Join us live for a web-conference on the World Environment Day
This environment day, join us to recognize and celebrate the Himalayas for their role in supporting the greater community of life, maintaining ecological integrity of the region and its significant contribution towards keeping our common home, shared with the greater community of life, habitable and thriving.
Join us to recognize that our wilful acts in the region increasingly disturb the resilience, sustainability, and the ability of the Himalayan ecosystem to contribute to keeping the region habitable and thriving.
As an expression of our recognition, come together with leading experts to call for restraint of our human activity in the region, keeping it below the current levels, and to express our humility towards the greater community of life in the region by allowing the natural processes of resilience and evolution to be untouched by our acts.
Join those concerned about the Himalayas to address our ethical responsibility towards the Himalayan ecosystem.
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Date: June 5th 2021 World Environment Day
Time: 3PM CEST (6:30PM IST)
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Topic: Ethical Responsibility to Himalayas
Time: Jun 5, 2021 03:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
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Program
Introduction by Anupam Saraph and Jan Sendzimir
Presentations (100 minutes)
Discussion (20 minutes) moderated by Anupam Saraph and Jan Sendzimir
Adoption of the Declaration (10 minutes)
Concluding Remarks by Anupam Saraph (5 minutes)
Speakers
Dr. Mirian Villela, Executive Director, Earth Charter International
Dr. Mirian Villela has championed the ethical guidelines of the Earth Charter, the worldview of care and responsibility, and the ecological civilization that it entails for more than 30 years
Dr. Joseph Alcamo, Director, Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)
Joseph Alcamo served as the first Chief Scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the first to hold a chief scientist post within the UN system
Dipak Gyawali, Former Water Resources Minister of Nepal
Guest Senior Research Scholar/IIASA, former Chair/Nepal Water Conservation Foundation
Prof. Bert de Vries, Professor at Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development
Bert de Vries is engaged in understanding the impact of worldviews comprising of values and belief systems on sustainable development
Prof. Ananta Giri, Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies
Ananta Kumar Giri is a student of life and contemporary dynamics of self and social development.
Prof. Walter Immerzeel, Professor of Mountain Hydrology at Utrecht University
Walter Immerzeel’s research focuses on the interaction between climate change and the cycle of snow, ice and water in the high mountains and he investigates this at different levels of scale.
Pema Gyamtsho, Director General ICIMOD
Carries with him a deep sense of loyalty and commitment to the HKH mountains of eight regional member countries of the ICIMOD – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.
David Berry, Founder, Sustainable & Resilient Resources Roundtable
From singing on National Public Radio, to advancing sustainability from the White House, to assisting communities in Himachal Pradesh and Tibet, to leading retreats on four continents, David encourages people to notice and share the best of themselves in the service of others and Nature.
Dr. Rajendrasingh, Waterman of India
Dr. Rajendrasingh, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee of 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015 is empowering communities across the world to rejuvenate rivers and protect their water security.
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