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Videos of the Davos Talks now available
On the occasion of the first World Resources Forum in Davos in September 2009, the Aachen Foundation (www.aachener-stiftung.de) in collaboration with Zeitfilm (www.zeitfilm.de) and the German journalist Bert Beyers interviewed some of the most knowledgeable people in the field of sustainable resource use.
The results of this effort are a number of 8’-films, showing 12 people and their ideas about resource use and sustainability.
Some of the films are in German language, some in English.
As of today these films can be watched at www.worldresourcesforum.org/video-clips or www.faktor-x.info/multimedia/videos.
A 30’-film telling the full story of limits to resource consumption and the necessities for the next decades will be released end of March 2010.
This film will also be published on the WRF website and on the foundations’ website.
New Videos online
As of today two new videos are online on the World Resources Forum website:
- The film clip "Beyond Climate Change - Flow" commissioned by the German Environmental Agency, which had its premiere in Davos at the World Resources Forum
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Thanks a lot!
Three days in Davos - ten students among the participants - and this blog as the outcome! Time to thank those who got this project going - and made it a success!
Werner Bosmans' opinion on the call - II
Werner Bosmans shares his view on the call for action. The most important issues he points out are:
- the important part should be resource efficiency
- the call shows the urgency of problem
- it lacks solutions
For more detailed comments, please visit our video.
Marina Fischer-Kowalski opinion on the call - I
After the official end of the WRF, we have asked Marina Fischer-Kowalski for a short comment on the present shape on the call.
The most important points she has mentioned are:
- strenghtening education for resources limits is crucial
- it is too focused on industrial countries
- it will have no impact
Do you want to know more? Please see our video.
Getting back on the OLD tracks?
During the last minutes of the World Resources Forum the Breaking News on Bloomberg is as follows:
"Stocks, Commodities Climb on Speculation Economy Is Growing". Nothing wrong about higher commodity prices, right? Actually quite the contrary as it was stressed several times during these days here in Davos. But the headlines are quite symbolic for the link between resources and growth, aren’t they? What about decupling? Are we getting back on the OLD tracks?Read more...
Let’s go out and do it? Not so much.
The “Call for Action“ at the WRF
The so-called “call for action” is more a “we’ve discussed a framework for future actions” document than a collection of activities you, your neighbour, government and business world can do right now.Read more...
Declaration out of a magic hat
During the WRF we have been told that we had to limit our consumption, our growth, because if we didn't, we would reach the Earth's physical limit. I am sorry, but no speaker has come up with a good definition of what our physical limit was, with a good definition of what consumption should be. All they say was that we should change the trend ( decrease instead of increase ). But what if we were still in the boundaries of our physical limit ? If we really are above this " limit ", where is this limit ? I haven't seen any figures. Once again, I expected more from this forum.
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Business As Usual
As one the commentators put it, the declaration of the World Resources Forum 2009 is aimed at the developped countries. If a developping country minister had a look at it, here is what he could read :
- Seek international agreements world-wide on per-capita targets for natural resource extraction and consumption
- Introduce with urgency resource use targets in areas of particular concern – like fresh water
- Focus research and development on the goal of increasing resource productivity ( ... ) national economies will become less dependent on resource imports, in particular fossil energy carriers.
