| News and Events
News and Events
Recent news items and upcoming events relevant to ToBI's activities
Two corporate accountability campaigns for WSSD:
New Report on CA right-to-know
Natural Heritage Institute releases Report
on Building a Right-to-Know Campaign in California [PDF] (July 2002)
EPA examines corporate disclosure and market forces
US EPA's report
on Relationships between Corporate Environmental Disclosure and Market
Forces [PDF]
Seminar: 27-31 August 2001
"Corporations,
Communities, Human Rights and Development", is an upcoming seminar
in Dundee, Ireland, with a special focus on mineral, energy and natural
resource development. Representing ToBI, Jeffrey Barber will be presenting
a paper on Corporate Accountability
and Rio+10. The
presentation slides are also available.
29-30 September 2001
International Monetary Fund and World Bank Joint Annual General
Meeting
Washington, DC
As with other recent IMF/World Bank meetings, many are expected to protest
these meetings. For more info on the protests planned by various organizations,
see Mobilization
for Global Justice's September 30th website.
PrepComs for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development
Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) meetings are now being held regionally
and subregionally in preparation for the 2002
World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). In addition to the
major meetings listed here, there are several other related meetings.
Lists of those can be found on the pages linked below.
24 - 25 September 2001
Europe
and North America Regional PrepCom Meeting
Palais des Nations, Geneva, as a Special Session of the Economic Commission
for Europe
15-18 October 2001
African
Regional PrepCom meeting
UNON (UN Office in Nairobi), Nairobi, Kenya
23 - 24 October 2001
Latin
America and the Caribbean Regional PrepCom
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, following the 13th meeting of the Forum of Ministers
of the Environment
24 October 2001
Regional
PrepCom for West Asia
Cairo, Egypt
27-29 November 2001
Asia
and the Pacific Regional PrepCom Meeting
Siem Reap, Cambodia |