Mohan Munasinghe, Chairman, Munasinghe Institute for Development, Sri Lanka, discussed the idea of setting “Millennium Consumption Goals” (MCGs) as a way to prompt the cultural changes needed to ensure achievement of SCP and sustainable development.

 

 

A view of the dais during the roundtable

Achim Steiner, UNEP Exeuctive Director, and Sha Zukang, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs

Peru during the roundtable

Allison Davis, AICP Senior Transportation Planner, Arup, New York, US, said that congestion reduces municipal quality of life and economic competitiveness.

Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT (left), spoke on the importance of approaching transport bearing in mind the need for reduced mobility, and that traffic is a result of poor urban mass transportation planning.

Afghanistan intervenes in the morning roundtable on transport

Craig Boljkovac spoke on mainstreaming chemicals management. Jim Willis stressed the importance of both the benefits and costs of chemicals management.

Phil Hogan, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Ireland, and Gusti Muhammand Hatta, Minister for Environment, Indonesia

Franz Perrez, Ambassador for the Environment, Switzerland

Zoltan Illes, Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Hungary, and Luis Alberto Ferrate Felice, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Guatemala.

Stine Hattestad Bratsberg, Co-Chair of the Safe Planet Campaign, and Moderator Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, Haring Woods Studio senior consultant, Donald Cooper, Executive Secretary of the Stockholm Convention and Co-Executive Secretary of the Rotterdam Convention, and Werner Obermeyer, Executive Director, WHO Office in New York

A view of the dais during this side event, which was organized by the Nordic Council of Ministers

ENB writer Andrey Vavilov