Welcome to a launch event and panel discussion following the Paul Frigyes book “In Ukraine, Adrift”. The author travelled through this vast European country, on a quest of finding out where it is heading. It resulted in a report from a nation in search for its identity and a place in Europe. Paul Frigyes jumps on the train to Lviv to discuss gender roles, tries to get his head around corruption and the post-Soviet economy in Kyiv digs into memories of genocides and forgotten bodies in 

Climate Change has taken on a Kafkaesque quality and morphed to a Climate Emergency. This suggests the current patterns of global development are not sustainably viable. Consequently, solutions needed to address the numerous challenges of multiple interacting investment, organisational, environmental, governance and social ecosystems to address the Climate Emergency – are urgently required.