Time (CEST)

Program and Content

8:30 am–8:35 am

Opening Ceremony

MDPI Presenter

8:35 am–9:05 am

Geoheritage as the Building Block of the Geodiversity of Earth Heritage

Speaker: Professor Károly Németh

This presentation will provide a critical review of the significance of geoheritage from an Earth heritage perspective. The talk will outline the link between geoheritage and geodiversity in light of their role in geosystem services. The lecture also will cover aspects of various geohazards from a geoheritage perspective, especially to link natural hazards and geoheritage, to promote human society resilience development. The presentation will explore the link between traditional knowledge on Earth heritage and its potential for blending with modern research aspects to co-develop geoconservation ventures for local communities.

9:05 am–9:35 am

A Science Perspective on Ethics, Multi-Species Kinship and Duty of Care to Future Generations

Speaker: Professor Brendan Macke

From a scientific perspective, “multi-species kindship” is not a particularly foreign concept because science states as known facts that humans are just one of millions of species on the same tree of life​ and that all life (including humans) emerged from and co-evolved with Earth’s environment. Earth system science also makes it clear that human wellbeing, and that of future generations. remains dependent on a healthy Earth environment and therefore on interdependencies with other species​. ​Scientific knowledge informs human ethics (as in the verb: deciding what the right or wrong thing to in a given situation) and what kind of ethics (as in a statement of ethical principles) should guide our individual and collective behaviours

9:35 am–9:55 am

Q&A Session

9:55 am–10:00 am

Closing of Programme