From Lorenz.Hilty at empa.ch Tue Jul 21 22:16:38 2009 From: Lorenz.Hilty at empa.ch (Hilty, Lorenz) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:16:38 +0200 Subject: [Itenv] R'09 Congress and World Resources Forum Davos: Detailed Program now Available Message-ID: *** Field Experiment in Saving CO2 by Videoconferencing *** Dear Colleague The R'09 World Congress on "Resource Management and Technology for Material and Energy Efficiency" will be held at two sites, Nagoya in Japan and Davos in Switzerland, connected by most advanced Cisco videoconferencing technology. Dennis Meadows, Hiroshi Esaki, Faye Duchin, Chettiyappan Visvanathan, Guibin Jiang, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Shiro Saka and Helga Weisz will provide plenary lectures. It you want to take part in this experiment, come to the conference site which is closer to your location. As an additional activity, the first WORLD RESOURCES FORUM will be embedded in the R'09 Twin Congress. Speakers include Achim Steiner (UNEP Executive Director) and Ernst-Ulrich von Weizs?cker. http://www.r2009.org/ http://www.worldresourcesforum.org Detailed program for Davos now available at: http://www.r2009.org/download/Davos_Final_Program.pdf Looking forward to meeting you in Davos (virtually or physically) With best regards Prof. Dr. Lorenz M. Hilty Head of Laboratory, Technology and Society Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research Lerchenfeldstr. 5 CH-9014 St.Gallen Switzerland Phone +41-71-274 73 45 Fax +41-71-274 78 62 http://www.empa.ch/tsl Join us at the WORLD RESOURCES FORUM and R'09 Twin World Congress: http://www.r2009.org/