Events

Umberto Gori, Alberto Gasparini, Simone Arnaldi, Meir Javedanfar

September 15: An international conference on the legacy of Aurelio Peccei took place in Gorizia. It was organized by ISIG, IFRA and FUTURIBILI in collaboration with the Fonadziona Aurelio Peccei, the Slovenian Chapter, Croatian Chapter and European Support Centre of the Club of Rome.

Club of Rome Members Alberto Gasparini, Roberto Peccei, Orio Giarini, Ivo Slaus and tt30 Member Meir Javedanfar gave presentations at the event.

The programme is available for download.
More information is available on the Website of the
International Summer School Gorizia.
 

In the public conference on June 16-17th, the Club discussed the perspectives for a sustainable future. The event included the 2008 Aurelio Peccei Lecture.

For more information, please visit the Conference Webseite.

May 17th, 2007: Norman Myers discussed the challenge of maintaining biodiversity. Myers was among the first scientists to alert the global community to tropical deforestation, an impending mass extinction, and environmental security.

Norman Myers was introduced by Roberto Peccei (President of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei). The presentation was followed by contributions by Luigi Boitani (Direttore Dipartimento Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Roma) Gianfranco Bologna (Secretary-General of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei) and Riccardo Valentini (Direttore Dipartimento Scienze dell'Ambiente Forestale, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo).

Downloads:

• The invitation
• Slides of the presentation by Norman Myers (pdf, 0.8 MB)
• Slides of the presentation by Gianfranco Bologna (pdf, 1.4 MB)
• Slides of the presentation by Riccardo Valentini (pdf, 0.7 MB)

November 2nd, 2006: Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen discussed the "Human Influence on Climate" after an introduction by Roberto Peccei and Gianna Zappi. The presentation was followed by a round table discussion with Piero Angela, Gianfranco Bologna, Mario Gatto, Wolfgang Sachs and Riccardo Valentini. The 2006 Aurelio Peccei Lecture was organized by the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei in co-operation with WWF and ABI.

		Roberto Peccei, President of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei, opened the lecture and commemorated Umberto Colombo who passed away in August 2006.
		Gianna Zappi, responsible for CSR at ABI, pointed out, how important the topic of sustainability has become in CSR concepts.
		Paul Crutzen, Nobel Prize winner and pioneer in climate research, demonstrated that climate change is already happening and put in his lecture emphasis on the question, whether it is possible to influence the climate by the injection of sulfur compounds in the stratosphere.
		Piero Angela, well-known scientific journalist, represented the media on the panel and discussed their role.
		Gianfranco Bologna, Secretary General of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei and Scientific Director of WWF Italia emphasized that action is needed to meet the challenge of climate change.
		Marino Gatto, President of the "Società Italiana di Ecologia" showed how climate change is related to the extincion of species and shifts of habitats.
		Wolfgang Sachs, member of the Club of Rome, gave insight in the conflict which will occur if climate change proceeds.
		Riccardo Valentini, president of CNR, discussed the vulnerability of ecosystems and carbon pools.

November 15th, 2005: Jared Diamond, author of "The Third Chimpanzee", "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" and "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" gave the 2005 Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Rome and presented the Italian version "Collasso".

There were introductions by Roberto Peccei and Carlo Alberto Bonadies and interventions by Piero Angela, Gianfranco Bologna, Alessandro Lanza, Antonio Navarra and Giulio Sapelli.

November 23rd, 2004: On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of Aurelio Peccei, one of the founders of the Club of Rome, Prof. Eleonora Barbieri Masini held the 2004 Aurelio Peccei lecture in Rome.

The speech did not only demonstrate the extraordinary way of thinking of Aurelio Peccei, it gave also a very interesting insight to the history of the Club of Rome. The speech was later published as a booklet which is available for download.