Earth Equity News

World Conservation Congress Convenes This Week, in Barcelona. Press Release, ICUN, October 6, 2008. "The International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) forum World Conservation Congress started on Sunday, with more than 800 events scheduled to take place over the next four days...In his welcome address at the forum opening, Ted Turner, President of the United Nations United Nations Foundation, said that dealing with nuclear disarmament, global warming, the effects of over-population and ensuring equal rights of women need to be addressed if we want to make the Congress theme of 'a diverse and sustainable world' a reality. The forum addresses the world's most pressing sustainable development challenges. It offers four days of debates, workshops, dialogues, art and film, roundtable discussions, training courses, music and exhibitions. Split into three streams, the events will cover how to tackle climate change, how to safeguard the diversity of life in all its forms, and how to make sound environmental management the foundation of healthy people and economies... Every four years, IUCN organizes the World Conservation Congress, the biggest and most diverse conservation-related event in the world. Its objective is to improve the way we manage our environment for human, social and economic development... IUCN will use the platform offered by the World Conservation Congress to organize the International Women Environmental Entrepreneurs Fair. The Fair is an innovative and unique global opportunity, because it will make visible the economic, social and environmental inputs that women entrepreneurs bring to their countries and the world through their 'green enterprises.'"