WRF 2012 program and presentations

Sunday, October 21, 2012:

Registration, High-level Opening Session, Plenary Sessions, Poster Session and Welcome Cocktail

14h00 Opening (chaired by Jinghai Li, Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, and Xaver Edelmann, President, World Resources Forum, Board of Directors Empa, Switzerland)

• Welcome address by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
• H.E. Li Ganjie, Vice-Minister of Environmental Protection, People's Republic of China
• Xaver Edelmann, President, World Resources Forum, Board of Directors Empa, Switzerland - Presentation
  
• Bruno Oberle, State Secretary Environment, Director, Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Switzerland
• Arthur Ruf, Vice President, Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, Switzerland - Presentation
  

15h00 Plenary I “Green economy: what are the challenges?”

• Amory B. Lovins Chairman and Chief Scientist Rocky Mountain Institute, USA - TED talk
  
• Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Vice Chair Environment Committee, European Parliament, Netherlands - Presentation
  
• Mohan Munasinghe, Vice Chair, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Sri Lanka - Presentation
• Lothar Reh, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland - Presentation - Presentation (further information in publication)
• G. Q. Max Lu, University of Queensland, Australia - Presentation

17h20 Plenary II “Green Economy: how to make it happen?”

• Yi Kang, former Minister of Metallurgical Engineering - Presentation
  
• Thomas Graedel, Yale University, USA - Presentation
• James Bradfield Moody, Executive Director Development, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia - Presentation

18h40 Poster Session and Exhibition

19h30 Welcome Cocktail 

Monday, October 22, 2012:

Workshops, Scientific Sessions, Exhibition, Posters, Congress Banquet

08h30-18h00 Workshops

• 08h30 - 18h15 Special Briefing on UNEP‘s latest findings in Resource Efficiency (UNEP, Bangkok/Paris. Presentations by: prof. Mohan Munasinghe; Heinz Schandl, Sonja Heyenga and Karin Hosking; Rajan Gandhi; Chen Shaofeng; Thomas E. Graedel;  Markus Reuter; Yuichi Moriguchi
• 08h30 - 10h15 Urban Eco-Efficiency Lab - Cities, Biodiversity and Ecosystems (WRF/Secretariat Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada. Presentations by:  Xaver Edelmann; Sibylle Rock; Stephan Wabnegger
• 10h45 - 12h30 Circular economy (CAS, China).
• 14h00 - 18h15 Balancing Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Consumption and Production in Asia and the Pacific – Challenges for Policy, Research and Practice (Global Research Forum on Sustainable Production and Consumption, USA). Presentations by: Lewis Akenji 1), 2);  Ying Feng; Patrick Schroeder; Heinz Schandl; Leonie Dendler
• 14h00 - 16h00 Upscaling mechanisms for Sustainable Consumption and Production – achievements and lessons learnt in the SWITCH-Asia Programme (UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production, Germany).
• 16h30 - 18h15 Resource Efficiency Strategies in Europe  – EU Roadmap and National Implementation (German Federal Environmental Agency, Germany). Presentations by: Christopher Manstein 1), 2); Arnold Tukker;  Gerhard Weihs; Yi Heng Cheng.

18h00 Congress Banquet 

Tuesday, October 23, 2012:

Plenary Sessions, Scientific Sessions, Workshops, Exhibition, Posters, Summary, Awards, Closing Session

08h30-12h30 Workshops

• 08h30 - 12h30 Urban Mining, Challenges and Opportunities (Empa, Switzerland). Presentation by: Empa; Jinhui Li; Luis Neves; Rainer Kuendig; Anukka Dickens
• 08h30 - 10h15 When will they start listening to us? (Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences/WRF, Switzerland). Presentation by: Thomas Graedel; Heinz Gutscher; Janet Salem; Prof. Arnold Tukker; Dr. Rainer Kuendig
• 08h30 - 12h30 Sustainable Industry -  Sustainable Management of Forest Resources and Wood Constructions (Koli Forum, Finland). Presentations by: Li Zhang; Koli Forum;

08h30-12h30 Scientific sessions 

• Metal and Mineral Resources (Session 3)
• Clean Coal Technologies (Session 5)
• Waste/Material Recovery and Recycling (Session 9)
• Food and Biomass (Session 7)
• Nano Green Energy (Session 12)
• Petroleum and Natural Gas Upgrading (Session 4)

14h00 Plenary III “Green Economy: what are the success stories?"

• Edward Clarence-Smith, UNIDO representative and Head Regional Office, China - Presentation
• Joachim Klink, Director, Global Automotive & Aerospace Industry Architect, Hewlett-Packard, USA - Presentation
• Stephan Wabnegger, CEO, CREE, Austria - Presentation
• Markus Reuter, Outotec, Finland - Presentation
  

16h00 Plenary Highlights Panel (chaired by Bas de Leeuw, Managing Director WRF, Switzerland)

• Christian Ludwig, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, presentation
• Panel discussion with workshop rapporteurs

17h00 Closing Session and Awards

• Arthur Ruf, Vice President, Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, Switzerland
  
• Xaver Edelmann, President, World Resources Forum, Board of Directors Empa, Switzerland - Presentation
  
• Jinghai Li, Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China

You can download the final program here (PDF)