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Hermann Scheer 1944 – 2010 |  |
All of us at the Right Livelihood Award Foundation were deeply saddened to learn about the death of Hermann Scheer.
Scheer passed away, aged 66, on October 14 in Berlin. He received the Right Livelihood Award in 1999 ‘for his indefatigable work for the promotion of solar energy worldwide’.
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Moratorium on Geoengineering Experiments | |
The 193 members of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, agreed on a moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments.
Geoengineering plans are encompassing large-scale interventions in the atmosphere, stratosphere and outer space to alter global temperatures.
Pat Mooney (Canada, RLA 1985) had initiated the Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E) campaign with the aim of such a moratorium.
He stated: “This decision clearly places the governance of geoengineering in the United Nations where it belongs, it is a victory for common sense, and for precaution... Decisions on geoengineering cannot be made by small groups of scientists from a small group of countries that establish self-serving ‘voluntary guidelines’ on climate hacking."
Read more about this success here.
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Daniel Ellsberg interviewed on release of Iraq War docs | |
Amy Goodman (USA, RLA 2008) from Democracy Now! interviewed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg (USA, RLA 2006). He was on his way to London to attend WikiLeaks' release of the Iraq War Logs.
Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, which eventually led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
He talked with Amy about WikiLeaks and whistleblowing. Watch the interview on Democracy Now!
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Ruchama Marton tells her story | |
One of our 2010 Laureates, Ruchama Marton, shares her story and why she started Physicians for Human Rights - Israel in this BBC podcast.
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The 2010 Laureates out and about | |
In about 5 weeks, the 2010 Laureates Nnimmo Bassey, Erwin Kräutler, Shrikrishna Upadhyay from SAPPROS and Ruchama Marton (representing Physicians for Human Rights-Israel) will come to Stockholm to receive the Right Livelihood Award in the Swedish Parliament.
Afterwards, Ruchama Marton will continue to Brussels for meetings at the European Parliament, including a public event on December 8, 6.30 p.m. Nnimmo Bassey will attend COP16 in Cancun, Shrikrishna Upadhyay has appointments in and around Stockholm and Erwin Kräutler will first travel to Hamburg and then to Zurich, to hold the third Right Livelihood Award-Lecture at Zurich University.
The lecture is a public event, so join him there on December 9, 6 p.m., at the auditorium, Rämistrasse 71, Zurich.
