Shaping the Future of Natural Resources - Towards a Green Economy
The World Resources Forum (WRF) is a science-based platform to exchange knowledge about the economic, political and environmental implications of global resource use. WRF promotes innovation for resource productivity by building bridges among researchers, policymakers, business, NGOs and the public. Flagship activity is the annual WRF Conference, held in Davos, Switzerland, in 2011 and taking place in Beijing, China, later this year.
St. Gallen, January 2012. Steps towards a resource efficient green economy depend not only on technical knowledge, but also on institutional changes and social innovation – and therefore call for consideration of the social sciences and humanities perspectives. This is the key message of an article which was published in the last issue of GAIA, transdisciplinary journal for scientists and other interested parties concerned with the causes and analyses of environmental and sustainability problems and their solutions. The article, published on 20 December 2011, was written by the WRF Secretariat and SAGUF, the Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology.
St. Gallen, December 2011. Today the WRF secretariat published the meeting report of the World Resources Forum, held in Davos, from 19-21 September 2011. The 80 pages full coulour report "Shaping the Future of our Natural Resources - Towards a Green Economy" presents the chair's statement of the conference, a report of all plenary sessions and highlights of the workshops.
St. Gallen, November 2011. Over one hundred speakers came to the Davos World Resource Forum. Politicians, scientists, researchers, business leaders, representatives from NGO's .. they were all there and shared their latest findings, in plenary and parallel sessions, in workshops and in side-events. 
St. Gallen, November 2011. The World Resources Forum Secretariat continues the series "Resource Snapshots" with water. You can learn in less than 2 minutes the key issues of this vital element.
St. Gallen, November 2011. For progress in addressing the major global resource challenges it is now necessary that natural and social scientists and stakeholders from all perspectives work together. The World Resources Forum offers such a platform. This said Xaver Edelmann, President of the WRF, in his closing remarks at the occasion of the Re-source conference, held in St. Gallen from 8-9 November, 2011, organised by the Environment Ministries of Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
Bern, November 2011. The international community should not miss the opportunity to send clear messages on the Green Economy at the Rio+20 conference. At the same time, it should showcase major steps already being implemented. This is in a nutshell the vision of the government of Switzerland, as expressed in its official submission to UNCSD 2012 (Rio +20). 
St. Gallen, October 2011. The WRF 2011 participants feedback survey is now closed. Almost 50% of the participants took part in the survey and the results are very positive.
Welcome from
Dr. Xaver Edelmann,
President of the WRF
More than 400 participants from 40 countries participated in the 2011 World Resources Forum Conference and made it a great success. See here for a short summary (press release).
The next WRF Conference is taking place in Bejing, China from October 14-17, 2012. Please have a look at the first announcement.
The 2012 WRF Conference is an event in a series of high-profile conferences on global resources issues, formerly known as R-Conferences (Recycling), being organised since 1993.
I hope to meet you in Beijing!
Dr. Xaver Edelmann
President,
World Resources Forum
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