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6 World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment2010 World Forum overviewLow Carbon Mobility: Land, Sea and AirThe 2010 WFEE Forum outlined a vision of mobility for people and freight in a defossilised global economy by 2050 and explored the key challenges and critical milestones involved in getting progress on track by 2020.Partnered by The Times and Green Cross International, BP, Shell, Centrica and UBS; the Forum explored different perspectives on the Vision 2050: Action 2020 challenge, including the scope for improved collaborative innovation between business, governments and academe. Delegates also discussed the enablers and constraints of a more rapid transition to low carbon mobility, addressing key issues such as financing capital stock turnover, investment in new infrastructure, and developments in vehicle and fuels technologies.Next stepsThe Smith School is embarking on a two-year detailed, integrated study of the transition to a low carbon mobility world through to 2050. This Intensive Futures Programme will engage numerous experts from a wider range of relevant fields and disciplines, spanning both the public and private sectors.For further information on the low carbon mobility Futures Programme stakeholder board please contact Dr Angela Wilkinson, Futures Programme Director, SSEE: angela.wilkinson@smithschool.ox.ac.uk World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment 7 We need visions to anchor hope, but even more we need actions to make those hopes a reality.Dr Janez Potoc?nik, European Commissioner for the EnvironmentClimate change is not a stand-alone issue but a symptom of our style of growth: we need a new style of growth.Martin Lees, Club of RomeWe need a paradigm shift.President Mikhail Gorbachev, Founding President, Green Cross InternationalWe have a moral responsibility to future generations and more than ever we need courageous, clear leadership.Professor Sir David King, Director Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment No collective challenge facing humanity has ever before attracted such attention, participation and political capital.Professor Lavanya RajamaniThe green race is on.Dr Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, USADo we have the right institutional structure to deploy capital in service of the low carbon future?James Cameron, Climate Change CapitalThe forward-thinking approach of the forum and range of experts present is testament to the importance of the issues.Dame Ellen MacArthurThe era of cheap oil is over.Dr Fatih Birol, International Energy AgencyThere are no silver bullet solutions in transport.Dr Oliver Inderwildi, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment |