Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
| Established | 2001 |
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| Location | New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Acronym | DSDS |
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Delhi Sustainable Development Summit is an annual summit organised by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi in the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The global presence and reach attained by TERI are not only substantiated by its presence in different parts of the world, but also in terms of the wide geographical relevance of its activities. Symbolic of this fact is the annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS), a major event focusing on sustainable development, environment, and energy, the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and assessment of worldwide progress in these critical areas.
TERI, since 2001, annually organises the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) to facilitate the exchange of knowledge on all aspects of sustainable development. Over the past fifteen years, it has emerged as one of the foremost fora on issues of global sustainability. This flagship event of TERI brings together various Heads of States and Governments, thought leaders, policy makers and the crème de la crème of industry and academia to deliberate on myriad issues. To date, the Summit has hosted 45 Heads of States & Governments, ministers from over 60 countries and delegates from across continents. The Summit has evolved as a significant congregation of leaders from the fields of polity, economy, academia and civil society to deliberate on issues related to sustainable development. The Summit also features a Media Colloquium, host of parallel break-away sessions and special events which allow for in-depth discussions on myriad aspects related to the Summit theme.
The DSDS attracts worldwide thinkers and practitioners, coming from governments, business and industries, multilateral and bilateral organiSations, research and academia and civil society.
Following this success, TERI has established the World Sustainable Development Forum (WSDF), which aims to emulate the DSDS, but applying its talks and research worldwide, and aiming to monitor worldwide industrial development, associated environment and sustainability analysis, and to provide interesting solutions to local industries and government, to meet the MDGs.
World Sustainable Development Forum
The World Sustainable Development Forum (WSDF) was established in 2005 to function as a global platform for knowledge sharing and policy discourse aimed at:
- advancing the achievement of the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)
- promoting global developmental cooperation to correct gender imbalances
- expediting the alleviation of poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, malnutrition and disease
The Forum functions as a platform to identify, analyse, and disseminate policy interventions to enhance human well-being in the present and create conditions for a sustainable future. In this endeavour, the Forum is guided by highly distinguished patrons who are global leaders in government, industry, and academia. The key objectives of the WSDF are to:
- Connect with the finest minds and leading thinkers of the world to focus on sustainability issues
- Bring together policy makers and practitioners to chart a course of action to enable countries and regions to meet the challenges of sustainable development
- Monitor progress towards the achievement of MDGs globally, and periodically review the progress in select countries
- Share knowledge and best practices amongst partners and disseminate the work related to sustainable development and the MDGs
- Undertake research projects either directly or in collaboration with institutions sharing similar goals and missions
WSDF organises Regional Sustainable Development Summits (RSDS) to disseminate knowledge and generate public awareness on issues related to sustainable development regionally. RSDS is aided considerably by the messages emerging from the DSDS (Delhi Sustainable Development Summit), to build bold visions for a development paradigm that calls for sustainability across the present and future generations.
Sustainable Development Leadership Award
In 2005, TERI established The Sustainable Development Leadership Award to felicitate the efforts of global leaders in the field of sustainable development. The award winners are as follows:[1]
| Year | Name | Nationality | Position then |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Shoichiro Toyoda |  Japan | Honorary Chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation |
| 2006 | Ernesto Zedillo |  Mexico | Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization |
| 2007 | Arnold Schwarzenegger |  United States | Governor of California |
| 2008 | Maumoon Abdul Gayoom |  Maldives | President of the Maldives |
| 2009 | Ban Ki-moon |  South Korea | Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| 2010 | Yukio Hatoyama | Japan | Prime Minister of Japan |
| 2011 | Dr. Manmohan Singh |  India | Prime Minister of India |
| 2012 | Tarja Halonen |  Finland | President of Finland |
| 2012 | Felipe Calderón Hinojosa | Mexico | President of Mexico |
| 2013 | James Alix Michel |  Seychelles | President of Seychelles |
| 2014 | Anand Mahindra | India | Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra |
| 2015 | José Manuel Durão Barroso |  Portugal | Former Prime Minister of Portugal and Former President of European Commission |
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Awards
The Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Annual Awards were launched at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) 2012, on the occasion of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's 106th birth anniversary. Georgescu-Roegen had emphasised the need to account for inconvenient variables like energy and matter flows, fund and flow elements, and processes such as institutional inertia in the analysis of economic, ecological and social systems.
2015 Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Awardees
Unconventional Thinking Award – Professor Jacques Grinevald (Epistemologist and Historian, The Graduate Institute Geneva) was awarded with the Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Award 2015 in Unconventional Thinking for his important contributions to the Decroissance (Degrowth) literature and for his service in advancing thinking around anthropocene and bioeconomics. Grinevald as a trans-disciplinary researcher has made notable contributions as an epistemologist and historian of scientific and technological developments.
Lifetime Achievement Award – Professor Herman Daly (Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland) was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his vision and for taking a courageous stance and swimming upstream against the currents of conventional economic thought. The concept of 'Steady-State Economics' by Daly revolted the mind of the orthodox economist. Daly has provided an invaluable service in advancing ecological economics, post-growth thinking for understanding human society and planet earth.
References
- ↑ "Sustainable Development Leadership Award". Delhi Sustainable Development Summit.
Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
Sustainable Development Leadership Award
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Awards