World Resources Forum & University of South Australia co-host international webinar on sufficiency on December 2
On December 2, 10.00 – 11.30am CET, the World Resources Forum and University of South Australia will co-host the free webinar ‘Sufficiency Policies: a key enabler for sustainable and fair resource use?‘, diving into key questions around the concept of sufficiency and its practical implementation with international experts from Thailand, France, Australia and Portugal. […]
WRF Declaration 2009: a joint call to reduce resource consumption in ‘wealthy nations’
On September 16, 2009 – at the end of the first World Resources Forum conference in Davos (Switzerland) and Nagoya (Japan) – participants adopted a declaration to tackle the excessive resource intensity of current economic systems. This document came to be known as the WRF Declaration. What was the Declaration about? And, 13 years later […]
Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek: 3 visionary ideas that changed how we think about sustainable resource use
By Xaver Edelmann & Emanuele Di Francesco —— Known as the ‘father of dematerialization‘ and the inventor of the ‘Ecological Rucksack‘ (‘Ökologischer Rucksack’) and ‘Resources Turnaround‘ (‘Ressourcenwende‘), Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek (1932-2019) has represented a pioneering voice able to profoundly shape the global environmental debate. The common denominator of his long and rich career has been a […]