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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 |
Working Group Highlights |
Working Group 1: Linkages between Chapters of Agenda 21 |
Working Group Chair Jan Pronk, Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, the Netherlands |
Presenter
Akiko Domoto, Governor of Chiba Prefecture (len04354@nifty.com)
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 (chambers@ias.unu.edu), with Presenter Gary Sampson, Chair of International Economic Relations, UNU/IAS (gary.sampson@wto.org) |
Frank
Loy, Former US Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs (loyfrank@aol.com)
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Lilia
Casanova, Deputy Director, UNEP-IETC Shiga Office (lilia.casanova@unep.or.jp)
and John
W. Sewell, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
(jwsewell@starpower.net)
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Chair Jan Pronk |
Hafiz
Pasha, Assistant Secretary-General, Director of the UNDP Regional
Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (hafiz.pasha@undp.org)
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Working Group 1 |
Working Group 2: Linkages between MEAs |
Working Group Chair Delmar Blasco, Secretary General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (blasco@ramsar.org) |
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Presenters Mukul Sanwal, Outreach Officer, UNFCCC Secretariat (Msanwal@unfccc.int) discussed a Framework for MEA Cooperation and Felix Dodds gave a presentation on Inter-linkages Among Multilateral Environmental Agreements |
Hiroko
Shimizu, Project Assistant, Global Environment Information Center (GEIC),
UNU (Hshimizu@geic.or.jp) and
Presenter Carlene Van Toen, Project Research Assistant, GEIC/UNU (vantoen@hq.unu.edu)
gave a presentation on
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Presenter
Ambassador Richard Elliot Benedick, Joint Global Change Research Insitute
(richard.benedick@pnl.gov)
discussed Environmental
Decision Making and Multilateral Environmental Agreements
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Lee Kimball, Independent
Consultant and representing LEAD International (lkimball@igc.org)
and Dr. Kiliparti Ramakrishna, Deputy Director, The Woods Hole Research
Center (kramakrishna@whrc.org)
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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 (hfrench@worldwatch.org)
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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, (myers1n@aol.com) |
Presenter
Jerry Velasquez, Coordinator, UNU/GEIC (jerry@geic.or.jp)
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
(munsa@icenet.net or alagh@parlis.nic.in)
presented a Sustainable
Development Framework
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Presenter
Kazuo Matsushita, Acting Vice-President, Institute for Global Environmental
Strategies (matsushita@iges.or.jp)discussed
an Asia-Pacific
Environmental Innovation Strategy Project
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Professor
Hisakazu Kato, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University
(hkato@nomolog.nagoya-u.ac.jp) (left) and Thangavel Palanivel, Fellow,
UNU Institute of Advanced Studies (palani@ias.unu.edu)
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Presenter
Dr. Kim Semenovich Losev, Senior Scientist, VINITI, and Professor, Moscow
University (kim@viniti.msk.su)
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
(xiag@public.bta.net.cn)
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Filbert
Kouassi Gleglaud, Counsellor, Embassy of Cote d'Ivoire (Ticale@hotmail.com)
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Related Links |
Official website for the conference with background documents |
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 |