‘Resource Wars – or a Fair Future?’

national | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday November 09, 2004 10:46 by dp - FEASTA: The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability feasta at anu dot ie

The FEASTA Annual Lecture 2004 by Wolfgang Sachs

7.45 pm sharp, Thursday 18th November
Yeats Room
Mont Clare Hotel
at Merrion Square, Dublin 2

This year's Feasta lecture will be in Dublin on Thursday, November 18th. The lecturer is Dr. Wolfgang Sachs, a Senior Fellow at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Energy, Environment, in Germany, where he leads two projects, "Globalization and Sustainability" and "Environment and Fairness in the World Trade Regime". In his talk, he will survey resource conflicts around the world from the twin perspectives of fairness and justice.

Dr. Sachs is the author of several books including The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power (1992) and Greening the North: A Post-industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity (1998). The titles of two of his 2003 publications, Environment and Human Rights and Fair Wealth: Eight Shifts towards a Light Economy, give a good idea of the approach he is likely to take in his lecture.

Sachs is a former editor of the magazine Development, and was Chair of the Board of Greenpeace Germany from 1993 to 2001. In 2002 he helped compile The Jo'burg Memo: Fairness in a Fragile World, a memorandum written for the World Summit on Sustainable Development charting a sustainable development agenda for the current decade.

‘Resource Wars – or a Fair Future?’
7.45 pm sharp, Thursday 18th November
Yeats Room
Mont Clare Hotel
at Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Admission: Members €5 Non members €7 Students €3