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Ah well, never mind...down to business.:
I know this is irrelevant to most ppl here, BUT
*just in case* there is someone(s) lurking about
that may be able to use it, that certainly would
make it worthwhile posting this....we need all
the help we can get on this thing...
peace
ZoeScanner
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To: zoescanner <zoescanner@yahoo.com>
From: "Stefan Rostock"
<stefan.rostock@debate21.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2029 15:58:11 +0200
Subject: [StopWTORound] Invitation to join Debate
21, Bonn/Germany Oct. 18th-20th
Invitation to join Debate 21
International Civil Society Dialogue
on Trade, Financial Markets and Climate Policy.
Bonn/Germany October 18th - 20th, 2000
Dear Friends and Activists!
Debate 21, a global NGO dialogue project is
organising an international
conference. Debate 21 was initiated by
GERMANWATCH and WEED and steered by
an international steering.
>From the 18th to the 20th of October 2000
NGO-activists, scientists and
journalists from five continents will discuss the
topics climate policy,
financial architecture and trade. The
globalisation and its effects on the
environment and the relation between rich and
poor demands that we together
take part in the creation of global, equitable
and environmentally sound
sustainable development by developing alternative
strategies.
The conference provides good opportunities to
discuss various NGO positions.
We want to invite NGOs from all over the world to
learn and to contribute to
the current debate. The Debate 21 Team is looking
forward to your
confirmation and your active participation in the
global debate. Please
spread this invitation among interested
colleagues and other NGOs.
Please find attached a conference programme and a
registration form, the
same information is also at the end of this
email.
Kind regards,
Peter Wahl, WEED
Stefan Rostock, Project Co-ordination
Rainer Engels, GERMANWATCH
Debate 21 Conference Programme
WEDNESDAY | OCTOBER 18TH
Opening Plenary Day
15.00 | Welcome and Coffee
15.30 | Debate 21, the process - Welcome and
Introduction
Heidi Feldt (WEED, Germany)
Welcome Address
Pia Heckes (Mayor of the City of Bonn)
Keynote Speech: First Signs of a New Global
Movement - Civil Society at Dawn
Jean-Pierre Leroy (Fase, Brazil)
Keynote Speech: Analysis of a Democratic,
Equitable and Environmentally
Sound
Development in times of Globalisation
Nicola Bullard (Focus on the Global South,
Thailand)
Discussion: Civil Society in the Age of
Neo-Liberalism
Moderator: Peter Wahl (WEED, Germany)
18.30 | Dinner Buffet, Live Music
The following day, Thursday, October 19th,
consists of three parallel
Working Groups covering three different topics.
There will be two
introductions in each session (approx. 10-15
minutes each), followed by a
discussion. Participants are welcome to change
Working Groups during breaks!
I
THURSDAY | OCTOBER 19TH
Steps Towards a Sustainable
Trade Regime
09.00 | Global Trade and the Role of Social and
Environmental Standards
Andreas Botsch (DGB, Germany), Pradeep S. Mehta
(CUTS, India) and
Tetteh Hormeku (TWN, Ghana)
10.40 | Coffee break
11.00 | Global Trade and the Question of Market
Access, Prices and Subsidies
in the Agricultural Sector
Gerard Choplin (Via Campesina/CPE, Belgium) and
Hella-Karen Alikuru*
(IUF, Kenya)
12.45 | Lunch break
14.30 | Alternatives to the WTO
Dot Keet (AIDC, South Africa) and Ronnie Hall
(FoEI, UK)
16.00 | Coffee break
16.20 | Strategies and Further Action
Adalberto Martins (MST, Brazil) and Thierry
Kesteloot (OXFAM, Belgium)
18.00 | Dinner Reception with the Mayor of Bonn
Pia Heckes, Old Town Hall,
Bonn
II
THURSDAY | OCTOBER 19TH
Sustainability, Social Justice and
the International Financial System
09.00 | Regulating International Financial
Markets
Kavaljit Singh (PIRC, India) and Bruno Jetin
(ATTAC, France)
10.40 | Coffee break
11.00 | The Role of International Financial
Institutions (IMF/World
Bank/BIS)
Carol Welch (FoE, USA), Fernando Cardim de
Carvalho (ibase,
Brazil) and Magda Stoczkiewicz (CEE bankwatch,
Poland)
12.45 | Lunch break
14.30 | International Financial Markets and the
Private Sector
(Institutional Investors, TNCs)
Myriam Vander Stichele (SOMO, NL) and Alejandro
Villamar (RMALC, Mexico)
16.00 | Coffee break
16.20 | Strategies: How to make Financial Markets
and Institutions
more responsive to Social Demands and Development
Jan Kregel (UNCTAD, USA) and Carlos Tiburcio
(ATTAC, Brazil)
18.00 | Dinner Reception with the Mayor of Bonn
Pia Heckes, Old Town Hall,
Bonn
III
THURSDAY | OCTOBER 19TH
Sustainability, Climate Change and the
International Climate Policy
09.00 | Ten Years of Global Climate Negotiations:
A Paradigm for Future
Negotiations?
Joyeeta Gupta (IVM-VU, The Netherlands, India)
and Stefan Singer
(WWF, Brussels)
10.40 | Coffee break
11.00 | Equity and Entitlement, the Precautionary
Principle, Economical
and Ecological Efficiency - What is the Key to
the Climate Problem?
Achila Imchen (CSE, India), Frances MacGuire
(FoEI, FoE ENWI, UK) and
Christoph Bals (GERMANWATCH, Germany)
12.45 | Lunch break
14.30 | Making the Polluter Pay for
Climate-Related Environmental Damages
Richard Douthwaite (Global Commons Institute, UK)
and Ulrich Denkhaus
(Protestant Church, Germany)
16.00 | Coffee break
16.20 | Development and Climate - A No-Regret
Strategy for the South
Liam Salter (WWF, Europe) and A. Atiq Rahman
(BCAS, Bangladesh)
18.00 | Dinner Reception with the Mayor of Bonn
Pia Heckes, Old Town Hall,
Bonn
FRIDAY | OCTOBER 20TH
Closing plenary Day
09.00 | Opening
Michael Baumann (GERMANWATCH, Germany)
Who controls Globalisation - The critical
relationship between the State and
Civil Society
Uschi Eid (Secretary of State, German Federal
Ministry for Economic
Co-operation and Development)
>From the Age of Development to the Age of
Globalisation - A Northern
Perspective
Wolfgang Sachs (Wuppertal Institute, Germany)
11.00 | Press Conference, Coffee break
11.30 | Results of the three working groups:
Trade and Investment,
Financial Architecture and Climate Policy
by rapporteurs
12.30 | Lunch break
14.00 | Panel discussion: Civil Society
Strategies: Developing
Alternatives to the Neo-Liberal Model
Dot Keet (AIDC, South Africa), Peter Wahl (WEED,
Germany), Fernanda Carvalho
(ibase, Brazil), Carol Welch (FoE US, USA), Jose
Bove* (Farmer and
Activist, CP, France)
15.30 | Coffee break
16.00 | Elements of an Alternative Strategy to
Neo-Liberal Globalisation
Special Guest
The Civil Society Agenda for the upcoming decade
(closing speech)
Michael Windfuhr (GERMANWATCH, Germany)
17.00 | End of the Conference
The making of debate 21
There is a common agreement that strategies for
achieving an equitable and
environmentally sound development in a democratic
way need to be
established. But where and by whom should these
strategies be developed,
implemented and controlled (on the regional,
national or international
levels)? What is the role of NGOs and civil
society in this context? Clearly
strategies towards sustainability can only be
found if all those affected by
such decisions work together. But is there a
common ground for action? To
give NGOs, grass-root-organisations and other
experts from the North and the
South, East and West the chance to discuss these
questions, the German NGOs
GERMANWATCH and WEED established the project
Debate 21. The discussion is
focused on the three topics: Trade and
Investment, Financial Architecture
and Climate Policy.
In the course of the process it turned out, that
the trade and climate
sectors have their specific conflict lines -
without showing a distinct
north-south division in positions. The finance
sector is a special case for
two reasons: so far only a few NGOs and social
movements are involved in the
discussion, and those which are, hardly differ in
their positions. Since
January 1999 Debate 21 provides a forum to
discuss critical issues within
the global NGO movement. People from grassroots,
think tanks and all types
of NGOs use this forum to develop and exchange
ideas and strategies on
workshops and via internet. Together, we might be
able to identify
differences and develop common strategies to
tackle the problems of
globalisation, liberalisation and their negative
social and environmental
impacts.
Registration Form:
Please register me for the Debate 21 Conference
"International Civil Society
Dialogues on Sustainability in Trade,
International Financial Architecture
and Climate Policy" 18th-20th October 2000, Bonn,
Germany
First Name ______________________________________
Last Name ______________________________________
O f O m
Position
_________________________________________
Organisation (full name and abbreviation please)
__________________________________________________
Address ________________________________________
Fax _____________________________________________
_______________________________________________
email ___________________________________________
Phone _________________________________________
WWW ___________________________________________
Date/time of arrival ___________ /___________
Date/time of departure ___________ /___________
Please mark with a cross:
O I will stay all three days, 18th-20th and pay
(food and conference folder
included) O 60 DEM O 30 DEM (reduced fee).
O I will only come to the final day and pay (food
and conference material
included) O 30 DEM O 15 DEM (reduced fee).
O Please book a bed for me in a O double room (45
DEM) O single room
(75 DEM) x _______ nights
for a total amount of ________ DEM.
I would like to share a room
with_______________________________
O I will organise accommodation on my own.
O I probably will visit the workshop on (check
one):
* Sustainable Trade
* International Financial Architecture
* Climate Policy
O I need a personalised letter of invitation in
order to apply for a visa
(please give the following information):
Date of Birth __________________ Place of Birth
________________________
Passport No. ____________________
Passport issued at (date/place)
____________________ /
_________________________________________________
O This letter needs also to be faxed to the
German embassy in my country.
Fax No.: ____________________________
Date ______________________
Signature___________________________________
Date: 18th-20th October 2000, Bonn
Venue: The Conference is taking place at:
18th-19th: Conference Centre: International Youth
Forum CJD, Graurheindorfer
Straße. 149, D - 53117 Bonn
20th: Beethovenhalle Bonn, Wachsbleiche 16, 53111
Bonn, Germany
The welcome and reception desk opens October
18th, at 1pm at the Conference
Centre.
There is a limited number of beds available at
the CJD. The costs are 75,-
DM per night per person in a single room and 45,-
DM per night per person in
a double room. The beds will be distributed
according to the order of
registrations.
The conference fee - including a documentation of
the event - amounts to
60,- DM for all three days (with reduction 30,-
DM) If you only take part
in the final day, the fee is 30,- DM (red. 15,-
DM).
Please transfer your participation fee to the
Debate 21 bank account: Sparda
Bank Koeln eG, Account N° 400947466, bank N° 370
605 90 or pay the fee at
the reception desk, when you arrive.
Please return the registration by 30.09. 2000,
either by fax or by
(e/snail)mail.
Fax: +49/228/9652428 or
Mail: | Debate 21 | Kaiserstr. 201 | D - 53113
Bonn | Germany |
Email: debate21@debate21.org
Or you can also register using our web site
http://www.debate21.org
Debate 21
Stefan Rostock
Projektkoordination
Kaiserstr. 201
D - 53113 Bonn
Tel: +49/228/9652426
Fax: +49/228/9652428
Stefan.Rostock@debate21.org
www.debate21.org
Debate 21 ist ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt von
Germanwatch und WEED
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