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World
Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) International Eminent Persons
Meeting on Interlinkages Bridging Problems and Solutions to Work Towards
Sustainable Development |
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Working Group Highlights |
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Working Group 1: Linkages between Chapters of Agenda 21 |
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Working Group Chair Jan Pronk, Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, the Netherlands |
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Presenter
Akiko Domoto, Governor of Chiba Prefecture ([email protected])
gave a presentation on International
Environmental Governance Its Impact on Social and Human Development
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Bradnee Chambers, Fellow, UNU Institute of Advanced Studies ([email protected]), with Presenter Gary Sampson, Chair of International Economic Relations, UNU/IAS ([email protected]) |
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Frank
Loy, Former US Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs ([email protected])
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Lilia
Casanova, Deputy Director, UNEP-IETC Shiga Office ([email protected])
and John
W. Sewell, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
([email protected])
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Chair Jan Pronk |
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Hafiz
Pasha, Assistant Secretary-General, Director of the UNDP Regional
Bureau for Asia and the Pacific ([email protected])
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Working Group 1 |
| Working Group 2: Linkages between MEAs |
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Working Group Chair Delmar Blasco, Secretary General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands ([email protected]) |
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Presenters Mukul Sanwal, Outreach Officer, UNFCCC Secretariat ([email protected]) discussed a Framework for MEA Cooperation and Felix Dodds gave a presentation on Inter-linkages Among Multilateral Environmental Agreements |
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Hiroko
Shimizu, Project Assistant, Global Environment Information Center (GEIC),
UNU ([email protected]) and
Presenter Carlene Van Toen, Project Research Assistant, GEIC/UNU ([email protected])
gave a presentation on
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Presenter
Ambassador Richard Elliot Benedick, Joint Global Change Research Insitute
([email protected])
discussed Environmental
Decision Making and Multilateral Environmental Agreements
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Lee Kimball, Independent
Consultant and representing LEAD International ([email protected])
and Dr. Kiliparti Ramakrishna, Deputy Director, The Woods Hole Research
Center ([email protected])
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Kimo
Goree, IISD (left), during the Working Group discussions
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Lee
Kimball, Dr. Kiliparti Ramakrishna and Hilary French, Director of the
Global Governance Project, Worldwatch Institute ([email protected])
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Taka
Hiraishi, Senior Consultant, IGES (left)
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Working
Group 3: Strategies for Sustainable Development
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Working Group Chair Norman Myers, Honorary Visiting Fellow, Green College, Oxford University, ([email protected]) |
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Presenter
Jerry Velasquez, Coordinator, UNU/GEIC ([email protected])
discussed Inter-Linkages
- A Strategy for Bridging Problems and Solutions to Work towards Sustainable
Development
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Presenter
Yoginder Alagh, Former Minister of Power, Science and Technology and
Planning of India, Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research
([email protected] or [email protected])
presented a Sustainable
Development Framework
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Presenter
Kazuo Matsushita, Acting Vice-President, Institute for Global Environmental
Strategies ([email protected])discussed
an Asia-Pacific
Environmental Innovation Strategy Project
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Professor
Hisakazu Kato, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University
([email protected]) (left) and Thangavel Palanivel, Fellow,
UNU Institute of Advanced Studies ([email protected])
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Presenter
Dr. Kim Semenovich Losev, Senior Scientist, VINITI, and Professor, Moscow
University ([email protected])
discussed Ecological
Issues and Sustainable Development Perspectives of Russia at the Beginning
of the 21st Century
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Working
Group 3
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Kazuo
Matsushita, Acting Vice-President, IGES, and Dr. Xia Guang, Director,
Policy Research Center, State Environmental Protection Administration
([email protected])
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Filbert
Kouassi Gleglaud, Counsellor, Embassy of Cote d'Ivoire ([email protected])
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| Related Links |
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 United
Nations University |
| Global
Environment Information Center |
| IISD
coverage of Workshop on Interlinkages, Synergies and Coordination among
MEAs 26-27 February 2001 |
| IISD
coverage of Interlinkages Conference 14-16 July 1999 |
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