Newsletter 2 - August 4, 2005
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Innovating
cities across the world |
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| About S-DEV Geneva 05 |
| • | An international Conference | ||
| > | Discover
25 innovating cities showcasing their green projects Ingenious solutions, simple, efficient and cost-effective innovations: - Vienna (Austria): public spending is greening industry and consumers - Belo Horizonte (Brazil): participatory budgeting and citizen-authority interaction - Nam Dinh (Vietnam): an administrative revolution: one-stop-shop for all services - Rosario (Argentina): urban agriculture in the town to counter hunger and poverty - Goa (India): ‘Rurbanism’, a town-country vision - Vancouver (Canada): integrated economic and ecologic management - For more information, consult the preliminary programme of the Conference |
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| > | Participate
in the session organized by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
of the Council of Europe: " Enterprises and Sustainable Development: an action at local and regional levels". Consult the preliminary programme of the Conference |
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| • | An Exhibition of almost 100 projects | ||
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Come to
Geneva to visit the Exhibition and its numerous projects: |
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| Book a Stand at the S-DEV Exhibition! | |||
| • | 30 interactive Workshops | ||
| > | Discover the Workshops already
in the pipeline:
- University Centre for Human Ecology: Innovations in the teaching of Sustainable Development in environmental management at university level (SUPPREM programme) - UNDP: Methodology for achieving the Millennium Goals For example: - Industrial waste plant at Blida, Algeria: This challenging project is designed to implement simple, sustainable concepts for processing part of the waste produced in an integrated waste management programme. |
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| Want to organize a Workshop at S-DEV? | |||
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further information: www.s-dev.org E-mail : info@s-dev.org Tel. + 41 (0) 22 761 11 11 Fondation Orgexpo |
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To learn more about Sustainable Urban Development: |
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| > | The
urban environmental challenge |
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| > | The
Urban Age: Global Challenges for International Cooperation
By Françoise Lieberherr, President of the scientific Committee of the S-DEV Conference The start of the new millennium marks the dawning of the urban age. This will be the major challenge of the 21st century. Three major trends will shape urban evolution throughout the world... Read more |
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| > | 12
strategic points of urban development |
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| > | The
role of cities in sustainable development
By Klaus Toepfer, UNEP Executive Director The battle for sustainable development and the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will in many respects be won or lost in our cities... Read more |
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| > | The Green Cities Declaration | ||
| > | Charging
into the future By Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London |
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| > | Cities
without slums By Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-HABITAT |
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S-DEV
Geneva 05 is organized by Fondation
Orgexpo with the support of: the Republic
and canton of Geneva, the Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the City
of Geneva. Produced in collaboration with: UN-HABITAT,
UNDP, UNEP, UCLG, ICC, WBCSD, WWF International, Congress of Local
and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. Under the high patronage
of Mr. Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations
Office at Geneva.
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