The Energy Project Hosts Workshop on Energy & Climate Action

The Energy Project successfully hosted a DPI/NGO Conference Workshop entitled Energy & Climate Action: Essential Tools for the Post-2015 Development Agenda" on August 29th, 2014 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The event was sponsored by the Public-Private Alliance Foundation and co-sponsored by the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), the United Nations Association Southern New York Division (UNA-SNY) and its Energy Project, as well as the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development. Moderated by David Stillman, PhD, Executive Director of the Public-Private Alliance Foundation, panelists included Tapio Kanninen, PhD, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Project on Sustainable Global Governance at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York; George Garland, DBA, a former US/EPA official, and head of the Energy Project, UNA SNY and PPAF board member; Amy Parekh Mehta, Program Management Officer at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations; and Vadim Belikov, MA, CEO of PSD Development Company in St. Petersburg, Russia, Co-Chair of the Next Generation Energy Leaders Council, Vice Chair of the G-8 Youth Summit and Vice-President of the its Business Assembly, and Vice-President of the International Youth Diplomacy League.

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