22 January 2007

Achim Steiner to give lecture at the FU Berlin

Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and GPPi Advisory Board member, will give a guest lecture entitled "A General Assessment of the Global State of the Environment" at the Free University of Berlin on January 24th from 14:30-16:30. The lecture will take place in the large lecture hall (Grosser Hörsaal) "Informatik", Takustr. 9 in Berlin.

Steiner’s lecture is hosted by the Environmental Policy Research Centre at the FU Berlin and will be moderated by Prof. Martin Jänicke from the Centre. Steiner will share his thoughts on environmental topics such as perspectives and wishes for German and EU environmental policy, front-runners of European Environmental Policy and UNEP’s role in evaluating national environmental policy. Additionally, Steiner will address how sustainable development can be (further) initiated in developing countries and how UNEP, the EU, and Germany can contribute to such development. Lastly, he will speak on the moderation of intergovernmental negotiations, his role as the UNEP Executive Director in contributing to the negotiations’ success, how his perspective has changed over the years and his personal outlook for 2007 and beyond.

For more information about the lecture, please contact Kerstin Ehrhardt, Environmental Policy Research Centre.

For a short biography of Achim Steiner, please click here.  

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