European Sustainability Berlin 07 (ESB07) - Linking Policies, Implementation, and Civil Society Action
The German Federal Government asked the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) to host of the main sustainability event in the context of the German Presidency of the EU. ESB07 follows the line of Conferences on Sustainable Development initiated by the European Member States in The Hague and Vienna in 2002 and 2003, respectively, and linked to the EU Presidencies in Kinsale, Windsor and Salzburg the years after. ESB07 is supported by the recently established European Sustainable Development Network, ESDN. The Conference also continued the involvement of the EEAC network.
On national as well as on the EU and international level to better link policies and implementation is a crucial key that will be addressed by ESB07. This goes along with the topic of how to “mainstream” Sustainable Development Strategies in the national political contexts.
Programme
Conference documentation
Discussion papers:
Discussion Paper I
"Linking Politics and Administration"
prepared by Reinhard Steurer & Gerald Berger
The ESDN Office Team at RIMAS - the Research Institute for Managing
Sustainability
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[PDF, 186KB] |
Discussion Paper II
"Stimulating informed debate:
Sustainable Development Councils as an organised form of civil society"
prepared by Ingeborg Niestroy
European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC)
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[PDF, 189KB] |
EEAC Working Group Sustainable Development:
Background
Paper
"Stimulating informed debate:
Sustainable Development Councils as an organised form of civil society"
A compilation of tasks, capacities, and best practice
prepared by Ingeborg Niestroy
European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC)
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[PDF, 313KB] |
Speeches:
"Linking
Policies and Implementation: Making SD Strategies a case for Parliamentary
activities"
Dinner speech by Dr. Günter Krings,
Member of the Bundestag
(Berlin, 3 June 2007)
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[PDF, 55KB] |
"Brundtland
Report: A 20 Years Update"
Keynote speech by Dr. Volker Hauff,
Chair German Council on Sustainable Development
(Berlin, 4 June 2007)
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[PDF, 53KB] |
Closing
remarks on the first day of the European sustainability conference in Berlin
2007
Astrid Klug, Parliamentary State Secretary
(Berlin, 4 June 2007)
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[PDF, 41KB] |
Dinner Speech
by Bjorn Stigson
President WBCSD
(Berlin, 4 June 2007)
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[PDF, 36KB] |
"Sustainability
2007 – The Federal Government’s Perspective"
Keynote speech by Peter Tempel,
Abteilungsleiter im Auswärtigen Amt
(Berlin, 5 June 2007)
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[PDF, 62KB] |
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