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ON SITE IN JOHANNESBURG:
EVENTS @ THE WORLD SUMMIT
Below you find a chronolgical list of our events or events of our
partners during the World Summit. Most of them take place at the
Boell Forum, but some do not. Make sure you check the venue for
each event you would like to attend. You may find it more convenient
to explore our activities using the overview
event planner. Click the dates below for individual days.
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FULL
LIST OF BOELL FEATURED EVENTS @ THE WORLD SUMMIT
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World Summit for Beginners
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Teach In
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August 22; 09h00-18h00; Boell Forum -- World Summit for
Beginners: This event intends to introduce the issues of the
World Summit and the possibilities of NGOs to influence the negotiations
to newbies on global UN processes. It will provide sound background
information on what's at stake in Johannesburg as well as detailing
strategies and methods of NGOs to get their message heard at the
World Summit. MORE
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Cross-Sectional Study
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Book Launch
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August 23; 10h30-12h00; Boell Forum -- Ecology and Sustainable
Development in the International Work of the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
The Heinrich Boell Foundation has undertaken a profound study on
the construction of a civil environmental agenda in Eastern Europe
and the South -- based on a cross-sectional study of programmes
and project partners of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, but gives
also an interesting overview on strategies, political conditions
and interventions of environmental NGOs in these regions generally.
The experiences are reflections of the difficulties and sucess stories
building up civil society environmental monitoring during the Rio
follow up processes. MORE
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Just Solutions -- A Better World Is Possible
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Conference
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August 24-26; Boell Forum -- Just Solutions -- A Better
World Is Possible. The Greens/European
Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament, in co-operation
with the Heinrich Boell Foundation will hold a three day Conference,
entitled "Just Solutions -- A Better World
Is Possible" to mark the opening of the World Summit. Ministers,
UN agencies, NGOs, international organisations and representatives
of Industry will participate in a series of panel debates focussing
on some of the most pressing issues of sustainability, with a strong
emphasis on the African Continent. MORE
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Media Briefing
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Briefing
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August 25; 10h00-13h00; IUCN Environment Centre -- This
media background briefing will introduce press and key participants
to issues relevant to the World Summit drawing on the knowledge
of world-renowned experts and the experience and credibility of
the Heinrich Boell Foundaiton, the World Watch Institute and the
Third World Network in providing information on issues of environment
and international development. MORE
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Grand Opening and Launch of the Jo'burg Memo
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Opening and Launch
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August 25; 18h00-20h00; Boell Forum -- The Boell Forum will
be one of big events host of the Global People's Forum at the World
Summit and see its on formal opening on August 25. The opening will
see a presentation of the Jo'burg
Memo, a cornerstone of the Foundations' contributions to the
Johannesburg Summit and a debate on the crucial issues at stake
in Johannesburg. It will also feature the theatre play "Fair
Wealth" inspired by the Jo'burg Memo. MORE
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Boell Breakfast Briefings
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Briefing
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August 26; 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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Global Greens Meeting
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Workshop
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August 26; 13h30-16h00; Boell Forum -- Global Greens
Meeting. MORE
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Uncovering 'GreenWash': Shadow Reports
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Workshop
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August 26; 16h00-18h00; Boell Forum -- Uncovering 'GreenWash'
, Challenging our Governments into Action: Shadow Reports; Implementing
Agenda 21 in Ethipopia and Denmark. 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.
August 26 will see the launch of the report "Uncovering
'GreenWash' -- Challenging our Governments into Action",
a compilation of these shadow reports. MORE
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"Zombie Categories"? Rio+10 and the North-South Divide
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Public Debate
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August 26; 18h15-20h00; Boell Forum -- "Zombie Categories"?
Rio+10 and the North-South Divide; Debating the Jo'burg Memo/Theatre
Fair Wealth. The conventional North-South distinction obscures
the fact that the dividing line in today ’s world,if there
is any,is not primarily running between Northern and Southern societies,but
right across all of these societies.The major rift appears to be
between the globalized rich and the localised poor. Are North
and South "Zombie categories"? What meaning do
they still command if we look at an increasingly complex international
scenery. Do these categories still reflect important realities?
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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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.
MORE
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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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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.
MORE
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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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Presentation
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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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Boell Breakfast Briefings
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Briefing
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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
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Sustainability Certification of Local Communities
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Workshop
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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
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Global Sustainable Energy Strategy
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Presentation
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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
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HIV/AIDS as Hindrance for Sustainable Development
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Workshop
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August 29; 13h00-15h00; Boell Forum -- HIV/AIDS as Hindrance
for Sustainable Development. MORE
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How to Built Sound Partnerships for Water Security
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Workshop
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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
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Beyond "Development-as-growth"? Leapfrogging into the
Solar Age
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Public Debate
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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 ]
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Boell Breakfast Briefings
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Briefing
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August 30; 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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Financing for Development and the World Summit
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Workshop
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August 30; 09h00-11h00; Boell Forum -- Financing for
Development and the World Summit; International Gender & Trade
Network. MORE
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Trade and the World Summit
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Teach In
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August 30; 11h00-13h00; Boell Forum -- Teach-In: Trade
and the World Summit; International Gender & Trade Network.
MORE
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India Forum
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Workshops
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August 30; 13h30-17h30; Boell Forum -- India Forum.
The event will underline the dilemmas and contradictions in the
ecology of affluence and the environmentalism of the poor, setting
the South by and sometimes against the North; and moving from the
global to the national to the local, from the macro to the micro,
to present a kaleidoscope of issues, movements and struggles by
people's movements, NGOs and individuals on questions of ecology.
MORE
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Wealth Alleviation: Resource-Light Consumption
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Public Debate
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August 30; 18h15-20h00; Boell Forum -- Wealth Alleviation:
Resource-Light Consumption for the Global Consumer Class, and the
Rights of the Marginalised Majority; Debating the Jo'burg Memo/Theatre
Fair Wealth. The quest
for fairness in a finite world means changing the rich in the first
place, not the poor. Poverty alleviation, in other words, cannot
be separated from wealth alleviation. This debate will take a look
at poverty that is by and large absent from the mainstream discussions
at the summit. It links the fate of the poor to the over
consumption of the wealthy. 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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Boell Breakfast Briefings
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Briefing
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August 31; 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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Global Greens Meeting
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Workshop
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August 31; 10h00-12h00; Boell Forum -- Global Greens
Meeting. MORE
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Shadow Reports
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Workshop
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August 31; 16h00-17h30; Boell Forum -- Uncovering 'Greenwash':
Challenging our Governments into Action; Shadow Reports on Implementing
Agenda 21 in Mozambique, Bangladesh, Kenya
and Malaysia. 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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Boell Breakfast Briefings
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Briefing
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September 1; 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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The Role of Export Credit Agencies in Sustainable Development
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Workshop
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September 1; 14h00-16h00; Boell Forum -- The Role of
Export Credit Agencies in Sustainable Development. The Center
for International Environmental Law in collaboration with Urgewald,
Germany and Friends of the Earth, Japan, are convening a panel to
discuss Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) and the need to reform their
operations, with a particular focus on improving transparency. MORE
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Shadow Reports
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Workshop
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September 1; 16h00-17h30; Boell Forum -- Uncovering 'Greenwash':
Challenging our Governments into Action; Shadow Reports on Implementing
Agenda 21 in Jordan, United States, Costa
Rica and Togo. 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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Poverty as lack of power? Livelihood Rights and Poverty Eradication
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Public Debate
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September 1; 18h15-20h00; Boell Forum -- Poverty as lack
of power? Livelihood Rights and Poverty Eradication; Debating the
Jo'burg Memo/Theatre Fair Wealth. Poverty derives from a deficit
of power rather than a lack of money. Far from being needy persons
awaiting provisions, the poor must be seen as citizens who are constrained
by a lack of rights, entitlements, salaries, and political leverage.
Any attempt, therefore, to mitigate poverty will have to be centered
on a reinforcement of rights and opportunities. 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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Boell Breakfast Briefings
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Briefing
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September 2; 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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AGENDA Special Edition
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Book Launch
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September 2; 10h00-11h00; Boell Forum -- AGENDA Special
Edition. This special issue of Agenda articulates and problematises
debates around sustainable development from a gender perspective.
In particular it raises the concerns of South African women. MORE
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Global Sustainable Energy Strategy
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Presentation
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September 2; 11h00-16h00; Boell Forum -- 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
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Zero Waste/Incineration
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Presentation
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September 2; 16h15-18h00; Boell Forum -- Zero Waste/Incineration.
The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) and Earthlife
Africa are leading the campaign to make the Johannesburg Summit
a "Zero Waste" event. GAIA and Earthlife Africa have called
on the event sponsors and organisers to conduct the event with an
aim to divert 90% of the waste from being sent to landfills and
to ensure that none is sent to incinerators. The programme for this
event includes knowledge and experiences sharing, lively discussions
on alternatives to incineration and the presentation of the Zero
Waste campaign on the Global People's Forum. MORE
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Move Towards a World Environment Organisation?
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Public Debate
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September 2; 18h15-20h00; Boell Forum -- Move Towards
a World Environment Organisation? Debating the Jo'burg Memo/Theatre
Fair Wealth. Environmental governance is weak, fragmented and
generally ineffective. Time might now be ripe to develop clearer
structures that would deepen commitment, focus efforts, and enjoy
parity with both the UN and the Bretton Wood institutions. The Jo'burg
Memo advocates the creation of a World Environment Organisation.
In our last Memo debate, we will discuss this controversial proposal.
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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Boell Breakfast Briefings
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Briefing
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September 3; 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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Community Biodiversity Preservation, Model Legislation Bio-Piracy
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Workshop
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September 3; 09h00-11h00; Boell Forum -- Community Biodiversity
Preservation, Model Legislation Bio-Piracy. MORE
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The Southern Business Challenge for the World Summit
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Workshop
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September 3; 11h00-13h00; Boell Forum -- The Southern
Business Challenge for the World Summit. The Southern Business
Challenge (SBC) is a new international network of progressive companies
and entrepreneurs from developing countries seeking to advance action
towards sustainability and social justice at major international
policy fora. The SBC will be launched at the World Summit on Sustainable
Development in August 2002 in South Africa. MORE
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Shadow Reports
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Workshop
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September 3; 16h00-18h00; Boell Forum -- Uncovering Greenwash:
Challenging our Governments into Action; Shadow Reports on Implementing
Agenda 21 in Namibia, Brazil, Indonesia
and Bolivia. 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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Boell Breakfast Briefings
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Briefing
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September 4; 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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Jozi Reads -- Literature of Jo'burg
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Presentation
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September 4; 11h00-13h00; Boell Forum -- Jozi Reads:
Literature of Jo'burg. Hear writers from the newly published
"From Joburg to Jozi: Stories about Africa’s Infamous
City" and listen to Phaswane Mpe read from his book "Welcome
to our Hillbrow". Come and hear South Africa ’s new generation
of slam and dub poets and get a taste of what South Africa ’s
writers have to offer. You will also be able to interact with a
panel of writers and have your say on the state of writing today.
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Civil Society on the Summit - Where do we go from here?
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Debate
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September 4; 14h00-16h00; Boell Forum -- Civil Society
on the Summit - Where do we go from here? The World Summit has
seen an unprecedented participation of civil society organisations
from all regions. On the other hand, the geographic dispersion
of civil society over different venues and the lack of strategic
coordination in the lead-up to the Summit have lead to criticism
that the civil society's showing at the Summit was disappointing
and less effective than it could have been. The Heinrich Boell Foundation
has invited five discussants from different sectors of the international
NGO community to share and discuss their observations on how civil
society did in Jo'burg and where we should go from here. We are
looking forward to a fruitful discussion. MORE
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The Summit: A Contribution to Fairness in a Fragile World?
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Discussion
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September 4; 18h15-19h45; Ubuntu Village -- The Summit
from a Jo'burg Memo Perspective: A Contribution to Fairness in a
Fragile World? The Jo'burg Memo provides a critical analysis
of the 10 years since Rio, its merits and failures. It develops
a Johannesburg Agenda for fairness in a fragile world, and presents
a set of proposals for this Summit and the years ahead. At the time
of this debate, the summit will be over. In this debate, we want
to discuss the outcomes of the summit from the perspective present
in the Jo'burg Memo. Did the summit strengthen citizens and livelihood
rights? How did he contribute to fairness between the globalized
rich and the localized poor? Did we advance towards "Fair wealth"?
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