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2002: "My Agenda for Johannesburg", at the conference " Countdown for Johannesburg" organized by the Heinrich-Boell Foundation

2000: Challenge of urbanization in India: lecture at symposium on Asia’s urban environment" Stockholm, Sweden.

2000: The Global Dialogue on Natural Resources: The Sustainability Challenge lecture at EXPO 2000, Hanover, Germany.

2000: Lecture given to members of the US-India Roundtable on the issue of "Health and Environment" New York, America.

1999: We all live downstream: Urban industrial growth and its impact on water systems; Plenary lecture, 9th Stockholm Water Symposium, Sweden

1999: What possibilities there are for Green Politics in Asia and what is meant by Green Politics in the Asian context, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

1999: Debate 21: The Debate on Instruments for Sustainable Development for the Climate Sector organised by WEED and GERMANWATCH, Germany.

1998: NGO workshop on Emission Trading and Entitlements: organised by CSE and co-sponsored by German NGO FORUM, Stadthalle, Bonn, Germany.

1997: Government’s Agenda or Ours? The NGO Agenda in the forthcoming period at the workshop, Beyond Rio, organised by World Economy, Ecology and Development, Germany.

1997: Sustainable development from the perspective of the South at the ‘Way out of the Growth Trap" Congress organised by the Heinrich-Boll-Stiftung, Germany.

1997: How to build bridges between trade, environment and development to improve the effectiveness of global environmental policies at the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Ways and Means workshop organised by Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, The Netherlands.

1997: Environmental Security, plenary talk at the 1997 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, IIASA, Austria.

1997: Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the World Trade Organisation at the Symposium on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development, Organised by the World Trade Organisation, Switzerland.

1996: Publishing Environmental News: How do you support sustainable development, at the Workshop on Reporting for Sustainable Development in Asia Pacific organised by UNEP, Beijing, China.

1996: Public Debate with Andrew Steer, Director, Environment Department, World Bank, on Global Environmental Concerns – At whose expense? Head to Head Debate organised by the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society, Oxford, UK.

1995: Public Debate with Wolfgang Sachs, Chairperson, Greenpeace, Germany on "Towards Global Governance", at the First Conference of Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, Berlin, Germany.

1993: Public Debate with Hans Alders, Dutch Environment Minister organised by the Evert Vermeer Foundation of the Dutch Labour Party, The Hague.