SUSTAINABLE SOUTH CONE:
CITIZENS CONTRIBUTIONS IN BUILDINg SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES
Book launch "Sustainable South Cone: Citizens Contribution in
Building Sustainable Societies"
Date: August 27
Time: 11h00-13h00
Venue: Boell Forum at the Global People's Forum +
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The event will have simultaneous translation English-Spanish.
The book presents the experiences of the Sustainable Brazil, Sustainable
Chile, and Sustainable Uruguay Programs since 1998 and the beginnings
of the Sustainable Argentine Program, recently created in 2001.
The book documents the efforts and actions of NGOs and social movements
to generate proposals for Sustainable Development of their Country, departing
from the peoples priorities and based on social equity, environmental
sustainability and democratic governance.
The text also details the conceptual and methodological contributions
of the Programs and the proposals for sustainable development in each
country and at the South Cone level. The text is supported by images of
the publications and of the developments in the different countries and
the region.
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Programme
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11:00
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Welcome and presentation of the panelists
Sara Larrain, Sustainable South Cone coordinator
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11:05
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Sustainable South Cone: Citizen Contributions for Building
Sustainable Societies
Barbara Unmmüssig, Executive Board Heinrich Böll
Foundation; Ricardo Sanchez, Director of UNEP Latin America
and the Caribbean; Francisca Rodriguez, President of the
rural women movement and leader of Via Campesina in Latinamerica;
David Korten, economist, International Forum on Globalisation
(tbc); and Senator Antonio Hovarth, President of the Environment
and Natural Resources Commission,
Chilean Senate
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12:30
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Book distribution
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