| In Celebration of World Environment Day, the World Bank Environment Department invites you to:
Looking to Youth: Environmental Successes from Around the World
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Listen to young leaders of environmental projects in the developing world
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Ask provocative questions
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Meet the World Bank Environment staff
Date: Thursday, June 3, 2004
Time: 4-6pm with reception to follow
Location: World Bank H Building Auditorium, 600 19th St. NW, Washington, DC
Contact: Emma Wendt, tel. (202) 458-7703, ewendt@worldbank.org
To engage youth and celebrate World Environment Day, the World Bank Environment Department is holding an event that will highlight the role of young people in crafting the future of our environment.
Speakers include leaders of environmental projects in Burkina Faso, Brazil, and the Himalayas who were winners of Development Marketplace, a program hosted by the World Bank that promotes innovative development ideas through early-stage seed funding.
Agenda
Thursday, June 3, 2004
H Building Auditorium, 600 19th St, NW, Washington, DC
4:00 - 4:15 Introduction - Welcome Remarks and Setting the Stage
Warren Evans, Acting Director, Environment Department, the World Bank Group
4:15 - 5:00 Presentation of Lessons from Young Environmental Entrepreneurs This session will provide a chance for young entrepreneurs to present projects that are being implemented with the support of the Development Marketplace.
4:15 pm Locally Made Paper and Crafts to Preserve the Rainforest in Brazil;
Kei Otsuki, Market Researcher, Action Nucleus for Sustainable Development (POEMAR)
4:30 pm Wild Silk Helps Conserve Himalayan Oak Forests; Sharmila Ribeiro, President, Appropriate Technology, India
4:45 pm Protecting the Environment by Profiting from Garbage in Burkina Faso;
Andrea Micconi, Lay Volunteers International Association, Italy
5:00 - 6:00 Open Debate
This session gives the opportunity for participants and speakers to reflect upon the projects presented and discuss the role young people have, or should have, in tackling environmental concerns.
6:00 - 7:00 Reception
Meet with speakers and World Bank Environment staff
8 minute video, courtesy of WWF on Youth and Sustainable Development
Country Office Greening Awards
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