13: The end of oil: Global systems in transition
Supported by Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism
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in englischer SpracheBy 2050, the world population is projected to reach 9 billion people. Climate change and resource scarcity will intensify. What can we do to counter the consequences of climate change and how can we cope with food shortages? How do we manage the transition to ecologically sustainable economic and industrial systems? Should we let existing systems collapse in order to build them up in a new and sustainable way?
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Ugo BARDI
Member, Club of Rome; Professor, University of Florence
| Ugo Bardi is a lecturer in physical chemistry at the University of Florence, in Italy. He is engaged in research on sustainability and energy, with a special view on the concept of circular economy and on the depletion of mineral resources. He is also a member of the Club of Rome, an international think tank dedicated to sustainability. He is active in the dissemination of scientific results in sustainability and climate science in English on the blog "Cassandra’s Legacy" (www.cassandralegacy.blogspot.it) | |
| He is the author of numerous papers on sustainability and of several books, including "The Limits to Growth Revisited" (Springer 2011) and "Extracted - how the quest for mineral wealth is plundering the planet" (Chelsea Green, 2014) and "The Seneca Effect, why growth is slow but collapse is rapid" (Springer 2017). Ugo is an Italian citizen, lives near Florence, Italy. He is married and has a son and a daughter. |
Werner BOOTE
Freelancer and Director, Vienna
| Born in 1965 in Vienna, Werner Boote started out as a cable boy. He studied drama and theater arts, journalism and sociology at the University of Vienna and at the film academy. After years of being an assistant director (to Robert Dornhelm, Ulrich Seidl, Bud Spencer, Marvin Chomsky and others) Boote began making his own films in 1993. His initial focus was on music, including the videos Anouk - Sacrifice (1999) and Andrea Bocelli - Tuscan Skies (2002). Numerous award-winning music documentaries followed, for example Kurt Rydl - The Gladiator (2007), which was nominated for the FIPA European Film Award. In 2009, his first feature film, Plastic Planet, arrived in Austrian cinemas and won the Golden Romy for "Best Documentary Feature". It went on to appear in over 80 countries and accomplished countless changes in legislation, industry and society. "It is one of those rare call-to-action documentaries that roused viewers to do something against plastics." (Variety) In the movie Population Boom (2013), Boote did away with the widespread worldview of overpopulation and called for distributive justice. The film was crowned with the Green Me Award for the Best Green documentary in Berlin. After the evocative documentary Everything´s under Control (2015) about the self-evidence of pervasive surveillance, his new film The Green Lie opens in March 2018 and premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). From 1993 to 2002, Werner Boote lived and worked in Amsterdam. He now resides in Vienna |
Elisabeth KÖSTINGER
Austrian Federal Minister for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism, Vienna
| Studied journalism, communication and applied cultural studies, University of Klagenfurt | |
| 1999-2003 | Assistant, Carinthia District Health Insurance Fund, Klagenfurt |
| 2002-2006 | Federal Head, Austrian Rural Youth Organisation |
| 2003-2005 | Delegate to the European Council of Young Farmers |
| 2007-2012 | Federal Chair, Austrian Young Farmers' Association |
| since 2009 | Vice-Chair, Austrian Farmers' Federation |
| 2014-2017 | President, Eco Social Forum Europe |
| since 2015 | Vice-Chair, Political Academy, ÖVP - Austrian People's Party |
| 2015-2017 | Federal Vice-Chair, Austrian People's Party |
| 2017-2019 | Austrian Federal Minister for Sustainability and Tourism, Vienna |
DI Heinz G. SCHRATT
Secretary General, PlasticsEurope Austria, Vienna
| 1980 | Graduation, University of Technology, Industrial Electronics and Theory of Control, Vienna |
| 1980-1990 | Guard Control Systems, Hewlett Packard GmbH, Vienna&Boston |
| since 1991 | Independent communications expert, Technology and Public Affairs, Vienna |
| since 2008 | Secretary General, PlasticsEurope Austria, Vienna |
Ing. MSc Monika LANGTHALER
Managing Partner, brainbows informationsmanagement GmbH; Director, R20 Austrian World Summit, Vienna
| Monika Langthaler-Rosenberg is scientific staff member at the "Österreichisches Ökologie-Institut" (Austrian Institute of Ecology). Between 1990 and 1999 she was member of the Austrian National Council and spokeswomen for the Green Party for environmental, energy and telecommunication issues. From 1998 to 1999 member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Monika Langthaler-Rosenberg finished her master studies Environmental Management (MSc) at the University of London. Numerous publications in the area of waste management, chemical policy, guidelines for strategic environmental assessments, environmental economics and citizen participation. She is founder and managing partner at the consultancy firm "brainbows the information company" specialized in sustainability and energy & climate, based in Vienna. Since 2010 she is member of the advisory board "Friends of Education Africa in Austria". Since 2014 she is director of the association "R20 Austria & EU" and member of the supervisory board of Allianz Elementar Insurance Group and Allianz Elementar Life Insurance Group. |
