity.RandWentworth,LouisBaconSeniorFellowinEnvironmentalLeadership,AdjunctLecturerinPublicPolicy,MemberofthefacultyfortheSeniorExecutiveFellows,HarvardKennedySchool,HarvardUniversity.