Recent Events of the World Future Council
The WFC is in action! Read here about recent events.
2 July 2008:
World Future Council youth delegation and Bianca Jagger present G8 appeal to German and Japanese governments
Kids pledge to do everything they can to save the planet – and expect nothing less from the G8 leaders
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Kids call on G8 heads-of-state during Japanese Prime Minister Visit in Berlin: “Save our World! Act now!”
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- During talks between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, KidsCall kids wave Japanese-inspired invocation flags in front of chancellery in Berlin.
June 10-12, 2008: WFC endorses China Power & Alternative Energy Summit 2008 in Beijing, China.
As one of the most important conferences on renewable energy in China, the China Power & Renewable Energy Summit 2008 has invited WFC Climate & Energy China Director Stefan Schurig as a key note speaker. It has also asked the WFC to endorse the summit.
During the two-day conference, some two hundred experts representing the sciences, politics and business will learn about the latest renewable energy technologies and policies.
The WFC will introduce its renewable energy campaign.
01 June 2008, Berlin: While German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japanese Prime Minster Yasuo Fukuda met in Berlin Sunday afternoon, 20 children presented their demands for a sustainable future to the upcoming G8 summit on Japanese-style invocation flags in front of the chancellery.
“We ask for action from the world’s leaders to assure that we have a future,” says 13-year old Niclas from Hamburg. He is one of thousands of youngsters in 35 countries who have joined in the World Future Council’s international “KidsCall” campaign. They have a single demand: “Let us stop acting today as though there was no tomorrow.” read more
18-21 May 2008, HAMBURG: 2nd Annual General Meeting of the World Future Council.
One year ago, 50 respected personalities from around the world met in Hamburg, Germany, for the first time for the founding congress of the World Future Council. Now, the foundation presented its first annual report – and is looking forward to its second annual general meeting. It will bring the WFC’s members back to Hamburg between May 18 and 22, 2008, to celebrate achievements – and to plan and agree on new activities, expert commissions and projects. read more
12-16 May 2008, BONN: Vandana Shiva and Ibrahim Abouleish and Jakob von Uexküll will speak at the World Congress on the Future of Food and Farming as part of the Planet Diversity project. Contact Jakob von Uexküll.
18-20 May, HAMBURG: Children’s Conference: The Future in Our Hands, Hamburg, Contact Caren Herbstritt.
19 - 30 May 2008, BONN: The WFC will be sending a delegation to the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9) of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Bonn, Germany. Contact Alistair Whitby.
20 May 2008, HAMBURG: Public event: The Future in Our Hands. Galerie DG HYP, Gertrudenstr. 3. Hamburg, Contact Miriam Chafik
22 May 2008, MUNICH: WFC Deputy Chair Beate Weber, Founder Jakob von Uexküll and Councillors Vithal Rajan and Chico Whitaker will be taking part in the seminar "Ethics and pratice of sustainability in the field of intercultural dialogue", at the Goethe Institute in Munich.
11 April 2008, SANTA BARBARA: The WFC is holding a public seminar entitled "Towards Future Justice: Protecting the Rights of Future Generations". The event will take place on Friday the 11th April in the McCune Conference Room at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
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WFC in the US
4-7 March 2008, Washington: The WFC sent a delegation to the WIREC convention in Washington. We hosted a side-event and presented the Feed-in Tariff system tailored to the US market together with congressman Jay Inslee.
WFC Launch in India
5-6 February 2008, DELHI: At the India International Centre, Vandana Shiva and Herbert Girardet will hold a seminar on the relevance of Ghandian thinking in an age of rapid economic development, in an event which will also mark the launch of the WFC in India.
Be the Change
On the 15th November 2007, the WFC was officially launched in the UK at the Be the Change Conference, Central Hall Westminster, London
Founding Congress
The WFC held its Founding Congress in Hamburg from 10th to 13th May 2007.
Read the Press Release here
You can read the speeches from the opening ceremony, which was held in the Hamburg town hall:
Jakob von Uexkull "WFC - A Voice for Future Generations"
Dr Michael Otto "Congratulations and Official Address"
Herbert Girardet "Policies that Change the World"
Bianca Jagger "From Climate Chaos to Climate Security"
Beate Weber "Protecting the Global Locally - Best Practice Policies"
Previous events
The launch of the World Future Council Initiative in October 2004
The Salzburg meeting in June 2001
