Sumários
19 Dezembro 2024, 18:00
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João Guerra
The final session served as a space for reflection on what had been discussed and reflected on in the previous sessions.
At the same time, the assessment methods were discussed and clarified, as well as the rules to be followed when producing the final essays, namely the rules on citation and referencing.
12 Dezembro 2024, 18:00
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João Guerra
The ODSlocal Platform, based on a comprehensive and intense mobilization of municipal decision-makers and technicians, local agents and citizens in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aims to create a national ODSlocal movement that municipalities want to join, mobilizing other public and civil society actors in an exponential and contagious way. The project was presented to the students, as well as the Portal and the capacity it can have to mobilize local communities for local sustainability.
5 Dezembro 2024, 18:00
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João Guerra
Ana Gonçalves (CRIA) talked about culture and sustainability. Indeed, social change towards more sustainable lifestyles is not caused and implemented by normative directives and political decisions alone. Cultural production can act as a factor that promotes or prevents public awareness of the worldwide challenges we face today. On the one hand, high and popular artworks attract local and global audiences and impact the social imaginaries of many. On the other hand, what we call culture has a long-term effect. Culture constitutes accumulated resources, material or immaterial, which individuals inherit, use, change, add to, and transmit. When socially recognised and valued, the cultural elements handed down from generation to generation become heritage, linking the
already-dead to the not-yet-born.
28 Novembro 2024, 18:00
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João Guerra
Certainly, it was not the visibility and prominence of environmental issues that alone blocked implementation of sustainable development, but the projection they achieved relegated other aspects – societal, institutional, economic – to the background, or at least circumscribed them to disconnected action plans, making it difficult to see the required overall picture. As a result, the notion of sustainability often coincided with “environmental sustainability” and the concept of sd ended up having an influence primarily on global environmental policies and through them on national environmental policies.
21 Novembro 2024, 18:00
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João Guerra
We are consuming more water than is available and there are areas of many countries where the amount of water is no longer sufficient for the needs of populations and the economy. It is urgent to act now if we want to guarantee a future with water for all people, for their activities, and for all living beings and ecosystems. This problem was illustrated with the case of the Brazilian Northeast.