Partnerships
Fair: Population, Environment and Sustainable Development: ICPD
at 10 |
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Side
Event: Sustainable Water and Energy Technology for
Change in Developing Countries: The Potential of
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)--organized
by the Government of Mauritius for the Alliance of
Small Island States |
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Moderator
Al Binger, Director of the University of the
West Indies Center for Environment and
Development, Kingston Jamaica, and Panelists
(in no particular order): Robert
Nicholson,
Sea Solar Power, Maryland, US, Harno
Uehara,
Saga University, Institute of Ocean Energy,
Saga, Japan, Joseph Haung, US Department of
Energy, Washington DC, and George
Lockwood,
Solar Ocean Energy, California, US |
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Special
Event: Experiences with an Ecosystem Based
Approach in Integrated Water Resources
Management--organized by the Government of Japan,
Ramsar and the Government of Switzerland |
Tomohiro
Shishime, Director of the Ground Water
Office, Ministry of Environment, Japan,
discusses case studies on sound water
management in upstream forest, river basin
wetland (left), Beat Nobs, Swiss
Agency for the Environment, Forests and
Landscape discusses the value of forests and
other ecosystems in water management, Achim
Steiner, Director General of IUCN
moderates the event, and Peter
Bridgewater, Secretary General, Ramsar
Convention, discusses the importance and
values of wetlands: the future of the Ramsar
Convention as a major water convention |
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Special Event: SEED initiative: Supporting
entrepreneurs for environment and development |
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Klaus
Töpfer,
Executive Director, UNEP, Lord Holme, Chair,
Center for the Advancement of Sustainable
Development Partnerships, Felix Dodds,
Executive Director, Stakeholder Forum for Our
Common Future, Jürgen
Trittin, Federal Ministry for the Environment,
Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety,
Germany |
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Special
Event: Lessons Learned from Local Leaders:
Implementation of Long-Term Initiatives in a Short
Term Job--organized by the World Bank |
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CSD Chair and Norwegian Environment
Minister Børge Brende gives an introductory
statement during the side event |
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Ian
Johnson, Vice President,
Environmentally and Socially
Sustainable Development, World Bank,
and
Shoji Nishimoto, Director,
Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP |
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Miscellaneous
Photos |
Major
groups meeting |
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