Prof Randers, professor of climate strategy at the Norwegian Business School, is one of the authors of the famed Club of Rome publication "Limits to Growth" and "2052 - A global forecast for the next forty years".

Munich will host this year's BIOMIN forum from 15 to 18 October, where the unique theme "sustain:ability" is expected to guide and provoke much discussion and exchange on the future of animal nutrition.

The key message in "Limits to Growth" remains highly relevant today and into the future - that is, the urgent need for responsible stewardship of our earth's finite resources. Theories from the book have remained influential in discourses on the conflicts between ecology and the economy, a theme explored again in Prof. Randers' latest book "2052 - A global forecast for the next forty years".

Insights from the book published in 2012, will be shared in Prof. Randers' keynote Forum address, where he will present his forecast and highlight the consequences for the global industry in general, with a focus on agriculture and food production. He estimates that slower growth towards 2052 will affect efforts to prevent a climate crisis, despite resource use being kept within the earth's carrying capacity.