Sustainable Development: Promoting Best Practice in Wales and Scotland
REGISTRATION IS NOW FULL FOR THIS CONFERENCE
Sustainable Development: Promoting Best Practice in Wales and Scotland
Celtic nations FREE one-day Conference in Edinburgh on Monday, 7th March 2005 from 09.00 to 15.50.
Some of the most innovative thinking and practice in the field of sustainable development (SD) is taking place in Scotland and Wales.
The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) is hosting the first Celtic Nations conference with SDC Scotland and SDC Wales in association with CYNNAL CYMRU and the Scottish Sustainable Development Forum celebrating and promoting best practice in sustainable development.
Keynote speaker Jonathon Porritt CBE, Chairman of the SDC pays tribute to the Devolved Administrations’ leadership: ‘The world is changing and the challenge of sustainable development is at last being taken seriously. Some of the most innovative thinking and practice in this area is emerging in Scotland and Wales’.
Chaired by Richard Wakeford, Head of Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department, the conference is supported by senior politicians. First Minister Jack McConnell, MSP, Head of the devolved Scottish Government says: ‘Bringing about real change and truly developing Scotland in a more sustainable way means building sustainable development in everything that we do.” Rhodri Morgan AM, First Minister for Wales in the National Assembly says: ‘Sustainable development is not an option that will go away - it is the only way forward.’
The conference focuses divides into three parts:
Setting the scene
- Ross Finnie, MSP, Minister for Environment and Rural Development outlines how the Scottish Executive has introduced sustainable development as part of its Programme for Government integrated at local authority level.
- Carwyn Jones, AM, Minister for Environment, Planning and Countryside
outlines how the Welsh Assembly works with its partners across Welsh society to take forward its unique duty to embed sustainable development throughout all its functions.
Shared experience
- SD practitioners can share and promote best practice via workshops covering: transport, health, procurement and food, energy and communities.
Looking to the future
- The workshops feed back to conference before SDC Chair Jonathon Porritt gives the keynote speech. Other speakers in the final session include the SDC Commissioner & Vice Chair (Wales), Rod Aspinwall and the SDC Commissioner & Vice Chair (Scotland), Maureen Child.
SD practitioners and policy-makers are invited to attend the conference from the public and private sectors, local government, NGOs, environmental groups, community councils, academia, anti-poverty organisations and interest groups and media in Scotland, Wales and the UK regions.
Home page conference photo by Grant Ager at Fairfield HA
Further information
To register for the FREE Celtic Nations Conference
or email: sdc@holyrood.com Phone : 0131 272 2130
Delegates must register by Thursday 3rd March 2005.
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