[MUSIC] As I'm driving home from the airport I look out and see the shacks on the side of the freeway they remind me of poverty and the need for development in South Africa. But I'm coming back from a climate change meeting. And driving this car, and even more so taking a flight, puts more carbon emissions into the atmosphere. This really illustrates the contradiction between development and climate change. My name is Harald Winkler, and I'm a professor at the Energy Research Centre at the University of Cape Town. I invite you to join me on this online course together with my colleagues from the MAPS community. Climate change is already real and in order to address the challenge, we need to reduce the emissions we put into the atmosphere from many activities. Everyday things like putting on the lights, taking a flight, driving a car, producing goods in a factory, buying those goods, generating electricity. But all of these activities are central to development, and they are important to improve the well-being of people, and address basic needs, particularly in developing countries. Climate change and development are both really complex challenges. They're known as wicked problems, and addressing them both together is a super-wicked problem. These are problems that defy any simple, easy solutions. They're the kind of problems where you only learn about them as you're trying to address them, and you fully understand them along the way. So we are going to take you on a journey in this online course to address the super wicked problem with development and climate change. MAPS stands for Mitigation Actions Plans and Scenarios. And in the MAPS program, we've tried to tackle this complex challenge of developing in five developing countries. MAPS program has us intercede in South Africa the longterm mitigation scenarios where there was not only a research process but also a facilitated stakeholder process, a scenario building team mandated by government, which is where we first had an experience in how effective such an approach can be. And this was run by ERC where I worked together with (SSN) South South North as a partnership. And we then had the opportunity to share this experience in four other developing developing countries, in Brazil, Chile, Columbia, and Peru, who took this broad approach of research mandate and process. In each in their own context to try address the challenges. And so from 2010 to 2015 the MAPS program has been running in those four countries. And by building on these case studies and experimenting with different ways we've generated a perspective from the globe itself on the challenges of development and climate change. So these experiments we've run in the maps program focus on the country label but why can't we solve this problem at an individual level? Well of course we could but it would have to make certain assumptions about what different people do. So changing climate change through changing consumption would mean for example that richer people would have to understand that they can actually live Better with less. The made a big change in the middle class, who generally tend to aspire to having higher levels of consumption and change in those aspirations. And so if you wanted to explore change at the individual level, we'd really need big changes of paradigms of mindsets, which we don't currently have. We'd actually need a whole new social contract, where the rich agree to do with a little less, while lifting the poor out of poverty and then while we could indeed reduce emissions through a consumption based approach. But we will think about focusing on that towards the end of this course, when we think about the more innovative approaches and thinking out of the box. Each of the maps processes they experiment in these five countries did look at what's required by science, and also equity. So, each of the countries looked at what action we take on, to reduce green house gas emissions, which we call mitigation, but how you distribute. how you distribute the effort involved in those actionsamong stakeholders and the country is, is a matter of fairness and tackling that as well as the global challenge of limiting temperature increase to below two degrees celsius is a really tough challenge. This course is for those who want to tackle the tough challenges of development and climate change. So through this journey that we hope you will join us on, we will present some experiences in the MAPS community. I really hope that this course will inspire you to take action and to make a difference in your context. It's only by everyone acting together that we can hope to solve the development and climate challenge. So join me and the community in this course as we share our experience in learning with you. [MUSIC]