This event will organize a wide exchange of views between scientists coming from various disciplines and continents about what the lessons learnt, twenty years after Rio 92 and forty years after Stockholm 72 about three critical dimensions of the sustainability agenda: climate change, biodiversity and ecological services, urbanization and territorial development. The objective is to facilitate the emergence of a shared diagnosis about the reasons why transforming the various declarations, conventions and Protocols into practical policies remains an unfinished business and how to move forward in an adverse context of financial crisis and concerns about the consequences of economic globalization

11h00 – 12h30
Israel Klabin – FBDS
Isabelle This St Jean - Conseil régional de la région Ile de France – France

“The environment – development Gordian Knot forty years after”
Views from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America about the asymmetry, despite Stockholm – 72 and Rio 92, between the emergence of international architectures facilitating trade and capital flows and the failures in building powerful governance architectures for the major sustainability issues.

Emilio La Rovere, COPPE (Brazil)
Jean-Charles Hourcade CIRED, CNRS (France)
Priayadarshi Shukla, IIM (India)
Youba Sokona, OSS (Tunisia)

12h30 – 14h00: “Zero Growth, eco-development, sustainable development, green growth, de-growth; what is the question? Revisited discussion in the honor of Ignacy Sachs”

Jean-Charles Hourcade / Emilio La Rovere - introduction
Cristóvão Buarque, Senador (Brazil)

14h00 – 15h45 - “Think globally, act locally, from alerts to action in an untimely context”
This session will cover three main sustainability challenges:
- Climate change, from alerts to action
- Ecological services and “green economy”
- Poverty alleviation and inclusive development

Suzana Khan Ribeiro (Undersecretary of Green Economy – Environmental Secretary of the state of Rio)
Luiz Pinguelli – Brazilian Forum on Climate Change (Brazil)
Hervé Le Treut, CNRS, (France)
Luc Abbadie, CNRS, R2DS (France)
Souleymane KONATE (UICN Burkina Faso)

15h45 – 16h00 – Coffee Break

16h00 – 18h00  - “Time of maturity : articulating redirected global finance and local policies and initiatives for inclusive urbanization and territorial development”
This session will examine the necessary articulation between:
- Harnessing finance in an adverse context
- The role of cities and regions in re-directing development

Co-Chairs : Carlos Minc and Ile-de-France Region Representative

Participants:
Tom Heller (Stanford University, USA)
Jean Laterrasse (LVMT, France)
Andreas Schaefer, Cambridge Environmental Initiatives (University of Cambridge, UK)
Shobhakar Dhakal (NIES, Japan)
Sergio Besserman (Estado de Rio, Brazil)
Zou Ji (China)