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International Conference for a Green and Inclusive Economy

Date : 6th and 7th October 2015 Venue : CICG Geneva - Centre International de

Conférences Genève

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International Conference for a Green and Inclusive Economy

Day One – 6 October, 2015

9:00 – 09:30 Opening Session

Opening by Mikhail Gorbachev – Founding President of Green Cross International

Address by Esther Alder – Mayor of Geneva

(Video message, TBC) Doris Leuthard – Federal Councillor, Head of the Federal Department of

environment, transports, energy and communication

Ségolène Royal (TBC) – French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy

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MC Pierre Muller – Vice-President of Green Cross International

09:30 – 12:30 – Morning Session: Where we are now

What is the state of the world in environmental and social terms (focus on climate change) ?

Keynote Adresses :

Corinne Lepage – Former Member of the European Parliament, former Minister of the Environment

(France)

Jean Ziegler – Advisor to the United Nations Human Rights Council

Martin Lees – Rector Emeritus, University for Peace of the United Nations, former Secretary

General of the Club of Rome, founder of the China Council for International

Cooperation on Environment and Development

Peter Poschen – Director, Enterprises Department of the International Labour Office

Alexander Likhotal – President, Green Cross International

Coffee break provided by UNIGE

Roundtable Discussion :

Moderated by Fiona Harvey, Environment Reporter at The Guardian

Graeme Maxton – Secretary General, Club of Rome

Martin Beniston – Chair of Climate Research and Director of the Institute for Environmental

Sciences, University of Geneva

Mohan Munasinghe – Chairman, Munasinghe Institute for Development, and former Vice-President

of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Ivo Slaus – Honorary President of the World Academy of Art & Science

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

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14:00 – 17:00 Afternoon Session: Visions for the future

How can economies and societies operate within the boundaries of a finite planet ? How can a harmonious relationship between humanity and nature be reached ?

Keynote Adresses :

Bill Ritter – Former Governor of Colorado, USA, and Director, Center for the New Energy Economy

(CNEE) at Colorado State University

Franz Josef Radermacher – Founder of the Global Marshall Plan and Chairman, Research Institute

for Applied Knowledge Processing

Suren Erkman – Head of the Industrial Ecology Group at University of Lausanne

Michèle Sabban – Co-Founder and President, R20 Regions of Climate Action

Coffee break provided by UNIL

Roundtable Discussion

Moderated by Darius Rochebin, Swiss Television and Radio (RTS) Anchor

Roberto Peccei - Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Vice-President of the Club of Rome

Garry Jacobs – Chairman of the board and CEO of World University Consortium

Dimitri Zenghelis – Senior Visiting Fellow, Grantham Research Institute at the London School of

Economics

Adam Koniuszewski – Chief Operating Officer of Green Cross International

17:00 – 18:00 Reception provided by Mission of France (TBC)

18:00 – 20:00 – “The Pursuit of Endurance” produced by Luc Hardy

Special screening of the film at

18 :00, followed by a Q&A session

on climate change and the

ParisClimat / Cop21 Conference

with producer Luc Hardy, Martin

Beniston, Adam Koniuszewski and

a glaciologist from CNRS and

EDYTEM Laboratory Luc Moreau.

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Day Two – 7 October, 2015

9:00 – Opening Session

Adress by Senator Robert Cramer – Member of the Council of the States, former president of the State Council (Geneva)

9:30-12:30 – Morning Session: Action for a better future

What is already being done ? What existing initiatives can move us towards a better future ? The session focuses on the business case for sustainability, showcasing examples and success stories.

Keynote Adresses :

Daniel Rufenacht – Vice-President of Corporate Sustainability, Société Générale de Surveillance

Romain Ferrari – President, Fondation 2019, General Director of Ferrari SA

Dr. Somthai Wongcharoen – Founder, Wongpanit Group of Companies (Thailand)

Dennis McGinn – Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy (Energy, Installations, Environment)

Break

Roundtable Discussion :

Moderated by Steven Stone – Chief, Economics and Trade Branch,

United Nations Environement Programme

Walter Stahel – Founder and Director of the Product Life Institute, Geneva

Ernst von Weizsäcker – Co-President of the Club of Rome and Chair of the International Panel on

Sustainable Resource Use

Bertrand Gacon – President, Sustainable Finance Geneva, and Head of Impact Investing and SRI

at Lombard Odier

Nicolas Fleury – Acting Deputy Secretary General, International Organization for Standardization

(ISO)

12:30-14:00– LUNCH

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14:00 – 17:30 – Afternoon Session: Conclusions

What message, what lines of action, have emerged from these two days of discussion ? What is the

message to be brought to the Paris Climate COP ?

Keynote Adresses

Robert Tickner : Acting Under-Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red

Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Jean-Michel Cousteau – Founder, Ocean Futures Society, President of Green Cross France and

Territories

Bill Becker – Executive Director, U.S. Presidential Climate Action Project

Break

Roundtable Discussion :

Moderated by Adam Koniuszewski, Chief Operating Officer of Green Cross International

Brice Lalonde – Special Advisor on Sustainable Development to the United Nations Global

Compact

Xavier Lépine – Chairman of the Board, Groupe La Française

Bettina Laville – Committee 21 Founder and President of the Scientific Committee of the Club

France Développement Durable

Antoinette Guhl – Deputy Mayor of the City of Paris, Responsible for social business, the Circular

Economy and Social Innovation

Closing Session:

Mikhail Gorbachev - Founding President of Green Cross International  Luc Barthassat – State Councilor in charge of the Department of Environment, Transport and

Agriculture (Geneva)

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