DSDS 2015: Agenda

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Tentative AGENDA as on January 24, 2015 at 1929 hours Venue: Taj Palace Hotel, Sardar Patel Marg, Diplomatic Enclave, New Delhi Day 1: February 5, 2015 Inaugural Session Leadership Panel 1: From MDGs to SDGs and Addressing Climate Change Chair: HE Mr Saber Hossain Chowdhury, President, Inter-Parliamentary Union Video Message: HSH Albert II, Prince of Monaco Panellists:  HE Mr Felipe Calderón, Former President of Mexico & Chair, The New Climate Economy  HE Mr Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Former President, Maldives  Nobel Laureate HE Dr José Ramos-Horta, Former President, East Timor & Chair, High Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations, United Nations  HE Ms Mary Robinson, Former President, Ireland & UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Climate Change  HE Mr Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister, Australia & President, Asia Society Policy Institute Tea Special Session – Leaders’ Speak Moderator: Mr Karma Paljor, Business Editor, CNN IBN Keynote Addresses: SDGs & Climate Change – The Road Ahead  Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI & Chairperson, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change <Title>  Nobel Laureate Prof. Yuan Tseh Lee, President Emeritus and Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica <Title>  Nobel Laureate Mr Kailash Satyarthi, Chairperson, Global March Against Child Labour, India Keynote Address: <Title>  Mr Takehiko Nakao, President, Asian Development Bank Chair: Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI & Chairperson, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Lunch hosted by Asian Development Bank Leadership Panel 2: Sustainable Production and Consumption: Policy and Practice Chair: Ambassador C Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, TERI  HE Dr Abdulla bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Qatar & President, Administrative Control and Transparency Authority, Qatar  HE Mr Ruud Lubbers, Former Prime Minister, The Netherlands & Member, Club de Madrid  Lord John Prescott, Former Deputy Prime Minister & Member of Parliament, House of

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Engaging All Stakeholders for the Future We Want Moderator: Mr Nick Perkins, Director, SciDev.Net  Mr Gyan Chandra Acharya, UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative, UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and the Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS)  Mr Shankar Agarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, India  Sir Suma Chakrabarti, President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development  Dr Jaco Cilliers, Country Director, UNDP - India  Dr Wakako Hironaka, Chair of the Board, Earth Water & Green Foundation  Dr Bindu N Lohani, Vice President, Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, ADB  Dr Pavel Kabat, Director/CEO, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)  Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Senior Vice-Rector, United Nations University, & Director and Professor, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), University of Tokyo Tea SDGs in a World of Wealth and Income Disparities Chair: Mr Yvo de Boer, Director General, Global Green Growth Institute Keynote Address: Dr Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser to Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs 

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Dr Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations & Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP)  Prof. Hironori Hamanaka, Chair of the Board of Directors, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies  HE Ms Marina Kaljurand, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Estonia  Mr Alexander Likhotal, President, Green Cross International  Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri, Ambassador of India to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg  Dr Laurence Tubiana, President, AFD & Special Representative of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP-21)  Dr Robert B Weisenmiller, Chairman, California Energy Commission Sustainability, Climate Change and Corporate Sector Initiatives Chair: Dr Henrik O Madsen, Group President and CEO, DNV-GL  Mr S Richard Fedrizzi, CEO & Founding Chair, US Green Building Council  Dr Rana Kapoor, Managing Director & CEO, YES BANK  Mr Randal Newton, Vice President, Engineering Operations, Ingersoll Rand  Mr Glenn Schmidt, Head, Steering Government Affairs, BMW AG  Mr Jeff Seabright, Chief Sustainability Officer, Unilever PLC  Mr Venkatesh Valluri  Ms Christiana Wyly, Venture Partner, Consumer Products, Satori Capital Moderator: Mr Zakka Jacob, CNN IBN In Conversation with:  Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger, Founding Chair, R20 – Regions of Climate Change & Former Governor, California  Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI & Chairperson, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Launch of Planet for Life Series Special Address: Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations (via video) Cultural Performance followed by Reception & Dinner

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Day 2: February 6, 2015 Ministerial Session 1: The Agreement that the World Needs at COP 21 Chair: The Rt Hon’ble Lord Deben John Gummer, Member, House of Lords, UK  

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HE Mr Juan José Guerra Abud, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico HE Madam Marie-Hélène Aubert, Advisor to the President on Environment and Climate Change Issues, France  HE Ms Lyonpo Dorji Choden, Minister of Works and Human Settlement, Royal Government of Bhutan  Mr Prakash Javadekar, Hon’ble Minister of State for Environment, Forests & Climate Change (IC), India  HE Mr Lars Andreas Lunde, State Secretary (Deputy Minister) of Climate and Environment, Norway  HE Mr Abdullahi Majeed, Minister of State for Environment and Energy, Maldives Presentation of the Third Georgescu-Roegen Awards Tea Challenges in Introducing Clean Technologies (by invitation only) In partnership with EDF Groundwater Management: Technology, Processes and Methodologies to Facilitate Improved, Community-led Management of Groundwater In partnership with UNDP How to Shape India’s Sustainable Development Pathways under Climate Change?

In partnership with AFD, IDDRI, ID4D Electric Mobility – Shaping the Future of Sustainable Urban Mobility In partnership with BMW Special Session on Tackling Climate Change by Legislators and Sub-national Governments (By invitation only) In partnership with R20 and British High Commission Lunch Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Chair: Prof. Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary-General & Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme Keynote Addresses:  Dr Naoko Ishii, CEO & Chairperson, Global Environment Facility, USA  Mr Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, India

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Panellists:  Mr Hideaki Domichi, Senior Vice President, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)  Dr Peter Holmgren, Director General, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)  Prof. Li Junfeng, Director General, National Center of Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCCS), China & President, China Renewable Energy Industries Association  Prof. Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Deputy Director, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis  HE Mr Michel Rentenaar, Climate Ambassador, Government of Netherlands  Ambassador Richard Verma, US Ambassador to India Tea Safe and Clean Transport for Sustainable Cities In partnership with IATSS Challenges in Introducing Clean Technologies In partnership with EDF

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How can Reduction of SLCPs Contribute to Achieving SDGs and a Successful Outcome in Paris?

In partnership with Royal Norwegian Embassy and Embassy of Sweden Asia's Smart Future Cities In partnership with ADB 1715 – 1800

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Keynote Addresses Chair: Dr Prodipto Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, TERI Energy, Management and Good Governance  HE Mr Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister, Norway & President, The Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights <Title>  HE Mr Bharrat Jagdeo, Former President, Guyana Ministerial Session 2: SDGs and Climate Change in the African Continent Chair: Dr Fatima Denton, Co-ordinator, African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa 

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The Hon’ble Jayeshwur Raj Dayal, Minister of Environment, National Emergency Centre and Beach Authority, Republic of Mauritius  HE Raphael Edou, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Benin  HE Dr Khaled Fahmy, Minister of Environment, Egypt  HE Hon Saviour Kasukuwere, Minister of Environment, Water and Climate, Zimbabwe  HE Mr Bienvenu Liyota Ndjoli, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Democratic Republic of the Congo  HE Ms Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, The Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission Presentation on Scientific visualization for understanding energy and climate data as prerequisites for policy and action Climate Change Satyagraha Concert followed by Dinner Day 3: February 7, 2015 Moderator: Mr Nicholas Dawes, Chief Editorial and Content Officer, Hindustan Times In Conversation with  Prof. Jeffrey D Sachs, Director, Earth Institute & Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Climate Change: Ethics, Equity and the Poor Chair: Ms Ekaterina Zagladina, President, Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates        

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Dr Rajiv Gupta (IAS), Principal Secretary (Water Supply), Principal Secretary (Climate Change Department) & Managing Director, Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Company Ltd., India Dr Arvid Hallén, Director General, The Research Council of Norway Dr Syed Akmal Hussain, Co-Chair, South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS) & Distinguished Professor of Economics, Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan Ms Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairman, HSBC India & Director, HSBC Asia Pacific Mr Susheel Kumar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, India Dr David M Malone, Rector, United Nations University (UNU) & UN Under-SecretaryGeneral Dr Jukka Mönkkönen, Rector, University of Eastern Finland Mr Suman Bery, Chief Economist, Strategy and Business Environment, Shell International Limited

Tea Oceans and Seas: Governance and Management of Coastal Ecosystems In partnership with UNDP

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Urban Transport and Climate Change – Policy Challenges for Indian Cities In partnership with TOI Norway Are We on Track to Deliver Sustainable Energy for All by 2030? (by invitation only) In partnership with SE4All and The World Bank Group Bio-economy and Sustainable Development: Revisiting the Policy Agendas in the North and the South In partnership with VITO What Next for the IPCC? In partnership with CDKN

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Lunch

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Ministerial Session 3: Is Action on Climate Change Imperative and Urgent?

Chair: Mr Nitin Desai, Distinguished Fellow, TERI & Former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations Keynote Address: HE Ms Ségolène Royal, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, France       

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Mr Heherson T Alvarez, Commissioner, Climate Change Commission, Philippines HE Mr Leo Brincat, Minister for Sustainable Development, Environment and Climate Change, Malta The Hon’ble Jean Charest, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault & Former Premier, Québec & Former Minister of the Environment, Canada HE Dr Maciej Grabowski, Minister of Environment, Republic of Poland Mr Suresh Prabhu, Hon’ble Minister for Railways, India HE Dr Oyun Sanjaasuren, Former Minister for Environment and Green Development; Member of Parliament of Mongolia & President of UNEA Mr Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General

Presentation of the 11th Sustainable Development Leadership Award & acceptance speech by the Recipient Reports from the Thematic Tracks and High Level Corporate Dialogue Valedictory Session: Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Interaction with Faith Leaders for a Sustainable Future Chair: Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, President, Divine Shakti Foundation & Secretary-General, Global Interfaith WASH Alliance Setting the Context: Mr Takashi Kiuchi, Chairman, E-Square Inc.

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Panellists:  Father Dominic Emmanuel  Venerable Bhikkhu Sanghasena  Archbishop Dr Kuriakose Bharnikulangara, Archbishop of Faridabad Diocese Concluding Remarks: Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI & Chairperson, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change