2020

The seventh and last video of our "ISTP4Public" series has been released and sheds light on sustainability issues in forest-focused supply chain policies. ETH Zurich Prof. Rachael Garrett discusses the global developments that provoked her scientific interest in this topic, and she talks about supply chain policies' effectiveness. She also highlights the need for local governments' involvement and the key role of importing regions to drive greater uptake of sustainability policies. 

In our final colloquium talk of this semester, Prof. Konstantinos Boulouchos from ETH Zurich's Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering will talk about a "net-zero" mobility future, and he will illustrate the synergetic contributions of technology innovation and policy design. He will also focus on the energy supply and climate change mitigation options for the worldwide and national transportation systems.

We are delighted to announce the next colloquium talk of this semester. Prof. David Bresch from ETH Zurich’s Department of Environmental Systems Science will elaborate on the challenges in reporting climate resilience and adopting the Climate-related Disclosures recommendations.

In our upcoming colloquium talk, Ph.D. student Jan Freihardt & MSc ETH STP student Romain Buchs talk about how positive or negative framing can influence humans' perception of risk messages and present empirical evidence from a series of online survey experiments exploring the effects of framing in disaster risk communication. They argue that framing might be a less powerful tool than it is commonly thought of when applied in complex real-​world settings.

The global COVID-19 pandemic is manifesting differently in every country. The new video of our "ISTP4Public" series sheds light on how the urban poor mitigated their risk of infection in Accra and Johannesburg at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak. Researchers Antoinette van der Merwe from the Swiss Minerals Observatory and Kathrin Durizzo from the Development Economics Group talk about their research's main findings and the policy implications.

Under the theme Bridging science and policy to foster systemic resilience, the Geneva Science-Policy Interface (GSPI) calls for projects for its Impact Collaboration Programme 2021. The deadline for the pre-proposals is January 17, 2021.