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Open plenary talk by Professor Dr. Eicke Weber
“Dramatic temperature increases and climate instabilities can bring about the END OF THE HOLOCENE by human influence!”
“Rapidly introducing renewable energy use and energy efficiency are our only hope to avoid drastic climate change & ever increasing energy prices; EU-20:20:20 goals; 20% reduction of energy use, 20% renewable energies; till 2020 are modest goals.”
“The green economy will create millions of
jobs worldwide. Wind and solar energy will develop into the
dominant renewable energies, serving markets with 100s of
Bn$ volume.”
Al-Gore Climate
Project by Rebecca Phyland "What
doesn’t seem to be appreciated is that the longer we wait,
the more greenhouse gases are emitted and the more has to be
removed from the atmosphere to stabilise carbon dioxide at
450 parts per million (the level needed to give a chance of
avoiding a 2-degree increase)….we´re already at 460 parts
per million or higher”. | Professor David Karoly, IPCC
author, June 2009 “The world is at a cross roads. This is a
call to negotiators (at Copenhagen) to come to the most
ambitious agreement ever negotiated or to continue to accept
mass starvation, mass sickness and mass migration on an
ever-growing scale.” | Kofi Annan, President of the
Global Humanitarian Forum
World of Polar Bears—Already Game Over? by Dr. Ulrike Stephan
“Polar Bears: Teaching us to respect natural physical laws; teaching us to recycle; teaching us in total to respect these specialists of survival; their similarity to humans in various behaviour forms meets our hearts; being known from life´s beginning (fairy tales and legends) they belong to our souls.......” .
"Why is this species so highly discussed? What is so dangerous about changing climate? Or- Polar Bears - just an idea of a fanatic biologist? Surely not - I´m not alone....."
"There is an evident damage of the arctic ecosystem.....Deep Shock for nature- Deep Emotion, Pure Sense for Responsibility (and) Education".
"Take your heart and soul and go ahead and go ahead for Sustainability, Education and Conservation!"Sustainable Development Policy Making - Challenges & Opportunities by Dr. Marek Haliniak
"To durably overcome the global crisis and achieve Sustainable Development we need, among other things, to reshape forms of Public Administration (PA) education."
"The main causes of this global crisis are: egoism and short-sightedness of policy-makers; lack of knowledge about complex, social and environmental (including temporally and spatially long-range), consequences of socio-economy activity and other changes in environment; lack of connection between access to wealth/profits and eco-social usefulness of person’s and organization’s activity."Human Capital Development in Green Economies by Lisa Rustico and Vittorio Ayra
“Job churn” effect ® change in skill needs."
"New skills for new jobs (economic rationale)"
"Green skills: something completely new...to be developed all life long."
“At the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world –and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfil your responsibilities.” | Barack Obama, Back to School Event, Arlington, Virginia, 8th SeptemberEnvironmental Protection through Information Technology - a model from Argentina by Maria Victoria Marini
"Once the amount of tones of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is calculated, they (children) calculate the amount of trees they need to plant so that the balance between the carbon dioxide release to produce that electric energy and forest capture is zero or negative."