Darwin Initiative

Darwin Initiative lectures

Texts of the annual Darwin Initiative lectures are available as follows:

• Ninth Lecture: November 13th, 2008. Mr. Pavan Sukdev, Managing Director and Head of Deutsche Bank's Global Markets business in India, and a Founder-Director of the 'Green Accounting for Indian States Project': TEEB report - The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity.
• Eighth Lecture: December 6th, 2007. Alastair Fothergill, producer of the BBC series 'Planet Earth': press release
• Seventh Lecture: December 5, 2006. Dr Ashok Khosla, Chairman of Development Alternatives Group; winner of the Stockholm Challenge Award in 2002; winner of the UN Sasakawa Environment Prize in 2002; winner of the Schwab Foundation's Award for Outstanding Social Entrepreneur in 2004: Science for Sustainability and Sustainability for Science
• Sixth Lecture: 27 October 2004. Professor Eric Chivian, MD, Director of Centre for Health and Global Environment, Harvard Medical School and Nobel Prize Winner: How Human Health Depends on Nature (35 KB)
• Fifth Lecture: 21 May 2003. Dr Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and one of the world's leading botanists and advocates of conservation and biodiversity: Our Choice: How Many Species Will Survive The 21st Century?. (Also available in pdf format) (35 KB)
• Fourth Lecture: 14 March 2002. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, General Manager of the Ethiopian Environmental Protection Agency: The Human Individual and Community in the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources
• Third Lecture: 13 December 2000. Cristian Samper: Biodiversity of Colombia: Can science and politics share the same habitat?

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