Events

Book launch – “Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries”

The members of The Romanian Association for the Club of Rome (ARCoR) attended the conference occasioned by the launch of “Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries”, the Romanian edition of the latest Report for the Club of Rome. The event took place on the 19th of March 2013, at 10.30 a.m. and was hosted by the National Bank of Romania.

The two authors of the Report, Anders Wijkman, Co-President of the Club of Rome, main consultant at The Stockholm Environment Institute and former member of the European Parliament, and Johan Rockström, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, professor of natural resource management at Stockholm University and Co-President of Future Earth, were present at the event as special guests.

The event, organized in collaboration with the European Support Center of the Club of Rome and the National Bank of Romania (BNR), was opened by Mugur Isarescu, The President of ARCoR and the Governor of the National Bank of Romania. It went on with speeches and presentations given by: Calin Georgescu, Secretary-General of the ARCoR, Chairman of the Board - European Support Centre for the Club of Rome and Member of the Executive Committee of the Club of Rome; the two authors of the Report, Anders Wijkman and Johan Rockström; ambassador Sergiu Celac, Vice-President of ARCoR and Angheluta Vadineanu, professor in the Department of Systems Ecology and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucuresti and Member of ARCoR. The speeches were followed by a press conference and an interactive session where the guests expressed their opinions on the subjects previously stated by the speakers. The event closed with an autograph session