4^TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SUSTAINABILITY "COPING WITH CHANGE: GLOBAL WARMING AND DECARBONIZATION"

Alcantara S.p.A, a Carbon Neutral Italian Company since 2009, organized the Symposium “Coping with Change: Global Warming and Decarbonization” together with the Venice International University.

During this 4^th International Symposium on Sustainability two-day workshop, Eastern and Western world-class scientists, economists, academics, managers of top corporations, science writers, governmental and non-governmental organizations evaluated the impact of Global Warming and Decarbonization on people’s live companies’ behavior, communicators’ activities, highlighting the role played by technology and innovations to face this subject.

The “Coping with Change: Global Warming and Decarbonization” Symposium was broken down into three sessions:

• Session I – “The impact of Global Warming and Carbon Neutrality to Citizens’ life”

• Session II: “Global Warming and Carbon Neutrality: the influence on Corporations’ business models and behaviors”

• Session III: “How should Communication close the gap among science, corporations and people?”

Keynote speeches and a discussion panel were dedicated to each session.

Ambassador Umberto Vattani – President, Venice International University

Prof. Carlo Giupponi – Dean of Venice International University

Lord Nicholas Stern – Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

Prof. Detlef van Vuuren – Professor of Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Member of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Prof. Helmuth Trischler – Head of research at the Deutsches Museum of Munich, Professor of modern history and the history of technology, LMU – Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

Prof. Massimo Inguscio – President of CNR, Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche

Prof. Andrew Jorgenson – Professor and Chairperson of the Sociology Department at the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College

Prof. Yasuhiro Daisho – Senior Research Professor / Professor Emeritus Research Organization for Next Generation Vehicles Research Council, Waseda University

Industry and other organizations contributors:

Mr. Andrea Boragno – CEO & Chairman Alcantara S.p.A

Onorevole Giovanna Melandri – Founder and Chairman of the Human Foundation – Giving and Innovating, Chairman of the MAXXI Foundation – National Museum of XXI Century arts

Dr. Barbara Buchner – Executive Director of Climate Finance program, Climate Policy Initiative

Dr. Georg Kell – Founder and former Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, Chairman of Arabesque Partner

Dr. Daniel Klingenfeld – Head of the Director’s Staff, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Ms. Cecilia Tam – Senior Energy Analyst, International Energy Agency (IEA)

Dr. Hirohide Furutani – Director, Renewable Energy Research Center, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Deputy Director, Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute

Mr. Ernesto Ciorra – Head of Innovability (Innovation and Sustainability), Enel Group

Dr. Kimitaka Yamane – President, Doctor of Engineering, Yamane Hydrogen Energy Research Laboratory

Dr. Paul Jefferiss – Head of Policy, Long Term Planning and Policy, BP

Mr. Yoshikazu Tanaka – Chief Engineer ZF MS Product Planning Mid-size Vehicle Company, Toyota Motor Corporation

Dr. Hermann Pengg – Head of Project Management e-fuels, Audi AG

Mr. Takashi Moriya – Senior Chief Engineer Technology Development Division 5, Honda R&D Co., Ltd. Automobile R&D Center

Mr. Ryo Chishiro – Senior Staff Officer, Hydrogen Project Development Center, Corporate Technology Division, Kawasaki Heavy Industries

Mr. Paul Voosen – Earth and planetary reporter, Science

Mr. Carl Zimmer – Science writer, blogger and columnist at The New York Times

Mr. Alex Kasprak – Science writer, Snopes.com

Mr. Leo Lewis – Tokyo Correspondent of Financial Times

The “Coping with Change: Global Warming and Decarbonization” Symposium could be followed at the Facebook page “International Symposium on Sustainability”:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2062682560618612/?active_tab=discussion