Africa Environment Day 2008 on Monday, March 3

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The African Union Mission to the USA
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The World Bank-IMF African Society

Cordially invite you to a panel discussion to commemorate the

Africa Environment Day 2008
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| Will Africa's Commitment to Global Environmental Agreement |
| Undermine its Economic Growth? |
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| Panelists will focus on the development sacrifices Africa will |
| have to make in adhering to |
| sound environmental policies which benefit the whole planet, and |
| will examine what benefits |
| Africa could possibly get in turn from the international |
| community. |
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| KEY NOTE SPEAKER |
| H.E. Amina Salum Ali |
| Permanent Representative to the African Union?s Mission to the |
| United States |
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| CHAIR |
| Beldina Auma |
| Chair, World Bank Group-IMF African Society |
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| PANELISTS |
| William Godfrey |
| President, The Environic Foundation International |
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| H.E. Lapologang Caesar Lekoa |
| Ambassador E. and P., Embassy of the Republic of Botswana |
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| Herbert Acquay |
| Program Coordinator, Environment Team, Africa Region, World Bank |
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| Walter Lusigi |
| Senior Environmental Specialist, Global Environment Facility, |
| World Bank |
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| MODERATOR |
| John Mulaa |
| Consultant, EXT, World Bank |
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Monday, March 3, 2008
12:00 - 2:00pm
World Bank H Building
Eugene H. Black Auditorium
600 19th Street N.W.

For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Film Screening: "An Inconvenient Truth" on Thursday, February 28 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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invites you to a screening of Al Gore's movie
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| | AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH |
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| to file: pic08106.jpg) | This film offers a passionate and |
| | inspirational look at one man's fervent |
| | crusade to halt global warming's deadly |
| | progress in its tracks by exposing the |
| | myths and misconceptions that surround |
| | it. That man is former Vice President |
| | Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in |
| | the 2000 election, re-set the course of |
| | his life to focus on a last-ditch, |
| | all-out effort to help save the planet |
| | from irrevocable change. In this |
| | eye-opening and poignant portrait of |
| | Gore and his "traveling global warming |
| | show," Gore also proves himself to be |
| | one of the most misunderstood |
| | characters in modern American public |
| | life. Here he is seen as never before |
| | in the media - funny, engaging, open |
| | and downright on fire about getting the |
| | surprisingly stirring truth about what |
| | he calls our "planetary emergency" out |
| | to ordinary citizens before it's too |
| | late. |
| | |
| | To buy the book, please visit: |
| | www.worldbank.org/infoshop

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Thursday, February 28, 2008
The film will start promptly at 12:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th Street N.W.

For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoShopevents@worldbank.org

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "Financing Energy Efficiency" on Wednesday, February 27th in Auditorium J1-050

InfoShop & Energy Sector Management Assistance Program

Invite you to a book launch

Financing Energy Efficiency
Lessons from Brazil, China, India, and Beyond

While energy efficiency projects could partly meet new energy demand more
cheaply than new supplies, weak economic institutions in developing economies
impede the rapid development and financing of these investments. This book
summarizes the lessons learned from practical recent experiences of implementing
energy efficiency projects in Brazil, China, India, and other countries. The
second part of the book presents thirteen case studies that illustrate the
issues and principles involved in implementing and financing energy efficiency
projects.

PRESENTED BY AUTHORS:
Robert P. Taylor
Chandrasekar Govindarajalu
Jeremy Levin
Anke S. Meyer

DISCUSSED BY
Todd M. Johnson
Jas Singh (USAID)

For more information or to buy the book, please click here or go to
www.esmap.org.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
9:00 - 11:00 am
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street NW (Pennsylvania Avenue)
Washington, DC

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: Book Launch of "Financing Energy Efficiency" on Wednesday, February 27th in Auditorium J1-050

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Invite you to a book launch
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| | Financing Energy Efficiency |
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| | by Robert P. Taylor, Chandrasekar |
| | Govindarajalu, Jeremy Levin, |
| | Anke S. Meyer, and William A. Ward |
| | |
| | |
| | While energy efficiency projects could |
| | partly meet new energy demand more |
| | cheaply than new supplies, weak economic |
| | institutions in developing economies |
| | impede the rapid development and |
| | financing of these investments. This |
| | book summarizes the lessons learned from |
| | practical recent experiences of |
| | implementing energy efficiency projects |
| | in Brazil, China, India, and other |
| | countries. The second part of the book |
| | presents thirteen case studies that |
| | illustrate the issues and principles |
| | involved in implementing and financing |
| | energy efficiency projects. |
| | |
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For more information or to buy the book, please click here or go to

www.esmap.org.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
9:00 - 11:00 am
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes
calendar
For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

PRESENTATION BY AUTHORS
Robert P. Taylor
Lead Energy Specialist, East Asia and Pacific Region, Transport, Energy & Mining
Sector, World Bank

Chandrasekar Govindarajalu
Senior Environmental Specialist, Environment Department, World Bank

Jeremy Levin
Consulting Energy Specialist, South Asia Sustainable Development Network, World
Bank

Anke S. Meyer
Consulting Energy Economist, East Asia and Pacific Region, Transport, Energy &
Mining Sector, World Bank

PANEL DISCUSSANTS
Todd M. Johnson
Senior Energy Specialist, Latin America and Caribbean Region Energy Unit, World
Bank

Jas Singh
Senior Energy Advisor, United States Agency for International Development
(USAID)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

"Will God - or Man - Play Dice with Nature? The Tail of Catastrophic Climate Change" discussed on Thursday, March 13 at 3:00 pm in JB1-080

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GLOBAL FACILITY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION AND RECOVERY
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EAST ASIA PREM UNIT
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| | The Tail of Catastrophic Climate |
| | Change |
| | |
| Thursday, March 13, | Climate Change: Mitigation & |
| 2008 | Adaptation; Policies & Protocols |
| 3:00 - 5:00 pm | --You thought you had heard it all |
| | but you would be wrong. Because you |
| Auditorium JB1-080 | have not heard Harvard Professor |
| World Bank J | Martin Weitzman?s exposition of the |
| Building | economics of catastrophic climate |
| 701 18th Street NW | change. Discussions on climate change |
| | economics and policy have so far |
| A reception will | neglected the possibility of |
| follow the | catastrophic climate change. Climate |
| presentation | scientists agree that though the |
| | probability is very low, climate |
| For non Bank staff, | change of cataclysmic proportions |
| please RSVP to | could occur, which could destroy life |
| infoshopevents@world | as we know it. What do economists - |
| bank.org | who always have something to say |
| | about anything - have to say about |
| | that? Well, not much, until Professor |
| | Weitzman. |
| | |
| | |
| | Professor Weitzman?s economic |
| | analysis - and, warning, it is quite |
| | technical - tackles this vexing |
| | problem head-on. And in doing so, he |
| | challenges conventional economic |
| | orthodoxy. In his analysis, the |
| | standard economist toolkit breaks |
| | down because standard economics would |
| | have us believe that society should |
| | be willing to tradeoff an infinite |
| | amount in order to avoid even an |
| | infinitesimal chance of disastrous |
| | climate change. |
| | |
| | |
| | So will climate change be economics? |
| | Waterloo? Or has Professor Weitzman |
| | simply gotten it wrong? What does |
| | this mean for public policy? Can we |
| | say anything meaningful about how |
| | society should formulate and |
| | implement policy related to extremely |
| | low-probability but genuinely |
| | cataclysmic climate change? Good |
| | questions you ask, but what are the |
| | solutions? Are there solutions? |
| | |
| | |
| | Come find out what promises to be one |
| | of the most fascinating discussions |
| | on climate change between a brilliant |
| | economist and three outstanding |
| | panelists - a founder of the law and |
| | economics movement; a private sector |
| | millionaire; and a Nobel-prize |
| | winner. |
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PRESENTED BY
Martin Weitzman
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Mr. Weitzman is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He has
been elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Weitzman's current research is
focused on environmental economics, including climate change, the
economics of catastrophes, cost-benefit analysis, long-run
discounting, green accounting, and comparison of alternative
instruments for controlling pollution. The famous "Weitzman Theorem"
- that established when, under uncertainty, we should choose between
tradable permits and taxes in order to reach efficient levels of
pollution - is coined after him.

DISCUSSED BY
Richard Posner
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago
Mr. Posner is one of the most influential public intellectuals of
our times and a major voice in the law and economics movement. He is
a federal circuit judge and also a writer of books and articles in a
variety of fields. In his highly successful book "Catastrophes: Risk
and Response", he has focused his efforts on evaluating the public
policy response to catastrophic events such as species-destroying
climate change; planet-obliterating asteroids, and nuclear attacks.
Along with Professor Gary Becker, Mr. Posner maintains one of the
most popular blogs in the field www.becker-posner-blog.com that
explores current issues on economics, law, and policy in a dialogic
format.

Mr. Posner will inform the discussion from a public policy
perspective.

John Seo
Co-Founder and Managing Principal, Fermat Capital Management, LLC.
Based in Westport, CT, Fermat Capital manages over $2 billion in
catastrophe bond investments, making it one of the leading
catastrophe bond investors in the world. Prior to forming Fermat
Capital, Mr. Seo was Senior Trader in the Insurance Products Group
at Lehman Brothers, an officer of Lehman Re, and a state-appointed
advisor to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. He is one of the
pioneers in establishing the catastrophic risk industry in the
United States. He was recently covered in the widely-read New York
Times article ?In Nature?s Casino".

Mr. Seo will inform the discussion from a private sector
perspective.

Thomas Schelling
2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
Mr. Schelling joined the University of Maryland School of Public
Affairs after twenty years at Harvard. He has been involved in the
global warming debate since chairing a commission for President
Carter in 1980. Mr. Schelling believes climate change poses a
serious threat to developing nations, and drawing on his experience
with the post-war Marshall Plan, argues that addressing global
warming is a bargaining problem: if the world is able to reduce
emissions, poor countries will receive most of the benefits but rich
countries will bear most of the costs.

Mr. Schelling will inform the discussion from the development policy
perspective

MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, Finance Economics and Urban Department, World Bank
Prior to joining the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction in
the World Bank, Mr. Sanghi worked on development topics ranging from
infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and agricultural
economics. He has also worked in private sector consulting, for the
Thailand Development Research Institute, a nonprofit think tank, and
has held teaching and research positions at the University of
Chicago, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and Yale University. His
research has focused on the economic impact of global warming in
developing countries.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Reminder: "Socio-Economic Differences in Health, Nutrition, and Population Within Developing Countries" on Monday February 25 at noon

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Invite you to a book launch
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| | Within Developing Countries |
| | Davidson R. Gwatkin, Shea |
| | Rutstein, Kiersten Johnson, |
| | Eldaw Suliman, Adam Wagstaff, and |
| | Agbessi Amouzou |
| | |
| | Disparities within developing |
| | countries contribute as much to |
| | global child health inequalities |
| | as do disparities between the |
| | developing and developed worlds. |
| | These disparities within |
| | countries are being exacerbated |
| | by inequalities in basic health |
| | care, and they will not |
| | necessarily be reduced by faster |
| | progress toward the Millennium |
| | Development Goals. |
| | These are some of the many |
| | findings that emerge from 56 |
| | country reports are produced |
| | through a joint effort of the |
| | Demographic and Health Surveys |
| | (DHS) project and the World Bank. |
| | They are based on data drawn from |
| | 95 household DHS surveys |
| | conducted between 1990 and 2005 |
| | |
| | For more information, please |
| | click here or go to |
| |

www.worldbank.org/hnp

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Monday, February 25, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

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A reception will follow the presentation

MODERATED BY
Ruth Levine
Vice President and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Davidson R. Gwatkin
Consultant, Health, Nutrition, and Population, World Bank

Shea Rutstein
Technical Director, Demographic and Health Surveys Project

Adam Wagstaff
Lead Health Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

COMMENTED BY
Abdo S. Yazbeck
Lead Economist, Health, Nutrition, and Population World Bank

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Launch of "Women and Nation-Building" presented at the InfoShop on March 3 at 2:00pm in J1-050

Please find attached the invitation for "Women and Nation-Building" book launch
at the World Bank.

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