4th LISBON CONFERENCE
THE ACCELERATION OF GLOBAL CHANGE AND HOW THE PANDEMIC IS AFFECTING IT
The 4th Lisbon Conference, held between 30 September and 2 October 2020, was held online for the first time due to the pandemic crisis.
The acceleration of global change is increasingly affecting the environment and our ways of life, with the future rapidly entering the present, forcing people, societies and political systems to face new realities – some of which are difficult to understand or even to acknowledge.
On a global scale, the adoption in 2015 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement marked an unprecedented awareness of the challenges and threats facing humanity and the planet. As always, the fulfilment of the commitments made depends on the will and capacity of countries, regions, communities, public and private institutions, families and individuals. Consensus is generally more complex when it comes to public and common goods – after all, why waste financial resources or time when the work can be left to others?
SPEAKERS
VIDEOS
Opening | Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Portuguese Republic
Opening | Francisco Seixas da Costa, Chairperson of the Lisbon Club
PEOPLE | Eight billion people, and so what?
The challenge of global change | António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General
PLANET | The divergence over climate action: what energy for what future?
PEACE | Fear as a political tool
Portugal and Geopolitical Change | Augusto Santos Silva, Minister of Foreign Affairs
PROSPERITY | The growth - inequality dilemma
PROSPERITY | Technological acceleration is shaping our lives
PEACE | Liberal democracy and multilateralism under fire
PARTNERSHIP | What European Union for what brave new world?
From Game Boy to Covid-19: an open conversation amongst millennials
PROGRAMME
September 30th, 2020
October 1st, 2020
October 2nd, 2020
14h30_15h00 - OPENING
PEOPLE
15h15 _ 16h15 - Eight billion people, and so what?PLANET
16h40 _ 18h00 - The divergence over climate action: what energy for what future?PEACE
14h30 _ 15h30 - Fear as a political toolPROSPERITY
15h45 _ 16h45 - The growth - inequality dilemmaPEACE
14h30 _ 15h30 - Liberal democracy and multilateralism under firePARTNERSHIP
15h45 _ 16h45 - What European Union for what brave new world?Under the High Patronage of the President of the Portuguese Republic
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