State of the Planet conference 2010- New Delhi
The India part of the sixth State of the Planet conference will be hosted by TERI, on March 25, 2010 at the Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi from 4.30 PM to 8:30 PM. The theme for the session is "What is the basis of the Global Climate deal?". The deliberations from this session will be fed into the session on "CLIMATE CHANGE: What Would It Take to Complete the Climate Deal?" via live satellite link.
The conference is based at the Earth Institute, which has made significant advances in forwarding the research and education needed to address the
issues of sustainable development. Columbia University will be the central point for the event, and then partner sites (TERI, New Delhi from India, London, Beijing and Nairobi) will receive live feeds. The conference will also be relayed live at various other sites like Amman, Cairo, Ibadan, Nigeria, Melbourne, Nairobi, Paris, Seoul, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, Tokyo. A detailed fact sheet of the program is attached for your kind perusal.
We expect over high level participation from across the globe including President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, United Mexican States (speaking from Mexico City); HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco (speaking from Monaco); HRH Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary-General''''s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development; Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General; Nitin Desai, Former UN Under-Secretary-General; Distinguished Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) (speaking from New Delhi); Kirit Parikh, Former Member, Planning Commission, Government of India; Chairman, Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) (speaking from New Delhi); Devin Narang, Chairman and Managing Director, Freeplay Group (speaking from New Delhi); Sanjeev Chadha, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo India; Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); UN Under-Secretary-General (speaking from Nairobi); Peter Wierenga, Executive Vice President and CEO, Philips Research and many more.
The conference is based at the Earth Institute, which has made significant advances in forwarding the research and education needed to address the
issues of sustainable development. Columbia University will be the central point for the event, and then partner sites (TERI, New Delhi from India, London, Beijing and Nairobi) will receive live feeds. The conference will also be relayed live at various other sites like Amman, Cairo, Ibadan, Nigeria, Melbourne, Nairobi, Paris, Seoul, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, Tokyo. A detailed fact sheet of the program is attached for your kind perusal.
We expect over high level participation from across the globe including President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, United Mexican States (speaking from Mexico City); HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco (speaking from Monaco); HRH Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary-General''''s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development; Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General; Nitin Desai, Former UN Under-Secretary-General; Distinguished Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) (speaking from New Delhi); Kirit Parikh, Former Member, Planning Commission, Government of India; Chairman, Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) (speaking from New Delhi); Devin Narang, Chairman and Managing Director, Freeplay Group (speaking from New Delhi); Sanjeev Chadha, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo India; Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); UN Under-Secretary-General (speaking from Nairobi); Peter Wierenga, Executive Vice President and CEO, Philips Research and many more.