General - Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

Collaboration and Trust for Sustainable Transformation

Thomas Schauer — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:53:24 +0000

A video of my presentation at the DEBEST event 2023 (Digital Ecosystems, Blockchain Evolution, and Sustainable Transformation) is online available: Link to Youtube more…

“How Can Asian Culture, Science and Technology Create a Life-Centered World in the Post COVID-19 Era?”

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 08:11:51 +0000

The 80th Anniversary Symposium of Chubu University in collaboration with the Japanese Association of the Club of Rome took place on October 14, 2020.

World class professors were invited, including a passionate Chancellor IIyoshi and 6 full- and 2 honorary- members of the Club of Rome, including Ernst Ulrich v. Weizsäcker as keynote speaker, Tomoyo (ex- main caster of NHK) as Coordinator, and Chandran, Hiroshi Komiyama(ex-Uni Tokyo President), Reiko Kuroda and Yoshi as panelist, and Honourary members, Koichiro Matuura(ex-Sec Gen, UNESCO) and Yoichi Kaya(Chair, Japanese IPCC). Dr was also invited Yaegashi, founding Chief Engineer of TOYOTA Prius.

A link to the event’s program and the online recording can be found here: https://www.chubu.jp/80th/news/8811/

“Ernst delivered an excellent keynote in 23 minutes summarising the unsustainability created by 20th century civilisation and suggestions to way out, followed by panelists to contrast the west and Japan; individual vs cooperative/gathering society, challenging nature vs living as a part of Nature, etc.” – Prof. Hayashi

Publication: “Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies”

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker — Mon, 26 May 2014 07:56:08 +0000

On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker on June 25, 2014, the following book has been published in English:

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (Ed.): Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies
– Presented by Uwe Schneidewind, Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol. 28 (Cham – Heidelberg – New York – Dordrecht – London: Springer, 2014)

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies

For further information, please download the flyer or have a look at the following website: http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/SpringerBriefs_PSP_E.U.v._Weizsaecker.htm

The book is available in bookstores and can be ordered electronically on the website of Springer.

“Factor Five” nun auch in französischer und japanischer Fassung

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:15:45 +0000

Knapp drei Jahre nach Erstveröffentlichung wird “Factor Five” nun ab Ende März auch auf Japanisch und Französisch erhältlich sein.

Factor Five – Japanese edition
Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity
Vorwort: Professor Yoshitsugu Hayashi of Nagoya University

Facteur 5
Comment transformer l’économie en rendant les ressources 5 fois plus productives
Vorwort: Brice Lalonde
Herausgeber: De Boek, Bruxelles

Ernst von Weizsäcker among the Top 100 Global Thought Leaders

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:45:22 +0000

The Swiss Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute came up with a new ranking of global thought leaders using infosphere parameters.
An initial selection of over 200 thinkers from all disciplines and from throughout the world were measured in terms of their influence, centrality and networking in two different environments: the blogosphere and the Wikisphere. The influence was only measured in the English language domain, thus giving a lot less weight to Central and East Asian, Latin American, Arabic, and Continental European thinkers. Other Top 100 thinkers include Nobel Prize winning Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Murray Gell-Mann and Daniel Kahnemann; ‘ecologists’ Amory Lovins, Janine Benyus and Franz-Josef Radermacher (and, of course, Ernst von Weizsäcker), entrepreneurs George Soros, Craig Venter, Tim O’Reilly and Tim Berners Lee (World Wide Web), writers Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Mario Vargas-Llosa and Thomas Friedman, biologists Jane Goodall, Edward O. Wilson, Jared Diamond and Richard Dawkins, and philosophers Jürgen Habermas, Martha Nussbaum and Peter Sloterdijk. The top rank is still held by Al Gore.

Ernst’s first comment was: ‘oh, many people would be more deserving than I!’

For further information, please have a look at the following publication: Global_Thought_Leader

Speech at dinner with Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 08:24:48 +0000

At the end of January I had the honour of being invited by the United Nations Association of Germany to give a short speech at a dinner with the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon in Berlin.

Here you can download the script of my speech: Dinner Speech Ban Ki-Moon