Home >
News
News
12 November 2008 - Kofi Annan, President
-
Kofi Annan Receives 2008 Freedom Award
NEW YORK, 12 November 2008 - Global Humanitarian Forum President, Kofi Annan, was awarded the International Rescue Committee's Freedom Award for individual efforts to promote greater freedom from harm.
16 October 2008 - Walter Fust, CEO
-
Reflections on Humanitarian Diplomacy - Challenges and Opportunities
SELFOSS, Iceland, 29 August 2008 - Global Humanitarian Forum CEO, Ambassador Walter Fust, addressed the 2008 Donor Forum of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on the topic of Humanitarian Diplomacy.
09 October 2008 - Press Release
-
Hans Wilsdorf Foundation Contributes to Global Humanitarian Forum
GENEVA, 09 October 2008 – The Global Humanitarian Forum, presided over by Kofi Annan, has the pleasure to announce the decision of the foundation board of the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation of 23 September 2008 to support the activities of the Forum with the sum of CHF 500'000.- for 2008 and the same amount for 2009.
17 September 2008 - Walter Fust, CEO
-
Transforming our Response to Climate Change
GENEVA, 17 September 2008 - Global Humanitarian Forum CEO Walter Fust issued ten key considerations relating to the human dimensions and impact of climate change.
25 June 2008 - Press Release
-
Kofi Annan Launches Global Alliance for Climate Justice
GENEVA, 25 June 2008 – Kofi Annan said today at the first annual meeting of the Global Humanitarian Forum, which he presides, that a global alliance for climate justice is a necessity. Annan, joined by some 300 participants agreed to support efforts to establish clim...
25 June 2008 - News Article
-
Energy for the Poor
GENEVA, 25 June – At least 1.6 billion people in the world have no access to electricity. What can be done to make clean, efficient energy available to them? Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says one of the keys is research and development int...
25 June 2008 - News Article
-
Solana versus Sachs
GENEVA, 25 June – The annual meeting reached a climax with a keynote debate between Javier Solana, the European Union's head of foreign and security policy, and Jeffery Sachs, a special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the millennium development goals, on the best ways of tackling climate change.
25 June 2008 - News Article
-
Kofi Annan reveals the way forward
GENEVA, 25 June – As the main proceedings of the annual meeting drew to a close, the Forum’s President, Kofi Annan, summarised the conclusions of many of the roundtable discussions held over the past few days.
25 June 2008 - News Article
-
New forms of urban life, new development forms
GENEVA, 25 June – The Chinese have the right idea when it comes to urban planning. That was the conclusion of a roundtable discussing what contribution smart design and urban planning make towards sustainable development for vulnerable communities.
24 June 2008 - News Article
-
Are the right risks insured?
GENEVA, 24 June – Many developing countries lack any insurance coverage for climate risks but this could soon change. Insurance and development experts at this particular roundtable agreed that risks could be insured and that for every one US dollar spent on insurance policies, four US dollars could be saved in r...
