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Shaping the Future of Natural Resources

The World Resources Forum (WRF) is an independent, international platform for debate on global resource consumption issues, advocating innovation for resource productivity. The WRF is building a bridge from the natural sciences and engineering to economics; it aims to equip political decision makers to identify realistic policy options for sustainable growth.

 

Welcome

Dear visitor,
Welcome to the World Resources Forum!
You are cordially invited to participate in the first public event of the WRF, taking place in Davos in September 2009.
The WRF will provide you with first-hand information about natural resource use, its current trends and limitations, and will serve as a platform on which to discuss their economic and political implications.
Join us in Davos to help create a science-based, realistic vision of sustainable resource use!

Dr. Xaver Edelmann

 

     
Natural Resources
 Eco-efficient
Technologies		 Economic
Frameworks
How can growth continue
on a finite planet?		 What is the future role
of technology in using
resources productively?		 How must the rules of
the economic game
be defined to avoid
self destruction?


The WRF is a joint initiative of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa) and Prof. Dr. Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek (President of the Factor 10 Institute), supported by the Swiss Academy for Engineering Sciences (SATW) and the Mercator Foundation Switzerland.

 

The WRF 2009 will be held in conjunction with the R’09 World Congress on resource management and will be transmitted via videoconferencing to Nagoya/Japan and Berlin/Germany.

 

The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment and the UNEP Resource Panel are among the partners of the World Resources Forum. 

 

Please find the preliminary program here.

 

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