The second day of the Malta Sustainability Forum, organised by APS Bank, offered another selection of modules featuring top international local and foreign experts in their fields.
The first module on yesterday’s agenda focused on ‘Food for Planetary Well-being’. With speakers from all corners of the globe, the panel discussed in detail aspects of food sustainability – how human behaviour in terms of the food we eat and how it is sourced and produced is linked to climate change, biodiversity and food security. The discussion also highlighted the basic human right to food, as society races towards the 2030 target for the United Nations’ second sustainability goal – zero hunger.
Joeri Oltheten: Shaping a sustainable future
As the Malta Sustainability Forum returns later this month, Curaçao-based social entrepreneur JOERI OLTHETEN explains how the Doughnut Economic Model could shape the future for both people and the planet.
15 January 2021, 2:03pm
Joeri Oltheten
According to the proverb, ‘we do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children’ – a sentiment shared by social entrepreneur Joeri Oltheten.
Having followed his roots back to Curaçao from the Netherlands, Oltheten knew that he could make a sizeable impact on the economic sustainability of the island nation. Indeed, he has forged a career around his talent for inventing creative solutions to complex challenges, after studying Business Economics at the University of Amsterdam and launching his own company in 2008.