This looked like an urgent london conference in case anyone within reach of London wants to get to it in spite of the price; if anyone is attending perhaps they could give us quick two liners on which speakers send anything unusual
09:15, 24 Jan 2007 RUSI, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET
Programme of events
The Event
Confirmed speakers include:
Mr. John Ashton, UK Foreign Secretary's Special Representative for Climate Change.
Professor John Mitchell OBE FRS, Chief Scientist, Met Office.
Sir Crispin Tickell, Director of the Policy Foresight Programme, James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at Oxford University.
Mr. James Smith, Chairman, Shell UK Limited.
Mr. Tony McDermott, Programme Director, Al Gore's 'The Climate Change Project', USA.
Professor Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, India.
Miss. Maria McCaffery MBE, Chief Executive Officer, British Wind Energy Association.
Professor Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies , University of Bradford.
Climate Change - The Global Security Impact
NOW BOOKINGOpen to all09:15, 24 Jan 2007RUSI, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET
About the event:
The world is currently in the process of undisputed climatic change. Global temperatures are rising at a rate unforeseen in previous decades. The severity of weather conditions are escalating. Sea levels are rising and there is the potential for the devastation of food crops. Governmental policies are increasingly focused on addressing the disparate needs to stabilize the climate yet retain increased access to energy supplies.
The threat which climate change presents for the global population is immense and should pose key concerns to governments across the planet. Events in New Orleans illustrated that sudden, high impact weather conditions can not only kill many hundreds of people, but can lead to mass displacement of populations with disastrous consequences. The economic and security impacts of such events in the developing world have the potential to cause even more dramatic outcomes. A decline in fundamental resources, coupled with variations in climate threatens a nation's ability to maintain it’s economic, political and security stability. Satisfying energy demand, whilst securing supply at a reasonable social and economic cost, presents a new set of strategic challenges
This Conference signals the start of RUSI's long term commitment to research the security implications of climate change. This inaugrual conference aims to provide a privileged forum for those concerned with these issues to come together and examine the extent, examples and causes of climate change security, with speakers from the UK and abroad. This event will act as a catalyst and help shape the future direction of RUSI's research into this critical subject.
The Conference aims to address topics including:
The impact that climate change will have on global security.
The implication of climate change for developing economies.
The competition for fundamental resources as a source of global conflict.

For bookings please contact Sabrina Downey tel: +44(0)207 747 2622 email: sabrinad@rusi.org. For a booking form click here.

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£220.00
Government rateProof of eligibility must be presented
£150.00
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£185.00

speakers and participants expected at Delhi CEO conference


DSDS Curtain Raiser - CEO Forum“Business & Society: Partnering for a Sustainable Future”
21 January 2007 Hotel Shangri-La, New Delhi
15:00
Welcome & Introduction by Co-chairs
Dr R K PachauriDirector-General, TERI and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Mr Björn StigsonPresident, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
15:15
Inaugural Session
Introductory Remarks Ms Frannie LeautierVice President, World Bank Institute
Keynote Address: Prof. Jeffrey D SachsDirector, The Earth Institute & Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, USA
Address by Chief Guest Mr P ChidambaramHon'ble Minister of Finance, Ministry of Finance, India *
Brief interactive session, moderated Mr Guy de JonquieresAsia Columnist and Commentator, The Financial Times
Vote of thanks
15:45
Sectoral Roundtable Discussions
Each group will be asked to debate the following questions: Opportunities & challenges Cooperation opportunities with government and civil society Way forward
17:00
CEO Panel Discussion (Moderated by Mr Guy de Jonquieres)
Pre-designated CEO from each table will provide feedback (7 minutes for feedback per table)
To be followed by open discussions from the floor
18:30
Concluding Remarks
Dr R K Pachauri Mr Björn Stigson
19:00
Onwards Dinner Session TERI-BCSD India ceremony
Short audio-visual presentation on the BCSD Welcome to new members Introduction of Executive Committee
Guests of Honour H E Ms Tarja HalonenPresident of Finland H E Mr Olafur Ragnar GrimssonPresident of IcelandDinner Speaker Rt Hon David Miliband MPDept for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, UK
* Invited

Participants
National
Air-IndiaMr V Thulasidas, Chairman and Managing Director
BASF India LimitedMr Prasad Chandran, Chairman and Managing DirectorBayer (India) LimitedMr Stephan Gerlich, Country Group Head - Indian sub-Continent
Bhoruka Power GasesMr S N Agarwal, ChairmanBP India Services Pvt LtdDr Ashok Jhawar, Country Head-India BP PlcCargill India Pvt LimitedMr Hardeep Singh, ChairmanCastrol India LimitedMr Naveen Kshatriya, Chief Executive & Managing DirectorChennai Petroleum Corporation LimitedMr K K Acharya, Managing DirectorEnvirotech Instruments Pvt. LimitedMr S K Gupta, ChairmanGujarat Ambuja Cements LtdMr Anil Singhvi, Managing DirectorGYANADA Information & Communication Pvt. Ltd.Dr Manu Seth, Chairman & Managing DirectorHindustan Shipyard LimitedRear Admiral Ajit Tewari, Chairman-cum-Managing DirectorInfrastructure Leasing and Financial Services LimitedMr Ravi Parthasarathy, Vice Chairman and Managing DirectorIT Power India Private LimtedMr Terence J. Hart, CEO & Technical DirectorLafarge India Pvt LimitedMr Uday Khanna, Chief Executive OfficerNational Thermal Power Corporation LimitedMr T Sankaralingam, Chairman & Managing DirectorNestle India LimitedMr Martial Rolland, Chairman & Managing DirectorNovartis India LimitedMr Ranjit Shahani, Vice Chairman & Managing DirectorNuclear Power Corporation of India LimitedMr Shreyans Kumar Jain, Chairman and Managing DirectorONGC Videsh LimitedMr R S Butola, Managing Director & CEOIndian Oil Corporation LimitedMr Sarthak Behuria, ChairmanPepsico India Holdings Pvt LtdMr Rajeev Bakshi, ChairmanRanbaxy Laboratories LimitedMr Tejendra Khanna, ChairmanShell Group of Companies in IndiaMr Vikram Singh Mehta, ChairmanSREI Infrastructure Finance LimitedMr Hemant Kanoria, Vice Chairman and Managing DirectorTata Chemicals LimitedMr Prasad R Menon, Managing DirectorThe Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation LimitedMs Naina Lal Kidwai, Country Head & CEOThe Singareni Collieries Company LimitedMr R H Khwaja, Chairman & Managing DirectorToyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd.Mr Atsushi Toyoshima, Managing DirectorUsha Martin LimitedMr B K Jhawar, ChairmanVestas RRB India LimitedMr Rakesh Bakshi, Managing Director
International
Electricite de France (EDF), FranceMr Jean-Paul Bouttes Director & CEO, Sherpa
Bellagio Forum for Sustainable DevelopmentMr Hanns Michael Hölz, Chairman
BP PlcMr John A Manzoni, Group Managing Director
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbHMs Cornelia Richter, Director General Planning and DevelopmentThe Coca-Cola CompanyMr Jeff Seabright, Vice President - Environment and WaterGlobal Technology Investments, LLCMr Michael P Schulhof, ChairmanNokiaMr Veli Sundback, Executive VP, Corp. Relations & Responsibility
Ritchie CapitalMr Steven D Smith, Senior Managing Director World Business Council for Sustainable DevelopmentMr Björn Stigson, President

Diary of Sir Nicholas Stern

Please help us to track events and sitizens he influences

Oct06 - His Crisis Climate report published suggesting 1% investmnet of economies needed to save 20%

Nov, December tours Asia , Africa, Europe - sir nicholas mentioned: India and China were interested in accessing technology and sharing development with rich countries, especially through "carbon finance", by which rich countries and companies invest in projects to cut emissions in the developing world. The carbon finance market in developing countries is worth more than $3bn (£1.5bn) a year, according to the World Bank.

January w/c 21 in India at World Sustainability Forum Delhi with UK chancellor Gordon Brown

In February, due in Washington DC to brief congress - expected to influence Democrat's policy

End of march leaves position at HM Treasury, due to start at London School of Economics in June

sources for above include 1

Delhi's session of the World Sustainable Development Forum looks like it has grouped together a benchmark collection of speakers - DSDS 24-27 January


HE Mr Ahmed AbdullahMinister of Environment, Energy and Water, Republic of Maldives
Dr Montek Singh AhluwaliaHon’ble Dy. Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India
Mr Ashok AlexanderDirector – India, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
HE Mr Malik Amin AslamMinister of State for Environment, Pakistan
Dr Alok AdholeyaDirector, Biotechnology and Management of Bioresources Division, TERI
HE Mr Svend AukenMember of Parliament, Vice President of The Danish Parliament and Dy. Speaker, Government of Denmark
HE Mr Anil Kumar BachooMinister of Environment and National Development Unit, Government of Mauritius
Ms Preety BhandariDirector, Policy Analysis Division, TERI
Mr Howard BamseyDeputy Secretary, Australian Department of Environment and Heritage, Australia
Dr James Bakerformer President & CEO - The Academy of Natural Sciences & Senior Fellow, The H. John Heinz III Centre for Science, Economics and Environment, USA Mr R K BatraDistinguished Fellow, TERI
Ms Monique BarbutCEO & Chairman, Global Environment Facility, USA
Prof. Ralph J BegleiterRosenberg Professor of Communication, University of Delaware and Distinguished Journalist in Residence, USA
Mr Francois BinderCountry Director, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, India
HE Prof Ruud F BoerFormer Prime Minister of the Netherlands
HE Mr Kjell Magne BondevikFormer Prime Minister of Norway
Mr Jean-Paul BouttesDirector, Prospective and International Relations, Electricite de France (EDF), France & CEO, Sherpa, France
Mr Yvo de BoerExecutive Secretary, UNFCCC
Mr Yves CabanaSpecial Advisor to the Chairman, Executive Committee Secretary & Vice President - Sustainable Development, Veolia Environment, France
Mr Raj ChengappaManaging Editor, India Today, Delhi
Nobel Laureate Prof. Paul CrutzenDirector Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
Mrs Vibha Puri DasPrincipal Secretary & Commissioner - Forest & Rural Development, Government of Uttaranchal, India
Mr C. DasguptaDistinguished Fellow, TERI
Dr Vibha DhawanVice Chancellor, TERI University
Smt Sheila DikshitHon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi, India
Ms JoAnne DisanoDirector, Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, USA
Dr Nitin Desaiformer Under Secretary General of the United Nations
Mr Murli S DeoraHon'ble Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India
HE Dasho Paljor J DorjiAdvisor, National Environment Commission, Royal Government of Bhutan
Dr Adnan A Shihab-EldinFormer Acting Secretary General and Director of Research at OPEC as well as Advisor to Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Austria
Mr Warren EvansDirector of Environment, The World Bank, USA
Mr Pieter van GeelCabinet level, State Secretary, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, The Netherlands
Ms Sharwaree GokhalePrincipal Secretary, Environment, Government of Maharashtra, India
Ms Meenakshi Dutta GhoshSecretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India
Dr Prodipto GhoshSecretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India
Mr Gourishankar GhoshCEO, FXB India SURAKSHA
HE Mr Olafur Ragnar GrimssonPresident of Iceland
HE Ms Tarja HalonenPresident of Finland
Mr Roger HarrabinSenior Environment Analyst, BBC, UK
Prof. Michael von HauffUniversity of Kaislerlautern, Germany
Prof. Peter HennickePresident, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany
HE Mr Petr J KalasMinister of Environment of the Czech Republic
Mr Ashok JaitlyDistinguished Fellow, TERI
HE Prof. Kivutha Kibwana*Minister of Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife, Kenya
HE Mr Kazumasa KusakaVice-Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
Dr Arun KumarPresident- Business Initiatives, Development Alternatives, India
Dr Ganesh M KishoreVice President, Science & Technology and Chief Biotechnology Officer, DuPont Research & Development, USA
Prof. Charles KolstadDepartment of Economics, University of California, USA
HE Mr Mamadou Lamine Loumformer Prime Minister of Senegal
Dr Klaus S LacknerEwing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Earth & Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, USA
Dr Bindu N LohaniDirector General - Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank
Mr James LeapeDirector-General, WWF International, Switzerland
HE Mr Brice LalondeFormer French Minister and Chair of the OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development, France
Dr Alan C LloydPresident, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), USA
Ms Frannie LeautierVice President, World Bank Institute, USA
HE Ms Rejoice Mabudafhasi*Deputy Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa
Mr Herman MulderSenior Advisor to the UN Global Compact and WBCSD
Mr John A ManzoniGroup Managing Director, BP Plc, UK
Mr Yoshiro MoriJapan Water Forum and Member of the UN Secretary General Mr Kofi Annan’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation
Rt. Hon. David MilibandMP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK
Prof. Akio MorishimaChair of the Board of Directors, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
Mr Claude MandilExecutive Director, International Energy Agency, France
Mr Nick MabeyCEO, E3G, UK
Mr Vikram Singh MehtaChairman, Shell Group of Companies in India
Mr Rajiv Mehrotra*Trustee/Secretary, Foundation for Universal Responsibility, India
Dr Lutz MezExecutive Director, Environmental Policy Research Centre, University of Berlin, Germany
Ms Tiahoga Ruge SchefferDirector-General, Centre for Education and Training for Sustainable Development, Mexico
Mr Tsutomu MakinoChairman, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Japan
Mr Sudhir Mankad*, IASChief Secretary, Government of Gujarat, India
Mr Denis McDonoughSenior Fellow and Senior Adviser to Distinguished Senior Fellow Tom Daschle at the Center for American Progress, USA
HE Mr Daudi Migereko*, MPMinister of Energy and Mineral Development, The Republic of Uganda
HE Mr Mark James Mwandosya*Minister of State, Vice President's Office (Environment), Government of Tanzania
Mr R Narayanaswami*, IASChief Secretary, Government of NCT of Delhi
Mr Hideaki OdaCouncillor to the President, Japan Water Forum & Member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation
Ms Khempheng PholsenaVice-President (Finance and Administration), Asian Development Bank, The Philippines
Dr Pal PrestrudDirector, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo, Norway
Dr R K PachauriDirector-General, TERI
Mr Pekka PlathanDirector General, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
Dr Arcot RamachandranChairman, TERI, New Delhi
Mr Sudhakar Rao, IASPrincipal Secretary - Chief Minister's Office, Government of Karnataka, India
Mr A RajaHon'ble Minister for Environment & Forests, Ministry of Environment & Forests, India
Mr Anil RazdanAdditional Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India
Ms Cornelia RichterDeutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Germany
Mr I H RehmanDirector, Action Programmes Division, TERI
Mr Michael P SchulhofChairman, Global Technology Investments, LLC, USA
Mr Anand SharmaHon'ble Minister of State, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Sir Nicholas SternHead of Stern Review on Economics of Climate Change, Head of the Government Economic Service, UK
Prof. Saif-ud-Din SozHon’ble Minister of Water Resources, Government of India
Mr S SundarDistinguished Fellow, TERI
Prof. Jeffrey D SachsDirector – The Earth Institute & Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, USA
Mr Björn StigsonPresident, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland
Mr Achim SteinerExecutive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Kenya
Mr V SubramanianSecretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India
Dr Leena SrivastavaExecutive Director, TERI, New Delhi
Mr Francis SullivanEnvironment Adviser, HSBC, UK
Prof. Akimasa SumiDirector, Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability (TIGS) in Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) & Head of AGS Promotion Office, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mr Richard SandorChairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Chicago Climate Exchange, USA Hon'ble Mr Digvijay SinghFormer Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh & General Secretary, All India Congress Committee, India
Mr Anil Vaish* IASChief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan, India
Mr Patrick VerhagenSenior Vice President, Holcim, Zurich
Dr Camilla ToulminInternational Institute for Environment and Development, UK
Ms Pearl TiwariDirector, Ambuja Cement Foundation

If your city was to host an open no vested interests climate debate, who'd you invite and which cities would you relay your conversations with

Here is a first brainstorm (as this was first compiled for a debate of what can Londoners liberate now that HM Treasury Stern has published we need to invest 1% of economy to save 20%, asterisked inserts denote a UK based source)


Google.org, Larry Brilliant –green is one of 4 top connection challenges – we used to think poverty was number 1 until we realised all Yunus’ life work may be flooded out: Bishop of Bangladesh writes to Bishop of London

Buckminster Fuller architects – final examination
*Edge of Royal Society of Architects
-hunt out links to Larry Page of google spokesman of buildingsare inefficient because they lack standard configurations

*Entrepreneurial Economist Future History crisis since 1984- the sunshine scenario

Maathai: Nobel grassroots energy needed for peace
Ashok Khosla – systems lack of compound understanding is main cause of climate crisis

Brazil ecology studies : 100 connecting experiments around world’s largest dam at Foz; ethanol conversion; peoples water sites connecting Brazilian Franklin Fredrick, Catholic Churches Year of Water and religious groups worldwide - see water-vis-ability

*Harry Bryden (ocean modeller, Southampton) – will the warming gulf stream switch off

*Journalists for humanity, nature – Attenborough et al
*Actors for humanity open spaces

*Branson 3 billion voice and search for cleaner air fuel – and what will future tourism be -see transcript 97 of Clinton Global Initiative 2006

*Sir Adrian Cadbury – number 1 political challenge of our era -personal correspondemce from survey of Economist Shareholders on what does economics need to change now that networks are at a global tipping point

(*)Where is the Social entrepreneur mosaic of the peoples climate changers

*Olympics as carbon free mayors goal- Ken Livingstone

Pioneers at green/climate in any city

Bloggers at green in city; YouTube at green in city

*Sir John Banham/Blaza 20 years of CBI learning on sustainability
*elkington

inclusionality vs schumacher institute

Wrong energy policy is albatross of US security- senator Lugar

Biomass flow models – every waste output someone else’s input- cross-disciplines – grassroots up

*Rupert Murdoch – found 0 waste campaigns switch on employee spirit (Uk office going carbon free) -see transcript 104

Ray Anderson – original zero waste –mount sustainability – compounds greater profits – why should sustaining life be excluded from our biggest organisational cases

*Green children and university of stars making green pop; making heroes worth heroising; new league tables

Search for shell’s principal voices - with CNN, Time & Fortune

*Simpol – climate is number 1 issues of politics sans frontiers
*Carbon coach franchise emerged in Uk

Einstein transformation system challenge – eg see Ackoff school system paper philadeplihia

Be the change- Gandhi – Einstein on leaders, von neumann on compound above zero sum- mitchell book on sustainability investment 1 2

Gore training of 1000 kit
Will there be Fish in 50 years ? eg Time.com, Ted?


Are we investing in our kids greatest changes – queen

some interesting search keys : pioneers climate

basic guide references of 2006 collated here

TOUR OF SHELLS 2006 PRINCIPAL VOICES EXPLORATION OF 2006
conducted with media partners CNN, Time & Fortune and hosed in Delhi, London. San Francisco & Sydney

As usual Solar is portrayed as if its many moons away
http://www.principalvoices.com/2006/environment/alternative.energy.html

However it is admitted that something is wrong:
http://www.principalvoices.com/2006/environment/introduction.html
there are increasing fears that this human-dominated phase of the Earth's long history is not sustainable. A trawl through statistics compiled by the United Nations Environment Programme, or UNEP, can make for depressing reading.
Species are becoming extinct at a speed around 100 times faster than would happen naturally.

Stern's HM Treasury Report http://www.principalvoices.com/2006/environment/economics.html
is "warmin g could bring 1930s havoc"

James Lovelock is Quoted as saying:
when you model the earth as it it is a responding system, the one thing that comes out is: it is quite prone to make sudden jumps from one state to another

There are juicy contributions from:
ashok khosla http://www.principalvoices.com/voices/ashok-khosla-white-paper.html
wingari maathai http://www.principalvoices.com/2006/environment/wangari.maathai.white.paper.html
David Hales http://www.principalvoices.com/2006/environment/david.hales.white.paper.html

Khosla, Ashok says:
very large part of the negative spin-offs of technology arise from the preference built up over the past century for grand engineering projects: activities that are large-scale, centralized, capital-intensive and that also happen to be energy-guzzling and highly waste generating. Examples of such projects are the massive dams, power plants, transport systems, mining concessions, chemical-intensive and energy consuming farms that increasingly form the backbone of the global economy. By focusing on raising the productivity of labor at the expense of land, water and energy productivity, these types of projects generally end up with many associated costs such as unemployment, pollution and accelerated resource depletion. Highly subsidized transportation systems and other price distortions make it profitable for companies and convenient for their customers to do things that are not good for the current or future health of society - or of the ecosystem on which it vitally depends.
The economic theories on which our present systems of production, distribution and consumption rest, just do not work. Unfortunately, the assumptions underlying neo-classical economics - and the machineries of the modern marketplace that they naturally lead to - are not sufficiently solid to support the common platforms of human values on which societies must stand to benefit collectively and equitably. Growth, they have claimed, must come first, even if the cost is distributive injustice and human misery. Efficiency over equity. The rich before the poor. Machines above people. Wealth even at the expense of nature.
But the global economy, which is based on these assumptions, is in a mess. No fine-tuning of the neo-classical doctrines, no more of the same medicines - that, after all, are causing the problems in the first place - can get us out of it. When the social, environmental and natural resource costs of the past century's experiments with "modernization" are all counted, it will become obvious that the current form of "development" is not sustainable. The widespread social and economic ills of today are just the early symptoms of a terminal disease that human society seems inexorably headed for. Such a fate can be avoided, not by a change of dosage, or even a change of the medication, but by a fundamental change to an altogether different system of social (and economic) medicine, one that is based on prevention rather than cure.

David Hales says:
The most intractable challenges of the 21st century will be driven by human impact on the natural systems of the planet which determine the character and quality of our lives.
Over the course of this century, human society will become more sustainable, but not necessarily more desirable. We have the opportunity to choose a future that is sustainable and just, as opposed to one of conflict, inequity and scarcity.
The challenges we face are fundamentally different from those that our dominant institutions and policy processes evolved to address.
They are complex, with uncertainties at every level of analysis. They are insidious, difficult to detect or understand in early stages, yet capable of massive impacts in apparently short periods of time. They will be expensive to address, even in the early stages when the costs of mitigation or avoidance will be most difficult to justify economically and politically.
Our policy-making institutions are strategically inept, designed to allocate benefits, not scarcity, fragmented in responsibility and authority, and dominated by narrow interests, the influence of which reflects the past, not the future.
Moreover, they embody the implicit assumption that we can ignore the world's natural systems and growing inequities of human quality of life with impunity.
Sustainable policies must be firmly grounded in the realization that humans are inextricably embedded in nature.
As every farmer knows, there are limits on our behavior and consequences for exceeding these. While the purpose of government remains to enable the wellbeing of citizens, there are principles which must assume new prominence if that goal is to be attained. Simply put, we must behave prudently, empower the market, and accept responsibilities for our actions and inactions.
Of these, prudence is the first among equals. We must regard the future as a new form of "global commons." It belongs to all equally; it is not the province of any nation, or of special interests which happen to be dominant today.
As Edmund Burke argued, the present is but an inheritance from the past that belongs -- morally and legally -- to future generations as much as to the present. Governance must base policies in the "precautionary principle," as found in various forms in international soft law, in broad form in the domestic legislation of many countries, and enshrined in common sense -- look before you leap.
A fair, transparent and global market, free of protectionism, where all costs of products and services -- including environmental impacts which are transgenerational -- are included in prices, is a necessary tool for the transition to sustainability.
Governments should set clear performance goals and standards, and refrain from practices that artificially choose winners and losers.
A modest first step is for governments to refuse to subsidize the costs of waste and risk management. Nuclear power, for example, is unlikely to compete effectively with renewable energy if the costs of environmental impacts or risk management are included in the price of energy to the consumer.
Public policy must also demand and enforce a culture of responsibility. The right to private property, the drive for private profit, and the sovereignty of the state do not justify ecologically destructive behavior, and legal systems must protect all interests.

Wangari Maathai says:
Our environment is fragile and the Earth's resources are limited. We must learn to manage these resources responsibly, accountably and share them more equitably.
This will only be possible if we govern ourselves in a political space that is democratic and respects human rights, the law and the diversity of cultures, traditions and perspectives. In such a world, where dialogue is encouraged, many conflicts can be pre-empted.
Among the many human activities that degrade the environment are deforestation and the clearing of shrubs and other vegetation from the land, both of which exacerbate the process of desertification. Other harmful behavior includes creation of pollution and waste, often driven by the "single use products" such as thin plastics and paper.
Initiatives to mitigate this environmental degradation must come from governments, the private sector and individuals. To encourage and support such efforts, it is essential to raise awareness, so a critical mass of people within government bodies, corporations and among citizens understand what is at stake and are motivated to take action.
In this respect, it is critically important to have strong citizens' movements -- a civil society -- that are able to take action and demand a clean environment from all the other actors.


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Delhi urban crisis transcript and videos at http://www.principalvoices.com/2006/debates/delhi/transcript.html
corporate collaboration transcript and videos are here
http://www.principalvoices.com/2006/debates/london/transcript.html
in which James Smith, chairman of Shell UK, participated

Charlie Rose is just about the only fearless tv interviewer on US tv- he has broken many climate stories over recent months. All his shows are replayable at 99 cents a go http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22charlie+rose%22

I will try to come back with a list oif some of his most climate relevant ones . These included today
Friday, December 29
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY & GREEN TECHNOLOGY WITH JOHN DOERR Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, & Byers
SCOTT McNEALY Chairman & Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems
K.R. SRIDHAR Co-founder and CEO, Bloom Energy

If you look at this link, folks to con sider viewing include
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22charlie+rose%22+%2Bclimate
Gore
Lovins
Thomas Friedman

London's Royal Society of Arts has an amazing free pdf library of speeches that have been made;
http://www.rsa.org.uk/events/ltresults.asp?show=all%20
climate and green ar one of the top 5 themes of recent years; I will try to come back with selection of particularly notable talks- for example: RSA/Forum for the Future Alumni event. The economics and politics of climate change.
22 November 2006Sara Parkin, Michael Jacobs, Paul Miller, Sasha Blackmore Manifesto Challenge: Advancing Global Citizenship

Note currently on home page:-
can artists save the planet or is there no way back

Can artists save the planet?
In December 2006 leading artists, scientists, academics and politicians from across the world challenged each others thinking for an enquiry into the critical ecological issues of today.
An audience of 300 heard speakers from 11 countries explore the depths of global ecological crisis, asking if artists should play a role in the environment debate?
Speakers included Turner prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, Professor Zou Ji, the Chinese Delegate at UN climate change talks and Culture Minister David Lammy MP. Lammy launched LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook, a publication that looks at the last 50 years of art and it's relevance to the global debate about the environment.
Click here for the No Way Back? press release
Nobel Peace Prize winner and contributor to LAND ART, Wangari Maathai is speaking as part of the RSA's lecture programme in February. Click here for more information

Extracts, interviews and highlights of the conference will be available on the Arts & Ecology website in the New Year: www.RSAartsandecology.org.uk/nowayback

November 2006 is a timeless space dedicated to all open explorers and system entrepreneurs of photosynthesis as the only likely way out of losing human sustainability to climate wars

we started this future history map back in 1984; for some reason searching the truth of this debate gets harder and harder while the vested interests are conducting climate wars against the people - so please search for the needles in the haystacks of google.com or live.ocm on photosynthesis until true action elarning around photosythesis becomes simple again

From chapter 16 1984- Death of Distance's Sustainability Generation 1984-2024 by Macrae & Macrae, how the human species went to brink of 7 global integration crises : 1 climate (including clean water, food, energy, air, and evolution with natural networks) 2 media and truth and mediation and meetings that energise con flict resolution 3 learning and rights to lifelong freedom/happiness of all children 4 poverty 5 war & peace 6 professional oaths 7 preventing risks and loving boundary value multipliers

Sunlight is the fuel which sustains life on earth. The process by which plants extract energy from sunlight, using that energy to build up complex compounds from simpler ones and thereby storing the energy which animals, including humans, use to grow and move and see and think is the life-process itself. We (human beings) have always exploited that life-process, but in the past we have only been able to do so by using living plants as our agents. We learned to cultivate them, develop them by selective breeding, and since the 1980s to meddle with their genes, but we have not yet learned to substitute something of our own making for the living plant. We have not found or made a more efficient substitute for chlorophyll itself outside the naturally-occurring factory which is the living cell.

Until we design our own systems which can deploy the energy of sunlight as efficiently as humble algae does, we humans have no real biotechnology of our own. We have many kinds of solar cells which can extract energy from the sunlight and store is as electricity or heat, but such devices are very crude indeed beside the technical sophistication and versatility of living plants.

We are making a determined effort to capture and use a greater fraction of the solar energy which falls upon the face of the earth every day. We are trying to make plants flourish in paces where at present they can only eke out the most precarious of existence. The ideal situation, however, would be one in which we did not need to work so hard to adapt existing plants to more hostile conditions. If we had our own artificial systems of photosynthesis we might exploit the desert sun ourselves, without using other organisms as intermediaries. Our ultimate ambition must be to make artificial photosynthetic systems more efficient than those which have evolved alongside side us throughout the history of life on earth. Then and only then will we be able to claim that we are technologically self-sufficient. In 2024, this looks as if it might be one of our children's tasks.

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---for some reason big powers neglected this Death of Distance Script until Bethesda-fellow citizen: Thomas Friedman started talking about Green (cooperation) is now more powerful as an advantage than Red, White and Blue( just competing alone). Then in fall of 2005, 21 gathering storm leaders met at the US National Institute of Science and proclaimed (that having restudied Death of Distance compound scenarios) it time to end the addiction to petroleum economics, a vision that a reluctant Bush was requested to mouth in january's 2006 State of the (Dis)Union