INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION, VATICAN CITY JUNE 6TH – 8TH 2019

9:00am

Meditation led by Archbishop Claudio M. Celli, Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice (CAPP) Foundation International Counsellor 

9:30am

Conference Opening

Video clip of Pope Francis presenting Laudato Si’ 

Addresses by:

• H.E. the Most Rev. Nunzio Galantino, President of APSA (Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See)
• Professor Anna Maria Tarantola, Chairwoman of CAPP Foundation
• Professor Giovanni Marseguerra, Coordinator, CAPP Foundation  Scientific Committee

10:05am

Introductory Session

His Eminence Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

Keynote speaker: Janez Potočnik, Co-Chair, UN Environment International Resource Panel

10:35am

Coffee break

10:45am

Session #1: Look – The path towards an integral ecology. What has been done. What remains to be done. Possible developments

Moderator Ferruccio de Bortoli, President, Longanesi publishing house

10:50am

Keynote speaker: Stefano Manservisi, Director General for International Cooperation and Development, European Commission
Status of the 2030 Agenda

11:10am

Round Table

• Esther Lynch Confederal Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
  Have industrial relations evolved in keeping with an integral ecology?
• Flavia Micilotta, Director, Luxemburg Green Exchange
  Does the economy, does finance listen to the cry of the poor and of nature? Role of a sustainable finance in fighting poverty and inequalities
• Stephen B. Young, Global Executive Director, Caux Round Table
  Western and Eastern approach to integral ecology

11:40am

Questions from the floor

12:00pm

Session #2 – Judge: The many obstacles obstructing the path to an integral ecology, problems and difficulties.
Why do many people refuse to believe in climate change or understate its impact? Why is it so difficult to change patterns of production and consumption, culture and behavior? Have businesses, institutions, politicians, the Church changed their policies? How do they assess the impact of their actions on the environment and is there accountability? What about the lack of consensually agreed ways of measuring the cost of sustainability?

Video by Ermanno Olmi “The planet that hosts us”

Moderator  Nicolas Sénèze, La Croix correspondent from the Vatican

12:10am

Keynote speaker: Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Economist, University Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

12:30pm

Round Table

• Professor  Mary Hirschfeld, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Economics & Theology, Villanova University
  Hurdles in the path to an integral ecology for a human growth. Are Churches and religions moving towards ecological conversion?
• Professor Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Professor and former Director of the Institute for Social Ecology in Vienna, vice-president of the European Society of Ecological Economics, and president and founder of the International Society for Industrial Ecology
  Slow progress of economy and finance. Economic motivations prompting quick action
• Professor Íñigo Losada, Research Director, Institute of Environmental Hydraulics, University of Cantabria
  International Actions to prevent climate changes: How? By who? With what outcomes insofar?
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Johannes Wallacher, President Jesuit School of Philosophy Munich, Member of the German Commission for Justice and Peace and Head of the Group of Experts „World Economy and Social Ethics“ of the German Bishops Conference
  Difficulties in changing lifestyles. Responsibility

1:10pm

Questions from the floor

1:30pm

Light Lunch

2:45pm

Presentation of the Project “Together we make a beautiful world” by Moige (Movimento Italiano Genitori Onlus)

3:00pm

Session #3 – Act: How to smooth the path. Possible initiatives.
How to reconcile efficiency and solidarity. Importance of honest and transparent decisional processes, culture and personal commitment to promote inclusive and sustainable development “to do well you need to do good”. How to promote awareness and education

Moderator:  Hannah Roberts, journalist reporting from Financial Times and other international titles

• Keynote speaker: Professor Enrico Giovannini Economist, Statistician, Tor Vergata University; Founder and Spokeperson, Italian Alliance for a Sustainable Development
  Ongoing initiatives to promote a sustainable and inclusive economy
• Keynote speaker: Msgr. Bruno M. Duffè, Secretary, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
  To think in order to act

3:45pm

Round Table

• Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative; Vice President, Human Development & Capability Association
  How to build and measure wellbeing and combat poverty
• Eugene M. McQuade, Board Director, Citibank Group
  How to operate for a sustainable finance
• Poh Lan Song, Principal of Malaysian Han Studies 10’ (SLIDES)
  Concordances and discordances of the Chinese culture with respect to “Laudato Si’”

Experience of young people:

• Gabriela May Lagunes, Data Scientist, BBOXX 10’ (SLIDES)
  Importance of Innovation
• Address by Professor Dr. Sydney Galès Director of Research CNRS (FR), Member of Academia Europeae
  Nuclear waste transmutation

4:35pm

Questions from the floor

5:05pm

Winding up remarks by Chairwoman Professor Anna Maria Tarantola

Transfer to Basilica of Saints Cosma and Damiano