The event will have the participation of national and international environmental experts.

Pavan Sukhdev, environmental expert from India.

As part of the events to commemorate the thirty years of Corpoguajira, The “Prosperity with Sustainability” forum will be held, in which aspects related to the responsible and sustainable use of natural resources will be addressed.. The academic activity will take place on 17 de diciembre de 2013, to 2:00 pm, at the Cultural Center of La Guajira.

The event will feature the participation of the international expert, Pavan Sukhdev, who will be in charge of the presentation “The economy of nature and the nature of the economy”; The panel of forum members is complemented by the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Luz Helena Sarmiento Villamizar and the Minister of Mines and Energy, Amylkar David Acosta Medina.

Pavan Sukhdev: career banker, He is founder and president of GIST, a consulting firm in India, specialized in the assessment and management of environmental impacts. He is the main promoter of the United Nations Green Economy initiative, which shows that the greening of the economy is not a burden on development, but rather a new engine for the growth of wealth and decent employment and for the reduction of persistent poverty around the world.

Luz Helena Sarmiento: Geologist, Conflict Resolution specialist. She is currently Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development. His professional career has been linked to the development of regulations and programs with indigenous communities., inter-institutional relations, population resettlement processes, sustainable development, climate change, licensing processes, environmental monitoring and control, in the private and public sector.

Amylkar Acosta Medina: Minister of Mines and Energy. He is an economist and former liberal congressman from La Guajira., with a long history in energy issues. He has been a member of the boards of directors of Ecopetrol and the National Federation of Biofuels.. He has also had a career in academia as a professor at the Universities of Antioquia, Externado and La Guajira.