Editorial

Not only since Fukushima have climate protection, energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources formed important policy elements in countries across the world. In 1992, these issues already determined the agenda of the Earth Summit in Rio and in 2012 they will constitute one of the two main thematic focuses of the follow-up conference "Rio+ 20".

But "Green Economy" is much more than just a collection of ecological "recipes" for diverse areas of life. The concept stands for a holistic approach, for a pioneering vision of the "greater whole", for a systemic model which combines the principles of ecological sustainability, economic prosperity and social balance.

Only if we can agree on this ideal of a globally changed economy in the near future, we do have a chance to offer a livelihood to the 9 billion people which will soon inhabit this earth.

sequa and its partners contribute to the successful establishment of a "Green Economy", as the project examples we will give you in this edition of the sequaForum will show: We are active in places as diverse as Egypt, the Philippines and the Balkans, providing important impulses to the regions that show "Green Economy can achieve much more than it has already done!"

Gebhard Weiss, Managing Director