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FUTURE EVENTS
Zurich: Club of Rome supports Richard R. Ernst Lecture
June 18: The Lecture 2010 will be delivered by Nobel Laureate and former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan.
Kofi Annan will talk about "Scientific Research and Society" and will focus on how university research and education can contribute to society.
Together with Professor Ralph Eichler, President of ETH Zurich, Dr. Eberhard von Koerber, Co-President of the Club of Rome will
deliver a welcome address.
For further information, please visit the website of the
International Club.
Vienna: Climate Change Collaboratory
June 16: Climate Change Communication and Collaboration: Translating Awareness into Collective Action is the title of an event co-organized by the European Support Centre of the Club of Rome.
Among the speakers, there will be Ian Johnson, Secretary General of the International Club and Helga Kromp-Kolb, member of the Board of the Austrian Chapter. The event is held on the occasion of the start of the Climate Change Collaboratory project in which the European Support Centre is involved a a partner.
The Climate Change Collaboratory (Triple-C) aims to utilize new media technology for strengthening the relations between scientists, policy makers, educators, environmental NGOs, news media and corporations, stakeholders who recognize the need for climate change adaptation and mitigation but differ in their specific worldviews, goals and agendas. Triple-C will manage a large repository of expert knowledge and provide a platform for effective communication and collaboration. Innovative survey instruments in the tradition of games with a purpose will create shared meaning and leverage networking platforms to capture indicators of environmental attitudes, lifestyles and behaviors.
For further information and registration, please download the
invitation.
Vienna: Water as a Strategic Resource
June 15: Jack Smith, Director of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR), will present the work of a team of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome, which prepared the fist volume of a new CACOR journal.
In spite of a perception of relative apparent abundance of water in Canada, competing demands for limited water resources by communities, industry and agriculture are putting increasing pressure on Canada's watersheds and the communities they support.
Registration is manadory for participation. For further information and registration, please download the invitation.
Barcelona: Social Challenges of an Ageing Population
June 10: an event with D. Guillem López Casasnovas will be held within the series Ciclo sobre las claves demográficas del mundo actual.
After the presentation, José Manuel Morán, Vice President of the Spanish Chapter will present the recent volume of the Ponencies.
For further information and registration, please download the
invitation.
PAST EVENTS
Vienna: Faktor 5
May 26: The German edition of the new report to the Club of Rome was presented in Vienna by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.
The event at the Technical University of Vienna was attended by more than 600 participants. The audience was welcomed by Vizerektor Hans Kaiser and Umweltstadträtin Ulli Sima.
Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson, Secretary-General of the international Club of Rome introduced the speaker and outlined the ongoing work of the Club.
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker introduced "Faktor 5" and demonstrated that the present level of wealth could be maintained with 20 per cent of the resources
used today. He presented case studies from the construction sector and discussed the impact of the rebound effect: In the past, efficiency gains have been
overcompensated by increasing consumption - because the price signals of the markets pointed to the wrong direction. In addition, von Weizsäcker demonstrated that an environmental Kuznets curve does not yet exist for greenhouse gas emissions and discussed the issue of lifestyles.
Presentation
The slides are available for download as pdf (4 MB).
Media (in German language)
Factor 5
Authors: Weizsäcker, E., Hargroves, K., Smith, M., Desha, C. and Stasinopoulos, P.
The event was organized by the Club of Rome - European Support Centre and Austrian Chapter and Bank Austria Unicredit Group in cooperation with Technical University of Vienna, SERI and the Oekosoziales Forum.
For further information about the series "Thinking the Future", please visit the
Zukunft Denken Website.
ORGANISATION
Max Schön Member of the German Council for Sustainable Development
Max Schön, entrepreneur and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of DESERTEC Foundation was invited by Chancellor Angela Merkel to become a member of the Council for Sustainable Development of the German Government.
Max Schön is President of the German Association of the Club of Rome and Member of the Board of the European Support Centre.
Links to further information:
PUBLICATIONS
The Blue Economy
Gunter Pauli, author of a new Report to the Club of Rome - The Blue Economy,
presents two innovations with a high potential for a sustainable future:
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