Creating Breakthroughs: Green growth, Eco-innovation, Entrepreneurship and Jobs
8th–9th November 2010 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

15th International conference in the “Towards Sustainable Product Design” series

Organised by:
The Centre for Sustainable Design
University for the Creative Arts
Strategic partner:
Enviu

Background

The world will see major changes resulting from the greening of economic stimulus packages that will create new investments, businesses, products, technologies and jobs. Korea and China are leading the way and have already been spending money. However, the majority of money is predicted to start being distributed in 2010. In parallel, both Korea and Japan have announced their aim to each create one million green jobs resulting from their investments. Behind the scenes, the United Nations and the World Economic Forum are contributing to the development of thinking and learning through their Green Economy projects. This coupled with growing media interest associated with the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) in Copenhagen in December 2009 will ensure that awareness of both threats and opportunities of climate change will be high profile. A key underlying theme being how global society moves towards a model of low carbon prosperity. Read more…