Program - Plenary Day; September 16, 2009

Opening Addresses

Chaired by Xaver Edelmann, President World Resources Forum & Member Board of Directors Empa

Bruno Oberle, Director, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)

Sigmar Gabriel, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Germany (video message)

Ashok Khosla, Co-President, Club of Rome & President IUCN

Dennis Meadows, President, Laboratory for Interactive Learning & Japan Prize Laureate

Timo Mäkelä, Director, Directorate G. DG Environment, European Commission

Bas deLeeuw, Head, Integrated Resource Management of UNEP

Session 1: Why a World Resources Forum?

Chaired by Marina Fischer-Kowalski, President, International Society for Industrial Ecology; Chair of the Scientific Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & Member UNEP Resource Panel

Ernst-Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-Chair, UNEP Resource Panel & Takeda Prize Laureate

Session 2: Regional Perspectives - Meeting the Challenges

Chaired by Ashok Khosla, Co-President, Club of Rome & President IUCN

Aromar Revi, Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements

Gary Gardner, Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute

Harry Lehmann, General Director, Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies, German Federal Environmental Agency

Zhouying Jin, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

and: video transmission, reporting from WRF symposium in Japan

Session 3: Future Scenarios and Strategies

Chaired by Bernd Meyer, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Osnabrueck

Wolfgang Lutz, Leader of the IIASA World Population Program

Paul Ekins, Professor, Department of Geography, King's College London

Session 4: Call for Action

Anders Wijkman, Former Member of European Parliament & Member of EU Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety