4 World Forum on Enterprise and the EnvironmentAbout The World Forum The World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment (WFEE) is rapidly becoming established as the leading international environmental conference. Each year the World Forum brings together 120 global decision makers and thinkers to explore the key challenges and critical milestones in our transition to sustainability.The 2009 World Forum, 'Is There A Model For Low Carbon Growth?', brought together the Heads of State of Rwanda and the Maldives, Al Gore, Lord Browne, Lord Giddens and other leading figures from the policy, business and academic communities. Delegates examined the connections between economic activity and emissions across several sectors to consider feasible models of low-carbon growth. The forum discussed environmental and industry case studies, shared research findings and assessed the potential for implementing suitable models for low carbon economic growth. The 2010 World Forum theme was 'Low Carbon Mobility: Air, Sea and Land' which explored a vision of sustainable mobility in 2050, and the necessary steps to realising it. Speakers included Dr Janez Potoc?nik, European Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Steven Chu, US Secretary of State for Energy, President Mikhail Gorbachev, Founding President of Green Cross International, and Fatih Birol, Chief Economist of the International Energy Association.The World Forum addressed the enablers and constraints of a faster transition to low-carbon mobility and how public and private partners could collaborate to innovate. Key issues included financing capital stock turnover, investing in new infrastructure, and developing new vehicle and fuels technologies.Together with our international partners we will continue to build on the progress of the past two forums, as we head towards the next, 'Valuing Ecosystem Services' on 28th - 30th June 2011.Professor Sir David King

World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment 5 2011 World Forum previewValuing Ecosystem Services 28-30th June 2011The loss of biodiversity and ecosystems is a worldwide problem, and is not (yet) under control. The international year of biodiversity, 2010, culminated in the Biodiversity Convention in Nagoya. Now decision-makers are re-examining the scientific, economic, social and cultural value of biodiversity, and reviewing action strategies on a global scale. The raised awareness on biodiversity and commitments in Nagoya will be the starting point of The World Forum 2011. We will focus on the challenges and opportunities of implementation and action, in the years to come. The World Forum will see up to 120 invited experts from business, government, NGOs and academie gather for in-depth discussions and to work towards biodiversity action. The focus will be on: . a review of the "new deal" and tool-boxes that have emerged out of intense activity since the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (inter alia, the TEEB report, IPBS, biodiversity goals). scenarios around delivering biodiversity commitments in the medium- and long-term, as well as the challenges and opportunities they may offer. candid discussion of some of the controversial but critical questions we must answer if we are to conserve or restore ecosystem services, and move beyond the last decade's relative failure in reaching biodiversity objectives. Pavan Sukdhev, TEEB Study Leader, President Juan Calderon, President of the Republic of Columbia and Professor Elinor Ostrom, Political Scientist and winner of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences are invited participants. For more information on partner and participant opportunities for the invitation only 2011 World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment please contact Wendy Ball +44 (0)1865 614961 or Sarah White on +44 (0)1865 614966 or email events@smithschool.ox.ac.uk