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While most Bay Area residents could find Burlingame on a map, far fewer, one suspects, know much about the cityâs namesake. This year, the 200th anniversary of Anson Burlingameâs birth, provides a chance to become acquainted.
As an outspoken congressman, fervent abolitionist and groundbreaking diplomat, Burlingame dedicated his life to causes as significant now as two centuries ago. Indeed, Burlingame likely would have felt right at home today as he was in mid-19th century America, joining protests for racial justice, fair treatment of immigrants, equality and the sovereignty of nations.
In the mid-1800s, during the months leading up to the Civil War, Burlingame crisscrossed the country giving fearless and uncompromising orations against slavery at a time when, as his friend Mark Twain wrote, âit was neither very creditable nor very safe to hold such a creed.â
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The Malta Sustainability Forum, organised by APS Bank, is Malta’s most forward-thinking event on sustainability and contributes to pushing the debate to the front of Malta’s national priorities.
Following the success of its first edition last year, the forum will return between 24 and 29 January 2021 for a six-day online event.
This new edition will be broadcast online in a TV studio format. There will be live interviews, keynote speeches, panel discussions and pre-recorded videos with sustainability experts and practitioners from all over the world. The public will have the possibility to interact through Q&As and live polls.
The Malta Sustainability Forum, organised by APS Bank, is Malta’s most forward-thinking event on sustainability and contributes to pushing the debate to the front of Malta’s national priorities. Following the success of its first edition last year, the forum will return between January 24-29, 2021 for a six-day online event.
This new edition will be broadcast online in a TV studio format. There will be live interviews, keynote speeches, panel discussions and pre-recorded videos with sustainability experts and practitioners from all over the world. The public will have the possibility to interact through Q&As and live polls.
‘The Time is Now’ is the overarching theme of the Forum. It has the objective to highlight the critical need to accelerate and amplify our efforts to deliver towards the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It will bring together more than 70 international and local speakers through 10 different modules targeting various groups, from the ge