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3rd Implementation Cycle: Policy Session
4-15 May 2009
New York

In-session Activities

Learning Center

the learning center photographThe Learning Center is part of the official programme of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and runs parallel to the CSD plenary sessions. Its purpose is to provide teaching and training at a practical level on topics of relevance to the specific themes being considered by the CSD, as well as selective cross-cutting themes of sustainable development to further implementation of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI).

the learning center photographAll participants in CSD sessions are welcome to attend the courses, which are offered in three-hour sessions during regular meetings hours (10:00 to 13:00 and 15:00 to 18:00) in the United Nations conference area. Course instructors drawn from a variety of institutions use a wide range of instructional tools and approaches, including small working groups, case studies and lecture formats, and most courses include question and answer periods and interactive discussions. Participants have expressed enthusiasm for the Learning Center and feedback on individual courses has been positive.

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.