Time |
Location |
Title/Sponsor |
Trainers |
Monday, 4 May 2009 |
10:00am - 1:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
No Course Scheduled |
|
3:00pm - 6:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
Climate Ethics: Implications for the CSD 17 Thematic Cluster
Sponsor:
Baha’i Int’l Community and Penn State University |
Mr. Peter Adriance
NGO Liaison, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is, US
Mr. Donald A. Brown
Associate Professor, Environmental Ethics, Science and Law, Penn State University
Ms. Marilyn Averill
Center for Science and Technology Policy research, University of Colorado at Boulder. |
Tuesday, 5 May 2009 |
10:00am - 1:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
Defining and Practicing Sustainable Production and Consumption in Food and Agriculture
Sponsor:
Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet), Energia, University of Massachusetts |
Mr. Greg Norris
Sylvatica
Prof. Jack Luskin
University of Massachusetts
Mr. Khamarunga G. Banda
Energia
Mr. Jeffrey Barber
Integrative Strategies Forum
|
3:00pm - 6:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
Production et consommation durables : de la théorie à la pratique
Sponsor:
Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie - OIF |
Mme Chantal Line Carpentier
Agent de développement, UNDESA
Mme Geneviève Verbrugge
Chargée de mission auprès du PNUE, France
Mme. Djaheezah Subratty
M. Christian Brodhag
Président du Groupe de travail de Marrakech Enjeux touristiques |
Wednesday, 6 May 2009 |
10:00am - 1:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
Ecosystem Services, markets and Sustainable Development
Sponsor:
USDA |
Mr. Al Todd
Assistant Director, Ecosystem Services & Markets, U.S. Forest Service
Ms. Brook Harker
Manager, Watershed Evaluation of BMPs (WEBs) project- Canada
Dr. Sylvana Li
Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Capacity Building and Development. In consultation with China Ministries of Environmental Protection, of Agriculture, of Water Resources, and Science and Technology and American Soybean Association
Ms. Lisa Duriancik
Coordinator, Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP, USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Dr. Jean Steiner
USDA, Agricultural Research Service.
Moderator: Mr. Felix Spinelli
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
|
3:00pm - 6:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
Pollinators and food security
Sponsor:
USDA |
Prof. Vernon G. Thomas
Professor of wildlife ecology and management at the University of Guelph, Canada
Ms. Linda Collette
Dept. Agriculture and Consumers Protection FAO
Ms. Laurie Davies Adams
Executive Director, Pollinator Partnership |
Thursday, 7 May 2009 |
10:00am - 1:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
Economic – Environmental accounting at the national level
Sponsor:
SD/DESA |
Ms. Alessandra Alfieri
SD/UNDESA
|
3:00pm - 6:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
Africa’s Ecological Footprint – Learning for National Development Strategies in a Resource Constrained World
Sponsor:
GTZ,GFN |
Mr. Mathis Wackernagel
Ph.D., is Executive Director of Global Footprint Network (GFN), Germany
Ms. Jennifer Mitchell
The Director of Strategic Initiatives, GFN, USA
Mr. Steven Goldfinger
Ph.D. is Senior Scientist at GFN, USA
Ms. Susanne Willner
GTZ, Germany
|
Friday, 8 May 2009 |
10:00am - 1:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
The Role of Biofuels in Sustainable Rural Development
Sponsor:
IUCN |
Professor Richard Ottinger
Chair of the Energy Law and Climate Change Specialty Group of IUCN’s Commission on Environmental Law, USA
Mr. Stephen Gitonga
Environment and Energy Group, Bureau of Development Policy, UNDP
Ms. Sabina Anokye Mensah
the GRATIS Foundation, Ghana
Ms. Gail Karlsson
Senior Policy Advisor, ENERGIA
|
3:00pm - 6:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
Dry-lands Ecosystem management and services
Sponsor: IUCN |
Dr. Joost Brouwer Member, IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management
Mr. Jonathan Davies Regional Drylands Coordinator for Eastern and Southern Africa, IUCN Regional Office, Kenya
|
Monday, 11 May 2009 |
10:00am - 1:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
Enhancing resiliency in drought
Sponsor: Government of Canada |
Mr. Trevor Hadwen
Agroclimate Specialist, National Agroclimate Information Service of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Dr Harvey Hill
Canada
Dr. Adrian Trotman
Head of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), Barbados
Dr. Valentina Davydova Belitskaya
Senior Manager of Meteorology and Observation Network in the National Weather Service of Mexico
Dr. Fernando González Villarreal
Professor at the Institute of the Coordination of Hydraulics, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
|
3:00pm - 6:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
Increasing water availability and sustainable use by comprehensive Assessment of water resources
Sponsor: IAEA |
Dr. Pradeep Aggarwal
Programme Manager , Water Resources, IAEA
Dr. Verne Schneider
Chief of International Water Resources Branch at the US Geological Survey
Dr. Holger Rogner
Programme Leader and Section Head, Planning and Economic Studies Section, Department of Nuclear Energy – IAEA
|
Tuesday, 12 May 2009 |
10:00am - 1:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
From Project to Self-Sustaining Business
Sponsor: SEED Initiative |
Ms. Heather Creech
Director, Global Connectivity, IISD
Ms. Helen Marquard
Executive Director, SEED Initiative
Mr. Ross Andrews
Head of Programme, SEED Initiative
|
3:00pm - 6:00pm |
Conf. Room C |
Innovative Finance of Public-Private Partnership and Donor Coordination ; a case of donor coordination in support of African enterprises
Sponsor: USAID/AfDB |
Mr. John Wasielewski
Director, Office of Development Credit, USAID
Mr. Rafael Jabba
Principal Investment Officer, Private Sector & Microfinance Department, AfDB.
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