Seven Champions of the Earth 2008
By Singapore News Group (Originally in English)
On April 22 and 23, the United Nations Environment Program’s (UNEP’s) Business for the Environment Global Summit 2008 was held in Singapore with over 400 high-powered delegates from around the world discussing and agreeing on causes, problems and solutions to the global environmental situation. Each year the Summit focuses on a different theme, which this year was Resource Efficiency and Renewable Energy, highlighting how governments and private industries need to work together to create business and markets in a climate of global change. The overall message of the conference was that the world’s governments need to provide incentives and frameworks by which private enterprises can operate, and that private businesses and entrepreneurs need to rise to the call of changing their practices to be sustainable and responsible.
The UNEP conference also hosts and presents The Champions of the Earth 2008 award ceremony. This highly-regarded award is presented by UNEP to seven outstanding scientists, politicians and activists from around the world in recognition of their efforts to help in global sustainability, carbon reduction and the fight against global warming. Gracing the event were Singapore’s former Prime Minister Mr. Goh Chok Tong and several cabinet ministers and captains of industry, in addition to international dignitaries and delegates such as H.E. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Republic of Maldives; Hon. Goren Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden; and Mr. Achim Steiner, Executive Director UNEP.
source : http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/eng/news/197/
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