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Title: How chemical cycles shape our planet: the global challenge
Date: May 29-30, 2012
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Date: May 29-30, 2012
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This symposium covered three topics:
- Climate questions
- Fuel, environment and chemistry
- Global questions: sustainability - trends and necessary action
The list of speakers included Hans Rosling, as well as Nobel Prize winners and Molecular Frontiers Scientific Advisory Board members Roald Hoffman and Sir Harold Kroto.
Lectures, in chronologial order:
Myths and facts of a converging world | 
Hans Rosling, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Can selective catalysts deliver clean technology and sustainability? |
Sir John Meurig Thomas, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
A multidimensional index of greenness, with the entropy added to the universe as only one parameter |
Roald Hoffmann, 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Cornell University, United States
Cooperation for sustainable development in the changing world
Chunli Bai, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Biological design by evolution |
Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology, United States
Nanoscience – potentials and threats |
Paul Alivisatos, Head of Lawrence Berkely Laboratory, United States
The climate change crisis - its solution must also involve changing people’s behaviour through global education |
Sir Harold Kroto, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Florida State University, United States
Synthetic biology towards biofuels |
Jay D Keasling, The Joint BioEnergy Institute, Berkeley, United States
Climate forecast -why and how? The most pressing problems |
Jim Anderson, Harvard University, United States
