Sustainable Development/Economics and Environment Coalition
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Sustainable Development/Economics and Environment Coalition
Facilitator : Ilkka Sipilainen
Secretary for Social Responsibility
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Helsinki
Sustainable Development at Volos 2003
Sustainable Development is one of the two main themes at the Fourth ECEN Assembly in Volos in May 2003. A working group will be set up there on Sustainable Development, taking over from the former working group on Economics and Environment. For further information, contact the Facilitator : Ilkka Sipilainen
In Volos the group will receive input on the WSSD assessment from all other ECEN coalitions and the group will draft a final text and a statement from the Assembly. The group will also decide on a work programme following the Assembly, in consultation with the CEC Church and Society Commission.
Documents for the Volos 2003 Assembly
World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002
Several ECEN members attended the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in August- September 2002. See our pages and report on ECEN at the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
Pervious ECEN Work on Economics and Environment
At previous ECEN Assemblies groups have met to discuss the interaction between economics and environmental issues, but no regular coalition has been set up. Here is some of our earlier material :
Original Dossier on Economics and Environment (1998) prepared for the Vilemov ECEN Assembly
Suggestions for Activities, 1999-2001
CEC Ecumenical Studies
Reports of the Working group on Economy, Ecology and Social Issues of the Church and Society Commission of the Conference of European Churches (formerly the European Ecumenical Commission for Church and Society) has produced three reports.
Sustainable Development and the European Union-The Need to Develop New Strategies and New Lifestyles, May 2002.
Sustainable development and the market economy: integrating environment in EU-economic and employment policies, January 2000.
The Dominant Economic Model and Sustainable Development - are they compatible, June 1995; and its Executive Summary
CEC/CCEE Environmental and Development Consultation in Crete, 1995
Church Studies
Individual European Church Work
Economics work at Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft, Germany
Work at the Multi-disciplinary Centre for Church and Society, MCKS, Netherlands
Work at the Institute for Social Ethics, Switzerland
Work at the SRT Project and Church and Nation Committee of the Church of Scotland
Church of Norway, report on consumer society in relation to the environment, 1995
Church of Finland, as part of the Suomi21 initiative
Christian Coucil of Sweden, Baltic Sea consultations
Hungary - report on climate change in Eastern Europe
Romania - ecumenical survey of economic and environmental situation in Romania
World Council of Churches
The WCC Ecumenical Earth Programme includes signficant work on the global economic and political dimension to the churches' environmental concerns.
Links to other sites on this Subject
Network 2005 is a free monthly stakeholder e-newsletter reporting on the international sustainable development agenda in follow-up to the Johannesburg
Summit, towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Network is focussed at the 5 year review of the MDGs in 2005.
See
www.stakeholderforum.org/news/network.php
Sustainable Development International E-Newsletter
http://213.52.210.116/
This page was updated on 28
September
2004
