Date & Time：MARCH 10 , 2022 (Wednesday) 09:00 – 14:00 (JST)
Format：Online (ZOOM)

  The world is facing various challenges such as poverty, hunger, climate change, and social disparity. Economic growth has not necessarily led to the solution of these problems. On the contrary, it has increased the disparity. Furthermore, the Corona disaster has brought to the surface the contradictions and problems that countries and regions are facing, and there is no time to lose.
  In this symposium, we will discuss the politics of the SDGs, i.e., the safety and ethical issues of technological innovation, and the trade-off between the environment and the economy. Will new technologies really be able to create a society where no one is left behind? How can a fundamental shift in values take place?

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The Politics of SDGs: Innovations, Economics, and Ethics

Special Guest Lecture
Shigenori Fujikawa (International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University, Research Center for Negative Emission Technology)
Title: "New Negative Emission Technologies of Carbon Dioxide for the Realization of a Beyond Zero Society
(Presentation in Japanese with English subtitles)

John Michael Gonzalez (College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia)
Title: "Producing Beef in a Sustainable and Ethical Manner in the United States
(English lecture with Japanese subtitles)


How to register
Online

The second and third sessions are open to the public.

Part I: February 21 - March 31, 2022
Asynchronous online session

The first part of the seminar will be held asynchronously online, and participants will have the opportunity to watch a video presentation by two guests on the latest research on carbon dioxide capture and sustainable livestock farming overseas.
※OPEN TO STUDENTS & TEACHERS OF KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY & ITS PARTNER UNIVERSITIES.


Part 2: March 10, 2022 09:00 - 12:00 JST　
Synchronous online session

Guest lecturers and participants (students and the general public) will engage in an online discussion. The discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Hisako Nomura & Dr. Yasuaki Hiromasa both from Kyushu University, Japan, and questions from students and the general public will be posed to the guest lecturers.
※OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.


Part 3: March 10, 2022 13:00 - 14:30 JST　
Synchronous online session

After the end of the second session, students from each course of the Kagoshima University Project for Enhancing Global Competence of Universities will introduce COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning), which is an initiative of the project for FY2020 and FY2021.
※OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Symposium website: http://sdgs-kusymposium.3pines.jp

Organized by: Global Center, Kagoshima University
For inquiries: sekaitenkai@gic.kagoshima-u.ac.jp