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The Bellagio Forum's 10th anniversary
From left to right: Michael Hoelz, Chairman of the Bellagio Forum with Prof. Klaus Toepfer, former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Germany's former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and Prof. Jan-Olaf Willums, Chairman of the InSpire Foundation for Business and Society.
The Bellagio Forum for Sustainable Development celebrates its 10 Anniversary Members Meeting on April 27-29, 2006 in Bellagio, Italy. Members of the Forum met once again to recapture some of the initial inspiration and vision and to address an ambitious agenda; Perspectives for the Future: Beyond Traditional Partnerships. A strong focus was placed on discussing the foundation's "new" phase of globalization, i.e. Global governance, long-term commitments in a world of "short-termism" and the need to act as "drivers of change" towards increasingly sustainable processes and lifestyles.