The 3^rd Nobel Laureate Symposium, which follows from previous meetings in Potsdam and London, will focus on the need for integrated approaches that deal with the synergies, conflicts and trade-offs between the individual components of climate change.  

Webcast link: http://globalsymposium2011.org/live

Symposium website: http://www.globalsymposium2011.org

On 17 May 2011, two representatives from Hong Kong will join the first session of the Symposium (4:00pm HK time) to open the dialogue on the great acceleration of human impacts on planet Earth. The session will be set up as a trial ”Planet Earth vs. Humanity” with a prosecutor, defense, Judge and jury. Christine Loh (CEO and co-founder of Civic Exchange) will moderate, and Jim Mirrlees (Nobel Prize in Economics 1996), Master of Morningside College, Chinese University, will be a Juror in this session.

On 18 May 2011, the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability* appointed by the UN Secretary General represented by the co-chair, President Tarja Halonen of the Republic of Finland will come to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm for the presentation of the results from 3^rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability on 18 May at 2 pm CET.

The results will be presented in the document titled Stockholm Memorandum: Planetary Opportunities – Transforming the World in an Era of Global Change to be signed by Nobel Laureates and handed over to the High-level Panel’s co-chair President Tarja Halonen.