November 2: Tel Aviv
Workshop and public Seminar on Decoupling
Public presentation “Introduction to the decoupling concept and UNEP’s work on it”
November 21-25: Cape Town
UNEP Resource Panel

July 2: Stuttgart
100th Anniversary Sika company, 3.30pm invited lecture
July 1: Geneva
9.00 am: World Meteorol. Organisation, 7bis, Avenue de la Paix, Hall A
Conference “Sustainability Standards and Trade”, hosted by: International Trade Centre / Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

June 30: Freiberg, Sachsen
4 pm: Talk “Faktor Fünf - Herausforderung für Ingenieure”. Krüger-Kolloquium at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg.
June 24-25: Neumarkt, Oberpfalz
June 24, 5pm: Lammsbräu-Ehrenpreis
June 25, morning: Symposium on Sustainability
June 18: Cologne
11am: invited lecture “Faktor Fünf” at company Wolfferts near Köln.
June 14: Leer, Ostfriesland
Talk at the synod of the reformed church.
June 11: University Passau, University [...]

May 29 - June 3: Brussels
Meetings of the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management and participation in the ‘Green Week’ of the European Commission.
May 28: Berlin, Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Participation in “Die große Transformation – Greening the Economy”
1 pm panel talk: “Political Parameters and Regulatory Instruments” (with Jennifer Morgan, Jürgen Trittin, Matthias Machnig).
May 27: Lüneburg, Leuphana [...]

April 28: Winterthur, ZHAW School of Engineering, INE Institut für Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Workshop: “Faktor Fünf: Effizienz und Suffizienz – Fallstudien aus den Bereichen Energie, Finanzen und Forschung”
April 27: Den Haag, Oude Raadzaal
Conference: “Enriching the Planet – Empowering Europe. Optimising the use of natural resources for a more sustainable economy”
Talk: “The global quest for a more sustainable [...]

March 31: Hamburg, Harburger Gespräche
Talk: “Wie kann man mit Amerikanern und Chinesen noch vernünftige Klimapolitik machen?”
March 23: Berlin, Landesvertretung Sachsen-Anhalt
Expert talk: “Faktor 5 – Warum globaler Klimaschutz gelingen kann”
Chair: Prof. Klaus Töpfer
Hosted by Unabhängiges Institut für Umweltfragen - UfU e.V.
March 22: Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Talk: “What went wrong in Copenhagen? And where are [...]

February 27: Eichstetten, Festhalle
Talk: “Faktor 5″
February 24: Frankfurt Jahrestagung Offene Immobilienfonds
Introductory talk on the financial crisis: “Nachhaltige (Immobilien-)Werte erfordern nachhaltiges Wirtschaften!”
February 23: 7.30 pm Diskussionskreis Taunus, Bad Homburg, Englische Kirche
Talk: “Doppelter Wohlstand - halber Naturverbrauch”

The successor to “Factor Four” (first published in 1997) has been published by Earthscan in December.
Factor Five
Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity
By Ernst von Weizsäcker, Karlson ‘Charlie’ Hargroves, Michael H. Smith, Cheryl Desha and Peter Stasinopoulos
Picking up where Factor Four left off, this new book examines the past 15 years of [...]

11—22 January: Bren School
Lectures on Resource Productivity at the Bren School for Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara