Day 2 of Symposium

Venue: New Palace Theatre, Potsdam (Directions)
Time: 08:40 – 16:30

8:40 The Road to Bali Sigmar Gabriel, Federal Minister for the Environment
9:00 Amartya Sen (NP Econ 1998) & Nicolas Stern in Dialogue - by video

Session III: Sustainable Development

10:20 Coffee Break

11:00 Complexity and Sustainability Murray Gell-Mann (NP Phys 1969)
11:20 Potentials of Biosciences Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (NP Med 1995)*
11:40 Synthetic Biology and Sustainability George Poste

12:00 Panel Discussion 3

Chair: Ernst Ulrich v. Weizsäcker
Participants: Diana Liverman, Rudolph Marcus (NP Chem 1992), Michael Oppenheimer, Kirit Parikh, Ernst Rietschel
Rapporteur: Johan Rockström

Session IV: Agendas & Policies for the Future

14:00 The World-Wide Knowledge Domain John Sulston (NP Med 2002)
14:20 Summaries from Sessions I-III Panel Chairs & Rapporteurs

15:00 Concluding Plenary Discussion on Envisaged “Potsdam Memorandum”

Chair and Introduction: Klaus Töpfer

16:00 Science for Sustainability Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research
16:20 Final Remarks Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
                               

16:30 End of Symposium