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XXIII Congress of the Socialist International, Athens
Global Solidarity: The courage to make a difference

30 June-02 July 2008

SPEAKERS - THEME I

ACTING NOW ON CLIMATE CHANGE

To achieve a sustainable world society 

Keynote speakers

  • Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile and a Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Climate Change, Co-Chair of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

  • Göran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden, Co-Chair of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

Beatriz Paredes, President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, Mexico, Member of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

Eero Heinäluoma, Social Democratic Party, Finland

Ousmane Tanor Dieng, First Secretary of the Socialist Party, PS, Senegal, Chair of the Socialist International Africa Committee

Sue West, Australia Labor Party

Olav Akselsen, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Parliamentary Committee, Norwegian Labour Party, DNA

Elio Di Rupo, Minister of State, Leader of the Socialist Party, PS, Belgium, Member of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

Joseph Muscat, Leader of the Malta Labour Party

Ebrahim Ebrahim, Member of the National Executive Committee for International Affairs, African National Congress, ANC, South Africa

 

Afternoon Session

PANEL ONE - How to arrive successfully at a post-2012 regime?
  • Cristina Narbona, former Minister of the Environment, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE, Spain, Member of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society 

  • Sandip Dixsit, Member of Parliament, Indian National Congress, India


Alexa McDonough, Member of Parliament, former Leader of the New Democratic Party, Canada

Elenko Bozhkov, Vice-President of the Social Democratic Party, PBSD, Bulgaria, Secretary of Energy and Economic Committee

Alejandro Encinas, Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD, Mexico

Alejandro Sule, International Secretary, Radical Social Democratic Party, PRSD, Chile

Rafael Michelini, Leader of the New Space party, Uruguay

Rolando Araya, Costa Rica

Paulo Pisco, International Department, Socialist Party, Portugal



Keynote speaker
  • Alfred Gusenbauer, Chancellor of Austria, Social Democratic Party of Austria, SPOe



PANEL TWO - How do we strengthen the multilateral architecture for a sustainable future?

  • Carol Browner, Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency under President Bill Clinton, Member of Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

  • Sergey Mironov, Chairman of the Council of the Russian Federation, Chair of the Party for a Just Russia, Member of Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

  • Zhang Zhijun, Vice-Minister of China

  • Jesús Caldera, former Minister of Employment and Social Affairs, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE, Spain