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IUCN Environment Centre

The IUCN Environment Centre, at Nedcor Bank in Sandton, Johannesburg, hosted an exciting series of events throughout the Summit. These events were designed to enable discussions on issues of major interest and concern, both feeding into the formal Summit proceedings and developing new ways of implementing sustainable development.

The highlight of each day was a high-level Futures Dialogue at lunch time that featureed a small number of provocative and informed speakers to address the key issues for the future on each of 10 daily themes. Around these dialogues were morning and afternoon events, including round-tables, workshops, book launches, theatre groups, and partnership negotiations.

Visit the IUCN website at http://www.iucn.org/wssd/index.htm for an in-depth look at the Environment Centre at the Summit, and at the other events the IUCN was involved with.

Read the IUCN document "Sustainable Ventures: Community Enterprises in the Global Economy".