Congresses
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