Talk with Tom Buhrow, Anchor-Man and Presenter of "Tagesthemen", German Television. We offer you the interview in English and in German.German Version:
Tom Buhrow used to be the Correspondent of German Television ARD in Washington from 1992 until 2000 and again from 2002 until 2005. He knows the United States and the politics behind the scene as much as the mentalities represented and living in the society of America. Since 2005 Buhrow is the presented of Tagethemen, the daily political program in the German public channel ARD.
His job now is to focus on domestic and internatinal affairs at the same time. We met him in Hamburg, sitting outside and talking about the G8 summit that will take place theses days in Heiligendamm, in the northeast corner of the country.English Version:He also remembers quite well the election campaign in the nineties when George Bush sen. called Al Gore the "Ozone Man", humiliating the democrat politician for his engagement in environmental matters. Today George Bush jr. changes the direction of his father's climate politics - finally, Buhrow says, because of George W. Bush's interest for national energy independence.

In September he will present the Peace Talks in Osnabrück, Germany. Guests are Bianca Jagger and Jakob von Uexkuell both well known to the community of Club of Pioneers.

Bianca Jagger is a human rights campaigner for more than 25 years. Knowing that human rights and justice can not be seen apart from other urgent actual question she emphazises on the interdependance of these questions with the ones of sustainability and climate protection. Bianca Jagger’s commitment to justice and human rights issues was inevitable for she was born in Nicaragua, a country that endured almost 50 years of despotic dictatorship and has seen so much political upheaval. Nicaragua first taught her the meaning of social and economic injustice, inspiring her aspiration to be a social and human rights advocate. During the 1980s Bianca's work brought her to Central America to denounce human rights violations in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. In 1993, she traveled to the former Yugoslavia to document claims of mass rape of Bosnian women by Serbian forces as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing. As part of her continuing environmental efforts, Ms. Jagger has for the last decade been involved in efforts to save the indigenous population and protect the rain forests of Nicaragua, Brazil and other parts of Latin America. In 2004 Bianca received the Right Livelihood Award.We met Bianca Jagger at the opening of the World Future Council in Hamburg.

Bianca Jagger speaks out quite clearly: Chancellor Merkel has to urge all G8 member states at the summit in Heiligendamm to let come true their promise to spend 0,7% of their GDP for the developing world. “I know there is a connection between this matter and the protection of the environment”, the activist said. Bianca Jagger engages in human rights issues for the last 25 years. “Holding a Nicaraguan and a British Citizenship, having studied in France I was long-drawn to human-rights issues”, she says.Bianca Jagger came to the official opening of the World Future Council, a international group of scientists, politicians and people known in their societies. The Group with headquarter in Hamburg will focus on questions regarding climate change. “Hamburg will be affected by global warming pretty much”, Jakob von Uexkull says. Uexkull, is the founder of the World Future Council. He is known for founding the Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'.

Jakob von Uexkuell“To me it matters, that this new committee does not sit and talk but that it develops solutions that will set in practice by political leaders”, he says in the Interview with Club of Pioneers. This is why he emphasizes on three African countries that have already started to implement advises from the World Future Council in their political environmental agenda.Read the Call to Action of the World Future Council hereWe will show the interviews with Bianca Jagger and Jakob von Uexkuell soon in our Video Blog.