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Official Side Event – 2nd Rio 2012 Prepcom
How the Green Economy depends on Water Organized by UN-Water and the Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation
Overview: UN-Water and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board (UNSGAB) side event will articulate the linkages among water (including drinking water and water resources management), sanitation and the multiple facets of the green economy while providing a forum to discuss how water issues feature on the Rio 2012 agenda. The side event will focus on the themes and objectives of Rio 2012 highlighting particularly how water and the green economy are co-dependent. Participants will discuss how water can be placed in these discussions.
When: Monday, 07 March 2011; 18:15 – 19:45
Where: Conference Room 4, New North Lawn Building, UNHQ, New York
Speakers: Achim Steiner, Executive Director UNEP and Sylvie Lemmet, Director, Division of Technology Industry and Economics, UNEP for UN-Water Uschi Eid, UNSGAB Vice-Chair, and Bonn 2011 Conference Steering Committee Vice-Chair Jean-Pierre Thebault, Ambassador for Environment and Head of French Delegation Asad M. Khan, Vice-Chair of the Bureau for the Preparatory Process of Rio 2012 and Director-General, United Nations Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Pakistan Julia Bucknall, Manager Global Water Unit, World Bank
Contributing partners: Member states: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety; French Ministry of Foreign Affairs UN organizations: UNEP on behalf of UN-Water; World Bank Civil Society Organizations
Contact: Francois Guerquin - guerquin@un.org and Frederik Pischke - pischke@un.org