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TALK: Corporate Response to the Ozone Hole and Climate Change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Payal Parekh)
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:12:59 -0500 (EST)
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TALK: CORPORATE RESPONSE TO THE OZONE HOLE AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
MR. RAJ SHENDE, Chief, Ozone Action and Energy Program of UNEP
THURSDAY, 2. NOVEMBER, 6:30 P.M.
ROOM 4-231
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An Event Sponsored by Sangam, Association for India's Development-Boston
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BIO AND TALK DESCRIPTION
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Since 1997 Mr. Raj Shende has served as Chief of the Energy and OzonAction
Unit of UNEP in Paris. In this capacity he is leading the activities
that assist more than 100 developing countries and Countries with
Economies in Transition (CEITs) to develop their action plans and
strategies to respond to the challenges of the phase-out of ozone
depletiong substances. His Unit also assists the governments and
industries in the sustainable use of energy and efficient ways of managing
energy resources. Developing strategic approaches to provide policy and
technical assistance for cross-cutting issues between the Montreal
Protocol and the Kyoto Protocol is a priority activity for his Unit at
present.
The presentation will focus on the responses from corporations around
climate issues- the responses that can breed inventions as well as create
the havoc of mass destruction and the pollution of the stratospheric
dimension; responses that have potential to find the environmental
alternatives within stringent time limits; and responses that can be
inactive and which can drag on while civilization suffers.
How have such responses shifted under changing circumstances? On one
hand, how have the global issues and environmental necessities mothered
inventions, and on the other hand giant corporations fight against
environmental policies andput the environment at the bottom of their
agenda?
Two stories that reflect these responses under the Montreal Protocol on
Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the Kyoto Protocol on Climate
Change will be discussed and debated.
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Payal Parekh
MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography
Program in Atmosphere, Oceans, and Climate
parekh@pimms.mit.edu
MIT WHOI
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