Nobel Laureates call for a global deal on climate change In London Nobel Laureates Symposium agreed on a Memorandum, which urges "governments at all levels, as well as the scientific community, to join with business and civil society to seize hold of this historic opportunity to transform our carbon-intensive economies into sustainable and equitable systems.  Picture: Martin Rees, Steven Chu and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

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ASK Special Scientific history as told by Nobel Laureates   Nobel Laureate Werner Heisenberg (Physics 1932) and young researchers at the Lindau Meeting, 1971. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting News   BASF Podcast: Option for Climate Protection - Gas Scrubbing captures CO2 from Flue Gases In this podcast you will learn how BASF is developing technologies with which CO2 can be separated out from flue gases. 6th BMBF Forum for Sustainability "Research for Sustainability - One Step Further" The 6th BMBF Forum for Sustainability "Research for Sustainability - One Step Further" will take place 9 - 10 September 2009 at the Prototyp-Museum in Hamburg. Prof Dr Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, State Secretary to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, will inaugurate the conference which aims at strengthening the collaboration of politics, science and industry. Catalysts are a hot topic at the Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates 2009 There have been three Nobel Prizes awarded for catalysis research since 2001 alone. Four of the Laureates honoured in this connection - Ryoji Noyori, Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock and Gerhard Ertl - will be on hand in Lindau from June 28th to July 3rd to discuss the outlook in their field with 600 young researchers from 66 countries. The event in Lindau will also feature a podium discussion on the role of chemistry in developing renewable energies (Wednesday, July 1st ).