The Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research cooperatively organizes the bonnalliance lecture series in the field of “sustainable development”.

Until 1972, environmental protection was essentially local; “The Limits to Growth” was the breakthrough to global environmental policy.

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, German environmental scientist and Co-President of the Club of Rome between 2012 and 2018, speaks about the genesis of and controversies surrounding the report for the Club of Rome “The Limits to Growth”.

Discussion Panel

• Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
• Prof. Dr. Matin Qaim, Director of the Department of Economic and Technological Change of the Center for Development Research (ZEF)