ON SITE IN JOHANNESBURG:
BOELL EVENTS: THURSDAY, AUGUST 29

Below you find an overview of our events on site in Johannesburg on August 29. 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 29

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Boell Breakfast Briefings

Briefing 

August 29; 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

Sustainability Certification of Local Communities

Workshop 

August 29; 09h00-11h00; Boell Forum -- Sustainability Certification of Local Communities. The Local Sustainability Certification (LSC) is a voluntary process which guarantees that a community has reached a state of sustainability by balancing social equity, ecological integrity and participatory democracy. A community's progress towards creating a more sustainable society is assessed against a set of predetermined standards. MORE

Global Sustainable Energy Strategy

Presentation 

August 29; 10h15-11h30; Ubuntu Village, German Exhibition -- Global Sustainable Energy Strategy. As a constructive contribution to the debates on sustainable energy, the Heinrich Boell Foundation has commissioned a discussion paper at the Öko-Institut. Elaborated with collaborators from across the globe, the paper focuses on key strategies with a potential for consensus among the most diverse actors: energy efficiency and renewable energies. MORE

HIV/AIDS as Hindrance for Sustainable Development

Workshop 

August 29; 13h00-15h00; Boell Forum -- HIV/AIDS as Hindrance for Sustainable Development. MORE

How to Built Sound Partnerships for Water Security

Workshop 

August 29; 15h00-18h00; Boell Forum -- Challenging Type II Outcomes: How to Built Sound Partnerships for Water Security. The Heinrich Boell Foundation and the National Wildlife Federation invite governments, businesses and non-governmental organisations to scrutinise Type-II-Partnerships launched in Johannesburg and to discuss how the urgent but open questions e.g. on monitoring and accountability could be answered to ensure healthy water for people and nature in the coming decades. MORE

Beyond "Development-as-growth"? Leapfrogging into the Solar Age

Public Debate 

August 29; 18h30-20h00; Boell Forum -- Beyond "Development-as-growth"? Leapfrogging into the Solar Age; Debating the Jo'Burg Memo/Theatre Fair Wealth. At the historical juncture where fossil-fuel dependency drives industrial societies into an impasse, developing countries suddenly find themselves in a favorable position. Not yet locked into an old-style model of industrialisation, they have the prospect of leapfrogging into a postfossil age, skipping the resource-intensive styles of production and consumption. What are the opportunities and the obstacles for Southern countries, when they engage towards "leapfrogging into the solar age"? Is it a realistic option or just a dream? 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 ]