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People and Planet: Towards Sustainable Human Development

Virtual Consultation on the 2020 Human Development Report

1-4 June 2020

Concept Note

New Pathways for Sustainable Human Development

In 1990, the Human Development Report placed human well-being at its center to measure progress. The Human

Development Approach considers whether people around the world have the capabilities to be and do what they aspire

in life. The Human Development Index (HDI), introduced in the first report, provides a basic measure of this progress.

The HDI was meant to capture the “human development journey” of countries: how much of the road to human

development has been accomplished by a given country.

Today, the opportunities, aspirations and choices of a person are very different from 30 years ago. One example is the

significant progress made with regards to extreme poverty and hunger; by 2010, 5 years ahead of the target, the world

had collectively achieved Goal 1 of the Millenium Development Goals. While major milestones have been reached in

some aspects of human development, new challenges have intensified – for instance, those related to water insecurity,

extreme weather conditions, air pollution, land degradation, loss of biodiversity, deteriorating marine and coastal

ecosystems, reduced crop yields, all of which are important elements of human functioning and capabilities. UNEP’s

Inclusive Wealth Report shows that during 1992-2014 there has been a sharp decline in per capita natural capital in 140

countries. The very base of production is shrinking in the pursuit of higher GDP growth rates. Today there is a growing

realization that unsustainable production and consumption and an imbalance between human and nature are stretching

the planet’s limits to a breaking point.

In light of these new realities, what sustainable human development is today, and how it should be measured, needs to

be re-considered. The original ideals may be as valid as ever – such as long and healthy life, knowledge, adequate living

standards – but there are new aspects to consider, especially with regard to the planet’s support system - and the path

to achieving them could be different.

In its 30th anniversary year, the 2020 Human Development Report will assess the pathways for sustainable human

development, upgrading both its conceptual and analytical frameworks, including the HDI, by bringing in the

environmental dimension more explicity. The purpose of this symposium is to explore how and why we need to fold in

environment as a key enabler of human development.

We are bringing lead thinkers together to assess which dimensions of environmental sustainability impact most directly

on human capabilities to produce and sustain well-being. This will include important advances in wealth accounting

which incorporate the value of nature and environment as a complement to GDP, and also environmental impacts on

human productivity and well-being that have material impacts on human development. This workshop will explore the

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centrality of a living, healthy environment for human well-being, and how to measure and incorporate this into the

human development index.

Desired Outcomes of the Workshop:

- Understanding of the role of the environment on human well-being and capabilities is deepened, explored and

re-assessed;

- New policy advice is considered, including how to bring these ideas into mainstream economic policy thinking

and practice;

- New and existing metrics for including the role of the environment and natural resources within the human

development index are explored and assessed; and

- Potential pathways for including environmental/resource measures of sustainability and human well-being into

HDI are identified.

Pre-Workshop Readings:

- The Dasgupta Review of Economics of Biodiversity, HM Treasury, UK

- HDR Report 2019

- Inclusive Wealth Report 2018

- Global Resources Outlook 2019

- Background papers and other suggested reads to be communicated by organizer leads

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Draft Agenda

Monday, 1 June 2020, 8am-11am EST/2pm-5pm CET

Location: Virtual

(8:00 - 8:15) Opening Remarks

− Pedro Conceição (UNDP)

− Steven Stone (UNEP)

Session 1: Conceptual Foundations

This session would explore the scientific underpinnings of the human-nature nexus. The discussion is expected to

bring about an improved understanding of the interactive relationship between human development and the natural

world. This would set the stage for discussion of sustainable pathways of human dependence as well as possible

measurements in the following sessions.

(8:15 - 8:30) Welcome

− Jacob Assa (UNDP)

− Pushpam Kumar (UNEP)

(8:30 – 10:00) Panel Discussions

− Moderator: Pedro Conceição (UNEP)

− Lead Presenter: Bob Watson (former IPBES)

− Discussant 1: Edward Barbier (Colorado State University)

− Discussant 2: Eli Fenichel (Yale University)

− Discussant 3: Ingrid Robenys (Utrecht University)

− Discussant 4: Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University)

Organizer Leads: Pushpam Kumar (UNEP) and Jacob Assa (UNDP)

(10:00 – 10:05) Break

*Participants are encouraged to remain connected during the break to avoid reconnection

delays

(10:05 – 11:00) Open Discussions

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− Q&A Moderator: Pushpam Kumar (UNEP)

− Online Q&A Moderator: Jacob Assa (UNDP)

− Wrap up and take-away points by Moderators

Tuesday, 2 June 2020, 8am-11:00 am EST/2pm-5pm CET

Location: Virtual

Session 2: Policies

The ambition in the 2020 HDR is to have clearer directions for policy. It will aim to provide concrete recomendations

to countries and policymakers to help bring improved balance between people and the environment that supports

human life.

(8:00 – 8:15) Welcome

− Heriberto Tapia (UNDP)

− Corli Pretorius (UNEP)

(8:15 – 10:00) Panel Discussions

− Moderator: Elliot Harris (UN DESA)

− Lead Presenter: Izabella Teixeira (Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI))

− Discussant 1: Bina Agarwal (University of Manchester)

− Discussant 2: Jason Hickel (University of London)

− Discussant 3: James Murombedzi (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa)

− Discussant 4: Stephane Hallegatte (World Bank)

− Discussant 5: Lucas Chancel (World Inequality Lab)

Organizer Leads: Heriberto Tapia (UNDP) and Corli Pretorius (UNEP)

(10:00 – 10:05) Break

*Participants are encouraged to remain connected during the break to avoid reconnection

delays

(10:05 – 11:00) Open Discussions

− Q&A Moderator: Heriberto Tapia (UNDP)

− Online Q&A Moderator: Corli Pretorius (UNEP)

− Wrap up and take-away points by Moderators

Wednesday, 3 June 2020, 8am-11am EST/2pm-5pm CET

Location: Virtual

Session 3: Metrics

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This year the Human Development Office will consider how to incorporate environmental sustainability and planetary

boundaries within the conceptual and analytical framework of human development, including the Human

Development Index (HDI). The session on metrics will consider alternative broad summary approaches for measuring

the health of the biosphere or humanity’s impacts on it.

(8:00 – 8:15) Welcome

− Jon Hall (UNDP)

− Merlyn VanVoore (UNEP)

(8:15 – 10:00)

Panel Discussions

− Moderator: Diane Coyle (Cambridge University)

− Lead Presenter: Enrico Giovannini (University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’)

− Discussant 1: Pavan Sukhdev (WWF)

− Discussant 2: Giovanni Ruta (WB)

− Discussant 3: Marina Fischer-Kowalski (University of Life Sciences and Natural

Resources, Vienna)

− Discussant 4: Alessandra Alfieri (UNDESA)

Organizer Leads: Jon Hall (UNDP) and Merlyn VanVoore (UNEP)

(10:00 – 10:05) Break

*Participants are encouraged to remain connected during the break to avoid reconnection

delays

(10:05 – 11:00) Open Discussions

− Q&A Moderator: Merlyn VanVoore (UNEP)

− Online Q&A Moderator: Jon Hall (UNDP)

− Wrap up and take-away points by Moderators

Thursday, 4 June 2020, 8am-11:30am EST/2pm-5:30pm CET

Location: Virtual

Session 4: Data

New data on the environmental sustainability are constantly emerging. These data might provide a strong foundation

for a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of human development and environment and can lead to a

joint measurement framework.

(8:00 – 8:15) Welcome

− Ludgarde Coppens (UNEP)

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− Shantanu Mukherjee (UNDESA)

(8:15 – 10:00)

Panel Discussions

− Moderator: Katherine Richardson (University of Copenhagen)

− Lead Presenter: Carl Obst (Institute for the Development of Environmental-Economic

Accounting)

− Discussant 1: Philip Thigo (Arizona State University)

− Discussant 2: Paul Ekins (University College London)

− Discussant 3: Tanja Srebotnjak (UC Clairmont)

− Discussant 4: Steven Ramage, Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

− Discussant 5: Solomon Hsiang (UC Berkeley)

Organizer Leads: Milorad Kovacevic (HDRO) and Ludgarde Coppens (UNEP)

(10:00 – 10:05) Break

*Participants are encouraged to remain connected during the break to avoid reconnection

delays

(10:05 – 11:00) Open Discussions

− Q&A Moderator: Milorad Kovacevic (HDRO)

− Online Q&A Moderator: Ludgarde Coppens (UNEP)

− Wrap up and take-away points by Moderators

(11:00 – 11:30) Wrap-up and Next steps

− Pedro Conceição (UNDP), Max Gomera and Steven Stone (UNEP)

− Open Discussions

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Virtual Consultation on the 2020 Human Development Report 1-4 June 2020

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Sir Bob Watson, Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), former Chair, United Kingdom Sir Robert ‘Bob’ Watson is a physical chemist specializing in atmospheric science issues and a leading authority on the science of climate change due to human activity. His research on halogen and hydroxyl free-radical reactions significantly informed models of how chlorofluorocarbons and other manmade chemicals deplete the Earth’s ozone layer. Bob’s career spans research and advisory roles, including key roles with NASA, as a science policy adviser to US President Bill Clinton and at the World Bank. For the UK government, Bob was Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He was Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from 1997 to 2002. Bob’s many accolades include the 1993 AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, the insignia of Honorary Companion of St. Michael and St. George in 2003, and the 2010 Asashi Blue Planet Prize. He was knighted in 2012 for his service to government. He received his PhD in Gas Phase Chemical Kinetics from Queen Mary College, University of London.

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Edward B. Barbier, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Senior Scholar, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, United States Edward B. Barbier is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics, Colorado State University and a Senior Scholar in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. He previously held positions at University of Wyoming, University of York and the International Institute of Environment and Development. Professor Barbier’s main expertise is natural resource and development economics as well as the interface between economics and ecology. He has served as a consultant and policy analyst for a variety of national, international and non-governmental agencies, including many UN organizations, the OECD and the World Bank. Professor Barbier is on the editorial boards of several leading economics and natural science journals, and he appears in the 4th edition of Who’s Who in Economics. In 2008, he was named by Cambridge University as one of the 50 most influential thinkers on sustainability in the world, and among his honors and awards, he has received the 1991 Mazzotti Prize (Italy) for contributions to economics and ecology. Professor Barbier has authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, written or edited 24 books, and published in popular journals and media. He is a highly cited scholar on global environmental and sustainability issues. Professor Barbier was elected as a 2015 Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Eli Fenichel, Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Yale University, United States Eli Fenichel’s research approaches natural resource management and sustainability as a portfolio management problem by considering natural resources as a form of capital. He is interested in how people can and do allocate natural resources and natural resource risks through time. This leads to a strong interest in feedbacks among humans, ecosystems, and the management of coupled ecological-economic processes. His research is applied in a wide variety of systems including, natural capital valuation, fisheries, infectious disease, groundwater, tropical forests, and grasslands. He received his Ph.D. in Fisheries and Wildlife with specialization in Resource and Environmental Economics from Michigan State University; he is the recipient of many awards, including Smart Prosperity Initiative Global Fellow, 2019-2020.

Ingrid Robeyns, Chair Ethics of Institutions, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Ingrid Robeyns is an economist and philosopher by training. She wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on Amartya Sen's capability approach to gender inequality. Her main areas of research are normative theories of inequality and justice, and some particular areas of application such as gender inequalities, justice for children and parents, and issues of global justice. In addition, she has written extensively on the capability approach, including for the Stanford Encyclopedia

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of Philosophy. She has a long-standing interest in the normative (ethical) analysis of economic systems and has written about basic income societies and property-owning democracy. She hopes to develop this line of research in more depth in the future. Robeyns received a Licentiate (Magna cum Laude) and M.S (Magna Cum Laude) in Economics from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 1994 and 1997 respectively, a M.A. in Philosophy from the British Open University in 2007, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Cambridge University, UK in 2003.

Marc Fleurbaey, Professor of Economics and Humanistic Studies, Center for Human Values, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, United States Marc Fleurbaey has been an economist at INSEE (Paris), a professor of economics at the Universities of Cergy-Pontoise and Pau (France), and a research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He has also been a Lachmann Fellow and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, a research associate at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics and the Institute for Public Economics (IDEP, Marseilles), and a visiting researcher at Oxford. He is a former editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy and as of 2012 is the coordinating editor of Social Choice and Welfare. He is the author of Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare (2008), a co-author of Beyond GDP (with Didier Blanchet, 2013), A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare (with François Maniquet, 2011), and the coeditor of several books, including Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls (with Maurice Salles and John Weymark, 2008). His research on normative and public economics and theories of distributive justice has focused on the analysis of equality of opportunity and responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism and on seeking solutions to famous impossibilities of social choice theory. Marc Fleurbaey has a PhD in Economics from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.

Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Chief Economist, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Mr. Harris has over 25 years of international experience in the fields of international economics and development policy analysis, coupled with knowledge of the United Nations system, multilateral and inter–agency coordination processes. He has extensive experience in the design of macroeconomic policies and its application as a central instrument for the reduction of poverty and for resilient and sustained economic development. His work in the field of economics also focuses on the macroeconomic linkages with global social and environmental policies. Since 2015, Mr. Harris has served as Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He joined UNEP’s Senior

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Management Team in 2013 as Director of the New York Office and Secretary to the Environment Management Group. Prior to joining UNEP, Mr. Harris began his career in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1988, where he worked in the African Department and the Fiscal Affairs Department. In 2002 he became an Adviser in the Policy Development and Review Department and was appointed in 2008 as Special Representative to the United Nations, in addition to serving as Assistant Director of the Strategy and Policy Review Department. Mr. Harris holds a Bachelor of Science degree in German and political science and an advanced degree in economics. He was awarded an Advanced Studies Certificate in international economics and policy research from the Institute of World Economics in Kiel, Germany.

Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was Director and Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, where she continues to be affiliated. Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Delhi, she has held distinguished teaching and research positions at many universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Michigan, Minnesota (as the Winton Chair), and the New York University School of Law. She was Harvard’s first Daniel Ingalls Visiting Professor and later a Research Fellow at the Ash Institute, Kennedy School of Government. She has also been a fellow of Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute at Harvard. Agarwal's research contributions cover both theory and empirical analysis, with a particular focus on the most disadvantaged. An economist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary and intercountry explorations, her publications include 12 books and 84 academic papers. Her pioneering work on gender inequality in property and land, as well as on environmental issues, has had global impact. Agarwal has been President of the International Society for Ecological Economics, Vice-President of the International Economic Association, and President of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She has served on the Boards of many international organizations, including the Global Development Network, UNRISD (Geneva), the UN Committee for Development Policy (New York), and the Future Earth Science Committee. She is currently is a member of International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), and on the editorial boards of many academic journals.

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Izabella Teixeira, Panel Member - Brazil, International Resource Panel Izabella Teixeira is an expert in environmental management, impact assessment and licensing. As Minister of the Environment (2010-16), she led Brazil’s negotiations of the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015. She was named a Champion of the Earth in 2013. She holds a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasilia and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Energy Planning from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is also a specialist in Environmental Management, Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Licensing. She has held several high-level management and advisory positions at the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources. Also she held positions at the State of Rio de Janeiro as Supervisor of Environmental Studies, Task Leader of the Clean-up Program of the Guanabara Bay, Chief of Staff of Rio’s Secretariat for the Environment and Undersecretary for the Environment. Today she works as a private consultant on environmental and climate change issues. Ms. Teixeira was elected co-chair of the International Resource Panel in 2017.

Jason Hickel, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of London, United Kingdom Jason Hickel, originally form Swaziland, is an economic anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. He specializes on globalization, finance, democracy, violence, and ritual, and has been engaged in ethnographic and archival research in Southern Africa since 2004. He serves on the Labour Party task force on international development, the Statistical Advisory Panel for the Human Development Report 2020, the advisory board of the Green New Deal for Europe, and on the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice. Jason's research focuses on global inequality, political economy, post-development, and ecological economics. His most recent book, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions, was published by Penguin Random House in 2017. In addition to his academic work, Jason writes regularly for The Guardian and Foreign Policy, and contributes to a number of other online outlets including Al Jazeera, Fast Company, Prospect, Jacobin, Le Monde Diplomatique, New Internationalist, Red Pepper, Truthout, and Monthly Review. Jason has received a number of teaching awards, including the ASA/HEA National Award for Excellence in Teaching Anthropology. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Virginia.

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James Murombedzi, Climate and Resource Governance Specialist, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa James Murombedzi is Climate and Resource Governance Specialist with the UN Economic Commission for Africa. He is a global expert on how land and resource rights affect rural stakeholders and local governance in Africa. Previously, he was the coordinator of the Responsive Forest Governance Initiative at the Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Mr. Murombedzi has held roles as chief technical advisor for the Environment and Energy at the UN Development Programme in Liberia and has served as regional director of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. He received his doctorate in Applied Social Science from the University of Zimbabwe.

Stéphane Hallegatte, Lead Economist, Climate Change Group, World Bank Stéphane Hallegatte is a lead economist with the Climate Change Group of the World Bank. He joined the World Bank in 2012 after 10 years of academic research in environmental economics and climate science for Météo-France, Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement, and Stanford University. His research interests include the economics of natural disasters and risk management, climate change adaptation, urban policy and economics, climate change mitigation, and green growth. Mr. Hallegatte was a lead author of the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is the author of dozens of articles published in international journals in multiple disciplines and of several books, including Green Economy and the Crisis: 30 Proposals for a More Sustainable France, Risk Management: Lessons from the Storm Xynthia, and Natural Disasters and Climate Change: An Economic Perspective. He was the team leader for the World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan, a large internal coordination exercise to determine and explain how the Group will support countries in their implementation of the Paris Agreement. Mr. Hallegatte holds engineering degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and the Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie (Toulouse), a master's degree in meteorology and climatology from the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse) and a Ph.D. in economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

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Lucas Chancel, co-Director, World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics, France Lucas Chancel is co-director of the World Inequality Lab and of the World Inequality Database (WID world) at the Paris School of Economics, which he joined in 2015. He lectures at Sciences Po in the Master of Public Policy on the economics of inequality and sustainable development. He is also senior research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations since 2011, where he conducts research on the social dimension of sustainable development. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales / Paris Sciences Lettres Research University, an MSc in Economics and Public Policy from Sciences Po and Ecole Polytechnique, an MSc in Energy science from Imperial College London and a BSc in Physics and social sciences from Paris VI and Sciences Po. He also studied at the London School of Economics and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Diane Coyle, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Diane Coyle co-directs the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She was previously Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester and founded the consultancy Enlightenment Economics. She specializes in the economics of new technologies, markets and competition, and measurement of the digital economy. As co-director of the Bennett Institute at the University of Cambridge, she leads research programmes on comprehensive wealth and economic well-being. Her many books include the bestselling GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, while the most recent is Markets, State and People: Economic for Public Policy. Diane is a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics and has held a number of public service roles including Vice Chair of the BBC Trust, member of the Natural Capital Committee, the Migration Advisory Committee and the Competition Commission. She was previously Economics Editor of The Independent and also worked at the Treasury and in the private sector as an economist. She has a PhD from Harvard. Diane was awarded the CBE for her contribution to the public understanding of economics in 2018.

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Enrico Giovannini, Economist; Professor of Economic Statistics, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy Enrico Giovannini is an Italian economist and statistician, member of the Club of Rome and of the World Academy of Arts and Science. He is full professor of Economic statistics and Sustainable development at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, of Sustainable development at LUISS and at the National School of Administration (SNA). He is the co-founder and director of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, a coalition of more than 240 organisations established to implement in Italy the UN 2030 Agenda 2030. He was Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the OECD (2001-2009), President of the Italian Statistical Institute (2009-2013) and Minister of Labour and Social Policies (2013-2014). In October 2014, the President of the Italian Republic made him “Cavaliere di Gran Croce al Merito della Repubblica”, the highest ranking honour of the Italian Republic. He is the author of more than 100 articles and five books on statistical and economic topics.

Alessandra Alfieri, Chief, Environmental Economic Accounts Section, United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) Alessandra Alfieri is responsible for the environmental-economic accounting programme at the United Nations Statistics Division. She has led the elevation of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting to the level of a statistical standard and is currently leading the revision of the SEEA Ecosystem Accounts revision process. She has worked previously on the development of a framework for remittances and trade in services statistics. She holds a Ph.D. in Statistics and has worked at Eurostat and the World Bank in the past.

Giovanni Ruta, Senior Environmental Economist, World Bank He designs the implementation of green growth and sustainability policy making in countries supported by the World Bank’s Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice. Currently, he is focusing in the Latin American and the Caribbean and has experience in Sub-Saharan Africa. Also, he has worked extensively on natural capital accounting. Mr. Ruta holds a doctorate in environmental economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science; he dedicated his research on the application of contract theory to global environmental problems such as climate change adaptation and mitigation. He co-founded Social Business World, a social network for socially minded individuals and entrepreneurs, promoting ideas and business opportunities for a sustainable world.

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Pavan Sukhdev, President, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International, CEO, Gist Advisory, Switzerland Pavan Sukhdev is a scientist by education, an international banker by training, and an environmental economist by passion. Years of work in sustainability and the invisible economics of nature led to his appointment to head the United Nations’ “Green Economy Initiative” and to lead the G8+5 study TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity). In his book ‘Corporation 2020’, he describes four changes in micro-policy and regulation which can rapidly transform today’s corporation to deliver tomorrow’s green and equitable “economy of permanence”. As founder and CEO of GIST Advisory, his sustainability consulting firm, Pavan works with C-suite executives and senior government officials on transition techniques, with an emphasis on metrics. Pavan is a Goodwill Ambassador for UN Environment, promoting TEEB implementation and Green Economy transitions. He has served on the boards of Conservation International (CI), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), and on the TEEB Advisory Board. He is the recipient of many awards, including Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development, 2013; Blue Planet Prize, 2016; Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 2020.

Dr. Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Founder and Director of the Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Member of the International Resource Panel

Dr Marina Fischer-Kowalski is Professor and former Director of the Institute for Social Ecology in Vienna. She and her team developed a model of society-nature interactions which incorporates analysis of resource use and environmental impacts from population and economic growth. Her social metabolism approach has guided the development of a consistent system for material flow accounting which is now incorporated in EU statistical accounting. It has also been adopted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and many Asian countries. She was a co-founder of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and served as its President, as well as President to the Society for Ecological Economics. She is an editorial board member of the journal Anthropocene Review, and an editorial advisory board member to the International Journal for Industrial Ecology as well as INSEE, the Indian Journal for Ecological Economics. Dr Fisher-Kowalski earned a PhD in sociology from the University of Vienna, in Austria. Dr Fischer-Kowalski serves on the IRP’s Decoupling Working Group, and co-authored the report, Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth. She also coordinated review of the biofuels report. She presented at the 18th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in 2010, at Rio+20 in 2010, and made a keynote address at the World Resources Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2009.

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Katherine Richardson, Professor in Biological Oceanography, Section for Biodiversity, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen

Prof. Richardson was Chairman of the Danish Commission on Climate Change Policy, which reported in 2010 and presented a roadmap for how Denmark can become independent of fossil fuels by 2050. She is a lead author on the book Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and co-authored with Stefan Rahmstorf Our Threatened Oceans (2009). Also, she is a principle investigator in the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, where her research focuses on the importance of biological processes in the ocean for the uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere and how ocean biology, including diversity, contributes to ocean function in the Earth System. She is a co-author on the Planetary Boundaries initiative. Prof. Richardson is active both as a member of or chairperson for a number of national and international research committee/advisory boards. She was Vice President of European Science Foundation from 2001–2008, and Chairman of the Earth System Science Evaluation Panel for European Research Council Starting Grants from 2008–2010. She has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters.

Carl Obst, Director, Institute for the Development of Environmental-Economic Accounting, Australia

Carl is the Director of the Institute for Development of Environmental-Economic Accounting - IDEEA Group. Carl was the lead author and editor of the United Nation’s System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) – the international standard for government work on accounting for natural capital. Prior to this work, Carl had a long career with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, including time at the OECD. His current work involves projects on natural capital accounting and sustainability measurement within the United Nations system, with the Capitals Coalition and with various companies and governments in Australia and internationally. Carl is a leading player in closing the gap between government and corporate approaches to natural capital accounting.

Paul Ekins, Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, United Kingdom

Paul Ekins is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy, and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Resources, at University College London (UCL). He is also Deputy Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, in charge of its Resources and Vectors theme and also leads UCL’s involvement in large research consortia on Hydrogen and Bioenergy. He was a member of the Expert Panel of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, and from 2002-2008 he was a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. He also has extensive experience consulting for business, government and international organizations. In 2012-14 Paul Ekins was the Chair of the UCL

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Green Economy Policy Commission, which published the report ‘Greening the Recovery’. Paul’s academic work focuses on the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy. He is the author of numerous papers, book-chapters and articles in a wide range of journals, and has written or edited twelve books, including Global Warming and Energy Demand (1995) and Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: the Prospects for Green Growth (2000). In 1994, Paul received a Global 500 Award ‘for outstanding environmental achievement’ from the United Nations Environment Programme. In the UK New Year’s Honours List for 2015, he received an OBE for services to environmental policy. Paul holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of London.

Philip Thigo, Professor, Director for Africa, Thunderbird School for Global Management, Arizona State University

Philip Thigo is a Technology, data & public policy expert. He is the Director for Africa for the Thunderbird School for Global Management. Mr. Thigo is also a Technical Advisor at the Office of the Deputy President on Data, Innovation and Open Government, recognized by Apolitical as one of the World's 100 most influential people in digital government in 2018. He is currently a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Futures Councils on Global Public Goods for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Mr. Thigo has previously advised the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, key in developing the Joint Agriculture Mechanism, the Big Four Food and Nutrition Security Presidential Priority and the Agriculture Transformation and Growth Strategy. He was at this time Member of the World Economic Forum Global Councils on Food Systems Innovation. He has previously held executive positions, notably Infonet Africa and Foundation El Taller with experience spanning across Asia, Africa, MENA & Latin America. He has co-created unique technology initiatives such as Apps4Africa with the US State Department, Uchaguzi to monitor Elections in over 9 Countries in Africa, and Budget Tracking Tool for citizen engagement. Mr. Thigo has previously supported the African Union Commission, Bureau of the Chairperson & the African Governance Architecture (AGA) where he co-created the first ever AU digital engagement through #DGTRENDS.

Tanja Srebotnjak, Director, Associate Professor, Faculty Member in Engineering, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont; Director of Environmental Citizenship, The Nueva School, San Francisco, United States

Trained as a statistician, Tanja Srebotnjak began her professional career at the United Nations Statistics Division in New York where she developed indicators and methods for official environmental statistics and later completed her doctoral research in environmental statistics and policy at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2007. Prior to coming to Harvey Mudd College, Tanja worked for the German environmental think tank Ecologic Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Her work included projects for the German Federal Environment Agency and several

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directorates at the European Union concerning the existence and identification of irreversible environmental tipping points, the development of a EU environmental pressure index, and the estimation of the environmental disease burden in Germany. While at NRDC, she researched the health risks associated with unconventional energy development in the United States. At present, she is the Environmental Literacy Initiative Fellow at San Mateo County Office of Education and holds the post of Director of Environmental Citizenship at the Nueva School, San Francisco.

Solomon Hsiang, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Solomon Hsiang combines data with mathematical models to understand how society and the environment influence one another. In particular, he focuses on how policy can encourage economic development while managing the global climate. His areas of expertise include agriculture, climate change, environment, coupled natural and human systems, development economy and applied econometrics.

His research has been published in Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences. Hsiang earned a BS in Earth,

Atmospheric and Planetary Science and a BS in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he received a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Applied Econometrics at the Nional Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University. Hsiang is currently the Chancellor's Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and a Research Associate at the NBER.

Steven Ramage, Head of External Relations, Group on Earth Observations

Since 2016 Steven Ramage has been leading global stakeholder engagement and external relations for the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), an intergovernmental partnership promoting the value and usefulness of Earth observations (EO) for research, policy, decisions and action. Steven worked in the private sector for 20 years before he started consulting to the World Bank and the United Nations in 2012. He was an owner/director of 1Spatial before taking on a role as Executive Director of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and then more recently, Managing Director of Ordnance Survey International. Steven is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and SASNet Fellow at the Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He's also a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Geneva, Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES) in Switzerland, a Member of the OGC Global Advisory Council and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS).