Theme and Objectives: How can we rebuild public trust in an era of misinformation and disinformation? What role do emotions and ideologies play in shaping public perception of scientific facts? How can practitioners effectively communicate complex scientific data to diverse audiences? What innovative practices can enhance public participation and trust in environmental assessments? In recent times, public trust in governments, the media, and information has significantly eroded, leading to increased societal polarization. When emotions, ideologies, and a lack of transparency overshadow scientific facts, environmental assessment faces serious challenges.

Artificial intelligence (AI) will impact every aspect of our lives, our careers, and our environment. It is difficult to predict the effective impact of this new disruptive technology on impact assessment (IA). We are facing the opportunity of using the extraordinary potential of artificial intelligence to support our assessments and our choices. Like any paradigm innovation capable of impacting every aspect of society, artificial intelligence requires that institutions, IA practitioners, and all stakeholders understand its importance and explore, detect, and contribute to mitigate its effective and pervasive impact on environment.

More Effective Impact Assessment: Tools for Stronger Argument and Clearer Writing (OTC 24-19).

This webinar is aimed at all professionals and/or students interested in sustainability, production, efficiency, and innovation and how it can be applied in different industries. The conference will have a special focus on the Circular Economy, and how it can lead us to a different way of producing and thus have a more appropriate and sustainable management of waste. Cases will be presented, as well as strategies for the Circular Economy and the main challenges for the application of this trend.

Are you passionate about sustainability and innovation? This free webinar on 14 January will dive into the transformative concept of the Circular Economy and how it can lead to more sustainable production practices and efficient waste management across industries. Designed for professionals and students alike, this webinar will inspire you with actionable insights and real-world applications.

Latin American countries face significant challenges regarding sustainable development, due to their increasing vulnerability caused by severe weather events related to climate change. Coupled with the increasing demand for services and resources, these challenges highlight the urgent need to develop sustainable infrastructure to meet the needs of the growing population. Gather with international experts for this two-day event to discuss current infrastructure challenges in the region, exploring how environmental strategic planning contributes to resilient infrastructure and more sustainable economies throughout Latin America.

Impact assessment practice is supporting moves toward more resolute action on the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. This realignment of policy and practice involves all sectors of society. We need to protect the environment while embracing justice and social inclusion. It is clear that we all need to do more and to move faster. We need multiple Just Transitions. We need a Just Transformation. The impact assessment community can play a critical role in moving from a Just Transition to a Just Transformation. We urgently need to decarbonize energy markets, to advance a green and circular economy, to protect social justice and equality, to incentivize restorative measures to halt or reverse natural resource degradation, and to increase human and environmental wellbeing.

This course will help you reason more clearly and write more effective impact assessments.  Better arguments make key decisions more transparent and help reduce risks to projects. Environmental impact assessment - like all technical writing - constantly uses reasoning to reach conclusions. That process is called `argument`, which means to assemble a series of reasons, leading to conclusions, for a specific audience. This course shares two sets of tools. The first provides principles for creating clearer arguments that apply to phases of the IA process.  The second shows how to better present arguments in the written text of your documents.

This course will help you reason more clearly and write more effective impact assessments. Better arguments make key decisions more transparent and help reduce risks to projects. Environmental impact assessment - like all technical writing - constantly uses reasoning to reach conclusions. That process is called `argument`, which means to assemble a series of reasons, leading to conclusions, for a specific audience. This course shares two sets of tools. The first provides principles for creating clearer arguments that apply to phases of the IA process. The second shows how to better present arguments in the written text of your documents.

This course will help you reason more clearly and write more effective impact assessments.  Better arguments make key decisions more transparent and help reduce risks to projects. Environmental impact assessment - like all technical writing - constantly uses reasoning to reach conclusions.  That process is called `argument`, which means to assemble a series of reasons, leading to conclusions, for a specific audience. This course shares two sets of tools.  The first provides principles for creating clearer arguments that apply to phases of the IA process.  The second shows how to better present arguments in the written text of your documents.

The overarching objective is to create a path to resilience through impact assessment and leadership. To accomplish this objective, IAIA23 endeavors to curate a collection of presentations relating to conceptual advances and contextual applications of impact assessment that exemplify agility, transformation, innovation, leadership, sustainability, and resilience.