The 9th World Sustainability Forum
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Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineJul 13, 2021
- Abstract acceptance notificationAug 16, 2021
- Full file submission deadlineSep 05, 2021
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. John Elkington
Volans, UK;
Professor Elkington is a world-renowned author, advisor, and entrepreneur who has advocated and promoted sustainability for more than four decades. He is Visiting Professor at the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management, Imperial College, and University College London (UCL). Over the years, he has promoted sustainable development as an advisor to many governments, business, and civic institutions around the world. In 2008 he became the Co-founder and Chairman of Volans, a think tank and “future-focused business working at the intersection of sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation”. One of his most significant contributions to the field of sustainability was the introduction of the triple bottom line in his 1997 book entitled Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business. The concept of the triple bottom line, which promotes the idea that business should balance economic pursuits with social and environmental outcomes, has by now become a gold standard within the field of sustainability. Notably, it has been used as the benchmark for the development of global initiatives such as The UN Global Compact, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Prof. Dr. Jianguo "Jack" Liu
Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, USA;
Jianguo “Jack” Liu is a world leader in systems integration and sustainability (e.g., integrating ecology with social sciences, policy, and technologies for understanding and promoting global sustainability). He holds the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability, and is University Distinguished Professor and founding director of Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University (USA). He has translated many research findings to effective policy and management for global sustainability, especially in China. Furthermore, he has amplified the impacts through helping numerous others. Liu’s pioneering research has opened up new frontiers in sustainability and greatly advanced the fundamental understanding of global challenges. He coined the integrated concept of telecoupling (socioeconomic-environmental interactions over distances), and has been leading the development and applications of the award-winning telecoupling framework. This framework helps disentangle the complexity of globalization and systematically expand sustainability science from focus on specific places separately to human-nature interactions across distant places. It provides a powerful tool to uncover hidden impacts of human activities within specific places on sustainability elsewhere. Many of his research findings have been translated into effective policies and management interventions, which have helped the recovery of a global wildlife icon (giant pandas), improved management of protected areas, and revolution of China’s environmental protection.
- BF. Business and Finance
- C. Climate
- HM. Health and Medicine
- W. Water
- Ed. Education
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The Ceremony of the World Sustainability Award can be found below. Enjoy!
Below you will find all the WSF Sessions. As there were many sessions, editing will take some time. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
Monday 13 September 2021
Welcome and Keynote Speaker
Health and Medicine Session
Food, Agriculture and Soil Sciences & Transport and Mobility Session
Tuesday 14 September 2021
2nd Keynote Speaker
Education Session
Energy Session
Business and Finance Session
3rd Keynote Speaker
Wednesday 15 September 2021
Other Session
Climate Session
4th Keynote Speaker
Introducing the SDG Book Series
Water Session
5th Keynote Speaker and Closing Ceremony
Below you will find the Satellite Sessions made available to us.
IAU Satellite Session
7479c Satellite Session
ESEIA Satellite Session
AI4DA Satellite Session
The World Sustainability Award, funded by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation, will be conferred upon individual researchers or research teams who have made an outstanding academic or societal contribution to sustainability in general, or to a sustainability-relevant issue in particular. A joint award, shared by up to three recipients, is possible. The award includes a monetary prize of USD 100'000.
The Emerging Sustainability Leader Award, funded by the MDPI journal Sustainability, will be conferred upon an individual researcher aged 40 or under at the time of the submission deadline, who has made an outstanding academic or societal contribution to sustainability in general, or to a sustainability-relevant issue in particular. The award includes a monetary prize of USD 20'000.
For more information, see https://wsforum.org/instructions