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Ex US vice president to speak in Gibraltar
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The two main speakers at a major environmental forum to be held in Gibraltar
will be Vice President Al Gore and Juan Verde, the international Co-Director of
Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. The forum will be hosted on Sunday 21
October by Gibraltar’s Minister of the Environment, Dr John Cortes.
‘Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar aims to make Gibraltar a major
environmental hub and it is my dream to make Gibraltar a green capital of
Europe,’ said Minister Cortes. ‘Our Government has done much to change the
ethos of Gibraltar, leading by example in the public sector but also engaged with
the private sector by including green incentives in its budgetary measures. The
‘Thinking Green’ forum cements our green credentials and places them on a
global platform.’
The major goal of the ‘Thinking Green’ forum is to explain to large, medium and
small companies how sustainability can help them. Today’s world faces two of
the most important challenges our planet has ever encountered: the
international economic recession and the climate crisis. ‘Thinking Green’ will
focus on these two areas with the goal of providing strategies, solutions,
inspirations and leadership to business and commerce.
Former US Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore will address
the audience with his presentation, ‘Thinking Green: Economic Strategy for the
21st Century’. Arguing that the physical changes in our planet influence our
global economy, Vice President Gore will encourage the audience to consider
broader issues – environmental, social and political – when setting business
strategies.
Juan Verde is the former Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia at the US
Department of Commerce. Responsible for economic and trade relations with
Europe and Eurasia between 2009 and 2012, he will present the policies of the
Obama administration on renewable energy and explain how the US elections
will affect the European economy.
20.07.2012
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