RIO+20: A WASTE OF TIME OR A NEW BEGINNING?
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RIO+20: A WASTE OF TIME OR A NEW BEGINNING?
10 am to noon, Thursday, May 3, 2012
Auditorium, CIGI Campus, 67 Erb Street West, Waterloo
Join a public discussion and debate about the possibilities, opportunities, and risks arising from the upcoming Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development.
Rio +20 should encourage debate about the concepts of “sustainable development” and the new terminology of “green growth.” What is the difference between these concepts? Are they the same thing only repackaged? Has the paradigm of “sustainable development” helped produce a greener global economy? Will Rio+20 take us on a new, greener trajectory?
Participants:
Maurice Strong: Former under-secretary general of the United Nations, Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and first Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
Jim MacNeill: Director of Environment at the OECD (1978–1984), Secretary General of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission) and lead author of its landmark report Our Common Future (1984–1987),and member and Chairman of the World Bank’s Inspection Panel (1997–2002).
David Runnalls: Distinguished Fellow with the International Institute for Sustainable Development, where he served as President from 1998 to 2010, member of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University, and CIGI Distinguished Fellow.
Moderator: Thomas Homer-Dixon, CIGI Chair of Global Systems, Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Sponsored by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, the Department of Environment and Resource Studies (University of Waterloo) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation.