Today I had the pleasure of taking part in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20. I was commissioned to write and perform a poem for Janos Pastor, Executive Secretary of the Secretary General's High Level Panel on Global Sustainability.
The poem was broadcast during Open High-level Dialogue on
T H E F U T U R E W E C H O O S E.
Attendees included:
- Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and former DirectorGeneral of the World Health Organization, member of The Elders, member of the
UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.
- Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation of Sweden,
member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.
- Jim Balsillie, Chair of the Board of the Centre for International Governance
Innovation and former Co-Chief Executive Officer of Research in Motion, member
of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.
- Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Pedro Telles, socio-environmentalist, Elders+Youngers
- Fan Jingyi, student, Peking University
- Mei-Jia (Mika) Tan, CSD Major Group for Children and Youth
- Sonia Preisser, Coordinator, GEEBIZ Initiative
Moderator: Janos Pastor, Executive Secretary of the Secretary General's High Level Panel on Global Sustainability.
You can watch the poem on Youtube HERE or via the UN's website HERE.
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