European Development Days (EDD) are Europe’s foremost platform for discussion and exchange on global challenges in all key areas – governance, climate change, international finance, trade, food security, water, energy, the role of the media and human and social rights. This year they will take place in Stockholm, October 22nd - 24th.  5 plenary sessions and 25 parallel events will shape the program. PROGIS was invited by the EU, to co-organize one of these parallel events, namely the Green-growth session. It takes place on Friday, Oct. 23rd from 14:45-16:45 and will be hold together with the German Development Institute, company ADCON, the Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation and the KfW development bank. The direct link to this session is:  http://www.eudevdays.eu/agenda/events/green_growth_en.htm

 

The green-growth session will deal with the overall issue of sustainability in agriculture and forestry and especially with the topics CO2 emission, mitigation measures in relation to climate change and the installation of new technologies and methods to counter the actual crises and to achieve a sustainable bettering for the future. PROGIS technologies will be presented and approaches as well as  projects with trans-sectoral public-private partnerships discussed. We could win the director of the Global Humanitarian Forum (a Kofi-Annan initiative) to act as speaker within the PROGIS part. We cordially invite you to take part in this event, to learn more on our developments and perchance to take part in a common project. Here are some important details to the EDDs.  The European Development Days are a yearly event hosted jointly by the European Commission and the EU Presidency. They take place one month after the G-20 Leaders meeting in Pittsburgh, two weeks after the IMF-World Bank meeting in Istanbul and six weeks before the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.  The event aims to make development aid more effective, to build a global coalition against poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. 4000 participants, including heads of state and leading world figures and Nobel prizewinners are expected to take part from 125 countries. Take this link for more information. http://www.eudevdays.eu/ Come to Stockholm to one of the most important European events with international participation.