World Environment Day (June 4th) Public Lecture
The Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Achim Steiner will be at the University of Auckland on World Environment Day, 4 June. He will be holding a public lecture in the Maidment Theatre.
Come and hear his thoughts on the interplay of environments and economies globally.
Are we glimpsing the emergence of a green global economy?
A public lecture by Achim Steiner
The transition to a low-carbon global economy will be challenging, but it is possible. It will require well-coordinated, effective, creative, far reaching and equitable policies, both globally and at a national and sub-national levels. In this talk, Achim Steiner will examine some of the key challenges facing the global community as it seeks to build a more intelligent development trajectory for the 21st century - one that at its heart factors in the real economic costs and opportunities of better environmental management of the Earth's nature based resources and natural assets, including as they relate to energy and global greenhouse gas emissions. The question of agriculture and issue of biofuels are among those challenges and opportunities, as they relate to food security, livelihoods and options for a far less carbon-intensive future for the six, rising to nine, billion people in this world.
Date: 4 June 2008
Time: 1.00 - 2.00pm
Venue: Maidment Theatre, The University of Auckland
For any enquiries, please email contact@ewb.org.nz
Hope to see you there!