(EU Development Days) DG CLIMA Panel on "Poverty Eradication and Climate Change: Friends or Foes?"

As part of the European Development Days, the European Commission's Directorate General for Climate Action has organised a panel discussion featuring Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw, UNEP Deputy Executive Director. The panel will focus on possible synergies and conflicts between climate change adaptation and mitigation in development cooperation with poverty eradication. 

The other panellists are:

• Connie Hedegaard, EU Commissioner for Climate Action
•  Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, UN-Habitat, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Deputy Executive Director, former Mayor of Kigali/Rwanda
• Mary Anne Lucille Sering, Vice Chairperson of the Philippine Climate Change Commission
•  Anne-Marie Descotes, Director-General on Global Issues, Foreign Ministry, France
•   Adriana Dinu, UNDP-GEF,Officer-in-Charge and Deputy Executive Coordinator
   

Wednesday 27 November 2013 – 14:00 - 15:30 

 
Event organised at part of the European Development Days 
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Avenue du Port 86c
B-1000 Brussels

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