Jesse Burton is a senior researcher in the Energy Systems Research group at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and contributor to the global thinktank E3G. She is a member of the Powering Past Coal Alliance's Just Transition working group, sits on the Advisory Board of the National Entrepreneurship Initiative's Just Transition Pathways Project and is a member of the steering committee of the Mpumalanga Green Economy Cluster. Jesse will talk about sinergies in JET at Universidad Nacional de Colombia with Nadia Combariza co-founder and co-director of the Colombian think tank on energy policy, POLEN Just Transitions who has an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the Universidad del Valle, with an emphasis on energy technologies at the Technical University of Hamburg and has more than 10 years of experience working on energy transition in Colombia, Chile and the Dominican Republic.

The dialogue will be moderated by Professor Erasmo Rodriguez, Director of the TRAJECTS LATAM HUB. 

Connect to the broadcast through the TRAJECTS Channel on YouTube, using the following links:

For English:
https://youtube.com/live/gkuCvwZmN2E

Para Español:
https://youtube.com/live/-2WIxuszhZ0

We invite you to the TRAJECTS African Hub Sustainability Transitions Dialogue on Exploring electricity access and affordability in a time of energy transitions. 

As the global energy transition gains momentum, concerns around energy justice, affordability, and access become ever more important. Join us for a discussion that engages the controversies in the current trajectory of renewable energy transitions and perspectives towards new imaginaries that embody the need for life-sustaining alternatives in energy transitions. 

We invite you to our fourth Dialogue for Sustainable Transitions: Driving factors of social dialogue for just transitions: reflections from Colombia, Chile and Germany, a space for exchange around the methodological strategies of social dialogue that have been implemented in other countries in the just transitions framework.

We invite you to our fourth Dialogue for Sustainable Transitions: State of the Art of Global Energy Transition with a Governance Approach. Global Perspectives with Emphasis on Latin America, which will take place in the framework of the First Governance Summit for Just Energy Transition and Peace, Transitions for Life.

In this space we will explore the global dynamics and local challenges of energy transition with a special focus on governance and policies needed to foster equitable and sustainable change in Latin America.

We invite you to revisit our third Sustainable Transitions Dialogue: “Nature-Based Solutions in Marine-Coastal Ecosystems”, in which leading experts in marine ecology, conservation, and sustainability participated. We explored the fundamental role of marine-coastal ecosystems in climate change mitigation and biodiversity management.

You can now watch the full event in the Event Memories (below) on our YouTube Channel, clicking here.

We are pleased to share that TRAJECTS successfully hosted a Joint Virtual Lecture on Tuesday, September 17th, at 3 pm (Berlin time) at TU Berlin and online. This event focused on "The Role of Circular Economy in Shaping Just Energy, Climate, and Sustainability Transitions."

The lecture featured three distinguished speakers, each bringing a wealth of knowledge and diverse perspectives to the discussion:

• Prof. Matthias Finkbeiner from TU Berlin
• Prof. Andrea Carolina Cardoso Díaz from Universidad del Magdalena
• Prof. Harro von Blottnitz from the University of Cape Town

Each speaker offered unique insights into the circular economy's role in driving sustainable energy, climate action, and broader sustainability transitions. Following these presentations, a dynamic panel discussion will took place, allowing the audience to engage directly with the experts in a meaningful dialogue.

The event was streamed live via Zoom with simultaneous translation into Spanish, enabling participants from different regions to actively take part. You can watch the videos of the session in both English and Spanish below.

We are grateful to everyone who attended and contributed to this important conversation on shaping a sustainable future!

You can now watch the full event in the Event Memories (below) on our YouTube Channel, clicking here.

We invite you to revisit our second Dialogue on Just Transitions: "Facing the anthropocene and the environmental climate crisis from the wisdom of native peoples and traditional communities".

This space focused on traditional knowledge as a tool to face the socio-environmental crises of the Anthropocene, marked by climate change, which is generating extreme conditions to which we must adapt, where ancestral knowledge offers us numerous answers.

You can now watch the full event in the Event Memories (below) on our YouTube Channel, clicking here.

TRAJECTS is pleased to invite you to this interesting dialogue in which we will discuss how the active participation of the industry and vocational or technical education can favor the just transition in terms of labor reconversion, during the process of exiting coal.

Special guests:

• Dr. Marcus Eckelt: Head of the Department of Vocational Education and Training - Technical University of Berlin.
• Claudia Blanco Rada: Train operator, treasurer of SINTRACARBON Ciénaga and worker of CI PRODECO S.A.
• Daniel Lázcares: Director of the  Department of Research in Education and Vocational Technical Training - Technical University of Costa Rica.
• Dania Lizbeth Guzmán Beleño: Microbiologist, Specialist in Environmental Management, Master in Sustainable  Development and Environment.