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Date:
10.-11. September 2009 | Location:
Ploen Castle
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany |
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The Global Economy
Food security and promoting modern uses of biomass as a source of energy in developing countries: Conflicting interests impossible to reconcile or two ends of a common strategy? Biomass is the most important source of energy in many developing countries, most notably in Sub-Saharan Africa. | 
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There is no doubt that a global climate regime on the basis of international co-operation is needed to prevent some of the disastrous consequences of climate change. Its challenge is that it must include the commitment of developed countries such as the U.S. and the EU as well as the commitment of large developing countries that have fast growing economies and a rapid increase in emissions such as China and India. |  | |
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Three quarters of the global marine fish stock are deemed fully exploited or overfished. Consequently, fish stocks are declining worldwide and several fish stocks haven even already collapsed, further stocks will do the same in the near future. | 
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2008 began with rapidly rising food prices that threatened lives in poor countries and created massive pressures in rich economies; the year ended with a financial crisis that send food prices downwards and pushed poor countries’ food problems down the policy agendas of the rich countries. | 
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Water shortages are cropping up around the world – from Australia to South Africa, from Brazil to the Sahel. Many of the world’s mightiest rivers run dry before reaching the sea. Perhaps half the world’s wetlands have been damaged or destroyed in the past century as salt water has displaced fresh water. | 
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The future global economy is likely to consume ever more energy, especially due to the rising energy demand of developing countries such as China and India. At the same time, the tremendous risk of climate change associated with the use of fossil fuels makes supplying this energy increasingly difficult. | 
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