UN Millennium Project

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The Millennium Project

Contributors:

	· Task Forces
	· Secretariat Team
	· UN Experts Group

Statements of Support:

	· by Heads of State
	· by International Organizations
	· by Civil Society and Academia

Task Force 6 on Environmental Sustainability

Task Force Members

Patricia Balvanera
Research Scientist, Center for Ecosystem Research
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico-Campus Morelia

David Brackett
Director General
Canadian Wildlife Service

Damayanti Buchori
Head, Center of Integrated Pest Management
Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia

Malin Falkenmark
Chair, Scientific Program Committee
Stockholm International Water Institute

Claudia Martínez Zuleta
Environmental Consultant, Former Vice Minister of the Environment
Colombia

Charles McNeill
Environment Programme Team Manager and
Biodiversity Conservation & Poverty Reduction Advisor,
Environmentally Sustainable Development Group
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Rodrigo Medellín
Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
Columbia University

Patrick Milimo
Conservation Programme Director
World Wildlife Fund, Eastern Africa Regional Programme Office, Kenya

Paulo Moutinho
Coordinator
Amazon Institute of Environmental Research, Brazil

Shahid Naeem
Associate Professor
Department of Zoology, University of Washington

Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Africa Program Officer, Conservation and Sustainable Development
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Jonathan Patz
Associate Professor and Director, Global Environmental Health
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies & Dept. Population Health Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Mary Pearl
President
Wildlife Trust

Ellen Pikitch
Executive Director
Pew Institute for Ocean Science

Ravi Prabhu
Acting Director, Program on "Forests and Governance"
Center for International Forestry Research
Regional Office for Eastern & Southern Africa, Zimbabwe

Walter Reid
Director
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, ICLARM, Malaysia

Peter Schei
International Negotiations Director
Directorate for Nature Management, Norway

Chikako Takase
Division for Sustainable Development
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)

Robert Watson
Chief Scientist and Director
Environmentally & Socially Sustainable Development
World Bank

Douglas Williamson
Forestry Officer, Forestry Department
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Kaveh Zahedi
Acting Coordinator, Division of Early Warning and Assessment
Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Task Force Manager

Robin Sears

As of Jan 1, 2007, the advisory work formerly carried out by the Millennium Project secretariat team is being continued by an MDG Support team integrated under the United Nations Development Program.

Please visit MDG Support to get the latest information.

Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
"Investing in Development brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. By outlining practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015."

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