This is an exciting time for the environmental sector worldwide, with emerging opportunities in energy efficiency programs, waste management, green supply chains, and renewable energy. In this session, private/public sector and NGOs leaders come together to explore means to utilize innovations in environmental technologies, international standardization, and industrial advancements to create the necessary infrastructure, processes and partnerships in order to improve growth, diversify economic portfolio, and protect the environment for future generations.

KEY ISSUES 

1. Do changing climate patterns present a wake-up call to the dangers ahead?

2. What programs must be in place to reduce risk profile in order to attract private capital to the environmental sector?

3. What is the innovative role of private-sector industrialists in greening the supply chain?

4. How will new nano-technologies and standards emerge to alter the future of the mobile, consumer and enterprise industry?

5. Who are the private sector and NGO leaders that are inspiring conservation and delivering innovation? What’s working, and why?

6. How will global energy-efficiency affect the renewable energy sector by 2010?