Klaus Toepfer to Give Keynote Speech at Economic and Environmental Forum in Vienna

People ♦ Published: January 22, 2016; 11:30 ♦ (Vindobona)

Good governance in the OSCE area, reinforcing security and stability through co-operation, will be theme of the 24th Economic and Environmental Forum and the 1st Preparatory Meeting taking place on 25 and 26 January in Vienna. The meeting will focus on good environmental governance to enable sustainable economic development.

Klaus Toepfer to give keynote speech at Economic and Environmental Forum in Vienna / Picture: © Flickr / Heinrich Böll Stiftung

The meeting will be opened by the Chairperson of the Permanent Council, Ambassador Eberhard  Pohl, on behalf of the 2016 German OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities Yurdakul Yigitguden.

Klaus Toepfer, the former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme and Helge…