Date: |
25 November 2011 (Friday) |
Time: |
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm |
Venue: |
HKAICS Conference Room |
Speaker: |
R. Andreas KRAEMER |
In the final AI lecture of 2011, R. Andreas Kraemer, Director of the Ecologic Institute in Berlin, presented his organization’s work on moving beyond GDP as a primary indicator of health and well-being as part of the ongoing European Union agenda to measure societal welfare in a more robust and inclusive way.
The Ecologic Institute is currently focused on two specific projects: IN STREAM links economic indicators with measures of sustainability and well being, seeking to assist policy makers by improving the EU’s ability to measure progress toward economic and sustainability goals, and the second initiative—OPEN:EU—is a two-year collaborative research project exploring the question of how the EU can become a One Planet Economy by 2050.
Mr. Kraemer’s lecture touched on the difficulties inherent in accurately predicting the economic sustainability of individual countries, the necessity of real-time data for policy-specific causalities, and his institute’s ongoing work on harmonizing datasets.
Links to the presentation and a paper by Mr. Kraemer on sustainability indices and policy making are available below.
1. Presentation PPT: 
Beyond GDP
2. Result and Conclusion of IN-STREAM: Linking Sustainability Indicators with Policy Making
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