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Distinguished Speakers at the Congress
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Achim Steiner is executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 2006, former Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), a very influential and highly respected organization in the field of conservation, environment and natural resources management. As a Senior Policy Adviser of the IUCN Global Policy Unit in Washington D.C., he spearheaded the development of new partnerships between the environmental community and the World Bank and United Nations system. He has worked both at grassroots level as well as at the highest levels of international policy-making to address the interface between environmental sustainability, social equity and economic development.
Quotable quotes:
"Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieving economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.”
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Rajendra K. Pachauri has served as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002. Pachauri is the Director General of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, an institution devoted to researching and promoting sustainable development, and is also the chancellor of TERI University. He is also the chairman, governing council of the National Agro Foundation (NAF). He was recently awarded the second-highest civilian award in India, the Padma Vibhushan in January 2008 as well as the Padma Bhushan in January 2001. On December 10, 2007, Dr. Pachauri accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, along with former Vice President of the USA, Al Gore. Dr Pachauri’s wide-ranging expertise has resulted in his membership of various international and national committees and boards. |
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M. S. Swaminathan is known as the "Father of the Green Revolution in India", for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in India. He is the founder and Chairman of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. His vision is to rid the world of hunger and poverty. Dr. Swaminathan is an advocate of moving India to sustainable development, especially using environmentally sustainable agriculture, sustainable food security and the preservation of biodiversity, which he calls an "evergreen revolution". Dr. Swaminathan has worked worldwide in collaboration with colleagues and students on a wide range of problems in basic and applied plant breeding, agricultural research and development and the conservation of natural resources. |
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Wangari Maathai is an environmental and political activist. Wangari Maathai is internationally recognized for her persistent struggle for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation. She has addressed the UN on several occasions and spoke on behalf of women at special sessions of the General Assembly for the five-year review of the earth summit.
She introduced the idea of planting trees with the people in 1976 in order to conserve the environment and improve their quality of life. However, through the Green Belt Movement she has assisted women in planting more than 20 million trees on their farms and on schools and church compounds. In 2004 she became the first African woman, and the first environmentalist, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.”
Quotable quotes:
"You must not deal only with the symptoms. You have to get to the root causes by promoting environmental rehabilitation and empowering people to do things for themselves. What is done for the people without involving them cannot be sustained”.
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Richard Leakey won fame as a paleoanthropologist while still in his early twenties, with sensational discoveries of the fossil remains of our most ancient ancestors, but his subsequent career as an author, conservationist, government official and political activist of unyielding courage has been even more extraordinary. As Director of Kenya's National Wildlife Service, he led a successful campaign against poaching of the endangered African elephant. He won election to parliament, where he forced reform of Kenya's constitution. As a government official, he continued his campaign against corruption in the civil service and secured a resumption of international aid.
Quotable quotes:
"Preserving pasture, forests and species was very much a part of the culture
and practice of many traditional societies. It is certainly not 'western' or
'European' to appreciate nature; it is a human value that is expressed world
wide.”
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