Bonn Conference for Global Transformation
A new international conference series in Bonn will bring together thought leaders in sustainability.
Her company manufactures organic products and has developed an app to make life easier for dairy farmers. Su Kahumbu Stephanou from Kenya has plenty of ideas about how to create a sustainable economy – ideas she is hap py to share with others. This makes her the perfect candidate to take part in the Bonn Conference for Global Transformation, a new series of international conferences.
Several hundred thought leaders and progressive thinkers from all over the world will have an opportunity there to share strategies and solutions and to forge new networks and alliances. Successful projects like Su Kahumbu Stephanou’s will have a particular role to play: “From Politics to Implementation” is the vision, and concrete models are what is needed – not so that they can be applied one-to-one in other global regions, but to stimulate thinking processes.
Priorities of the post-2015 agenda
The conference series will begin against the backdrop of the expiring deadline for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. At the same time, it heralds a new beginning, a new sustainability agenda. The “post-2015 agenda” will be the focus when creative individuals and representatives of business, academia, civil society and politics come together to attend lectures and take part in workshops. They will include Jeffrey Sachs, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Millennium Development Goals, Klaus Töpfer, former Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme UNEP, and Vandana Shiva, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize. The conference is being organized by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
It is no coincidence that the conference will be held in Bonn, as the city is already an important hub for international engagement. It is home to numerous UN institutions, including the UNFCCC secretariat. The Bonn Conference is likely to underpin the former German capital’s role as a centre for networking and strategy development in the field of sustainability.
Bonn Conference for Global Transformation on 12 and 13 May 2015
