Sustainable World International Conference - Final Announcement

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Sustainable World International Conference - Final Announcement

 

 

 

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ISIS Press Release 04/07/05

 

Sustainable World International Conference

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Final Announcement

 

Feeling paralysed by politicians spreading gloom and doom

over global warming, oil and water depletion, and poverty in

Africa? There's plenty we can do to dispel despair and

galvanise governments and people into effective action. At

last, a conference of new ideas and approaches to provide

food security and health for all, eradicate poverty and

mitigate global warming. Not to be missed!

 

Sue Edwards - Alan Simpson - Mae-Wan Ho - Martin Khor -

Michael Meacher - Peter Bunyard - Erkki Lähde - Caroline

Lucas - David Hywel Davis - David Woodward - Joe Cummins -

Ingrid Hartman - Lilian Joensen – Julia Wright – Hannu

Hyvönen - Elenita Neth Dano

 

(Note changes in speakers list, now expanded, as are the

topics covered. We are especially sorry to lose Tewolde, who

has been called away to an emergency international

conference on biosafety for which he is the world's most

important negotiator. But we are very fortunate to have as

replacement, Sue Edwards, the Director of the Institute of

Sustainable Development, Tewolde's partner and key player in

all his projects.)

 

Times & Venues

 

14 July (16:00h – 19:00h; Atlee Suite, House of Commons,

Westminster, London Conference dinner (19:30 to 22:00; RAF

Club, 128 Piccadilly W1J 7PJ) 15 July (9:00h - 17:00h; Small

Meeting House, Friend's House, 173 Euston Road, London,

opposite Euston tube station)

 

Registration Register online:

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Swreg.php

 

Register by post: fill in the

registration form below and mail cheque to: Sustainable

World conference, ISIS, PO Box 32097, London NW1 0XR, UK.

Other methods of payment: contact Swenquiries

For more information: Peter Saunders: 44-(0)20-7848-2218;

Rhea Gala: 44-(0)1994-231-623; Sam Burcher 44-(0)-20-8452-

2729 Thanks to donations from generous sponsors, we are able

to extend the special offer for anyone registering on or

before 13 July 2005. Registration Fees for the conference

are waived for Friends of ISIS, and half-price for

Sustainable World sponsors.

 

Registration form for Sustainable World conference

 

Name:

 

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Please tick appropriate boxes below

 

Sponsor of Sustainable World: yes __ no__

 

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Entire conference (£40) ___ 14 July only (£25) ___ 15 July

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Total amount to pay £_____

 

 

The Sustainable World Global Initiative was launched by the

Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) and the Independent

Science Panel (ISP) on 6 April 2005

(http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SustainableWorldInitiativeF.php).

 

Programme

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July 14

 

Session 1: The Big Picture

 

Chaired by Peter Ainsworth MP, Chair of all-party

Environmental Audit Committee in the last Parliament

 

Sue Edwards

of the Institute of Sustainable Development

Ethiopia (Sustainable World partner) that played a key role

in promoting African Model Law on Protecting the Rights of

Local Communities, Farmers and Breeders and Regulating

Access to Biological Resources

 

Sustainable World, a Global Initiative for Food Sovereignty

and Food Security

 

Alan Simpson

 

Member of Parliament, UK, leading voice in debates about a

sustainable future, from ending fuel poverty to food

justice, voted " Environmental Politician of the Year " ,

Sustainable World sponsor

 

Food and Energy Security: Local Systems, Global Solidarity

 

Mae-Wan Ho

of Sustainable World, pioneer of a new physics of

organisms and sustainable systems, well known critic of GM

crops and genetic determinism

 

Sustainable Food Systems for Sustainable Development

 

Martin Khor

of Third World Network based in Malaysia,

Sustainable World partner, prominent spokesperson for the

Third World at the World Trade Organisation

 

How Globalisation Stands in the Way of a Sustainable World

 

Michael Meacher

 

Member of Parliament, UK, ex-Environment Minister

negotiating the Biosafety Protocol, Kyoto Protocol and other

important international treaties, champion of green issues

and independent science, Sustainable World sponsor

 

Policies for Food and Sustainable Systems, National and

Global

 

Caroline Lucas MEP will lead a Conference Dinner Discussion

on Common Agricultural Policy

 

 

 

 

 

July 15

 

Session 2: Knowledge-based Actions 1

 

Chaired by Peter Saunders, Professor of Applied Mathematics,

King's College, London

 

Peter Bunyard

 

Science editor and a founding editor of The Ecologist,

author of numerous books and articles, much sought-after

speaker on climate change and nuclear energy, Fellow of the

Linnean Society

 

Saving the Amazon Forest for Sustainable Uses

 

Erkki Lähde

 

Finland's foremost forester, Union of Ecoforestry, Finland,

Sustainable World sponsor

 

Multiple Uses of Forests; Experience in Finland

 

Sue Edwards

of Institute of Sustainable Development Ethiopia,

played a key role in making organic agriculture a national

strategy for food security in Ethiopia

 

Organic Agriculture as a National Strategy for Food Security

 

Caroline Lucas

 

Member of European Parliament, prominent spokesperson

against GMOs and globalisation and champion of important

green issues, Sustainable World sponsor

 

How the European Union Can Pave the Way to a Sustainable

World

 

David Hywel Davies

 

Distinguished, much published physician from Switzerland

specialising in child development, cardiology and nutrition,

representing Weston A. Price Foundation, Sustainable World

sponsor

 

Foods, Sustainable Agriculture, and Coronary Disease of the

Young

 

David Woodward

of Global and National Economies Programme at New

Economics Foundation, UK, Sustainable World sponsor

 

The New Economics and Sustainable Food Systems

 

Session 3: Knowledge-based Actions 2

 

Chair: Eva Novotny, Scientists for Global Responsibility

 

Joe Cummins

 

Emeritus Professor of Plant Genetics, University of Western

Ontario, Canada; veteran campaigner on numerous

environmental issues and one of the first critics of genetic

engineering

 

Terminator Corporations' Suicide Seeds

 

Ingrid Hartman

 

Humboldt University, Germany, Member of UN Steering

Committee of Nutrition, the African Ecological Economic

Society and German-Ethiopian Association for the promotion

of cultural exchange and academic and economic

collaborations

 

Soil, Climate, Productivity and Environmental Justice

 

Lilian Joensen

 

Molecular biologist researching Chagas' disease, Member of

Grupo de Reflexion Rural, Argentina

 

" Sustainable Agriculture " : the Latin American Experience

 

Julia Wright

 

Manager of International Programme of HDRA (UK's leading

organic horticulture charity with over 30 000 members and

Sustainable World sponsor), gained her Ph. D. on Cuba's

experience in heading off its food crisis

 

Feeding the World with Organic Agriculture: So What's

Stopping Us? The Experience of Cuba

 

Session 4: Knowledge-based Actions 3 & General Discussion

 

Chair: Lim Li Ching, Third World Network

 

Hannu Hyvönen

 

Journalist, broadcaster and Chair of Northern Heritage,

Finland, Sustainable World sponsor

 

Recovering Local Varieties for Agricultural Biodiversity in

Northern Finland

 

Elenita Neth Dano

 

Associate of Third World Network from the Philippines; 12

years experience in conservation and development of

community plant genetic resources across Southeast Asia

 

Third World Farmers Conserving Local Biodiversity in

Biodynamic Farming

 

General Discussion

 

 

 

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