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World Forum 2010

2010’s The Times / Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment ran from 27-29 June in central Oxford, UK.

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The 2010 WFEE explored the theme ‘Low Carbon Mobility: Land; Sea and Air’.

The three-day event (Sunday 27th June – Tuesday 29th June 2010) outlined a vision of a sustainable mobility world in 2050 and explored the key challenges and critical milestones involved in getting progress ‘on track’ by 2020.

The Forum explored different perspectives on the Vision 2050: Action 2020 challenge, including the scope for improved collaborative innovation between business, governments and civil society actors. The forum addressed the enablers and constraints of a more rapid transition to Low Carbon mobility, addressing key issues such as financing capital stock turnover, investment in new infrastructure, developments vehicle and fuels technologies…

QUESTION: Is the rapid transition to Low Carbon transportation systems a realistic goal and how does it fit with the broader challenge of sustainable mobility?

Speakers

President Mikhail Gorbachev (former President of the Soviet Union and founding President of Green Cross International) and Dr Janez Potočnik (European Commissioner for the Environment) addressed the conference during the opening session on Climate Negotiations.

Keynote addresses were given by Dr Steven Chu (USA); Dr Fatih Birol (Chief Economist, IEA); Mr Iain Conn (Chief Executive, Refining and Marketing, BP); Professor Jan Rotmans (Scientific Director, DRIFT); Professor Sir David King (Director, SSEE and former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK government); Mr Jan Kopernicki (Chairman, Chamber of Shipping and Director, Shell International Trading and Shipping Company); Mr Mark Fulton (Deutsche Asset); Mr Ken Hylander (Delta Air Lines Inc.); Professor John Heywood (MIT); Mr Martin Lees (Club of Rome).

Dame Ellen MacArthur addressed delegates at the Gala dinner.

Thematic pillars of the programme

The Forum focussed on the following seven areas of inquiry and their global, national, industrial, environmental and consumer dimensions:

  1. The Low Carbon Challenge
  2. Air
  3. Sea, Freight and Cargo
  4. Road
  5. Transport and the Built Environment
  6. Low Carbon Energy
  7. Governance and Finance

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