“Eduardo es prolijo y muy enfocado en sus tareas. Es un profesional muy competente”
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Facilitating multi-actor partnerships for building transformative capacities, co-creation…
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I was privileged to organise, with a great team, an event as part of the #COP26 World Leaders' Summit. “Action and Solidarity: The Critical Decade”…
I was privileged to organise, with a great team, an event as part of the #COP26 World Leaders' Summit. “Action and Solidarity: The Critical Decade”…
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I’m very pleased to announce that last month I started a new role, part-time, as Director at the Centre for Multilateral Negotiations…
I’m very pleased to announce that last month I started a new role, part-time, as Director at the Centre for Multilateral Negotiations…
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🚀 Partnering with the Daniel Sachs Foundation has been rocket fuel for our mission to reimagine 21st-century political leadership. 💜 Under the…
🚀 Partnering with the Daniel Sachs Foundation has been rocket fuel for our mission to reimagine 21st-century political leadership. 💜 Under the…
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Experience
Education
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Universität Lüneburg
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Designing knowledge-action networks for supporting energy focused sociotechnical change in illiberal democracies: interfacing science, policy and transformation processes towards sustainability in Andean Countries
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Concentration: Economic Sustainability and Environmental Planning
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University course as part of the Business Management degree program.
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Concentration: Industrial Psychology
Volunteer Experience
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Coach - Joint Interdisciplinary Project
Technische Universiteit Delft
- 5 months
Science and Technology
The JIP project is an interdisciplinary Master course at TU Delft, which is embedded in the curriculum. In it, students work full-time in groups of five on a challenge identified by industry for a total of 10 weeks. https://www.jointinterdisciplinaryproject.nl/
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Startup Mentor - Sin Fronteras Program
Inter-American Development Bank
- 8 months
Economic Empowerment
The Sin Fronteras Program is financed by IDB Lab and executed by the CRISFE Foundation; and seeks to contribute to the economic and social reactivation of the population in a situation of human mobility and the receiving communities, through innovative programs focused on employability and economic insertion, to facilitate their livelihoods and income generation.
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Startup Mentor - MIT Smart Circular Cities Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1 year 1 month
Science and Technology
Hosted by the MIT Club of Germany, the program aims to accelerate German-based startups in the field of Smart Circular Cities. Selected startups will receive dedicated support from the MIT Club of Germany network, and will benefit from connections to a wide range of organizations, including the MIT research institutes with focus on sustainability, the wider MIT community (in Germany and abroad), and key industry partners and sponsors – such as BMW Group, ClimatePartner and Technical University…
Hosted by the MIT Club of Germany, the program aims to accelerate German-based startups in the field of Smart Circular Cities. Selected startups will receive dedicated support from the MIT Club of Germany network, and will benefit from connections to a wide range of organizations, including the MIT research institutes with focus on sustainability, the wider MIT community (in Germany and abroad), and key industry partners and sponsors – such as BMW Group, ClimatePartner and Technical University Munich (TUM).
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Jury Member - Africa Climate Launchpad Africa Regional Final
EIT Climate-KIC CEE
- 4 months
Economic Empowerment
ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest green business ideas competition. The mission is to unlock the world’s cleantech potential that addresses climate change. The competition creates a stage for those ideas. ClimateLaunchpad is part of the Entrepreneurship offerings of EIT Climate-KIC.
Publications
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Energy sovereignty: a values-based conceptual analysis.
Philpapers
Achieving energy sovereignty is increasingly gaining prominence as a goal in energy politics. The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual analysis of this principle from an ethics and social justice perspective. We rely on the literature on food sovereignty to identify through a comparative analysis the elements energy sovereignty will most likely demand and thereafter distinguish the unique constituencies of the energy sector. The idea of energy sovereignty embraces a series of values…
Achieving energy sovereignty is increasingly gaining prominence as a goal in energy politics. The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual analysis of this principle from an ethics and social justice perspective. We rely on the literature on food sovereignty to identify through a comparative analysis the elements energy sovereignty will most likely demand and thereafter distinguish the unique constituencies of the energy sector. The idea of energy sovereignty embraces a series of values, among which we identified: (i) accessibility, to allow access to everyone, (ii) empowerment and recognition, to develop and sustain capabilities to collaboratively produce solution-oriented energy system knowledge and effectively participate in governance, (iii) stewardship and sustainability, to be able to design and manage decentralised renewable systems in view of protecting the environment, (iv) self-sufficiency, to reduce the negative shocks of exploitative business practises, (v) resilience, to maintain production capacities while withstanding socioeconomic, political, environmental and climatic shocks, (vi) peace, to establish production systems that do not involve hostile relations, (vii) transparency and self-determination, to establish democratic decision-making mechanisms that give a voice to previously underrepresented groups and limit corporate takeover (viii) gender-justice, by acknowledging the contributions of women and eliminate barriers to their empowerment. With a conceptual framework of energy sovereignty, we present a rationale that draws on the key values to be considered when formulating policy solutions for the energy sector.
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Participatory construction of common multi-sectoral visions to 2050 for 6 intermediate cities in Ecuador. Quito, GIZ Ecuador. (Coordinator and Lead Contributor)
GIZ - German Agency for International Cooperation
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Urban Research Agenda of Ecuador. Quito, GIZ Ecuador. (Content Editor) – In process of publication
GIZ - German Agency for International Cooperation
The Applied Urban Research Agenda is a document built from a dynamic participation of 300 researchers who are all linked with higher education institutions, technical and technological colleges and other institutions in different cities across Ecuador. It prioritizes four areas of research: environmental sustainability, equity, accessibility and inclusion, prosperity and productivity, and governance.
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Noboa, E., Upham, P., Building a coalition with depoliticised sustainability discourse: the case of a transdisciplinary transition management arena in Peru.
Journal of Sustainable Development
Transition management uses the depoliticized, rational discourse of systems terms, social learning and societal reflexivity. Transdisciplinary sustainability science research similarly uses the politically neutral terms of supporting the coproduction and integration of different types of knowledge. Yet both are clearly normative, resting on notions of participatory democracy and adopting environmental and social sustainability as explicit norms. Here we present the case of a transdisciplinary…
Transition management uses the depoliticized, rational discourse of systems terms, social learning and societal reflexivity. Transdisciplinary sustainability science research similarly uses the politically neutral terms of supporting the coproduction and integration of different types of knowledge. Yet both are clearly normative, resting on notions of participatory democracy and adopting environmental and social sustainability as explicit norms. Here we present the case of a transdisciplinary transition management arena in Peru, convened to develop a vision of a lower carbon, more decentralized and resilient national energy system. We show how the characteristics of the arena can help to foster the necessary conditions for empowerment and how these in turn both support – and are supported by - the ability of participants from different backgrounds generate shared problem statements, visions and strategies, building towards a coalition for change. While it remains to be seen how politically influential such arenas can be in the medium and long term, we show that depoliticized, rational sustainability discourse nonetheless has a political role to play in helping to legitimize informal institutional efforts towards energy policy change. Highlights Transition management and transdisciplinary sustainability science rationales are complementary These rationales are integrated in a Transdisciplinary Transition Management Arena (TTMA) framework The TTMA is applied with Peruvian energy system stakeholders holding marginalised views on energy futures A vision for a low carbon Peru is developed that emphasises the inclusion of distributed renewables The TTMA is assessed in terms of its capacity to support conditions for the empowerment of marginalised policy stakeholders
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Renewables 2019 Global Cities Report. Paris: REN21 Secretariat. (Regional Contributor)
REN21 Secretariat
REN21’s Renewables in Cities Global Status Report (REC) series provides an overview of the status, trends and developments of renewable energy in cities, using the most up-to-date information and data available. The REC’s neutral, fact-based approach documents in detail the annual developments in policies, markets, investments and citizen action, with a particular focus on renewables in public, residential and commercial buildings as well as public and private urban transport. This report aims…
REN21’s Renewables in Cities Global Status Report (REC) series provides an overview of the status, trends and developments of renewable energy in cities, using the most up-to-date information and data available. The REC’s neutral, fact-based approach documents in detail the annual developments in policies, markets, investments and citizen action, with a particular focus on renewables in public, residential and commercial buildings as well as public and private urban transport. This report aims to inform decision makers and to create an active exchange of views and information around urban renewable energy.
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Noboa, E., Upham, P., Heinrichs, H., Collaborative energy visioning under conditions of illiberal democracy: results and arena design recommendations from Ecuador.
Energy Sustainability and Society
Sociotechnical transitions require pressure to be exerted from inside or outside of the prevailing ‘regime’, without which various path dependencies combine to maintain the status quo. Change agents including policy entrepreneurs within the regime, or civil society voices outside, can be sources of such pressure. However, in illiberal democracies or authoritarian regimes, these voices may be little heard or even suppressed. With the premise that this situation calls for protected transition…
Sociotechnical transitions require pressure to be exerted from inside or outside of the prevailing ‘regime’, without which various path dependencies combine to maintain the status quo. Change agents including policy entrepreneurs within the regime, or civil society voices outside, can be sources of such pressure. However, in illiberal democracies or authoritarian regimes, these voices may be little heard or even suppressed. With the premise that this situation calls for protected transition spaces for policy development that are outside of formal institutions, so that policy windows may be taken advantage of should they arise, this paper applies a transdisciplinary transition management arena (TTMA) process (Noboa and Upham, Energy Res Soc Sci 46:114–124, 2018), whereby civil society and other stakeholders can be engaged in the envisioning of new energy futures.
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Noboa, E., Upham, P., Transdisciplinary transition management arenas for energy policy futures design in illiberal democracies: a conceptual framework.
Energy Research and Social Science
While the theory and practice of transition management has been articulated and tested in Europe, little work in this vein has been undertaken in illiberal democracies, where state institutions may be captured by commercial interests, clientelism may operate and democratic rights may be constrained. We argue that a combination of insights from transition management and transdisciplinary research offers a basis for developing local strategies by which informal institutions can nurture…
While the theory and practice of transition management has been articulated and tested in Europe, little work in this vein has been undertaken in illiberal democracies, where state institutions may be captured by commercial interests, clientelism may operate and democratic rights may be constrained. We argue that a combination of insights from transition management and transdisciplinary research offers a basis for developing local strategies by which informal institutions can nurture alternative energy policy visions and prescriptions, in order to exploit policy windows that periodically arise. We articulate a conceptual framework to underpin such strategies, which emphasises the role of academics or other knowledge brokers as policy entrepreneurs, helping to build knowledge and capabilities, create networks of social capital and establish alternative discourse coalitions. While our particular applied interest here is in arenas for the development of low carbon energy scenarios in Latin America, the framework is also intended to have wider applicability.
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Renewables 2015 Global Status Report. Paris: REN21 Secretariat. (Lead Country Contributor)
REN21
The Renewables 2015 Global Status Report marks the tenth report in the GSR series. Its evolution from a 35-page report to one that currently stands at over 250 pages reflects both the breadth and depth of renewable energy development over the past decade.
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Energy Prospective Deployment as the Main Strategy for Energy Sovereignty and National Sustainability
El objetivo del presente trabajo es exponer la importancia de implementar procesos de análisis prospectivo en el sector energético ecuatoriano, de tal manera que se genere información científicotécnica que sirva como insumo para la formulación de políticas y la toma de decisiones entorno a las inversiones requeridas para el desarrollo sostenible y soberano del sector energético en el contexto del cambio de la matriz energética y productiva.
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Acosta, N., Noboa, E., Soria, R., Suárez, D., Mitigation - Technology Needs Assessment for Energy Generation from Municipal Solid Waste. Technical Report. Ministry of Environment. Quito, 2013
Technical Report. Ministry of Environment.
Through the TNA, Ecuador identified waste-to-energy technologies as crucial for reducing emissions and providing energy security for the rural population. Following the TNA, Ecuador reached out to the Climate Technology Centre and Network in 2015, asking for technical assistance to implement the anaerobic digesters and other waste-to-energy technologies identified in the TNA.
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Noboa, E., El Sector Energético en Suramérica: Evolución, potencial e integración. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Quito, 2013.
A lo largo del tiempo, el desarrollo de la energía ha sido singular en cada una de las subregiones y países de Suramérica. Sin embargo, si tratamos de homologar tendencias, podríamos decir que el sector energético viene acompañando el comportamiento de la economía y atravesando barreras y desafíos comunes.
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Noboa, E., Information and Material Flow Analysis in the Wood Supply Chain System of the Stora Enso Paper Mills Maxau and Wolfsheck (MSc Master Thesis). Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, 2004.
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Cortez, C., Noboa, E., Identificación de Competencias Clave para un Equipo de Representantes de Ventas del Sector Farmacéutico, Caso Pharmacia Inter American Corp (BA Thesis). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, 2001.
Honors & Awards
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CIM Expert Award
Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung (CIM)
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PhD Scholarship
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
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MBA Scholarship
Fundación Carolina
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MSc. Scholarship
DAAD
Languages
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Español
Native or bilingual proficiency
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English
Full professional proficiency
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German
Full professional proficiency
Organizations
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ASOCLIMA
Founder and Board Member
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Technology Executive Committee of the Technology Mechanism for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Latin America and the Caribbean Representative
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Universität Hamburg
Honorary Scientific Advisor
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