President Ilves went to Greece to attend the Symi Symposium on climate change
Monday, 16 July 2007 19:24
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves will be in Greece this week, at the Tenth Annual Symi Symposium on Paros Island, which is focusing this year on climate change.
The main topics of the symposium include: achieving a new global agreement in the wake of Kyoto; the energy storm—a safe path to future alternatives; how Europe should understand and react to Russia; the green economy—who will be the leader of the next economic revolution.
The welcoming speech opening the symposium was delivered by George A. Papandreou, the former Foreign Minister of Greece and current leader of the opposition PASOK party. Those invited to the symposium include former Foreign Minister of the German Federal Republic, Joschka Fischer; Nobel Prize laureate and Professor of Economics at Columbia University, Joseph E. Stiglitz; and European Parliament member Cem Özdemir; as well as many sociologists, politicians and well-known economic and political journalists. The Estonian Head of State has been invited to participate in the section related to Russia.
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