Friday 8th October

Travel and Tourism: Surviving Climate Change

Session 1:

Welcome Speech

Sonu Shivdasani, CEO and Chairman of Soneva Resorts

Session 2:

Keynote Speech

President Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives
Mark Lynas, Climate Change Advisor to the President of the Maldives

Session 3:

Leadership for a Low Carbon World

Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future

Session 4:

Powerful future! The Role of Renewable Energy for a Steadily Increasing Global Ecotourism

Stefan Schurig, World Future Council

Session 5:

Game Changing Energy Technologies of the Future

Lounette Dyer, Soleadeo Energy Consulting

Session 6:

The Solar Revolution: A Report From the Inflection Point

Jeremy Leggett, Solarcentury

Session 7:

Investing in Clean Energy

Eric Scotto, Akuo Energy

Session 8:

Low Carbon Profits in an Eco-Resort – Looking Beyond Energy

Anthony Michaels, Proteus Environmental Technologies

Saturday 9th October

The Living Building Challenge

Session 9:

Economics of Low Carbon Financing

Mike Mason, Climate Care

Session 10:

Sustainable, surplus-energy-tourism facilities

Professor Manfred Hegger, HHS Planer + Architekten AG

Session 11:

Masterplanning of Large-Scale Eco-Resort Destinations

Miguel Ruano, Miguel Ruano Associates Ltd.

Session 12:

Case Studies from India

Sanjay Prakash, Sanjay Prakash & Associates Pvt. Ltd.

Session 13:

Live The Deal – Changing Travel and Tourism for the Green Economy

Professor Geoffrey Lipman, UNWTO

Session 14:

Keynote Speech – The future of travel and tourism in a world of climate chaos

Jakob von Uexkull, World Future Council Foundation

Improving our Footprint

Session 15:

Global Sustainable Tourism Trends

Costas Christ, WTTC

Session 16:

Ocean Challenges

Chris Gorell Barnes, BLUE Marine Foundation

Session 17:

Financing the Low Carbon Economy

John Pontin OBE, The Converging World

Session 18:

Airline Industry Actions to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Jonathon Counsell, British Airways