Conference – Culture and sustainability in Rio+20

The preparation of the Rio+20 Conference has enabled the expression of many messages that coincide on the need for sustainability to explicitly include a cultural component.
These messages have been issued by national governments, international organisations, civil society and local governments. The government of Brazil and the world organisation of United Cities and Local Governments are organising an international seminar on culture and sustainability. It will be a unique occasion for direct dialogue between all actors concerned by this issue.
Moreover, this seminar will debate how the Rio+20 Final Declaration, in the declarative part and in the operative part, embraces the cultural elements in local, national and international strategies for sustainable development. Let us consider the definition of sustainable development to be the “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own,” read it through a 21st century perspective and, consequently, act so that culture is seen as a key dimension of sustainability.

19 JUNE 2012, GALPÃO DA CIDADANIA, RIO DE JANEIRO
Rua Barão de Tefé 75, Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro

SOCIAL NETWORKS
@agenda21culture @uclg_org @CulturaGovBr
#rio20culture #futurewewant #citieswewant

CONTACT AND INFORMATION
seagenda@cultura.gov.br and rio20@agenda21culture.info

PROGRAMME
9.30 – 10.00 OPENING AND INSTITUTIONAL SPEECHES
– Dr Kadir Topbas, President of UCLG, President of UNACLA, Mayor of Istanbul
– Mr Vitor Ortiz, Minister of Culture (interim) of Brazil
– Mr Emilio Kalil, Councillor for Culture of City of Rio de Janeiro
– Mr Hans D’Orville, Deputy Director-General for Strategic Planning, UNESCO

10.00 – 11.30 – CULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY: IT IS ALREADY HAPPENING
– Chair: Mr Vitor Ortiz, Minister of Culture (interim) of Brazil
– Mr Ticio Escobar, Minister of Culture of Paraguay
– Mr Gerald Tremblay, Vice President of UCLG for North America, Vice President of
Metropolis, Mayor of Montreal (video message)
– Mr Wolfgang Schuster, Vice President of UCLG for Europe, President of CEMR,
Mayor of Stuttgart
– Mr Anders Knape, President of Swedish Association of Local Authorities and
Regions (SALAR), Councillor of Karlstad
– Mr Emilio Kalil, Councillor for Culture of City of Rio de Janeiro
– Sra María Victoria Alcaraz, Deputy Secretary of Cultural Heritage – Buenos Aires

12.00 – 13.30 – THE CONTENTS OF THE RELATION BETWEEN CULTURE AND
SUSTAINABILITY
– Chair: Mr Jordi Pascual, Coordinator of Committee on Culture, UCLG and
Barcelona City Council
– Mr Luis Fernando de Almeida, President of IPHAN
– Mr Charles Vallerand, Secretary General of IFCCD
– Ms Katelijn Verstraette, Deputy Director Cultural Exchange of Asia Europe
Foundation (ASEF)
– Mr Ferdinand Richard, President of AMI
– Mr Olaf Gerlach Hansen, Director of Culture Futures

15.00 – 16.30 – RIO+20 AND CULTURE: THE KEY MESSAGES, NOW
– Chair: Mr Hamilton Pereira, Councillor for Culture of Brasilia DF
– Lic. Nina A. Serratos, Councillor for Culture of Mexico DF
– Mr Keith Nurse, Commonwealth Foundation
– Representative of Major Group “Women” (TBC)
– Representative of Major Group “Indigenous Peoples” (TBC)
– Ms Eliana Bogéa, Head of Strategic Projects, Department of Culture, Ananindeuá
(Pará, Brazil)

16.30 – 17.15 – THE FUTURE WE WANT NEEDS CULTURE
– Mr Josep Roig , Secretary General of UCLG
– Mr Vitor Ortiz, Minister of Culture (interim) of Brazil
– Ms Ideli Salvatti, Minister of the