Venue: Wisby Strand
  
About The Aim

Ecological building has been a subject in countless seminars and workshops. However, good realizations are hard to find. The recessive way of action tends to take over. The workshop addresses the gap between intentions and results universally and even with a brief local exercise by formulating recommendations for local sustainable building strategies in Gotland. The overall focus is on defining realistic aims & efficient tools instead of Utopia with band-aid.

Theoretically building affects our ecosystem in five ways - pollution, consumption of nonrenewable resources, health, biodiversity and nourishment. As buildings consume nearly half of the global energy supply and are directly connected to polluting and consuming of nonrenewable natural resources, the operational topics are energy efficiency and energy harvesting. 

About The Setup

The workshop is hosted by three experts: Lars Bylund, professor in holistic building; Marcus Püttmer, economic engineer specialized in renewable energy and Kai Wartiainen, professor in town building. Ms Sabrina Soussan, Head of Marketing for Siemens’ Building Automation is the forth expert in the workshop. The Climate Active Building Workshop continues the Energy Workshop from the first day.

Following the introduction the subject is dealt with as three solute topics: EcoCities, EcoBuildings and EcoComponents. The purpose is to generate understanding of the potential in different scales of building that leads to commitment and improved praxis in the concluding fifth step.

The Five Step Program

Introduction presents two alternative intellectual frames to view building activity. 

John Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis proposes that the biosphere and the physical components of the Earth (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere etc) are closely integrated to form a complex interacting system that maintains the climatic and biogeochemical conditions on Earth in a preferred homeostasis. Human activity is negative and should be restricted. On the other hand Peter Ward argues strongly against Gaia ideology in “The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?” In this view active human intervention is necessary if we want to keep the earth livable at all. 

What are the questions that building should deal with? What has been done and what should be done within the three different scales of building activity?

Learning from EcoCities looks at some realized and proposed urban developments. The main questions being are the aims and tools realistic and do the prevailing planning ideology support or prevent sustainable developments? Is the general approach striving at total solutions that are alien to contemporary life? Is it at all possible to define sustainable solutions on this level or should we only define goals for building performance and concentrate on urban quality as motivation for the investments in sustainable technology?

EcoBuilding Study deals with eco-buildings and how they succeed in energy efficiency and how the solutions affect user motivation and comfort. The aim is at building concepts that can be adapted to many life styles and are open future upgrading for the nonpolluting energy effective technologies.

Smart Component Survey studies technological solutions and promising developments with high potential to promote and support energy efficient building and support contemporary styles of life.  

Conclusion aims at deeper practical understanding, recommendations and commitments for urban developments, buildings and components leading to low carbon economy.

Venue: Wisby Strand
Chairman: Dr Po Chi Wu 
 
The global scale of serious environmental challenges is demanding attention from governments everywhere. Opportunities for innovation abound, but may require new forms of international collaboration between government, industry, and academia. Investors are tracking breakthrough technologies in these emerging markets. In this workshop, we will explore solutions that can achieve economic success in this dynamic Venture Biosphere.
  
Investing in Green Business
Dr Po Chi Wu, Executive Director, Global Innovation Research Center, Visiting Professor, Peking University, 
Managing Director, DragonBridge Capital, LLC, USA 

Role of green innovations in a corporate strategy
Mr Henrik Tegnér, Senior Director, Accenture, Sustainable Services Nordic

Role of technology in enabling sustainable development: Case Afganistan – elementary education to everyone through mobile learning 
Aape Pohjavirta, CEO, Sendandsee Ltd.
 
Bottom of the Pyramid - green tech solutions for the rural and poor areas – case study of an ecological mobile hospital 
Dr Anna-Maija Raeste, eco- philosopher, surgeon, entrepreneur
 
Social Entrepreneurship - How do we create sustainable business models?
Ms Sue Toigo, Chairman of Fitzgibbon Toigo Associates

“Venture Biosphere”
Dr Po Chi Wu, Executive Director, Global Innovation Research Center, Visiting Professor, Peking University, 
Managing Director, DragonBridge Capital, LLC, USA 

Exhibition and test drives for selected media and automotive experts
Co-hosted by Gotland Ring
Chairman: Björn Karlström
Venue: Gotland Ring
 
One of the biggest game changes is materialising within the automotive industry. Propulsion systems are in a rare paradigm shift. This seminar will gather experts and manufacturers from both industry leaders to small new innovators to brainstorm around future technology, standards, policies, and government incentives. In addition to participating in programming in Wisby Strand Congress Hall, the seminar will utilise Gotland Ring - the first ecological race & test circuit in the world - for test drives and other demonstrations. Paradigm shift within the automotive industry
 
China - will the largest automotive market in the world take a green tech leap?
 
Conversion to Evs 
How are policy makers and the industry able to define and shape the new mobility? Tax incentives? Will the voluntary collaboration be affective?
 
Presentation of case studies include electric cars and motorcycles Goals for the seminar

• Provide an informative and dynamic environment for demonstration test drives for mission-specific zero- and low-emission vehicles
• Provide a networking forum for technological collaboration and standard evaluations
• Provide a recommended EV policy for various markets around the world

Target group: main stream and specialist journalists, potential business partners and investors, policy makers

Co-hosted by Baltic Sea Action Group and SIDA
Venue: Wisby Strand

Many of the countries around the Baltic Sea have the same environmental goals but very different plans and actions to reach them. This seminar - which can function as a case study for several other regions in the world - will produce a best practices recommendation constituted by relevant active parties (regional governments, action groups, and companies). This is a part of a commitment made by the World Ecological Forum in co-operation with the Baltic Sea Action Summit.

Commitment Making in Saving the Baltic Sea
Dr Ilkka Herlin, Mr Mathias Bergman, Baltic Sea Action Group

CASE: SIDA
Ms Anna Tjarvar, Swedish International Development Agency, SIDA

Clean Shipping
Mr Sten Björk, Trelleborg County, Sweden

Integrated Industrial Waste Water Treatment in the Wood Industry - Local and International Cluster Initiatives
Dr William Hogland, professor in Environmental Engineering and Recovery, The School of Nature Sciences, Linnaeus University 

CASE: Kaliningrad Oblast: water management project
Mr Andreas Lindstöm, SIWI, Stockholm International Water Institute

Environmental protection of the Baltic Sea through financial instruments
Mr Johan Ljungberg, Senior Director, Head of Environmental Unit, Nordic Investment Bank