Taking Stock of Sustainable Development at 20: A Principle at Odds with Itself?
On Friday, November 16, and Saturday, November 17, the Center for Global Business and Development will sponsor a symposium on "Taking Stock of Sustainable Development at 20: A Principle at Odds with Itself?" It will examine the development and current status of "sustainable development," both generally, and through the lens of two specific applications.
Day One of the conference is sponsored by the Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure. It will consider the human-resources side of efforts to develop sustainably. In particular, it will look at the impact on sustainable development of the "brain-drain cycle" - in which younger, educated workers migrate from developing regions to metropoles - and outsourcing - in which back-office services migrate from developed economies to newly industrialized developing countries.
Day Two will be sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Development. By focusing on two key anniversaries, it will trace the origins and development of the concept of sustainable development and its influence on state practice. Speakers will examine the impact of the path-breaking Brundtland Commission Report, "Our Common Future," 20 years after it made sustainable development the paradigm for reconciling efforts at environmental protection and economic development. Speakers will also assess the contribution of the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses 10 years after its adoption by the UN General Assembly.
This program has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by The State Bar of California in the amount of three (3) hours for day 1 and four (4) hours for day 2. The University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved educational activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of The State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.
For more information please contact:
Rachel Dubay
3200 Fifth Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 739-7019
email