Morning Preparatory meetings
- Workshop on Planetary Boundaries
- Workshop on Moral Imperatives
- New Leader Program
- Preparatory meetings and training sessions
- Specially convened workshops and seminars for sponsors and partner organizations

12.00 Lunch

Location: All hotels

13.00 Warming-up sessions: What we want to talk about
Hosted by participants in the New Leaders Program

Location: All hotels

Tällberg Forum 2008 – In search of the common sense

15.00 Session I: Opening of the Forum 2008

Location: Forum tent

The mission we set ourselves for the forum is to explore the path towards a sustainable balance between the systems of human activity (civilization) and the natural system.

Musical intonation by Sofia Jannok

Bo Ekman, Chairman, Tällberg Foundation, Sweden, Christine Loh, CEO, Civic Exchange, Hong Kong, China, Hans Rosling, Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, James Lovelock, Author, United Kingdom (video message)

The Real Group and Pelle Lindström & Johan Testad

15.45 Defining planetary boundaries and tipping points

This session will introduce and propose definitions to a set of planetary boundaries that human activity should not transgress to avoid a profound destabilization of climate and biosphere, and their key interdependent systems. Beyond such boundaries we enter the uncharted territories of tipping points. (This session is prepared in close cooperation with the Tällberg Consensus project run by the Tällberg Foundation and the Stockholm Environment Institute.)

James E Hansen, Director, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA, USA, Diana Liverman, Director, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Johan Rockström, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden (moderator), Will Steffen, Professor, Australian National University, Australia, Tariq Banuri, Senior Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Asia office, Thailand

16.45 Do we know what to do? Probably Yes. Will we do it?

A conversation with Colin Jones, Trustee, Desmond Tutu Peace Center, South Africa, Christine Loh, CEO, Civic Exchange, Hong Kong, China and KG Hammar, Visiting Professor, Lund University, Sweden

Musical interlude by Sofia Jannok

Short reflections:
Ismail Serageldin, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt
Elisabeth Salander Björklund, Executive Vice President, StoraEnso, Sweden

17.30 What nature tells us (nature walk for all participants)

Participants and families divide into groups and walk to suitable locations for a session in nature for conversations, retreat and reflections (including refreshments)
Göran Gennvi, Associated Tällberg Advisor and Nature Academy, Sweden

Location: woods, meadows, shores, near Forum tent

19.30 What nature told us

Welcome to Martinagården: Bia & Bo Ekman. Reflections: Andreas Carlgren, Minister of the Environment, Sweden and Anders Wijkman, Member of the European Parliament and Vice Chairman, Tällberg Foundation, Sweden

Location: Martinagården

100 fiddlers lead participants to the Gästabud

20.00 Outdoor ecological “Gästabud”

Fiddlers, Pelle Lindström & Johan Testad, Tällberg Foundation 2008 scholar.

Food and festivities

Location: Hotel Långbers