Thursday 5 September
09:00 - 10:45
Harnessing the Power of Systems Analysis
- 09:00 - Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Anderson Ribeiro Correia, President, The Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES)
- Albert van Jaarsveld, Director General and Chief Executive Officer, IIASA
- Goret Pereira Paulo, Director of the Research and Innovation Network, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)
09:15 - Keynote Presentation
Albert van Jaarsveld, Director General and Chief Executive Officer, IIASA
- The power of Systems Analysis
- How the integrated approach of systems analysis increases efficiencies and effectiveness of government policies
09:45 - Keynote Presentation
Mauricio Antônio Lopes, IIASA Guest Scholar and Former President, EMBRAPA
- Global and regional challenges benefiting from systems analysis
10:15 - Keynote Presentation
Carlos Nobre, Senior Researcher with University of São Paulo’s Institute for Advanced Studies, chair of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change, and International Secretary of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Challenges in the Amazon benefiting from systems analysis
- This presentation will focus on a new concept of sustainable development for the Amazon, which is strongly based on a systemic view of the integral potential of a species-diverse ecosystem to give rise to a novel development paradigm. It will also address the challenges in the Amazon impact processes outside the region and how the sustainability solutions identified can be transferred to other regions in the world.
10:45 - Coffee Break
