We met Professor Kiang, the Founding Dean of the College of Environmental Sciences, Beijing University at the World Future Council. The scientist was quite outspoken about the need of his country for solutions in energy supply and climate protection. The future of mobility however in his country lies in electric bikes, Kiang said. There are already 100 million electrical bikes in China. China is eager to tackle climate change, Kiang emphazises. But this issue is far to big to be handled by China alone, he added. Clean coal technologies are not available yet, Kiang said, to lower CO2 emissions drastically. To find the technical solutions it needs global efforts.

Back home Professor Kiang is responsible for bringing to China many of the world's leading experts on sustainable development, both to educate the next generation of leaders and to develop a working case study in the south of China. He is an internationally recognized expert on air quality, Professor Kiang retired from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) as an Institute Professor where he was responsible for its environment science, engineering and policy program, one of the top 5 in the USA. Mr. Kiang is currently working with others to establish a Center of Northeast Asia for Peace, Security and Sustainability initiated by Maurice Strong. He has also been very active in trying to get China and the US to cooperate on tackling climate change.

Jakob von Uexkuell is the founder of the Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the Alternative Nobel Price. He studied politics and economy. He holds the German and Swedish citizenship. In 2006 he founded the World Future Council. The Council focuses on advising political leaders and governments. The 40 members of the council represent zones of the world. The World Future Council designs its policy and project recommendations as global campaigns that involve parliamentary hearings, legislative assistance, tailored mailings, events, and this website, which is envisioned to become a multimedia clearinghouse for information on policies to change the world.

Bianca Jagger is a human rights campaigner for more than 25 years. Knowing that human rights and justice can not be seen apart from other urgent actual question she emphazises on the interdependance of these questions with the ones of sustainability and climate protection. Bianca Jagger’s commitment to justice and human rights issues was inevitable for she was born in Nicaragua, a country that endured almost 50 years of despotic dictatorship and has seen so much political upheaval. Nicaragua first taught her the meaning of social and economic injustice, inspiring her aspiration to be a social and human rights advocate. During the 1980s Bianca's work brought her to Central America to denounce human rights violations in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. In 1993, she traveled to the former Yugoslavia to document claims of mass rape of Bosnian women by Serbian forces as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing. As part of her continuing environmental efforts, Ms. Jagger has for the last decade been involved in efforts to save the indigenous population and protect the rain forests of Nicaragua, Brazil and other parts of Latin America. In 2004 Bianca received the Right Livelihood Award.We met Bianca Jagger at the opening of the World Future Council in Hamburg.

Bianca Jagger speaks out quite clearly: Chancellor Merkel has to urge all G8 member states at the summit in Heiligendamm to let come true their promise to spend 0,7% of their GDP for the developing world. “I know there is a connection between this matter and the protection of the environment”, the activist said. Bianca Jagger engages in human rights issues for the last 25 years. “Holding a Nicaraguan and a British Citizenship, having studied in France I was long-drawn to human-rights issues”, she says.Bianca Jagger came to the official opening of the World Future Council, a international group of scientists, politicians and people known in their societies. The Group with headquarter in Hamburg will focus on questions regarding climate change. “Hamburg will be affected by global warming pretty much”, Jakob von Uexkull says. Uexkull, is the founder of the World Future Council. He is known for founding the Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'.

Jakob von Uexkuell“To me it matters, that this new committee does not sit and talk but that it develops solutions that will set in practice by political leaders”, he says in the Interview with Club of Pioneers. This is why he emphasizes on three African countries that have already started to implement advises from the World Future Council in their political environmental agenda.Read the Call to Action of the World Future Council hereWe will show the interviews with Bianca Jagger and Jakob von Uexkuell soon in our Video Blog.