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(or an other global regulating body) for a better world order in a peaceful, fair, just and sustainable world by Peter Hesse
"Just as there was a devoted think tank officially charged by the USA, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China in 1944 to develop the security structure of the United Nations in Dumbarton Oaks near Washington, D.C., USA, we today need a renewal of such a think tank in some neutral place in the world. This think tank should be composed of a mix of engaged people from various relevant sectors of life (like science, religions, business and social as well as environmental movements) from all areas of the world. Democratic political structures should not be excluded, but they should in no way dominate the initial conceptual work. Globally conscious politicians from a few respectable countries could initiate such a conference. As a starting point, the original concepts of what is today the relatively powerless Economic and Social Council of the United Nations - ECOSOC could be used for practical reasons to avoid to "rediscover the wheel". But to wait for renewal only or predominantly from inside the United Nations will most likely not make much sense."
Read the whole call here.
Make Copenhagen count!
This is a project designed to make the Climate and Sustainability Agreements reached at Copenhagen count, the Global Observatory will pull together real time best advice to support and ensure deals struck by negotiators make sense and are not weakened or rendered ineffective by corporate lobbying or political wrangling.
Through a massive network of people on the ground, if negotiators weaken against the advice of a super team made up of the world's leading interdisciplinary experts (located next to talks in Copenhagen in an 'Agreement Success War Room' - called the 'Global Observatory'), organised by mass public pressure on Government's of the world will be mobilised in real time (via SMS and social media - through pre signed and pre agreed supporters and demonstrators).
Critically, all action will be supported by the considered and credible input of the world's best minds ... Now, watch the video!
The Global Marshall Plan Foundation and Plant-for-the-Planet are part of the project group.
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Mixed monthly news from the students' initiative
For just 3 Euros you will receive the sticker “Boatpeople” by bildwiese ® on a postcard and we will plant a tree for you in Congo or Costa Rica.
The post-free sticker can be ordered from maike.grundmann@plant-for-the-planet.org or in the Plant-for-the-Planet onlineshop here.
Plant-for-the-Planet in Vöcklabruck, Austria
On the occasion of the Northern Austrian Environmental days, a special event was hosted in the Stadtsaal in Vöcklabruck on June 5th on climate protection. Almost 200 students, their teachers and the mayor of the city Vöcklabruck, Mag. Herbert Brunsteiner enjoyed the event and were motivated to follow Felix Finkbeiner’s footsteps in taking the future into their own hands.
Should you plant a tree?
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Clean Power from Deserts
This White Paper on the DESERTEC Concept provides information on the potential of the largest but least tapped source of energy on earth, the solar radiation of deserts, and how it could be put into service for energy, water and climate security.
Political from SPD and Green Party for a eco-social market economy
Just in time for the German federal election the German Socialist Party (SPD) and the Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) have proposed a plan to overcome the global crisis. Both parties have now proposed an eco-social market economy, one of the initial goals of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative.
In the new 10 step paper, chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Federal Minister for the Environment Sigmar Gabriel call this the "social-ecological New Deal".
An analysis of the inner twists and turns of the paper by Global Marshall Plan supporter Marietta Scheurmann (in German) can be found here.
Why climate change calls for a revision of international trade
A new study calls for a technology-transfer and intelligent monitoring of foreign direct investments (FDIs) as well as property rights.
Global warming will only remain below the dangerous line of 2 or 1.5 degrees Celsius if we actively revise the trading patterns and rules of international trade. Climate policy will thus have to adapt to international trading policy and vice versa. If not until the climate conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, than not much later is this shift dearly necessary. The conference in Copenhagen is thought to set the new course of global climate policy and this new study is understood to be an addition to it.
A short overview in German can be found here. The entire study can be found here.
For a short interview with Global Marshall Plan supporter Tilman Santarius check here.
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Transfering the Benelux Union to the Israel-Palestine conflict
In 1958, the signing of the Benelux Union marked the free movement of workers, capital, services, and goods between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg. This did not only widen the cultural understanding amongst the states but promoted peaceful relations as this union was politically viable for all partners involved.
Global Marshall Plan supporter Dr. Zeki Ergas is now proposing to transfer this historic treaty of unity to the current political hot-spot of the world: the Israel-Palestine conflict. His newest essay is predicated on the belief that there is no other realistic option to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than ‘the two-state solution’ and the creation of a Palestinian state. He argues that this can be done by realizing strategies of integration between Israel and Palestine, in the form of a union modelled on the Benelux.
The essay in its entirety can be found here.
Bildquelle: © Monika Sander / PIXELIO
09/15/2009 - 09/16/2009
Davos
Shaping the Future of Natural Resources
You are cordially invited to participate in the first public event of the World Resources Forum (WRF), taking place in Davos in on September 15-16, 2009. The WRF will provide you with first-hand information about natural resource use, its current trends and limitations, and will serve as a platform on which to discuss their economic and political implications. Join us in Davos to help create a science-based, realistic vision of sustainable resource use!
The World Resources Forum (WRF) is an independent, international platform for debate on global resource consumption issues, advocating innovation for resource productivity. The WRF is building a bridge from the natural sciences and engineering to economics; it aims to equip political decision makers to identify realistic policy options for sustainable growth.
Davos Congress Centre, Promenade 67, CH-7270 Davos Platz, Switzerland
