On 1 and 2 June 2007, the Apeldoorn Conference took place in The Hague. The central theme of the Apeldoorn Conference 2007 was ‘Sustainability’ and the title Facing up to Reality: Choices for a Sustainable World. The conference attracted 50 participants from the UK and 50 from the Netherlands, drawn mainly from the fields of politics, business, government and the media. Participants were divided into 4 workshop groups. Each group to analysed a different but related set of problems; to identify possible choices and solutions and to produce a set of recommendations which they defended in the closing debate titled ‘Choices for a Sustainable World’.