Society for Sustainable Living in the Slovak Republic (STUŽ/SR)
TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE SLOVAKIA
National study in the framework of FOEE Sustainable Europe Campaign
6. 4. Report on Pan-Slovakian Conference
TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE SLOVAKIA IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
The Pan-Slovakian Conference "TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE SLOVAKIA IN INTERNATIONAL
CONTEXT" was carried out in the Conference room at The Hotel "Družba" in
Bratislava on November 6-7,1995.
The conference was organised by "The Society for Sustainable Living
in the Slovak Republic", with the help of „ ETP Slovakia".
In the conference took part more than 90 partici-pants, covering all
the key social groups / decisive sphere, political parties, local governments,
educational insti-tution, entrepreneurs and contractors, non-governmental
organisations/ took part from Slovakia as well as from abroad.
The programme of the conference was as follows:
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The plenary session in the morning, was held in order to help the participants
become acquainted with the situation and the tendency of Slovakia from
the aspect of an international obligation of a permanently sustainable
development con-cept.
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The afternoon programme consisted of working in separa-te professional
sections, specialised on the problems of energy, raw materials, land-use
/ with an emphasis on agriculture and forestry /, water and comprehensive
problems.
The participants presented a variety of interes-ting opinions, subjects,
views, information and attitudes contributing to the improvement of methodology
and elabora-ting the National report named "Towards Sustainable Slovakia".
The Conference, the National report and other activities in this field
, co-vered in Slovakia by The Society for Sustainable Living" are the part
of FOEE Sustainable Europe Campaign.
The participants came to an agreement, that the resembling work-meetings
of representatives from all sectors for solving the problems in this sphere
are very useful and important. According to the views and attitudes, it
is evident that there is still a great difference betwe-en the recommendations
of international documents, obli-gatory also for Slovakia and the reality.
This difference is caused not only by extensive development in the expired
decades, but also by insufficient standing to the principles of sustainability
in the new-approving development concepts and/or policies.
Bratislava, 8th November 1995