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Program

THURSDAY 9th OCTOBER 2008

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Conference 10h00 > 12h00

1 - Together responsible for our planet!

Opening : Martine AUBRY, Mayor of Lille, President of the Lille Urban Community

Philippe VASSEUR, President, Alliances - World Forum Lille (France).

Mrs Lisa NEWTON is a professor of philosophy as well as the Director of the Program in Environmental Studies at Fairfield University (USA). She is an acknowledged expert on CSR in the United States. She wrote various books dealing with it, such as Taking Sides : Controversial Issues in Business Ethics and Society, or Business Ethics and the Natural Environment.

Mrs Wangari MAATHAI

was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and is a Kenyan ecological activist known for the struggle she leads against deforestation. She founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977 and has been involved in the cause of environment and the of women’s rights since then. In 2004, she became the first African women ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her « contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace ».

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Debate 13h45 > 15h15

2 - Health and Environment: identifying the key issues for agro-industry?

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Mr Jean CORNET, Marketer for 2006 in Belgium, is the Marketing and Innovation Director of Alpro Soya. This Belgium firm, the leader on the European Market for soya food products, has already made quite a number of ecological choices indeed.

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Mr Niels CHRISTIANSEN is the Vice-President of Nestlé S.A. (Suisse) in charge of public affairs. He was a member of the Nutrition Department at Harvard ; he is an expert in nutrition in developing countries. He also supervises tasks groups studying obesity (one inside Europe, and the other one inside the WHO). He is part of the executive committee of International Cocoa Initiative, an organization aiming at improving the working conditions in cacao growing.

Mr Bernard GIRAUD, Sustainable development Director, Danone (France)

Expert :
Maximilien ROUER, President & Chief Executive Officer, partner and cofounder, BeCitizen (France)Animation :
Géry DE PIERPONT, Director, Business and Society (Belgium).

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Workshop 13h45 > 15h15

3 - Feeding the world or how we can invent new economic models to satisfy needs.

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Mr Emmanuel MARCHANT has worked for 14 years in various companies, including 10 years for Danone and 5 years in Mexico. He then became General director of danone.communities, an investment fund aiming at backing companies involved with underprivileged locals. The fund’s goal is to use Danone’s efficiency to make a sustainable impact, providing most people with health through the feeding.

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Mr Bagoré BATHILY studied veterinary medicine in Belgium and France, then he came back to Senegal and launched the dairy La Laiterie du Berger in 2006. This company collects, processes and sells the milk from North Senegal livestock keepers, all the way to the shops of Dakar as to get it over with wastage and face competition from imported powdered milk. In 2007, the Laiterie du Berger collected milk from 600 livestock keepers. It helped most of them trible their incomes.

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Mrs Véronique BONNELYE is an expert in water treatment. She works at Degrémont (a subsidiary of Suez Environnement), a company specializing in the production of drinkable water, but also in desalination, wastewater treatment plants and sludge treatment facilities.

Marina CATENA, Inter Agency Affairs Officer, UN World Food Programme (WFP) (Italy)

Animation – Expert :
Léna SPINAZZÉ, Director Innovative Technologies, BeCitizen (France).

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Workshop 13h45 > 15h15

4 – Making non toxic products or how we can limit risks.

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Mr André MALSCH is in charge of sustainable development initiatives of Steelcase, the leader in the market of office furniture. Inside the group itself, he pursues an eco-conception strategy. This is a preventive approach to take into account and reduce the impact of the product’s making on the environment, from the very design of the product. André MALSCH is also President of the club CREER, a cluster studying eco-conception and recycling.

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Christine VIRON, Marketing and sustainable development director, Botanic (France).

Animation :
Sébastien DELPONT, Consultant Positive Factory®, BeCitizen (France).

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Conference 16h00 > 17h30

5 - Cultivating our resources

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Mr WANG Zhenping is a teacher of philosophy at Shanghai Normal University (SHNU), where he is head of the Interdisciplinary Research Department. He is involved in the Theoretical Innovation and Expertise Commission in Shanghai and in the Institute of Research for Social Development Huaxia. He wrote various times about Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility.

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Mr Bakary KANTE is Director of the Division of Environmental Law and Conventions within the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). His role: supporting the implementation of laws and Multilateral Agreements dealing with environmental issues.

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Mr Christophe BONDUELLE is the CEO of Bonduelle (France), a family group that sells vegetable products. He was appointed best entrepreneur in France in 2004 by Ernst & Young. He boosted the expansion of the group in the world and made the product ranges even more diverse thanks to deli dishes and fresh products. He is a traveller indeed and still gives much importance to his group’s roots in the North of France. It led him to accept to head the Nutrition Healthcare Longevity Cluster, combining food industry and biomedical sectors.

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Projection Film 18h00 > 20h30

6 – Movie and debate « Here to stay».

International sneak preview: projection of movie “Here to stay”, directed by Olivier Bourgeois and Pierre Barougier.Debate with : Wangari MAATHAI, Peace Nobel Prize 2004, Chairman, Green Belt Movement (Kenya)

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FRIDAY 10th OCTOBER 2008

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Debate 09h30 > 11h00

7 – Génération 2008 : génération responsable ?

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Mr Lo CHAY was born in 1976 in Cambodia. He was honoured at The Outstanding Young Persons of the World Ceremony (TOYP) for his work within the organisation « 1001 fontaines pour demain », an association he co-founded in 2004. It aims at enabling locals to produce the drinking water they need by themselves and without any specific infrastructure.

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Claire, Eric and Michael, Cœur Vert, World tour through « green » companies
Matthieu and Dimitri, Shake Your Planet, Discovering sustainable companies
Companieros : responsible managers seen by the youth.

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Animation :
Nathalie MALIGE, CEO of Diverseo (France)

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Workshop 09h00 > 10h30

8 – Biofuels and nutrition or how we can avoid competition.

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Mr José RAINHA is one of the most famous leaders of the brasilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST). He underwent many threats and personal injustices but he never gave up. He is still a key activist in the struggle for a fairer redistribution of land in Brasil.

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Mr Bernardo MANÇANO FERNANDES is a teacher in the geography department of the FCT/UNESP (São Paulo), as well as the coordinator of the NERA (a centre that studies the land reform). He is also the consultant for the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), a major Movement in Latin America he wrote about in various books.

Vaguimar Nunes DA SILVA, Presidente Cooperativa, (Brazil).

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Mr Christophe BOURILLON is Vice-President in charge of public affairs for Europe at Iogen, the leading producer of bioethanol. This green biofuel is made from farm waste and it is aiming at increasing energy security and reducing greenhouse gases while developing rural economy.

Animation – Expert :
Marc-Antoine FRANC, Project Manager Biomass and Agro-resources, BeCitizen (France)

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Debate 09h00 > 10h30

9 – Media and sustainable development: should we inform or alarm the public?

Avec :

Mr Jean-Marc FLEURY headed the Department of Communication of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a Canadian organisation favouring partnerships with researchers from developing countries. He is today the Executive Director of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) and in charge of the Bell Globemedia Chair in Science Journalism at the University of Laval, Quebec.

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Mr Yvan ASSELIN headed the Canadian Institute for Training in Public Broadcasting of Radio-Canada. He chaired the board of directors of TV5 Quebec Canada, as well as the Commission Programme des Radios Publiques Francophones. In 2003, he got involved in the development of media projects in Africa. He was the Director of Radio Okapi, in Democratic Republic of Congo, on behalf of the Swiss fondation Hirondelle.

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Mr Hepeng JIA is a science and economic journalist writing for international and specialized newspapers. In 2005, he became the regional coordinator of SciDev.Net, a network for science and development. He was willing to favour meetings and dialogue and created and headed the China Science Reporting Network before being part of the executive committee of the World Federation of Science Journalists from 2007 on.

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Mr Kimani CHEGE graduated in journalism from the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication. He questions the impact of technological breakthroughs on developing countries. He is the chief editor of TechNews Africa, a monthly magazine about science and technology for people who are interested in economy and science.

Animation :

Mr Thierry WATINE was a journalist in France in the 80s, he is now responsible for the course of study in international, economic and science journalism at the University Laval, Quebec.

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Workshop 11h30 > 13h00

10 – The rush for water: what solutions for this vital priority?

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Mr Greig MERCER is the Operation Manager at Degrémont, the water treatment plant specialist. It is involved with local authorities in Australia to help them face new environmental stakes. Degrémont Australia inaugurated in 2006 in Perth a sea-water desalination facility working on inversed osmose and energy from wind turbines.

Mr Christian POLGE is the President of Coca-Cola France, a french subsidiary of the american group which has been involved for several years in a sustainable development policy. Christian POLGE has been the President of the French Institute of Merchandising (IFM) since 2005.

Mr Charlie PATON (United Kingdom) developed the Seawater Greenhouse concept. It is an innovative process that offers a low-cost, sustainable solution to the problem of providing fresh water in arid, coastal regions.

Animation :
Flora BERNARD, Director Positive Factory®, BeCitizen (France).
Expert :
Mr Craig KNOWLES, a former member of the Australian Labor Party, was then City Minister and Health Minister before being appointed Environment Minister, a portfolio he has held from 2003 to 2005.

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Workshop 11h30 > 13h00

11 – Carbon credits and quotas or how to set a price for CO² emissions.

Avec :
Mr Patrick VILLEMIN is the Vice-President of Verde Dominicana. It is a company from Loret Group and it is located in Dominican Republic. Verde Dominicana is specializing in manufacturing and distributing calcic and organic enriching agents as well as in organic waste management.

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Mr Damien GREGOIRE is an agricultural engineer ; he is in charge of Carmeuse Group’s environmental policy and sustainable development. Carmeuse Group is specializing in the extraction and processing of calcium limestone into lime and lime-related products for many industrial customers.

Animation – Expert :
Philippe FREUND, Director of Carbone Services, Partner and Co-founder, BeCitizen (France).

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Workshop 11h30 > 13h00

12 – Clean transport or how we can reduce the environmental impact of transport and logistics.

Avec :
Mr Simon PEARSON is Head of Logistics at ASDA, a british supermarket chain. ASDA is a member of The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), an organisation involved in promoting sustainable consumption.

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Mr Lionel BONY, was a French student and graduated from Harvard Business School. He joined the MOVE department at the Rocky Mountain Institute as a consultant in 2006. He then carried out various projects on the development of efficient means of transport meeting the requirements for a sustainable business.

Animation – Expert :
Sophie GARRIGOU, Director positive transport and mobility, BeCitizen (France).

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Conference 14h30 > 16h15

13 - The responsible company

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Viscount Etienne DAVIGNON has been involved with CSR Europe, the leading European business network for corporate social responsibility since its inception in 1995 and is today its President. He is one of the great names of politics and business in Belgium and Europe. He is currently Vice-Chairman of Suez-Tractebel and Chairman of SUEZ Ethics, Environment and Sustainable Development Committee.

Click here to know more on Etienne DAVIGNON

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Mr Marc ROQUETTE runs Roquette Frères, the leader in the world in polyols. Since 1933, the company has been using renewable, natural resources from which new materials used for the food industry, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, the paper-mills industry, the cardboard industry and the biotechnologies, are extracted. One of the main characteristics of Roquette’s business activity is that it is at the very heart of agriculture.

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Mr Deon ROSSOUW (South Africa) is President of the International Society of Business, Ethics and Economics. He is also Head of the Philosophy department at the University of Pretoria.

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Workshop 17h00 > 18h30

14 - The value of waste or how to consider our waste as a resource.

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Maqsood SINHA, Urban Planner-Architect and Iftekhar ENAYETULLAH, professional civil Engineer created Waste Concern, a waste management firm in Bangladesh. They run neighbourhood plants that convert garbage into compost, improving public health, creating jobs for the urban poor, reducing green house gas emission.

Click here to know more on Waste Concern

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Mr Cheikh Amadou Bamba FALL is the promoter of CARBOSEN, NOVASEN's subsidiary. CARBOSEN has implemented a groundnut shell based carbon production system to meet part of energetic demands while struggling against deforestation and desertification in Senegal.

Mrs Anne DE PAZZIS is the Director of sustainable development at Sita (France). Sita France is a subsidiary of Suez Environment as well as the specialist in comprehensive waste management. Sita has been collecting, transporting, processing and recycling waste from local authorities, companies, health professionals and individuals for 90 years.

Animation – Expert :
Flora BERNARD, Director Positive Factory®, BeCitizen (France).

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Workshop 17h00 > 18h30

15 – Reconsidering energy: striking the right balance between limiting energy consumption and renewable energies?

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Mr Peter HOFMAN is Director « Sustainable Future » of EDF Energy. He aims at expanding EDF Energy’s influence and promotes an energy future that should be reliable and should respect the environment. He is also chair of London ESCO, a company providing low carbon energy solutions for London.

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Mr Joël KARECKI has been the President of Philips France since 2006. He holds a MBA from the INSEAD school and an advanced degree from Harvard Business School (Advanced Management Program). He was involved inside the Schneider Group and was then appointed as the President of Philips France. The company is involved in developing «sustainable solutions for all targeted consumers of its markets throughout the world».

Patrick COLLIGNON, Volvo Europa Trucks (Belgium).

Animation – Expert :
Léna SPINAZZÉ, Director Innovative Technologies, BeCitizen (France).

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SATURDAY 11th OCTOBER 2008

Workshop 09h00 > 10h30

16 – "Sustainable agriculture" or how we can produce more and better.

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Professor Norman UPHOFF is the first Director of the CIIFAD (Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development, US). He is also a consultant for major organisations, both american and international. He teaches at the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA) and wrote various books, including Reasons for Success : Learning from Instructive Experiences in Rural Development (1997). He mainly works on how to implement a development policy, to control irrigation, to involve locals and to plan a rural development on large scale.

Edline RAVELONIRINA, a farmer in Madagascar, will accompany him.

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Mr Leontino BALBO, from Brasil, experienced organic farming in the family sugar cane plantation where pesticides or chemical fertilizers are no longer used. He is in favour of biodiversity. His company, Grupo Balbo, takes advantage of the lack of biological foods in the United States and supplies several big firms of the food industry. It has top yields.

Mr Denis TARDIT is President of Syngenta Agro, the world-leading agri-business committed to sustainable farming through research and development.

Animation :
Christian GUILLAUME, Consultant Biomass and Agroresources, BeCitizen (France)

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Workshop 09h00 > 10h30

17 – Sustainable architecture or how "positive buildings" will create our energy tomorrow.

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Mrs Monica VON SCHMALENSEE is the director of White Arkitekter, the leader in architecture in Scandinavia. She is part of a think tank that studies the economic, social and environmental stakes of sustainable development and studies the building sector’s responsibility towards climate change, urban regeneration and redevelopment.

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Mr Michael GIES is an architect and designed the first passive, shared building that was delivered in 1999 in Fribourg. This kind of buildings, while offering the inhabitants the best modern conveniences, is not very expensive and gives the opportunity to save 80% of primary energy, including the needs for electricity.

Animation :
Mr Nathan STAKMAN, an engineer and urban planner, was awarded in 1999 the Grand Prix d’Urbanisme by a jury made up by the French Ministère de l’équipement. He has been heading the Agence d’urbanisme et de développement de Lille métropole since 2000.

Expert :
Rodolphe DEBORRE, Director Positive building, BeCitizen (France).

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Workshop 09h00 > 10h30

18 – 100% green or how we can integrate sustainability in every sector of business.

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Michael BREMANS is the managing director of ECOVER (Belgium), the european leader in eco-friendly washing liquids and detergents. ECOVER was granted an award on several occasions and has been a forerunner in sustainable and eco-friendly development since its creation in 1980. The company built the first eco-friendly factory in the world in 1992 and keeps innovating.

Société ALWITRA (Germany).

Tábata VILLARES, Manager, International Relations, Ethos (Brazil)

Animation - Expert :
Marion HUET, Director solar strategy, BeCitizen (France).

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Workshop 11h30 > 13h00

19 – Industrial sustainability or how we can set up a virtuous circle between "re-use” and “recyling".

Avec :
Hiroshi MORIMOTO, General Manager, Environment and Safety, Sharp (Japan)

Société Sereco Bio Factory (France).

Animation :

Flora BERNARD, Director Positive Factory, BeCitizen (France).

Expert :
Mr Alex MARKEVICH is a member as well as the vice-president of the scientific committee of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) in the United States. The RMI association was founded in 1982 with a 12 million euro annual budget, and conducts research studies in the energetic sector, to offer innovative, fair, sustainable and market-adapted solutions.

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Workshop 11h30 > 13h00

20 – Sharing responsibility and commitments or how to invest the internal strengths of our companies.

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Mrs Teresa FOGELBERG attended classes of anthropology and worked for the Foreign Office in the Netherlands. She spent a few years in Western Africa, where she specialized in issues such as equality between men and women and hunger alert. She is the assistant director responsible for foreign relations of the Global Reporting Initiative. The GRI’s activities come in compliance with the UNO’s environmental program, and the institution published a report dealing with sustainable development for those who have a part in the economy, the institutions or the associations.

Mr Paul WILLIAMS is head of the sustainable development department of Nalco, the leader in the improvement of water treatment process. Thanks to a highly efficient technological programme, the Ontario-located Nalco company offers its clients real environmental potential by giving them the opportunity to reduce their water and energy consumption while improving their productivity.

Mrs Ursula SAINT-LEGER is the Vice-President of Umicore, one of the world’s leading zinc manufacturer and also a leader in precious metal products. Mrs SAINT-LEGER, as the Human Resources Manager, implemented a specific approach promoting societal responsibility and active implication.

Animation :

After having a carrer in marketing advice, Mrs Elizabeth REISS founded Ethicity, a consulting firm specialized in ethical communication, in 2001. Ethicity supports the companies in the various steps of their sustainable development strategy. Elizabeth REISS wrote several books among which : Le Marketing Durable.

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Workshop 11h30 > 13h00

21 – Businesses and biodiversity or how we can integrate environmental protection into our development strategies.

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Mr Philippe POMMEZ is the International Vice President in the firm Natura (a brazilian cosmetic firm, leader in South America). This firm has been engaged from its creation in 1969 in a processus to protect the Biodiversity and more generally speaking, protect its harmonious relations with its environment.

Mr Marc BARRE, Société CDC Biodiversité (France).

Animation :
Thomas BRASCHI, Consultant, BeCitizen (France).

Expert :

Mr Patrice VALANTIN founded the Dervenn company and has been leading a fight to regain biodiversity since 2002. Dervenn is made up of a research department in ecological engineering and a technical department, and provides solutions to reduce the ecological footprint of the companies and to enhance the land by enriching the natural heritage

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Debate 14h30 > 16h00

22 – Businesses and NGOs: conflict of interest or sustainable dialogue?

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Mr Michiel LEIJNSE works for Unilever as Global Brand Development Manager for the Lipton brand. As part of its commitment to social, environmental and economic sustainability, Lipton stated its intention to use only tea from Rainforest Alliance Certified plantations by 2015.

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Boers Brita WESTELIUS represents the Kraft Foods Group (Jacques Vabre, Carte Noire…) ; it aims at meeting the demand of the whole world’s consumers, while backing initiatives to improve the locals’ social conditions and to protect their everyday environment. The group does concrete fieldwork and is involved with coffee producers from various countries such as Peru, Vietnam, Colombia, Ecuador and Ethiopia.

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Mr Scott POYNTON, taking advantage of his significant experience in wood products manufacturing, has been the Executive Director of the Tropical Forest Trust since it was created in 1999. The british organisation TFT aims at establishing a series of rules to supply tropical wood according to responsible standards.

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Mr Pascal HUSTING is the managing director of Greenpeace France. He has worked for ten years for Greenpeace Luxembourg and Greenpeace in the Mediterranean region. His perception of ecology goes past the only protection of the environment and really shows a political, economic and social dimension.

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Mr Damien DELEPLANQUE is the managing director of the ADEO Group, one of the major actors in the do-it-yourself market in the world. He considers sustainable development applicable to trade, thanks to a democratization process of the HQE products and to a method that should be in keeping with the three words that govern the management of a company : coherence, economic growth and sustainability (for the planet).
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and the NGO Rainforest.

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Testimonial :

Mrs Nancy DALE belongs to the Action Against Hunger NGO that was founded in 1979 to respond to emergency situations. Its approach now applies to foresight and knowledge transfer missions to make the self-sufficiency of the targeted area possible on the long run as for nutrition, health and access to drinking water.

Animation :
Brigitte JEANPERRIN, journalist, France Inter (France).
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Conference 16h00 > 16h45

23 - Meeting synthesis

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Mr Luke VAN LIEDEKERKE is President of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN). He is a Corporate Ethics Professor and co-director of the Centrum voor Economie en Ethiek, at the Catholic University of Leuven and UAMS.

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Professor at the EDHEC business school, Mr Geert DEMUIJNCK is member of of the European Business Ethics Network and also teaches at the University of Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium)

Closing : Philippe VASSEUR, President, Alliances - World Forum Lille (France).

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