Dr. Ashok Khosla
Chairperson of The Development Alternatives Group, he is Special Advisor on the World Commission on Environment & Development, Geneva. He is on the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme and winner of the UNEP Sasakawa Environment Prize 2002.
Dr. Khosla spoke on ‘Value of Ecosystem Services’.

Dr. Rick Clugston and Prof. Peter Corcoran
Dr. Clugston is Director, University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF), Washington DC. Prof. Corcoran is a Senior Fellow at the ULSF and a Professor of Environmental Studies and EE at the Florida Gulf Coast University where he has developed the Rachel Carson Centre for Environmental and Sustainability Education. ULSF assists colleges and universities in making sustainability an integral part of curriculum, research, operations and outreach. ULSF is also the Secretariat for signatories of the Talloires Declaration (1990), which has been signed by more than 300 university presidents and chancellors around the world.
Dr. Clugston and Prof. Corcoran spoke on the Earth Charter.

Resurgence: Talk by Carole Douglas
Carole briefly spoke about the history of the Resurgence project. Resurgence is the result of a fascinating process that took place over two years and involved hundreds of people as it gathered momentum. It is a synergy between artisans, communities and organizations from both countries. Resurgence, while helping the textile craft of Kachchh reach out to the world, has also helped a great deal in helping the artisans to overcome the trauma of the earthquake. Art helped the artisans express themselves and their buried fears.

Prof. A.H. Zakri
Director of United Nations University-Institute of Advanced Studies, Tokyo. He is also the Co-Chair of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board. He is a Council member of the Third World Academy of Sciences, member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, and a host of other international bodies.
Prof. Zakri spoke on 'Decade of Education for Sustainainable Development: Challenges for Higher Education'.

Special Session on the Tsunami Disaster
CEE, along with its partners, is already contributing to the efforts of reconstruction and rehabilitation in Tsunami affected areas. As part of the workshop on Education for Ocean Conservation, a special session focusing on the Tsunami was organised at CEE. The session discussed some of the issues related to sustainable livelihood security for the communities in the disaster affected areas, besides post-disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation and having better systems of prediction, warning and response.

The short term and long term impacts of the disaster on the ecology of the region, particularly on the vulnerable ecosystems such as mangroves, coral reefs and overall marine biodiversity, were also discussed within the overall perspective of conservation of oceans, coasts and islands.

A song in support of the tsunami victims, by the students of the H.B. Kapadia Schools, Ahmedabad:
If we knew …