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23, Jan 2011

Annual Meeting - Sustainability and Change
Date: 23- 25 January , 2011
Location: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Our planet is faced with a number of rapid changes over the coming decades. These changes include:

- a changing climate
- growing demand for food
- constraints of resources
- increasing global population and urbanisation
- ageing societies

Although the extent of these changes is difficult to predict, the consequences of not meeting the challenges are all the better known.

In this meeting we will address these key issues through the AGS research initiatives and look for sustainable solutions in the face of change. The meeting includes prominent speakers from industry and society, panels of experts and briefings by AGS researchers on the key issues.

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04, Mar 2010

AGS Annual Meeting 2010
Date: 16- 19 March , 2010
Location: The University of Tokyo

The Alliance for Global Sustainability is an international multi-disciplinary collaboration of four prominent research universities: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, and the University of Tokyo.

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17, Jan 2009

Urban Futures: the Challenge of Sustainability - The AGS Annual Meeting 2009
Our propositions:

- cities, properly managed, can be transformative arenas in which natural resources are used more efficiently and economically, contributing to a high quality of life for everyone;
- reinventing cities offers one of the most effective ways of reducing human impacts upon the environment and achieving greater sustainability.

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AGS AM2009 flyer

 

28, Jan 2008 Designing Pathways for a Sustainable World: at Scale, in Time, and for All - AGS Annual Meeting '08
Cambridge, Ma USA, 28-31 January 2008: MIT will host the annual meeting which will bring together leaders in industry, government, and civil society with academia in identifying pathways for responding to the urgent need for substantive action on climate, energy, food, and water challenges in both developed and developing regions of the world.

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AGS AM2008 flyer

01, Aug 2007 Two new titles released in the AGS book series
Visit the publications page to see the latest books published in the AGS book series, Science and Technology: Tools for Sustainable Development.

18, Mar 2007 Pathways to our common future - AGS Annual Meeting '07
Barcelona, 18-21 March 2007: Over 200 leaders from academia, industry, government, and non-governmental organizations gathered this March in Barcelona to identify pathways to sustainable future. This year’s annual meeting of the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) was co-hosted by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona and organized by AGS partner Chalmers University of Technology and had representatives from 24 countries.

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Invitation (pdf)