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GES Perspectives 2013

The Global Economic Symposium (GES) is a solution forum which identifies global challenges, examines their policy and business implications, and formulates concrete proposals for action with a view to creating a better world for the next generation. Unlike many other leading conferences, the Global Economic Symposium is both research-based and strongly action-oriented. Every session of the GES is organized by researchers and an international team of experts and supported by the GES’s own virtual platform. Results of the GES are published in the book Global Economic Solutions, which are submitted to national governments, the major international organizations, business leaders, academics and the wider GES community. The GES takes place in alteration between Kiel, Germany, and a major international center. This year’s GES will take place in Kiel from 1st to 2nd October.

GES Perspectives is a forum for Future Challenges bloggers who will attend the Global Economic Symposium. Each of our GES bloggers will take part in a session at the annual conference. They will regularly publish blogposts dealing with the topics of their session. Our goal is to provide diverse perspectives on the topics that will be discussed at the Global Economic Symposium. We have chosen one blogger out of each of the nine Future Challenges regional networks.

GES Perspective

  • An American in Europe, a Europe in Confusion

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    This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. I wanted to learn about the current state of the European continent while spending time on it, and I couldn’t miss a session staring the right-wing’s favorite boogeyman, George Soros. But only one line from the […]

  • Renewable Energy Helps Prevent Climate Catastrophe

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    This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. An exchange of views on how to achieve sustainable growth through the use of renewable energy is underway in a conference room at Atlantic Hotel in Kiel, Germany. The audience is comprised of people young and old, […]

  • GES Day 1: It’s Sustainability Stupid!

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    After many months of writing about the New Bottom Billion I have finally arrived at the Global Economic Symposium 2013 (GES). As I walked out of Kiel’s main station I realized that the GES’s theme of ‘Redefining Success’ is well suited to my new  surroundings. Global challenges are going to […]

  • Sustainable Lifestyles: “Are Nordic Countries Heavens?”

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    This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. That was a rhetorical question posed by the illustrious Mr. Marti Ahtisari in the opening plenary session at GES 2013 in regards to a remark about Newsweek ranking Nordic countries the “best countries in the world.” […]

  • “The Western Model of Development Is Past Its Sell-By Date!”

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    This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Towards Sustainable Consumption.” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. Chandran Nair, the last speaker at the Sustainable Consumption session at GES 2013, electrified the hall with his contrarian ideas about sustainable consumption. From his perspective, the idea […]