ISIS Report 04/07/05
International Conference
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@I-sis.org.uk
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:
Organisation (if any):
e-mail:
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Entire conference (£40) ___ 14 July only (£25)
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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
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
Director 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
Director 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
Director 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
Director 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
Director 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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