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Wednesday, November 6

Research results on the environmental footprint and sustainability of research activities

📣 With a talk by Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University, Cambridge), science historian and affiliated professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University,

and a talk by Anne Ventura (Université Gustave Eiffel, Bouguenais), expert in life cycle assessment

Please note: the presentations indicated by 🇫🇷 will be in French with subtitles, the others in English

(for more information on the session presentations : see here the detailed list with abstract)

8:30 am | Welcome

9:00 am | Introduction

🇫🇷 Presentation of the next two days | Stéphanie Barral (INRAE, Noisy-le-Grand) & André Estevez-Torres (CNRS, Lille)

📣 9:05 am | Lecture

 🇫🇷 Théories des systèmes et métabolisme : un nécessaire retour aux sources des approches cycle de vie pour repenser leur futur | Anne Ventura (Université Gustave Eiffel, Bouguenais)

 This presentation will place the broad family of systems and flow accounting approaches in their historical context (in the sense of the history of science), in order to position the theoretical frameworks from which life-cycle analyses and carbon balances are derived today. This will show their similarities and differences, as well as highlighting the limits and major challenges of current research.

10:00 am | Coffee break

10:20 am | Session 1 : quantitative approaches and life cycle analysis

5 x 20min (15min presentation + 5min Q&A)

 Ecolabware: Carbon Footprint Comparator of Lab Single-Use Plasticware and Reusable Glassware | Max-Henri Chanut (INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas), Sophie Schbath (INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas), Marianne De Paepe (INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas)

Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Clinical Research: A Life-Cycle Analysis of a French Academic Randomized Clinical Trial | Claire Fougerou-Leurent, Louise Forteau, Maëlle Loyer, Catherine Mouchel, Alain Renault, Enora Marion, Anne Ganivet, Marie-Laure Gervais, Sabrina Cochennec, Laurène Masson, Loïc Fin, Bruno Laviolle

Towards a Comprehensive Assessment of Research Environmental Impacts: From Mono to Multi-Criteria | Philippe Loubet (Bordeaux INP, Bordeaux), Anthony Benoist (Cirad, Montpellier), Jérôme Mariette (INRAE, Toulouse), André Estevez-Torres (CNRS, Lille)

🇫🇷 Déterminants de l'empreinte carbone des unités de recherche publiques françaises et estimation de niveaux d'émissions de référence | Léa Marquet (Inria, Montpellier), Tamara Ben-Ari (INRAE, Montpellier), Valentin Bellassen (INRAE, Dijon), David Makowski (INRAE, Paris), Gaël Guennebaud (Inria, Bordeaux)

The Green Algorithms Projects, Green DiSC and GREENER Principles for Environmentally Sustainable Computational Research | Loïc Lannelongue (University of Cambridge, Cambridge)

For more information on presentations: see here. 

12:00 pm | Lunch break & poster session

2:00 pm | Session 2 : new ideas

3 x 20min (15min presentation + 5min Q&A)

 🇫🇷  Recherche & low-tech : premier état des lieux et recommandations | Antoine Martin (Sentier ergonomie, Grenoble), Rémi Durieux (Ademe, Marseille), Clément Colin (Sentier ergonomie, Grenoble)

 🇫🇷 Projet d'expérimentation d'une recherche plus sobre et plus ambitieuse | Céline Goujon (Insitut Néel, Paris), Didier Mayou (Insitut Néel, Paris), Jean-Philippe Poizat (Insitut Néel, Paris), Philippe-Emmanuel Roche (Insitut Néel, Paris), Sébastien Triqueneaux (Insitut Néel, Paris)

Situated chemistries | Elsje Alessandra Quadrelli (CNRS, Lyon) 

For more information on presentations: see here. 

📣 3:00 pm | Lecture

The trouble with the supply-side model of science | Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University, Cambridge)

Many scientists operate under a mental model that I label the "supply side model of science". It assumes that the job of scientists is to supply information that governments and citizens can use to make good decisions, and that governments and citizens will use that information once they have it in hand. Therefore, scientists need only do their job—which is to supply accurate, high quality, well vetted information—and all will be well. Events of the past few decades have challenged this model severely. Across the globe, governments and citizens have rejected established scientific findings on climate change, on evolutionary biology, on the safety and efficacy of vaccines, and other issues. Typically, this rejection is "implicatory rejection". That is to say, people reject or deny science not because the science is weak, unsettled or too uncertain to inform decision-making, but because they and don’t like the actual or perceived implications of that science. In some cases, for example evolutionary biology, the perceived implications are erroneous; in these cases, scientists can help to clear up misunderstandings by engaging seriously (and not dismissively) with people’s concerns. In other cases, for example climate change, the perceived implications may be partly true. In these cases, scientists may help by suggesting ways in which the negative implications might be mitigated or redressed. Often, this will require collaborating with other experts, such as experts in communication, religion, or public health. But whatever the details of the particular case, our overall situation suggests that it does not suffice for scientists simply to supply factual information, and leave it at that. Scientists need as well to engage actively with the recipients of that information.

For more informarion : see here

4:00 pm | Coffee break

4:20 pm | Session 3 : environmental transition at the institution level

3 x 20min (15min de presentation + 5min de Q&A)

Low-carbon Objectives and Trajectories in Higher Education: Current Situation and Recommendations | Anne-Laure Ligozat (ENSIIE, Orsay), Christophe Brun (CNRS, Paris), Benjamin Demirdjian (CNRS, Marseille), Guillaume Gouget (CNRS, Rennes), Emilie Jardé (CNRS, Rennes), Arnaud Mialon (Université Toulouse III, Toulouse), Anne-Sophie Mouronval (Centrale Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette), Laurent Pagani (CNRS, Paris), Laure Vieu (CNRS, Toulouse)

🇫🇷 La Convention pour la transformation écologique et sociale de l'IRD : inventer collectivement un nouveau modèle de fonctionnement plus durable et plus juste | François Trémège (IRD, Marseille)

🇫🇷 Le financement sur projets, un vecteur d'écologisation de la recherche ? | Anne-Gaëlle Beurier (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Marseille), Victoria Brun (Mines Paris - PSL, Paris)

 For more information on presentations: see here.

17:20 pm | Poster session

19:00 pm | End of the day

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