Beijing, March 2012. The Call for Papers for the World Resources Forum 2012 has been published. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 April.  Full papers are not required.

This first World Resources Forum outside of Switzerland will be held in the prestigious China National Convention Centre, next to the Olympic Stadium "Bird's Nest", from 21-23 October 2012, and is organised with the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The overall theme is "Resources and Green Economy" and it will be the first major conference about this subject after the upcoming Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which will be held in June this year (Rio+20).

The conference will have plenary sessions, side events, workshops, scientific oral sessions, youth program, online voting, fieldtrips, a conference banquet, and an exhibition.

Early registration has already been opened on the special WRF 2012 website (www.wrf12.org).

Awards will be given for presentations, workshops and students. The first prize of the student award is free access to WRF2013, which will be held in Switzerland next year (including flight, meals and accomodation)

More information:  www.wrf12.org (WRF 2012 homepage) and www.worldresourcesforum.org (WRF homepage).

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