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ON SITE IN JOHANNESBURG:
BOELL EVENTS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28
Below you find an overview of our events on site in Johannesburg
on August 28. 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 28
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Boell Breakfast Briefings
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Briefing
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August 28; 08h00-09h00; Heinrich Boell Foundation, Southern
Africa Office -- Boell Breakfast Briefing BBB. The Böll
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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Nuclear Disarmament and Sustainable Development
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Workshop
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August 28; 09h15-10h45; Boell Forum -- This talk will review
the links between the nuclear energy and weapons programmes of the
apartheid government, questioning the power configurations, and
looking at the implications of South Africa becoming the first country
to abandon its nuclear bomb programme. MORE
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The Jo'burg Memo -- Fairness in a Fragile World
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Presentation
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August 28; 09h00-10h30; IUCN Environment Centre -- The
Jo'burg Memo; Fairness in a Fragile World. Sixteen authors,
eminent activists, politicians, intellectuals, and managers from
across the world joined forces to produce a memorandum for the World
Summit and to contribute to the debate on both the desired outcomes
of the Summit and the critical path for the sustainable development
agenda in the next decade. Presentation and discussion at the IUCN
Centre. MORE
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Nuclear Energy Costs the World!
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Workshop
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August 28; 11h00-13h00; Boell Forum -- Nuclear Energy
Costs the World! Workshop by Earthlife Africa. An information
share with nuclear activists, with the focus on South African plans
for the production, use and export of over 250 nuclear reactors.
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Poverty Alleviation and the Use of Natural Resources
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Workshop
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August 28; 13h00-15h00; Boell Forum -- Poverty Alleviation
and the Use of Natural Resources; terre des hommes and SAFIRE.
Presentation of projects: terre des hommes helps people to liberate
themselves from oppression and economic hardship. It seeks to empower
them to try out their own ideas about life lived in dignity. MORE
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Israeli Forum for Ecological Art
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Workshop
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August 28; 15h00-16h00; Boell Forum -- Israeli Forum
for Ecological Art. This is a call for artists for initiating
a creative social change, a call for scientists/ecologists to collaborate
with artists on environmental issues, a call for official incorporation
of artists in decision-making processes. MORE
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Sustainable Germany: A Southern Perspective 10 years after Rio
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August 28; 16h00-18h00; Boell Forum -- Shadow Report:
Sustainable Germany: A Southern Perspective 10 years after
Rio. On the occasion of the World Summit the Heinrich Boell
Foundation alongside with several partners invited a team of five
experts from countries of the South to take a critical view of the
implementation of sustainable development in Germany. Team members
came from Mexico, Chile, India, Jordan and Kenya, all of them familiar
with sustainability issues in their respective home countries. MORE
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Go for Fair Trade, not for Free Trade? On Market Access for Developing
Countries
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Public Debate
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August 28; 18h15-20h00; Boell Forum -- Go for Fair Trade,
not for Free Trade? On Market Access for Developing Countries; Debating
the Jo'Burg Memo/Theatre Fair Wealth. The Southern demand for
better access to Northern markets is a very hot issue at the official
negotiations. But will this translate into livelihoods improvements
for the poorest communities in these countries? What is required
to safeguard food security and promote resilient livelihood strategies
for the poorest, and can this be achieved alongside export growth?
This debate will aim to clarify the issues at stake 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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