SESSION 4 - Options for the future: Restoration and the sustainable management of ecosystems
Considering insights from science, new technologies and remarkable case studies, this presentation will give perspectives on how our societies can shape a sustainable future, limiting degradation, promoting efficiency in the use of natural resources, fostering clean technologies and restoring degraded ecosystems. A call for a change of paradigm?
Speakers
Andrew Steer
President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute (WRI)
Dr. Andrew Steer is the President and CEO of the World Resources Institute. He has three decades of experience in international development, including on the front line in Asia and Africa, with previous senior posts at the World Bank and the UK government’s Department of International Development. Most recently he was the Bank’s Special Envoy for Climate Change. He was educated at St. Andrews University, Scotland, the University of Pennsylvania, and at Cambridge University. He has a PhD in Economics, has written widely on sustainable development issues, and has taught at several universities.
