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ON SITE IN JOHANNESBURG:
BOELL EVENTS: TUESDAY, AUGUST 27
Below you find an overview of our events on site in Johannesburg
on August 27. Although many of our activities take place
in the Boell Forum, some do not -- please check the venue for each
event. Click here for a complete
list of of our events during the World Summit. There
is also an overview event planner
for your convenience.
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BOELL
EVENTS, AUGUST 27
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Boell Breakfast Briefings
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Briefing
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August 27; 08h00-09h00; Heinrich Boell Foundation, Southern
Africa Office -- Boell Breakfast Briefing BBB. The Boell
Breakfast Briefings are a series of nine concentrated work meetings
at breakfast time during the World Summit. Each meeting will address
one of the key issues that will be at stake in Johannesburg. The
series is meant to provide an environment where key stakeholders
from governments, intergovernmental organisations, civil society
and the private sector can meet and discuss their positions in a
quiet and closed surrounding close to the venue of the official
summit. MORE
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South Africa: Cycling to a Better Future
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Workshop
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August 27; 09h00-10h45; Boell Forum -- South Africa:
Cycling to a Better Future; presented by Afribike. This session
will focus on the recent activities of promoting bicycle transport
in South Africa,most significantly the Shova Kalula National Bicycle
Program.It will highlight the model of implementation developed
by Afribike,where a permanent presence is established in a community
through the establishment of a local bicycle micro enterprise that
sells bicycles,spares and repairs. MORE
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Sustainable South Cone
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Book Launch
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August 27; 11h00-13h00; Boell Forum -- Book Launch: Sustainable
South Cone. In Brazil, Chile and Uruguay, NGOs and research
institutions have, as part of a joint programme supported by the
Heinrich Boell Foundation, developed concrete sustainability concepts
in their respective country. The focus has been on the development
of an independent Southern perspective, examining elements of concepts
developed in Europe, but adapting them to a Latin American context.
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NEPAD: The Path to Sustainable Development for Africa
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Panel Discussion
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August 27; 13h30-15h30; Boell Forum -- NEPAD: The Path
to Sustainable Development for Africa. The African governments
promoting NEPAD have recognised that good governance constitutes
a fundamental precondition and instrument for African development.To
this end, they have agreed to establish an "African Peer Review
Mechanism"
(APRM)which makes government policies in individual African states
subject to review,criticism and -if necessary -pressure by partner
governments throughout the continent. As at now, few details about
the APRM ’s mode of operation are known; less so about its
possible effects and results.Its potential to promote peace and
good governance is as large as its potential to create conflict,
because the APRM implies an end to the principle of non-interference
in the internal affairs of other states, cherished for long in OAU
politics. MORE
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Uncovering 'GreenWash': Shadow Reports Israel, Thailand, Canada
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Workshop
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August 27; 16h00-18h00; Boell Forum -- Uncovering 'GreenWash'
, Challenging our Governments into Action: Shadow Reports; Implementing
Agenda 21 in Israel, Thailand and Canada.
On several days throughout the Global People's Forum, the Heinrich
Boell Foundation provides the space for the presentation of alternative
reports made by NGOs in various countries as a critique of national
government's assessments of their implementation of Agenda 21 since
Rio 1992. MORE
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Did Marrakesh trump Rio? On Globalisation and Sustainability
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Public Debate
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August 27; 18h00-20h00; Boell Forum -- Did Marrakesh
trump Rio? On Globalisation and Sustainability; Debating the Jo'Burg
Memo/Theatre Fair Wealth. It took just two years for the very
governments that had presented themselves as stewards of the Earth
in Rio, to reconvene as vendors of the Earth in Marrakech. With
the establishment of the World Trade Organisation in 1995, they
cheerfully accepted obligations whose unintended effects amount
to a quicker sell-out of the natural heritage world-wide. While
Rio was concerned with the protection and prudent use of natural
riches, Marrakech was concerned with the access of corporations
to the natural assets. Every evening during the World Summit,
the Boell Forum will witness an unusual combination of two events:
a short theatre play and a subsequent debate on the themes
of the Jo'Burg Memo, featuring the key challenges for the World
Summit. The same play will be performed every day, while the debate
will have a different focus each evening. MORE
+ [ Overview
of the seven debates ]
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