SusCon 2010 organisers by a partnership of three renowned organisations, who have each worked in the
field of organic agriculture and sustainability for more than twenty years :
COLABORA was founded in 2006 by the agronomist and journalist Bernward Geier, who worked before 18 years as Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
the organic world umbrella organisation.
COLABORA works internationally focusing on environment issues, sustainability in all its facets as well as on ecological agri- and food culture. The three main working fields are:
COMMUNICATION (e.g. film projects, print media, lectures and moderation)
EVENTS (e.g. conferences, lecture tours of VIP Speakers and (cultural -) events)
CONSULTANCY (e.g. bio-dynamic project in Greece, organic marketing and One World Award)
Bernward Geier, Director Colabora:
"We have to use the opportunity of the UN year of biodiversity to advance substantially with the worldwide protection of biodiversity. Bringing together the international business sector with a broad range of other public and private sector stakeholders will the conference offer an important and inspiring opportunity towards this goal."
For more than 20 years ALTOP has been one of the leading publishers on ecological subjects. It created ECO-World as a forum to promote the long term importance of ecological products and services and now operates for and together with consumers and companies. Providing them with the latest information, background knowledge and highly professional communication services, ALTOP supports their market penetration.
Fritz Lietsch, Director ALTOP:
"As climate change is now in the mind of decision-makers worldwide, we concentrate all our media- and communication-power to show the even bigger importance of biodiversity for mankind.
As the leading business magazine for CSR we want to show the enormous potential for companies by taking responsibility for biodiversity. We also want to demonstrate the impact on business and even the chance of profit. Therefore, we are happy that we can provide SusCon 2010 with a leading international conference that will help to promote the alliance between business and biodiversity.
Furthermore, we will continue our work with our business and biodiversity campaign, which runs from 2010 to 2012."
Organic Services is an international consultancy firm based in Munich, Germany with a global network of partners based in India, China, the US and Brazil. The core competence of Organic Services lies within organic agriculture, organic aquaculture, biodiversity and the food, and cosmetic sectors. Organic Services is also engaged in the development of sustainable agro-energy and social business projects and is co-founder of Soil & Energy gGmbH.
Organic Services GmbH has already organised several very successful, high profile international conferences, including the International Sustainability Conference, in Nuremberg, Germany (2009); the Natural Cosmetics Conference, in Nuremberg, Germany (2008 and 2009), the International Conference on “Organic Sector Development in the Central/Eastern Europe and Central Asia" in Tbilisi, Georgia (2009), the First IFOAM International Conference on Marketing of Organic and Regional Values, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany (2008), the India Organic Congress, Bangalore, India 2006 and the BioFach Congress in Nuremberg, Germany, annually since 2006.
Udo Censkowsky, Director Organic Services:
"People cannot rely only on the inter-governmental political dialogue for example on climate mitigation or biodiversity protection. In fact civil society is called to take concrete actions itself. As organiser of SusCon 2010 conference we want to be not only an information platform but also a laboratory incubating more sustainability in the business world."
COLABORA was founded in 2006 by the agronomist and journalist Bernward Geier, who worked before 18 years as Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
the organic world umbrella organisation.
Bernward Geier, Director Colabora:
For more than 20 years ALTOP has been one of the leading publishers on ecological subjects. It created ECO-World as a forum to promote the long term importance of ecological products and services and now operates for and together with consumers and companies. Providing them with the latest information, background knowledge and highly professional communication services, ALTOP supports their market penetration.
Fritz Lietsch, Director ALTOP:
Organic Services is an international consultancy firm based in Munich, Germany with a global network of partners based in India, China, the US and Brazil. The core competence of Organic Services lies within organic agriculture, organic aquaculture, biodiversity and the food, and cosmetic sectors. Organic Services is also engaged in the development of sustainable agro-energy and social business projects and is co-founder of Soil & Energy gGmbH.
Udo Censkowsky, Director Organic Services: