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The Institute has also a programme for a series of Conferences on Future Environmental Trends internationally. The events are organised jointly with qualified partners from the academic world with the aim of creating a forum for discussion and raising awareness on the major themes defined by the Institute among university circles, institutional organisations and civil society.

June 2011: "Reconciling poverty eradication and quality of the environment: what are the innovative solutions?"

Credit: Jean-Marie Ramès

June 27th-28th, 2011 - Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France

Partner: Agence Française de Développement (French Development Agency)

Patronage: French Ministry for the Economy, Finance and Industry

Associated partners: IUCN, WBCSD, IDGM (IDDRI-FERDI), Chair HEC Social Business, Enterprise and Poverty, IPRCC

In a world where:

  • Poverty and environmental damage increasingly go hand in hand throughout the world...
  • The global population could reach 10 billion...
  • There is a need to intensify the fight against poverty so that each man and woman can have access to food, education, housing, medical care and essential goods: water, energy, electricity...
  • All the more since the environmental degradation will affect the most vulnerable first.

The Conference which gathered more than 600 participants and 60 speakers, gave an opportunity to:

  • Raise awareness regarding the new constraints and opportunities resulting from a combined analysis of poverty and the environment.
  • Share concrete experiences in various geographical, economic and political contexts.
  • Provide a platform for an in-depth dialogue between governments, decision-makers, scientific experts, NGOs, businesses, multilateral institutions, and representatives of civil society.
  • Promote more extensively quality scientific research and field experience so that those who are interested in dialogue and are in search of clear guidelines can be provided with sounder factual foundations.

With the exceptional participation of Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize, Founder, Green Belt Movement and Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Economist, Harvard University.

And many other high-level speakers such as: David Bresch, Head Sustainability and Risk Management,Swiss Re, Antoine Frérot, Chairman and CEO, Veolia Environnement, Philippe Kourilsky, Professor, Collège de France, Trevor Manuel, Minister in the Presidency, National Planning Commission, Republic of South Africa (represented by Mr. Naidoo), Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director general, IUCN, Maria Nowak, President ADIE, President European Microfinance Network, Ismail Serageldin, Director, Biblioteca Alexandria, Bjorn Stigson, President, WBCSD (represented by Mr. Engel), Kandeh Yumkella, Director general, UNIDO (represented by Mr. Dhaoui), Dov Zerah, Director General, Agence Française de Développement, etc.

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Other Events organized by the Institute

Besides its programme of International Conferences, the Institute organises other events, workshops or seminars in China, India and France. These events aim at maintaining its links with international partners and at providing new platforms for exchanges and knowledge sharing.

Events in China

Post-conference Workshops in China

The Institutes launches a new initiative to pursue its collaboration with Chinese partners after the organization of its 5th Future environmental trends Conference. It organizes, jointly with the Center for Human and Economic Development Studies, School of economics, Peking University, a series of workshop to engage the dialogue between Chinese and international experts.

Workshop 3 "Sustainable Cities"

October 16th, 2010 in Beijing, China

Workshop 2 « Poverty and the Environment »

July 3rd, 2010 in Beijing, China

Workshop 1 « Carbon Tax »

March, 13, 2010 in Beijing, China

Events in India

Workshop in Mumbai - September 28th-29th 2010, India

Launch of a new research project on "The future of carbon financing schemes for sustainable transport: Mumbai paves the way ».

Initiated by several partners*, the project aims at designing a realistic method to facilitate the access of developing cities to carbon finance instruments for the transport sector.

* Institut Veolia Environnement, Veolia Transport, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) and Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI).

Estimating carbon footprint of urban household energy use in India and China

Dissemination workshop on the results of « Estimating carbon footprint of urban household energy use in India and China", on February 4th , 2010 in Delhi, India.

Proposed jointly with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), as a side event of the 2010 Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, the workshop gave the opportunity to the experts implicated in the research study, to present the methodology and the results for the Indian city (Jaipur) - (Dr. Prodipto Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, TERI, Ms. Akshima T Ghate, Area Convenor, Transport and Urban Development Area, TERI et Gaëll Mainguy, Director of Scientific Publications, Institut Veolia Environnement).

Events in France

Colloquium

Colloquium "Ecosophies: philosophy put to the proof of ecology"
May 2008

Past conferences

October 2009 « Trade, urbanization and the environment »

October 28-30, 2009 - Beijing, P. R. China

Co-organizer : Center for Human and Economic Development Studies, School of Economics, Peking University.
Supporting partners: French Environment and Energy management Agency (ADEME, France), School of Economics, PKU, China Society for World Trade Organization Studies, Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Institute for International Economic Research, National Development and Reform Commission (China)

The conference has addressed the interactions of both trade and urbanization processes with environmental protection imperatives. It has focused on the case of China, a country experiencing major transitions: an accelerated economic growth, a rapid urbanization - it is estimated that more than 200 new cities will sprout up between now and 2020 - while dealing with environmental resources that are threatened and unevenly distributed.

The conference, with the support of Chinese official organizations, has led to a strong interest from scientific circles, decision makers, and the media. 60 Chinese and international (from North America and Europe) speakers have shared their analysis on Chinese priorities while giving broader perspectives on these global issues.

The speeches from Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize), Qiu Baoxing (Vice-minister of Construction in China), Ra Jin-Goo (First Vice-Mayor of Seoul) and Rajendra K. Pachauri (Chairman of the IPCC) have drawn particular attention.

Concept note and final programme of the event

Presentations will be soon available online.

The Institute strengthens its collaboration with Chinese partners through a series of post-conference workshops in Beijing. For more information, please see the dedicated section "Other events" below.

October 2007: « Climate 2050: Technology and policy solutions »

Climate 2050-Pierre-Marc Johnson

Pierre-Marc Johnson

October 24-26, 2007, Montréal, Canada

With high level panels composed of North American and international experts coming from academic, public and private organisations, the conference has brought together nearly 400 participants from 12 countries. The event has given a lot of opportunity to speakers to share their practices and raise awareness to the general public on technological innovation in key sectors (CCS, transport, buildings, biofuels, etc.) but also on progress and expectations in terms of climate policies.

Partners : Pew Center on Global Climate Change (USA),
National Round Table on the Economy and the Environment (Canada)

For complete information on this conference, please click here

December 2006 : « Energy, environment and development: analysing Opportunities for reducing poverty »

December 14-16th, 2006 - Bangalore, India

Partners: TERI,The Energy and Resources InstituteIDDRI, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations


For complete information (program, videos, summary, etc.) on this conference, please click here

January 2006 : «Public services and Management: designs, issues and implications for local governance »

12-14th janvier 2006 - Toulouse, France

Partner: IDEI, Institut D'Economie Industrielle

For complete information on this conference, please click here

June 2004: «Education, Environment and Health »

June 17-18th, 2004 - Paris, France

Partners: Institut Pasteur, Pasteur Mediavita

For complete information on this conference, please click here