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LFEE Brownbag Seminar, February 5, 2003: Sir Crispin Tickell
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From: Karen Luxton <kkluxton@MIT.EDU>
Subject: LFEE Brownbag Seminar, February 5, 2003: Sir Crispin Tickell
discusses The Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development and its
Aftermath
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> Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series
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The Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development and its Aftermath
by Sir Crispin Tickell
Inaugural Senior Visiting Fellow, Harvard University Center for the
Environment
Chancellor, University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K.
and former Chairman of the Board, Climate Institute of Washington, DC
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
12 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Room E40-496
ABSTRACT
The World Summit on Sustainable Development has been described as disaster
averted: opportunity lost. The press were unkind to the Summit, but this was
perhaps unfair. Such meetings compel governments to address sustainability
issues and, despite the attitude of countries such as the United States, some
genuine progress was made, notably on fisheries, sanitation, biodiversity,
renewable energy, and harmful chemicals. Nonetheless Johannesburg was in many
respects a monumental failure. It did not recognize the character of the
threats facing the Earth as a whole, nor suggest ways of coping with them.
Where should we go next with sustainability?
In this seminar Sir Crispin Tickell, noted diplomat, environmental activist,
and author (Climate Change and World Affairs), will present his suggestions of
how this question might be more successfully addressed in the future.
We invite you to bring your lunch. Light refreshment will be provided.
From the computer of:
Karen K. Luxton
MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
Room E40-391
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
ext. (617) 253-3478
fax: (617) 253-8531
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