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Welcome to the NewsLog or Blog of Heiner Benking. A kaleidoscope of insights and impulses collected first in the DaZiBao (Rio) process Seeds of Change Viewsletter of the Club of Budapest since 1995, continually updated ever since. Now available for broader distribution and comments in this blog - enjoy, and come again !
16 Dec 2015 @ 05:25
Last night I had the discussion I was waiting for since a few weeks.
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), the Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel, and the Hertie School of Governance hosting a review panel on the outcomes of the UNFCCC last week in Paris: Where are we going? Where is the train going after the COP21 in Paris? which train, which track, which direction, and stops ? A lot of questions pop-up...
Startbahnhof Paris: Welche Route nimmt der Klima-Zug? - Diskussion der COP21-Ergebnisse Mit Ottmar Edenhofer, (Direktor, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)), Jan Minx (Professor für Science Policy and Sustainable Development, Hertie School & Leiter der Forschungsgruppe „Angewandte Nachhaltigkeitsforschung“, MCC), Sonja Peterson (wissenschaftliche Geschäftsführerin & Senior Researcher „Umwelt und natürliche Ressourcen“, Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel), and Franzjosef Schafhausen (Leiter der Abteilung Klimaschutzpolitik, Europa und Internationales, Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit (BMUB)). Moderation: Korbinian Frenzel, Deutschlandradio Kultur
I immediately tweeded: Which directions/options for the train are on the table? First we have the main directions of the windrose, should the train should go west-bound or south-bound? and which goal are we focussing on? SDG 14: Climate Action !? only?
Should we also go via Agriculture, Soil, Water/Oceans,.... all the 17 other SDGs? A stop-over around Financial, Security, Health, ... Goals?
WHICH ONES!? Here I give Examples as I requested in my question from the floor?: check this footnote about leverage solutions projects im my "viewing/connecting SDGs" article from September 2015 see the link: BLUE-GREEN Leverage Solutions
We also summed up after Rio 92 that a central and governing idea in the CSD process was "COMMON FRAMES OF REFERENCES" - I mentioned that elsewhere as this is what NOEL BROWN UNEP_RONA recalled. (I based on this here for him in 1994 at the FIG XX).
At the panel:
Franzjosef Schafhausen mentioned carbon sinks and agriculture and with Ottmar Edenhofer we looked into the next SDG roadmaps. I moved on last night to the BOELL FOUNDATION https://www.boell.de/de/livestream to check out ALTERNATIVE TRACKS and WAYS to go: Die Zukunft unserer Agrarlandschaft - Vortrag von Michael Succow [link]
Berlin is a HUB .... but let us better continue with the Hertie/MCC event report below:
I am aware of the calls to action by out German WBGU or what Hansen, the Relions and the Pope, or about "postcarbon" "back from Paris" (see above) and Renewable Energy After COP21 and I have been thinking lots the last weeks about the "travels" and "destinations", not this time in the beehive of the COP CMP maze in Paris. Instead I considered my "footprint" and prefered getting some distance as a help or "Kunstgriff": (bird's eye view) see "Change the Optic":. So let us change positions, lenses and perspectives AND consider meta-paradigms: [link], looking beyond COP1 - COP15 - COP21. For some COPs I was in the past really giving physically all possible to add to the "process" - but also all these other COPs around Summits, Comissions, Conventions, .... where many contributed towards many ends.... and learning about the wording and bracketing, what do we include/exclude?, and foremost what do we mean by certain terms in certain "conventions"?
"Crisis" in UN, CSD RIO+, or ESD gatherings. check (2009) FOR BOLD DELEGATES[link] this is the "hand-out" we delivered at the UN for all Delegations in the GA: [link]More >
14 Dec 2015 @ 23:09
Today the G7 High Level Meeting: Enhancing Maritime Security - Connecting Regions – Governing the Commons ! caught my interest, even why my focus is still on last weeks IAP Diplomcy workshop and not to forget my summing up of the COP21 Climate Negotiations. This in more challenging times since decades, intense challenges like never before in the last decades as our Chancellor Merkel pointed out.
The High-level Meeting in our Foreign Office brought together international heavy weights around security and piratry, diplomacy and international law. High even the standards of the Foreign Office. Maritim is something more than the gap between contries and continents, but a connecting space which urges us to review our policy thinking and ways to confront criminal and economic crisis.
Opening of the G7 High-level Meeting "Enhancing Maritime Security - Connecting Regions - Governing the Commons"
13 Dec 2015 @ 17:59
I was silent the last 2 weeks - frozen into anger and agony - and lost in whirlwind of issues on all scales.
Is the final agreement seen now, but also in 20 years, a success?
I for example have my own views on what happened at COP 1 (see 1995) or at the UNCED 1992, or to be more recent COP15 in Copenhagen. Why it created space for thinking "out of the box" and look into "CopenVegan" with the SURVIVAL ACADEMY: [link]
DIPLOMACY -even DIGITAL DIPLOMACY was the theme the last 2 days. Another "high level".... (I checked who is around how many people could be attracted by such an intensive Seminar/Workshop event: [link] The event is not my "space" but to see who is new and since ever in the field is much of interest. I only make my short introduction-pitch the fist day and was happy to bring some food for thought into the next days events.... stay tuned...
It is good to have since yesterday the UNFCCC COP21 Paris accord, contract, memorandum, agreement,... ?
[link] http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09.pdf
or check the NYT: [link] or check CLIMATE & FAITH: [link] but check also:
[link]
30 Nov 2015 @ 13:39
yesterday - demonstration in Berlin - today the negotiations starts.
Since years I did not attend a demonstration. It was against the IRAK war, where I was helping in organising the MONDAY DEMONSTRATIONS [link] Typically I feel I can make a difference in the other sectors. See what Cop Macdonald showed in his WISDOM CIRCLE diagramme ! [link] have a careful look ! at the Figure: DOING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE in the book: MATTERS OF CONSEQUENCES
I am still on hold, waiting for my press accreditation for Paris, which was declined a a long procedure by the UNFCCC office ! I protested and will keep you briefed and wonder how I will react in view of such an ignorance and innocence !
the NEWS coverage for this COP21 is already a brekthrough, only watch our News or Cultural Channels like ARTE and PHOENIX or look in the Englsih Speaking worlds: BBC, Discovery Channel - Global Warming, What You Need To Know, with Tom Brokaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcVwLrAavyA
check VISION TELEVISION UN HEADQUARTERS Kofi [link]
19 Nov 2015 @ 15:51 World Philosophy Day 2015 I am a "shadowy left-over" from the UNESCOs 70ies celebrations - G38 (see first picture below and yesterdays blog). After attending all these "High Level stuff" it is a good break to check into this annual gathering on Philosophy- Education - Religion - Pragmatics .... maybe they can reconcile old philosophical schools and fights and come back into relevant lives. Maybe Philosophy now is ready for fighting their sectarianisms, overclaims and oversimplification. Check PDF: "Ignorance Paper":
Pasted from the official UNESCO website: Philosophy Day at UNESCO.
By celebrating the World Philosophy Day each year, on the third Thursday of November, UNESCO underlines the enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for each culture and for each individual.
"Faced with the complexity of today’s world, philosophical reflection is above all a call to humility, to take a step back and engage in reasoned dialogue, to build together the solutions to challenges that are beyond our control. This is the best way to educate enlightened citizens, equipped to fight stupidity and prejudice. The greater the difficulties encountered the greater the need for philosophy to make sense of questions of peace and sustainable development." Irina Bokova UNESCO Director-General
[more] below !
17 Nov 2015 @ 15:03
The UNESCOs Leaders Forum and the 70 years celebrations [link] are a good reason, not only because Hollande and Obama are in the programme....
Check the official websites and videos
www.unesco.int www.unesco.org/new/en/general-conference/
social websites and tweets en.unesco.org/social #unesco38C and come back ...
as my vicinity is also taking some breath and attention.... come back !
12 Nov 2015 @ 21:39
Yesterday night was an impressive gathering, a farewell for Klaus Töpfer with many of the typical and unusual suspects, I for example was very surprised and happy to see Ashok Koshla, Paul Crutzen, Peter Altmaier, .... Klaus and his Institute has invited some of the people who followed the last or some even last 25+ years...
We had an exciting event, podium and great F2F exchanges. Some thoughts and memories need to be shared, maybe here in the next week.
But before check the records and recordings: *****
10 Nov 2015 @ 22:06
Last weekend and Monday Europe was in Berlin !
It was again a mayor event to help us think and act not only about the three pilars but the foundation and roof of the "House of Europe" - if we want to stick to the metaphor...
I invite you to visit the links, hear the top keynotes and Speeches of the Head of Europe ! The Europa Lectures of the heads of Parliament and Council.
I liked to mingle with the audience Sunday/Monday and will try to respond more consistently ! SO PLEASE COME BACK !!
But before: Check out:
Europe. Its Values, Its Citizens
# BC2015
BERLIN CONFERENCE “A SOUL FOR EUROPE” 2015
“A Soul for Europe” and the Allianz Kulturstiftung, together with the European Parliament, cordially invite interested citizens – and more specifically: actors from civil society, business, politics, and European cities – to attend the
Berlin Conference on 8 and 9 November 2015.
At our annual Berlin Conference, the civil initiative “A Soul for Europe”, together with our partners, are looking for answers to today’s pressing questions: How can civil society become a strong partner for future development and change the action from top-down to bottom-up? How can culture and the arts be involved and offer their competences to political decision makers for the creation of a peaceful Europe of Europeans?
The central event on 9 November is on the two topics “The periphery as an inspiration for Europe” and “The city as a spot of innovation, inclusion and of new models for citizenship education”.
On 8 November, a pre-conference Cities for Europe. Cities take a stand will focus on strategies of the cities to deal with the refugees situation in their communities as well as with right-wing populism in European cities.
In the evening of 9 November, EU Council President Donald Tusk will hold the annual “Europa-Rede” (The State of Europe speech) at the invitation of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Robert Bosch Stiftung and Stiftung Zukunft Berlin.
A constantly updated programme can be found on our website at www.asoulforeurope.eu/bc15_programme.
25 Oct 2015 @ 04:54
today is our brunch "SALON SUNDAY" - ANNA LINDH SALON [link] but today at the EntrepreneurSummit where we do a MAGIC ROUNDTABLE for some years: see VIDEO
70 years UNited Nations and 2030 new UN Agenda the last weeks were tooooo exhausting so please excuse and maybe return !??
We also enlarged the "offer" at the Magic Roundable to present the ReefFormers Project with some invited and surprise guests. A very special ad-hoc circle ! Check the REEFs report 2007-2013 [link] and this Video with Günter Faltin(FU & ENTREPRENEUR SUMMIT and Gunter Pauli: et.al..
copy: Aldebaran Salam media people COPY 2: presentation video with Pauli, Faltin, Herz, Burkhardt, Underberg, and ad hoc surprise guests, featuring the offer made by Underberg at the Magic Round Table in the first Magic Roundtable circle.
This is Heiner Benking's News Log, a private-public diary presenting events, symposia and happenings in Berlin and elsewhere - my farings, foci, issues and concerns.
PLEASE CONSIDER THIS PERSONAL BLOG an ARTISTIC and PERFORMATIVE MEDIA INTERVENTION !
The Log links to my work and interests and presents issues and special concern of maybe a very small group of "concerned, engaged generalist" - a Global Interest Group (GIG). This needs to be seen in contrast to the ubiquitous Specialized Interest Groups (SIGs), the "scientific" approach to organize subject areas and specialization and standardization and harmonization! of means, nomenclatures, and modes of thinking. My favorite stories in the WHOLENESS SEMINAR include:
BELA BANATHY: "GENESIS
OF GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY" and "IVAN HAVEL: Longing for Unified Knowledge" where a "specialist" runs into the founding session of the early foundations General Systems, mumbling "this is not my field" or where Ivan M. Havel expresses his search for other kinds of knowledge.
As a starter I also recommend to check my MINDPRINT site, where we add the need for HANDPRINTS and MINDPRINTS, as FOOTPRINTS are good to visualize and communicate numbers, densities or consumption per area, but are not sufficient to negotiate and "harmonize" across domains and communicate gains in different cultures, technologies, times,... in short: incompatible but relevant information and our work on dialog, peace, policy-making, and multi-modal, faceted issues and consequences.
What am I? This is a "well-packed" question for which I have not the or a single answer. Some called me an in-betweener, go-getter, facilitator, hub, marvel-hero, trim-tab, bricoleur, bricoleers??? - career designeer, .... Some even "hank" which I disliked or Story which I liked very much !!
I have no single answer as I feel we need to walk the talk and sing and dance Life ! in spectra and fields in multiple embodied spaces.
To nebulous an answer? I am sorry but I do not go for overclaims and oversimplifications, under-complex and over-simplistic approaches with clan-think mindsets about real issues in clear contexts!
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