Event:Reconciling poverty eradication and quality of the environment. What are the innovative solutions.

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Veolia Environment Institute and the Agence Française de Développement present the international conference:

Reconciling poverty eradication and quality of the environment: What are the innovative solutions ?

This event is being held June 27 & 28, 2011 at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris, France under the patronage and in the presence of Christine Lagarde, Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry.

Background

In a world where :

• poverty andenvironmental damageincreasingly go hand in hand throughout the world...
  
• the global population could reach 9 billion, including 2 billion in Africa...
  
• There is a need to intensify the fight against poverty so that each man and woman can have access to food, education, housing, medical care and essential goods : water, energy, electricity…
  
• All the more since the environmental degradation will affect the most vulnerable first.

A few months ahead of G20, under French presidency and one year before Rio+20, the conference will bring together French and international high level speakers, well-known in the scientific, political, non-profit and academic world.

Participants:

• Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize, Founder, Green Belt Movement
• Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Economist, Harvard University
• Antoine Frérot, Chairman and CEO, Veolia Environnement
• Trevor Manuel, Minister in the Presidency, National Planning Commission, Republic of South Africa
• Julia Marton-Lefèvre, General manager, IUCN
• Maria Nowak, President ADIE, President European Microfinance Network
• Kandeh Yumkella, General manager, UNIDO
• Dov Zerah, General manager, Agence Française de Développement
  

For more information, please click here: Reconciling Poverty Eradication and Quality of the Environment