1 October 2019 (Tuesday)
09:00 Registration
09:30 Coffee
10:00 Welcome: Why are We at the Third Symposium on Global Sustainability?
Heriberto Cabezas, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary
Fr. Joshtrom Kureethadam, Dicastery for Integral Human Development, Holy See
Fr, Anzelm Szuromi, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary
Istvan Puskas, Hungarian Academy in Rome, Italy
Ferenc Friedler, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary
10:30 The Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Si
Fr. Joshtrom Kureethadam, Dicastery for Integral Human Development, Holy See
11:10 Ethics for Global Sustainability
Fr, Anzelm Szuromi, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary
11:40 How to Finance Shifts to Low Carbon Economies?
Yoram Krozer, University of Twente, The Netherlands
12:20 Mid-Day Break
14:10 Climate Change and Global Sustainability: Key Facts from Recent Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Renate Christ, International Panel on Climate Change (Ret.), Austria
14:50 Food Systems: The Impacts of Dietary Choices on the Environment
Thomas L. Theis, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Sustainability in Architecture and Urban Design, and Some Help from „Glocalization” and Folk Architecture
Dénes Nagy, Committee for Folk Architecture of HAS, Veszprem
16:30 Everything is Interconnected: the Need for an Integral Ecology as a Means of Achieving Sustainability-as-Flourishing
Edmond Byrne, University College Cork, Ireland
17:00 Uncertainties in Global Sustainability and Stochastic Optimal Control
Urmila Diwekar, Vishwamitra Research Institute, USA
17:30 Revisiting the GUMBO Model
Roel Boumans, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA
18:00 End of Day One
2 October 2019 (Wednesday)
09:00 Registration
09:30 Coffee
09:55 Welcome
10:00 An assessment of Engineering and Technological Advancements in Support of Sustainable Development
Subhas K. Sikdar, Editor-in-Chief, Clean Technology and Environmental Policy, USA
10:40 Process Systems Engineering for Sustainability
Ferenc Friedler, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary
11:10 Computer-Aided Planning of Negative Emissions Technologies: Enhanced Weathering
Raymond R. Tan, De La Salle University, Philippines
11:40 Systems Approach and Logistics for Minimizing Nutrient Pollution and Impacts for Managing Harmful Algal Blooms
Gerardo Ruiz-Mercado, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA
12:10 Mid-Day Break
14:00 Sustainability for Plastics
Amy E. Landis, Colorado School of Mines, USA
14:30 The Role of Ethics in Sustainability
Emőke Korzenszky, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary
15:00 Coffee
15:30 The Challenges of the Ethical Studies within the Catholic Universities on the Example of the Course "Ethics of the Emerging Technologies" in UCU
Volodymyr Khitsiak, Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), Ukraine
16:00 Building Momentum for Global Sustainability Using the Principles of Behavioral Economics
Jeffrey Seay, University of Kentucky, USA (Remote Participant)
16:30 Community Sustainable Development & Engineering Education in the 21st Century
Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Remote Participant)
17:00 What are We Sustaining and Why?
Alexey Voinov, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Remote Participant)
17:30 Climate Change as a Test of Modern Political Ethos
Timothy P. Krantz, University of Redlands, USA (Remote Participant)
18:00 End of Day Two
3 October 2019 (Thursday)
09:00 Registration
09:30 Coffee
09:55 Welcome
10:00 A Sustainable Economy for the Anthropocene- Beyond Carbon, Growth and Capitalism
John Barry, University of Belfast, UK (Remote Participant)
10:30 Renewable Energy Technologies as a Driver for Sustainable Development in the South and East Mediterranean
Emanuela Menichetti, Observatoire Méditerranéen de l'Energie, France (Remote Participant)
11:00 Summary Discussion
11:30 End of Symposium
