How chemical cycles shape our planet: the global challenge
This symposium covered three topics; Climate questions, Fuel, environment and chemistry and 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.
Time: May 29, 2012 - May 30, 2012 Location: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
Lectures
Hans Rosling: Myths and Facts of a Converging World
Sir John Meurig Thomas: Can Selective Catalysts Deliver Clean Technology and Sustainability?
Roald Hoffmann: A Multidimensional Index of Greenness
Frances Arnold: Biological Design by Evolution
Paul Alivisatos: Nanoscience - Potential and Threats
Harry Kroto: The Climate Change Crisis
Jay D Keasling: Synthetic Biology Towards Biofuels
Jim Anderson: Climate forecast - why and how? The most pressing problems