in December
In September the pre-consultation phase will begin. For this purpose, a brochure with the Global Marshall Plan Initiative's concept will be published.
The brochure will be used for
- Consulting you as our supporters before we open the consultation to a larger circle of experts and interested people.
- Involve everybody who called for a Global Marshall Plan independent of us, like Al Gore, Cardinal Rodriguez of Honduras or Gordon Brown.
- Win as partners other organizations, platforms and further global groups which also aim at joining forces to shape and support this process jointly like Earth Charter, GCAP, World Future Council.
- Win world leaders as moral authority, so that they act as patronage for the consultation process.
- Win donors who will support the consultation over the next four years with at least one million Euros.
In December an updated brochure will be published for the extended consultation.
Order the brochure to pass it on to friends, partners and possible donors for the consultation process. We will charge the nominal sum of 1 Euro/copy from 20 copies (plus shipment). This way you will help us to fund the printing costs. The brochure is available from 15 September 2007 in English and German.
We are collecting donations for the consultation process
The consultation and the media campaign SAVE-THE-WORLD-NOW.ORG will start simultaneously. You already donated 16,000 Euros for the latter. Thank you! However, to realize the process in 2007, we will need a further 100,000 Euros.
You can donate online.
If you have any ideas of whom we should approach concerning funding, please contact Frithjof Finkbeiner.
Augsburg and Neustadt an der Saale
On
29 June 2007, the city council of Augsburg (Germany) agreed on the support of our Initiative. The local Global Marshall Plan group strongly promoted this.
Read the text of the proposal here. (in German)
On 19 July 2007 the city council of Bad Neustadt an der Saale
(Germany) too, unanimously agreed upon supporting the Initiative. Moreover, the city will financially support the Global Marshall Plan Initiative with 300 Euros per year.
Letter from the mayor of Bad Neustadt (in German)
Part three of the interview available
In the last editions of this newsletter we hinted you at the first two parts of the interview on the Global Marshall Plan which James B. Quilligan and Frithjof Finkbeiner made in April in the US. The third one New Sources of Finance was just published at the Pierre Terre website.
Here you can listen to all of them:
1. Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
2. Establish and Meet Global Environmental Targets
3. News Sources of Finance
Your involvement needed
For his master's thesis at the University of Salzburg / Austria, Daniel Saudek is currently carrying out a survey with experts from countries of the global south. The survey is about a possible global framework for a global sustainable development - economical, ecological and social. For example, the experts are asked which rules should apply on a global level in order to make such a development possible, and which institutions should play a part here (e.g. UN, Bretton Woods institutions etc.). In addition, the participants are invited to evaluate some of the core ideas of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative and to state their views on these. One of the main goals of the study is simply to enhance the dialogue with the countries of the global south. The questionnaire is sent to the participants by email.
490 emails have been sent to NGOs, governments / ministries, universities and development banks, all from countries of the global south (i.e. countries with a Human Development Index under 0.8 according to the UNDP). So far, however, only very few of those questioned have answered.
If you know experts in that area who come from such a country, or if you yourself are such an expert and would like to participate in the survey, please contact Daniel by email.
- Toyota supports the students - TUNZA international youth conference
Toyota is one of the leading automotive manufacturers promoting environmental responsibility, not only by producing hybrid cars but also by their engagement in environmental projects. With a network of 630 dealers in Germany, Toyota will help to spread the idea of the student network Plant-for-the-Planet. Keiji Sudo, president of Toyota Germany stated: "We have to reduce the CO2 emissions drastically. During the next fifteen years the number of cars will approximately increase by about 40%. At the same time the oil production will reach its peak." To compensate for unavoidable emissions, Toyota has been doing forestry projects for several years - since August also in cooperation with the student network Plant-for-the-Planet.
Press release and reading recommendation
09/19/2007 5:30 pm (local time)
Brussels
Forty-fourth Aurelio Peccei Lecture with Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz Josef Radermacher
The Club of Rome
request the pleasure of you at their forty-fourth Aurelio Peccei Lecture:
The Global Marshall Plan Initiative
by
Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz Josef Radermacher
University of Ulm, Germany
Globalisation today does not lead the world into a peaceful future and a sustainable
state. Instead, insufficient governance structures threaten the ecological stability of
the world and increase social and cultural gaps. We are on a route towards collapse
or "brasilianisation". Only a new global governance structure, following the
principle of balance as implemented in all successful countries and employed in the
European Union as a supranational political entity offers a chance for a peaceful
future for all. The Global Marshall Plan is a step in this direction.
For detailed information (your registration is necessary!) click here.
09/20/2007 - 09/22/2007
Oestrich-Winkel
Including a lecture by Frithjof Finkbeiner
This year under the heading of "People Nature Money - Balanced World or Resource Crisis?"
The ebs Symposium is Germany's oldest and most renowned business congress organised and run exclusively by students of the European Business School. For 18 years, students and leading business executives have come together on the campus of the European Business School to discuss current economic and social trends of high importance with representatives from politics, companies and other institutions.
Every participant is given the opportunity to join a large and diverse audience in listening to interesting lectures and meet highly motivated students and young professionals.
This year's topic,
"People Nature Money - Balanced World or Resource Crisis?"
will deal with the management of "human", natural, and financial resources in the future, also in connection with this year's partner country Russia. Since the volume of trade between Germany and Russia has grown by 30% last year alone, many questions are being raised: Will the energy debate turn into an energy crisis? Will wars for resources become inevitable? Is Russia Germany's last chance to keep up with the pace of globalisation?
More information
09/26/2007
Bad Schallerbach, Austria
To the program and registration form (pdf, in German)
