Recent Events of the World Future Council
The WFC is in action! Read here about recent events.
11 April 2008, SANTA BARBARA: The WFC is holding a public seminar entitled "Towards Future Justice: Protecting the Rights of Future Generations". The event will take place on Friday the 11th April in the McCune Conference Room at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
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WFC in the US
4-7 March 2008, Washington: The WFC sent a delegation to the WIREC convention in Washington. We hosted a side-event and presented the Feed-in Tariff system tailored to the US market together with congressman Jay Inslee.
WFC Launch in India
5-6 February 2008, DELHI: At the India International Centre, Vandana Shiva and Herbert Girardet will hold a seminar on the relevance of Ghandian thinking in an age of rapid economic development, in an event which will also mark the launch of the WFC in India.
Be the Change
On the 15th November 2007, the WFC was officially launched in the UK at the Be the Change Conference, Central Hall Westminster, London
Founding Congress
The WFC held its Founding Congress in Hamburg from 10th to 13th May 2007.
Read the Press Release here
You can read the speeches from the opening ceremony, which was held in the Hamburg town hall:
Jakob von Uexkull "WFC - A Voice for Future Generations"
Dr Michael Otto "Congratulations and Official Address"
Herbert Girardet "Policies that Change the World"
Bianca Jagger "From Climate Chaos to Climate Security"
Beate Weber "Protecting the Global Locally - Best Practice Policies"
Previous events
The launch of the World Future Council Initiative in October 2004
The Salzburg meeting in June 2001
