Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register World Future Council for InfoPages here.
World Future Council - Latest News [Page 2]
International Award Celebrates Sustainable Disarmament
Monday, 10 June 2013, 2:44 pm | World Future Council
International Award Celebrates Solutions For Sustainable Disarmament Future Policy Award Announces Nominations of 25 Innovative Disarmament Policies Hamburg/Geneva/New York– 6 June 2013 : The World Future Council has today announced the nominations ... More >>
New Zealand’s Nuclear-Free Legislation Nominated For Award
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 3:30 pm | World Future Council
In partnership with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), this year’s award seeks to highlight disarmament policies that contribute to the achievement of peace, sustainable development and ... More >>
Human Rights Are At The Heart Of Our Future
Tuesday, 11 December 2012, 3:03 pm | World Future Council
Geneva is the global centre for the advancement of human rights / World Future Council opens new liaison office on UN Human Rights Day More >>
World Future Council calls for “quick change of course”
Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 9:13 am | World Future Council
Abu Dhabi / Doha / Hamburg, 27 November 2012 - As the World Bank strongly warns of the devastating effects of a four-degree temperature rise and as hopes for a ground-breaking outcome of the UN Climate Conference in Qatar are low, the World Future Council concluded ... More >>
World Future Council 6th Annual General Meeting
Saturday, 24 November 2012, 12:50 pm | World Future Council
Press release - for immediate release International sustainability forum to establish presence in Arab world World Future Council 6th Annual General Meeting inaugurated by H.H Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al-Nahyan in Abu Dhabi More >>
How Can We Save The World’s Oceans And Coasts?
Wednesday, 5 September 2012, 10:58 am | World Future Council
Press release How Can We Save The World’s Oceans And Coasts? Five countries’ ocean and coastal policies shortlisted for the 2012 Future Policy Award Hamburg/Montreal/Washington D.C./Rome, 4 September – Six policies from five countries are now shortlisted for ... More >>
World Future Council calls on governments
Saturday, 23 June 2012, 1:45 pm | World Future Council
Press release – for immediate release Rio+20 Failure World Future Council calls on governments to spread Future Just Policies Rio de Janeiro, 22 June 2012 - As the Rio+20 Summit has failed to agree upon appropriate actions and targets in the interest ... More >>
Rio outcome postpones action for another decade
Saturday, 23 June 2012, 1:35 pm | World Future Council
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 22 June 2012 - Heads of States are still delivering their statements, but the outcome document of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 will not be changed before the Summit closes on Friday evening. Governments ... More >>
Rio Summit: Governments Need To Find Their Vision & Hearing
Friday, 22 June 2012, 2:13 pm | World Future Council
Governments Need To Find Their Vision And Hearing As The Rio Summit Is Set To Start More >>
New Zealand nominated for Future Policy Award
Thursday, 7 June 2012, 9:32 am | World Future Council
Hamburg/Montreal/Washington D.C./Rome, 6 June 2012: New Zealand is on the list of nominees for this year's Future Policy Award. It has been nominated for its Fisheries Act of 1996. The Future Policy Award celebrates policies that create better living ... More >>
Governments Must Focus on Sustainable City Development
Wednesday, 8 December 2010, 10:46 am | World Future Council
Cancún (Mexico), December 7, 2010. In a new report titled “Regenerative Cities” the World Future Council (WFC) called today on national governments at the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún to enable their cities to take vigorous measures to ... More >>
Future Policy Award 2010 Winners Announced
Tuesday, 26 October 2010, 5:43 pm | World Future Council
Standing ovations for Costa Rica's biodiversity law: Setting priorities for generations to come. Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act wins Silver Award More >>
100% Renewable Energy for Cities is possible
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 6:17 pm | World Future Council
Climate change is to a large degree caused by the fossil fuel consumption by cities and is a huge threat to urban areas at the same time. It is alarming that neither industrialised nor developing countries have coherent strategies for efficient, renewable ... More >>
Wangari Maathai as an Honorary Councillor
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 12:52 pm | World Future Council
Hamburg/London, 29th July 2009: The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai, has joined the World Future Council (WFC) as a new Honorary Councillor. WFC Founder Jakob von Uexkull said: “We are very happy that Prof. Maathai has shown ... More >>
International Youth Future Forum in Bonn
Saturday, 24 January 2009, 12:50 pm | World Future Council
Hamburg/Bad Honnef, January 23: The planet is threatened by climate change and its consequences. How should global education respond to these challenges? More >>
Global 100% renewable energy pact possible
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 4:14 pm | World Future Council
Abu Dhabi, January 21: “The common aim of worldwide energy policy has to be a complete switch to renewable” said World Future Council Director of Programmes Prof. Herbert Girardet in his keynote speech at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi today. More >>
All Hype and no Substance in Poznan
Monday, 15 December 2008, 4:09 pm | World Future Council
WFC Chair Bianca Jagger calls for regular Heads-of-State Climate Crisis Meetings to ensure a sound Agreement in Copenhagen next Year More >>
Appeal to EU to Protect Renewable Energy
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 10:13 am | World Future Council
Hamburg, 27 November: “Renewable energy with its huge job and business potential can help to turn the financial and climate crisis into an opportunity,” says the founder of the World Future Council (WFC) Jakob von Uexkull four days before the ... More >>
UN Climate Conference in Poland
Friday, 28 November 2008, 12:08 pm | World Future Council
Hamburg, 27th November: The World Future Council (WFC) today called on politicians participating in next week’s UN climate conference in Poznan, Poland, to agree a ‘Poznan Action Plan.’ The Hamburg based non-profit organisation states that ... More >>
Thai Councillor Sulak Sivaraksa Arrested
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 9:53 am | World Future Council
“Sulak Sivaraksa is one of Thailand’s most respected spiritual leaders. Arresting him on account of lese majesty is just another attempt to silence an inconvenient thinker and social critic," World Future Council founder Jakob von Uexkuell said. More >>
