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10th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum
Globalization and the Environment: Mobilizing Finance for Climate Change
International Environmental Governance and the United Nations Reform
20-22 February 2008 | Principality of Monaco
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Highlights from Thursday, 21 February
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Delegates to the tenth Special Session of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GCSS-10/GMEF) continued ministerial consultations on the theme of mobilizing finance to meet the climate challenge. The Committee of the Whole (COW) approved draft decisions on the UNEP Medium-term Strategy 2010-2013 (MTS), and the sustainable development of the Arctic region.
Photo: Conference center lobby
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Ministerial Consultations: Mobilizing Finance to Meet the Climate Challenge
Are the financial markets ready to mobilize the needed investment? |
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| Bert Koenders, Minister for Development Cooperation, the Netherlands (left), moderated the panel discussion. |
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| Neil Eckert, CEO, Climate Exchange PLC, Robert Tacon, Head, Risk Management, Standard Chartered Bank, Chairman, UNEP Finance Initiative, and Olav Kjørven, Director, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP |
Ministerial Consultations: Mobilizing Finance to Meet the Climate Challenge
Mobilizing capital - the local perspective |
| Apirak Kosayodhin, Bangkok Governor, Thailand (center), described the city's climate change strategy, which envisages a 15% reduction of GHG emissions by 2012.
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| Apirak Kosayodhin, Bangkok Governor, Thailand, UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner, and GC President Richardo Dobles |
| Harish Hande, Chairman, SELCO Solar Light, described how his company's experience in promoting rural electrification in India shatters the myth that the poor cannot afford clean energy options, such as solar power. |
| Barbara James, CEO, Henshaw Capital Partners, Fernando Ibanez, CEO, Saguapace, Bolivia, and Andrew Etwire, CEO, Power World Limited, Ghana |
| Photos from the Ministerial Roundtables |
| Janos Pasztor, Director, Environmental Management Group (second from right), moderated the session |
| Interactive dialogue on International Environmental Governance with MEA Secretariats. |
| Donald Cooper, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (center), advocated sector programmes involving all relevant stakeholders and called for national synergies. |
| Marco Gonzalez, Executive Secretary, Ozone Secretariat (center), described synergies between the UNFCCC and the Montreal Protocol. |
| Bakary Kante, UNEP, and COW Chair Jan Dusík, Czech Republic |
| Press conference on the Climate Neutral Network and launch of the website |
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