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14.08.02
For
a more rounded view of the planet, watch Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World
Extensive
coverage of The World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg
News
specials, World Business Report Specials, HARDtalk Specials,
Earth Summit: The Debate, Earth Report, Children of Rio, I Wish,
State of the Planet, Africa Direct, Developing World, Life
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
World, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's 24-hour international news and information channel,
is dedicating a large portion of its schedule in August and early
September to special programming and news reports related to The
World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. From in-depth
analysis of the issues under discussion in Johannesburg to feature
reports illustrating good and bad practice in sustainable development
and business news offering a corporate dimension, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World will
be bringing the full picture to viewers in more than 200 countries
and territories worldwide.
Both
in the run up to and during the Summit, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World's network of news
correspondents will be offering insights based on their unique experiences
working in developing countries as well as challenging leaders'
accountability.
Commenting
on the line-up of environmental programmes in the coming weeks,
Rachel Attwell, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Deputy Head of Television News said; "Environmental
issues have always been an important part of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World schedule
with programmes like Earth Report well established on the channel.
However, an event of such global significance as the World Summit
in Johannesburg offers Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World an opportunity to showcase the
great breadth of programmes and extensive news coverage we can offer.
With a business, environmental and political angle to everything
that happens at the Summit, we expect to have something for everyone."
For
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World news, David Loyn, Hilary Anderson and Nik Gowing will
be among the team reporting live from Johannesburg from August 26th
onwards. For World Business Report, Mike Sergeant and Richard Scott
will be turning the spotlight on the business issues. They will
have reports on renewable energy businesses such as clean nuclear
energy, wind power and solar power, live interviews with key figures
attending the Summit and a special report on the South African gold
industry, highlighting the country's investment potential.
In addition to Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World's daily news coverage during the World
Summit, the channel has commissioned a series of news features and
programmes. News presenter Nisha Pillai will be co-hosting a two-part
debate, Earth Summit: The Debate, filmed at the UNESCO heritage
site, the Cradle of Humankind, in the hills outside Johannesburg.
Together with Bill Moyers of PBS America, Nisha Pillai will lead
the discussion between a panel of distinguished world leaders and
campaigners from all sides of the debate. The debate will tackle
the big issues of the day such as how far we have come since the
last conference in Rio (1992) and address specific issues like global
poverty, health, AIDS, hunger, growth and the environment. They
will also ask each panellist what single, big, bold proposal they
would put forward and which they believe would really make a difference.
The regular Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World programme, Earth Report, is also featuring
a series of specials dedicated to the summit. The Children of Rio
will look at the lives of some children all over the world ten years
on from the last Summit in Brazil and I Wish offers a unique look
at what 21 people from a cross section of global society wish the
World Summit would achieve. From President Chirac to President Mbeki
and heads of UN agencies to entrepreneurs like Richard Branson and
Anita Roddick and actors like Joan Collins, viewers will hear a
wide range of aspirations.
The
popular interview show, HARDtalk with Tim Sebastian, will run a
special week of interviews starting on August 26th with Claudia
Sheinbaum, the Mexico City Environment Minister. The monthly magazine
show, Africa Direct, will offer a local African environmental perspective
when it airs on August 28th.
The
three-part documentary series, State of the Planet, presented by
David Attenborough, commences in mid-August and attempts to answer
some of the big questions about our planet, assessing the gravity
of the environmental crisis and asking what lies ahead at this point
in human history. Developing World is a magazine series which takes
viewers from Armenia to Zanzibar, Nepal to Peru showing what is
possible when people work together, while Life is a five-part award-winning
series looking at how the newly globalised world economy is affecting
ordinary people across the planet.
News
bulletins in August and September will include specially-commissioned
reports from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ correspondents around the world highlighting the
tension between small projects and government-level statements of
intent which have been the product of world summits.
Tim Hirsch will be looking at Green capitalism in Brazil and some
Micro initiatives using solar power in South Africa.
Jonathan Head follows the course of a river to Bangkok looking at
various pollution problems and ending in an environmental project
which offers a solution.
Ian Bruce follows a scheme in Brazil which gathers local people
together to decide how government money should be spent in their
area. He also looks at a trade union in Colombia which dared to
challenge the powers that be and reports the story of a boy from
rural India who will be one of the youngest delegates at the World
Summit.
Mike
Donkin reports on one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes in the
Amazon which is under threat, despite international agreements to
protect them and their environment.
Finally,
Shirin Wheeler looks at clean power in Iceland as it becomes a global
guinea pig by aiming to be the first fully-fledged hydrogen-powered,
eco-friendly economy in the world.
Delegates
attending the summit in South Africa will be able to watch Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World
via the television platform, MultiChoice, which distributes the
channel to over 785,000 24-hour homes in Southern Africa and over
24,000 hotel rooms in Africa. The channel is also available in a
further three million homes across Africa through its distribution
with TV Africa.
Notes
to Editors:
World
Summit - Johannesburg 2002
Times in GMT below. Please note times are subject to last minute
schedule changes to accommodate breaking news, please check the
website to verify www.bbcworld.com.
Earth
Summit: The Debate
PART 1
Saturday August 31st @ 1410, 2110
Sunday September 1st @ 0910, 1710
PART 2
Saturday September 7th @ 1410, 2110
Sunday September 8th @ 0910, 1710
State
of the Planet, 3 programmes (NOT AVAILABLE IN PAS 2 REGION)
Saturday August 10th, 17th and 24th @ 14.10, 21.10
Sunday August 11th, 18th, 25th @ 09.10, 17.10
Developing
World, 9 programmes
Thursday July 4th - August 1st @ 21.30
Friday July 5th - August 2nd @ 01.30, 09.30
and will resume at the same times from September 12th -October 4th
Life,
5 programmes, weeks 32-36
Thursday August 8th - September 5th @ 21.30
Friday August 9th - September 6th @ 01.30, 09.30
Earth
Report's sister series, Life, shows how different countries, communities
and individuals are responding to the challenges of globalisation
at the start of the 21st century, and the impact of their responses
on national and international targets for greater equality, democracy,
peace, good governance, environmental sustainability, progress and
social justice worldwide. Will the delegates at this year's World
Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg this year cut
through the controversy surrounding the development debate, or merely
add to it? This third Life series features five programmes taking
a critical look at the development debate since the Rio Summit:
is it possible for poor countries to trade their way out of poverty
or are the rules rigged in the rich world's favour? Should aid donors
channel more money to countries whose inefficient and often corrupt
governments have already failed their own people? Why are 170 million
children around the world employed in hazardous work when their
governments have committed to international agreements about children's
welfare?
Earth Report -each week
Monday @21.30 & repeated
Tuesday @ 01.30, 09.30
Saturday @ 18.30
Sunday @ 07.30
The 6th series of TVE's flagship programme, Earth Report, features
a 21-programme countdown to the World Summit on Sustainable Development
in Johannesburg. Aiming to provide viewers not with answers but
with informed insights into the issues at stake at Johannesburg,
the programmes cover a wide range of topics relating to sustainable
development; from over-fishing off the coast of Morocco to climate
change in Alaska, from wildlife smuggling in Brazil to sanitation
problems and solutions in India. One programme asks what sustainable
development actually is, and talks to leading development commentators
Ian Johnson of the World Bank and Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University
whether sustainable development can bring about real change.
Children of Rio- Part 1
Monday, September 2nd @ 21.30 GMT and repeated
Tuesday @ 01.30, 09.30
Saturday @ 18.30
Sunday @ 07.30
Part 2 September 9th @ same times.
In
1992, as decision-makers prepared for the planet's largest ever
gathering of politicians at the Earth Summit in Rio, TVE turned
its back on the technocrats and environmentalists, and chose instead
to focus on eleven babies from Brazil, China, Papua New Guinea,
Norway, the USA, Latvia, Venezuela, India, the UK, and South Africa
(one black and one white baby) born in that year. The idea was straightforward:
if the Rio Summit was to mean anything at all to ordinary people,
surely it would be found in the lives of the eleven babies and their
families? This year they are ten years old and have their own stories
to tell. They meet:
Erdo growing up in the lawless northern regions of Kenya in a Turkana
tribe, his family living with the threats of droughts, banditry,
and rampaging elephants.
Kay Kay born in the sprawling Chinese city of Guangzhou, one of
the world's fastest growing cities of 65 million people.
Panjarvanam raised in a family dependent on the local firework factory
in one of India's poorest provinces, Tamil Nadu.
Hayley born to a traditional coal-mining family in the north of
England.
Vizumsi and Justin born into widely different circumstances in South
Africa.
I Wish
- vignettes airing throughout the schedule in August & September
In the lead up to the earth summit in Johannesburg, 21 individuals
from a cross-section of global society were given a unique platform
to send their messages to the world leaders and decision-makers
attending the summit. In these 21 fifteen second spots, people from
all walks of life and on all continents a voice to answer the questions:
"If you had the chance to send out to the world your wish for
a better world, what would that wish be?" We meet the Zimbabwe
villager who wishes the government would control the elephants trampling
her field, the Maldivean president who wishes the world would wake
up to the threats facing small island nations, Jane Goodall, the
chimpanzee expert, who wants human rights to be extended to our
fellow apes, and the Stockholm housewife who wishes the governments
would agree to impose a tiny tax to help the poor countries conserve
their most endangered ecosystems. The 21 spots will be broadcast
first on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World.
Johannesburg
2002: The World Summit on Sustainable Development (also known as
Rio + 10), will be a summit gathering from 26th August - 4th September
2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa, of world governments, concerned
citizens, United Nations agencies, multilateral financial institutions
and other major actors to assess global change since the historic
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED),
of 1992. For further details go to http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/flat/
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