Registration for Springtij 2013 is now open!
Springtij 2013 will take place from Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 September. Sunday 29 is an informal extra day with, for instance, a live radio broadcast. Just like last year, we are expecting some 350 participants, among which 60 speakers from the top of both the Dutch and the international sustainability community.
Springtij and the sustainability agenda
Under the umbrella theme of the Tipping Points, Springtij is to tackle the current system crisis: behind climate change, the failing financial sector and the decline of our ecosystems lies the omission to calculate the real costs of activities. We will discuss the latest climate data of the Potsdam Climate Institute, the consequences of which will affect us all. The mean temperature will go up to +4 degrees Celsius between 2060 and 2100, with dramatic regional effects. Furthermore, we will discuss the sustainability agenda and its numerous local initiatives.
The sub-themes are:
- Sustainable economics and the financial sector
- Energy and the climate
- Sustainable enterprise and innovation
- Food, agriculture and ecosystems
- Leadership.
Speakers*
Several top speakers will attend this year’s festival. Ernst von Weizsäcker, for instance, who founded the Wuppertal Institute in 1990 and who is now Co-President of the Club of Rome.
Also from Germany is Harry Lehmann, the architect of the big change in energy policy and Director of the Umweltbundesamt.
From India is Ashok Khosla, the social venture pioneer. He was awarded a great many prices and only recently stepped down as President of IUCN. With us he will discuss the ‘way out’.
On Friday afternoon we will have a market place, to be opened by Anne-Marie Rakhorst.
Our own Peter Bakker, former TNT, is now President of the WBCSD. Together with Feike Sijbesma, CEO of DSM, he is leading the Davos new business models project.
And of course, there will be many happenings. The plenaries in the hangar, amid our maritime heritage. The nightly camp fire with sea food. Beach golf as a sustainability game. Leadership with horses. Workshops in the dunes and on a landing stage, with the flood rising around you.
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* Provided that no unexpected changes occur.