Nobel Laureates Symposium on Global Sustainability

The 2014 Nobel Laureates Symposium brings together top global experts to debate solutions to one of the major problems of our time: climate change. 

IIASA Deputy Director General Nebojsa Nakicenovic will join 11 Nobel Laureates and leading scientists at the 4th Nobel Laureates Symposium on Global Sustainability  in Hong Kong. The event is organized by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and The Asia Society Hong Kong Center (ASHK), providing a high-level platform for debate right in the heart of a region that is key to achieving a transformation towards a low-carbon global economy.

The 2014 Symposium, "4C: Changing Climate, Changing Cities," will consider crucial questions of how to address urbanization in Asia in this century of mega cities and climate change, which will, if unabated, result in a 4 degree Celsius rise in temperature. In short: How to foresee 4C?

IIASA Participation

9 October 2014, 11:00
Session 2: From ancient to de-spatialized hyper-cities

Nakicenovic will join Sander van der Leeuw (Dean, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University), and  Geoffrey West (Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute), to discuss "a common understanding of the phenomenon city, of the changing conditions how cities functioned historically and might function in the future."

Conference Program

Click to view the program on the conference Web site.

Last edited: 06 October 2014