Sustainable development The global challenge of this century

This year, we are offering three comprehensive seminars at the Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen, which are largely identical in content and open to the public, in which knowledge of the interrelationships and thematic scope of sustainability will be imparted.

Renowned scientists will give lectures on the central topics of sustainability.

Program

11.00 a.m. – Lecture: Sustainability – the challenge of our century Klaus Wiegandt Founder and Chairman of the Foundation Forum for Responsibility, former Spokesman of the Management Board of METRO AG
14.00 – Lecture: The importance of and threats to biodiversity Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger Director at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum in Frankfurt/Main, Scientific Coordinator of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Center (BiK-F)
16.00 – Lecture: Causes and consequences of climate change Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif
June 27, 2012
09.00 a.m. – Lecture: Can the earth feed 9 billion people? Prof. Dr. Michael Krawinkel Professor of Human Nutrition with a focus on nutrition in developing countries at the Institute of Nutritional Science at Justus Liebig University Giessen
11.00 a.m. – Lecture: How long will water as a resource last? Dr. Engelbert Schramm Head of the research focus Water Infrastructure and Risk Analysis at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in Frankfurt/Main
14.00 – Lecture: How fast is the number of people growing? Prof. Dr. Rainer Münz Head of the Research Department of “Erste Bank” in Vienna, Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI)
16.00 – Discussion
June 28, 2012
09.00 a.m.: Lecture: The end of the growth society Prof. Dr. Dirk Löhr Professor of Taxation and Ecological Economics at the University of Applied Sciences Trier, Environmental Campus Birkenfeld
11.00 a.m. – Lecture: The future of energy supply Prof. Dr. Hermann-Josef Wagner Professor of Energy Systems and Energy Economics at Ruhr University Bochum
2.00 p.m. – Lecture: Education for sustainable development Prof. Dr. Peter Euler Managing Director at the Institute for General Education and Vocational Education at TU Darmstadt
16.00 – Discussion
June 29, 2012
08.30 a.m. – Lecture: Global Governance Dr. Achim Brunnengräber Private lecturer in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin, deputy professor at TU Dresden, Chair of International Politics and Center for International Studies (ZIS)
10.00 a.m. – Lecture: The great transformation towards sustainability Prof. Dr. Klaus Helling Dean of the Department of Environmental Economics/Law, Director of the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS) at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld
11.30 a.m. – Discussion