Nature Video presents four debates from the 2013 Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau

At this summer’s Lindau Meeting we focused on pressing world problems and how chemistry can help us to solve them. In four films, laureates and students clash over the future of energy production, grapple with drug development, discuss dwindling supplies of metal catalysts and debate science’s role in the developing world. Get a taster in this trailer.

The eager researchers come to the debates with big ideas and high hopes, while the laureates bring a healthy dose of experience. You can find out more in our first film, Fuelling controversy and in our second film Science in the developing world.

In our third film, Nobel laureates Robert Grubbs and Gerhard Ertl discuss how dwindling supplies of rare metals could affect industry, energy production and society with young scientists.

You can also check out last year’s Lindau videos here and videos from 2011 here.