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Institut Veolia Environnement

A tool for foresight reflection

Since 2001, Institut Veolia Environnement, a center for reflection and debate, has been contributing to enriching ideas within the company and to its foresight vision for the major challenges facing the planet. The Institute addresses issues such as climate change, urbanization, along with environment-related economic, sociological and cultural questions.

The Foresight Committee, the Institute’s central body, is comprised of six internationally renowned experts who contribute an external view from a variety of professional angles and who define the overall direction for discussions. The Institute also taps into an extensive network of researchers and experts around the globe.
Its activities are based on three instruments:

• The Foresight Research Program

With its academic partners, the Institute puts together a research program addressing the main environmental trends. In addition to current projects with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI, India) and the Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI, France) for example, two new foresight partners have come on board in 2008, namely, the Blue Plan for the Mediterranean and Columbia University (United States).

• International conferences

Through its Environmental Foresight Conference program, the Institute is committed to contributing to debate and discussion each time about a different topic and in a different geographic region. The fourth session was held in 2007 in Montreal (Canada) on the topic of “Climate 2050: Technology and Policy Solutions.” The next conference will be held in Abu Dhabi, (United Arab Emirates) in January 2009.

• Publications

In order to achieve its aim of capitalizing on and sharing experience and knowledge, the Institute publishes two original scientific journals: S.A.P.I.EN.S (interdisciplinary surveys and perspectives about environment-related topics) and FACTS (field action science).