Archive for the 'Sustainability and Climate change' Category

Feb 08 2010

Mohan Munasinghe

2007 Joint Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Vice Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Prof. Mohan Munasinghe is Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute of Development (MIND), Colombo; Director-General of the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) and Distinguished Professor at the University of Manchester; and Honorary Senior Advisor to the Sri Lanka Government. As Vice-Chairman of the United Nations IPCC, Professor Munasinghe shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace, for his work on global warming and sustainable development.

“Prof. Munasinghe is a multi international prize winner for his research and its applications”
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Nov 18 2009

Rigoberta Menchú Tum

1992 Nobel Prize Winner and Human Rights Activist

rigoberta-menchu-tumRigoberta Menchú Tum is a 1992 Nobel Prize Winner and Human Rights Activist. She is a renowned leading advocate of Indian rights and ethno-cultural reconciliation, not only in Guatemala, but in the Western Hemisphere generally, and her work has earned her several international awards.

“Rigoberta represents the dynamic development of international legal norms”

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Nov 11 2009

Louis Palmer

Swiss Adventurer & Global Warming Speaker, Humanitarian & Inventor & Creator of the Solartaxi

louis-palmerLouis Palmer, a Swiss school teacher, made world history as the first man who has ever circumnavigated the world with a car powered by renewable energy. His message has reached more than 700 million people all over the world. The tour’s mission was to spread knowledge about the dangers of global warming and to demonstrate to the world that solutions are available to combat global warming. He is definitely a man with a mission.

Around the world using solar power: 53451 km through 38 countries (2007 – 2008)
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Sep 30 2009

Julian Caldecott

Ecologist, Conservationist, Environment and Climate Change Expert, and Writer

julian-calciecottJulian Caldecott has spent more than 20 years promoting biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability around the world. Major themes in his work include integrating development and conservation, promoting sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity and ecosystems, and exploring ways to finance conservation sustainably. In recent months, he has assessed a five-year EC project on coastal ecosystem conservation in Thailand, and has been writing and editing books for UNEP.

“An ecologist on a mission”
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Sep 28 2009

Prof. Guy Sorman

One of the leading European liberal economists, Global adviser for the President of South Korea and Chair the India France economic council

prof-guy-sormanProf. Guy Sorman is considered one of the leading European liberal economists. He has held several public offices, including advisor to the prime minister of France (1995-1997), Member of the National Commission for Human Rights and deputy mayor of Boulogne (since 1995), near Paris. In 2008, he was appointed as Global adviser for the President of South Korea. Since 2000 he chairs the India France economic council, since 2007 a syndicated columnist for Project Syndicate and since 2009 he is the President of the Boulogne – Billancourt Economic Council.

“A leading French thinker”
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Aug 31 2009

Dr. Kirsty Duncan

One of the Nobel Prize-winning Canadians on the IPCC, Expert on Pandemic Influenza

kirsty-duncanDr. Kirsty Duncan is internationally recognized as a leading expert in the area of pandemic influenza, environmental change, and the impact on human health. In 2008, Dr. Duncan was formally recognized as one of the Nobel Prize winning Canadians on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She is a professor of Health Studies at the University of Toronto and is the current MP for the Liberal Party of Canada in the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North.

“A leading expert on health issues”

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Aug 12 2009

Dr. Malcolm McIntosh FRSA

Author & Expert on Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability

mcintosh-frsaDr. McIntosh is Professor of Human Security and Sustainable Enterprise and Director of the transdisciplinary Applied Research Centre in Human Security (ARCHS) at the University of Coventry. He is founder of the international, transdisciplinary, multistakeholder Roundtables on Sustainable Enterprise and ARCHS’ new MAs in Sustainable Enterprise and Human Security run in partnership with The Eden Project, England; the Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; and the UN University, Japan.

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Jul 03 2009

Danah Zohar

Educator, Physicist, Philosopher and Management Strategist

danah-zohar-rDanah Zohar is best known for her ground-breaking work on the existence of spiritual intelligence, SQ.

She examines how SQ creates integrity, morality and individuality and the difference between competitors and winners.

Working in management education and consultancy, she was instrumental in Shell’s highly successful transformation in the United States.

Is spiritual intelligence the difference between winners and losers?
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Jun 12 2009

Bjørn Lomborg

Author and Leading Expert on Global Sustainability

bjorn-lomborg-rBjørn Lomborg is adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He is the organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which brings together some of the world’s top economists, including 5 Nobel laureates, to set priorities for the world. Time magazine named Lomborg one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2004. In 2008 he was named “one of the 50 people who could save the planet” by the UK Guardian; “one of the top 100 public intellectuals” by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazine; and “one of the world’s 75 most influential people of the 21st century” by Esquire.

As the only Dane in 2008, Bjørn now features on three international lists of the most influential people in the world

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Apr 08 2009

Ray Hammond

Europe’s Most Experienced Futurologist

Ray Hammond is Europe’s most experienced and most widely published Futurologist. For over 25 years he has researched, written and spoken about how future trends will affect society and business. As Global Warming and the threat to the Environment continues to occupy a priority position in the World’s agenda. Ray is one of a few commentators who are equipped to communicate how these massive challenges will affect our futures, the way we do business and the far reaching implications both socially, economically and politically.

A futurologist proved accurate by a quarter-century of predictions

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efore becoming a futurologist, Ray founded and led highly successful magazine publishing and advertising businesses in the UK, Europe and the USA before selling them advantageously. He is now a globally published novelist (Macmillan) whose three recent high-tech futuristic novels have won world-wide critical acclaim. Ray is a visiting lecturer at the Institute For The Future of Humanity, University of Oxford, a visiting lecturer at the London Business School and a contributing editor to the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, U.S.A. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (F.R.S.A.).
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