Program WRF 2011

8:00 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 PLENARY SESSION III – „Where do we all go from here?“

9:00 Introduction by session chair Ashok Khosla, Co-President Club of Rome & President IUCN
9:05 Keynote address by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-Chair International Resource Panel on “Policies and Technologies of Decoupling”
9:25 Keynote address by Marilyn Mehlmann, General Secretary Global Action Plan International on “A hunger for less”
9:45 Keynote address by Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Vice Chair of the European Society for Ecological Economics, Scientific Member UNEP International Resource Panel on “Sociometabolic regimes, revolutions and transitions”
10:05 Keynote address by Reinhard Bütikofer, Member European Parliament on "Steps towards a sustainable resource management"
10:25 Questions from the audience

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS (PS) AND WORKSHOPS (WS)

PS 1 Security of Supply
PS 2 Growth, Innovation, Decoupling, Efficiency and Sufficiency
PS 3 Assessment Methods, Resource Use Indicators and Targets
PS 5 Communication and Education
WS 9 Economic and Social Aspects of Resources (in preparation)
UCS Creative Simulation Game on Sustainable Resource Use
Film-presentation: "The Light Bulb Conspiracy", with introduction by writer/director Cosima Dannoritzer
Special Briefing UNEP Resource Panel
Global Resource Mapping - Youth Encounter on Sustainability

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 16:00 CONFERENCE SUMMARY AND CLOSING

14:00 Introduction by session chairman, Michel Monteil, Swiss Ministry for the Environment, and Xaver Edelmann, President World Resources Forum
14:15 Highlights congress, video impressions, perspective from youth, Bas de Leeuw, Managing Director World Resources Forum
14:45 Presentation of conference summary, list of recommendations by Shaoyi Li, UNEP Resource Panel
15:15 Closing Panel, moderated by Harry Lehmann, UBA
15:45 Special Announcement by Yonglong Lü, Chinese Academy of Sciences
15:50 Closing Remarks by Xaver Edelmann, President World Resources Forum

16:00 Farewell Cocktail