DID MARRAKESH TRUMP RIO?
ON GLOBALISATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
Debating the Jo'Burg Memo
Date: August 27
Time: 18h15-18h45 (theatre) and 19h00-20h00 (debate)
Venue: Boell Forum at the Global People's Forum +
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With Sara Larraín, Chile Sustentable;
Alexander de Roo, Dutch Greens, Member of European Parliament;
Victor Menotti, International Forum on Globalisation; and Wolfgang
Sachs, Memorandum Group
"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 Organization 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, in conclusion of the Uruguay
Round of the GATT, was concerned with the unconditional access of corporations
to the natural assets." (The Jo'burg
Memo, pp. 12).
Sara Larraín, former candidate for Chilean presidential
elections in 1999, is director of the Sustainable Chile Program, and co-ordinates
the Sustainable South Cone Program. Alexander de Roo is member
of GroenLinks (Dutch Green Party), Vice-President and Coordinator of the
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer in the European
Parliament. Victor Menotti directs the Environment Program of the
International Forum on Globalisation (IFG). The IFG is an alliance of
sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers
formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education
in response to economic globalisation.
The debate starts at 19h00. It will be preceded from 18h15 to 18h45
by "Fair Wealth?", a theatre play inspired by the Jo'burg
Memo, by the Sibikwa
Community Theatre Group.
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