SESEC

SESEC VIII

“Integrated local solutions building global green economy”
 

Day 1 (Nov. 10th, 2009)

Session I - Green Economy and Job Creation (Part A)

  • How to boost the economy and job creation through local sustainable development in public-private partnerships

    • Dr. Alain Jenny, President, SESEC, Lausanne, Switzerland (pdf)

  • Progresses and challenges in Chinese low carbon economy

    • Dr. Shuaihua Cheng, China Programme Officer, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Geneva, Switzerland (pdf1 and pdf2)

  • Which society after the crisis?

    • Prof. Dr. Claudia Bettiol, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy (pdf)

  • Sustainable job creation for capacity building and strategic competitiveness – the Sierra Leone situation

    • Dr. Alpha Grace, Executive Director, Centre for socio-cultural development, Corcelles, Switzerland (pdf)

  • DESI Powers EmPower partnership program in one hundred villages in Bihar

    • Dr. Hari Sharan, President, Dasag Energy Engineering Ltd, Seuzach, Switzerland (pdf)

  • Cooperation between Burkina Faso and Switzerland for a better irrigation of new plantations through solar energy

    • Prof. Justin Koutaba, Minister, Ministry of Employment and Youth, Burkina Faso (pdf)

Session II - Green Economy and Job Creation (Part B)

  • The first results of “Obamas’s Plan” to boost the economy through environment

    • Physicist Jeff Newman, California Business, Transportation & Housing Agency (BTH), USA (pdf)

  • Fuel4Change: changing the game in Afghanistan – Biofuel opportunities to solve the opium poppy problem

    • Mr. Matthew Simmons, Adjunct Prof. San Diego State University California USA & Learning Manager, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland (pdf)

  • New Visible Towns – a sustainable development model of small-medium municipalities both in and outside Italy

    • Ing. Sara Valentini, New Visible Towns Association, Rome, Italy (pdf)

  • Scoping investigation for the water resources of Varto in Turkey

    • Prof. Dr. Alper Baba, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey (pdf)

  • Auroville, a model of sustainable development city

    • Mr. Pashi Kapur, Auroville, India (pdf)

  • Advocacy and the role of Civil Society in coordinated solutions. Reflections following the WHO 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion

    • Dr. Prof. Sonia Heptonstall, Solar Cookers International (SCI), Representative to the UNECOSOC, Geneva, Switzerland (pdf)


Talks were moderated by Dr. Kaj Noschis, Partner, Colloquia, Lausanne, Switzerland

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