Since
its launch in 2008, the Convergences World Forum has become a key event for all
the professionnals who seek innovative solutions to fight poverty in the world.
The Forum offers experts and decision-makers a space for learning, networking
and high level sharing to build answers together to the social and
environmental challenges both in northern and southern countries. Every year,
the Convergences World Forum is the culmination of the work of the
Convergences platform for thought and gathers more than 7000 attendees in
Paris.
The 9th edition of the Convergences World Forum
inventing tomorrow’s sustainable cities and territories will take place on
September 5th, 6th and 7th 2016 in Paris.
Experts and actors from
the private, public and solidarity-based sectors will gather to share, debate
and reflect around three themes:
Towards sustainable cities and territories
- Territories in transition
- The food, water and energy nexus
- Economic activity, land-use planning and mobility
Meeting
the new Sustainable Development Goals
- The challenges of education and interculturality
- Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
- A new approach to humanitarian aid
An
economy serving the Common Good
- Synergies between business models and economic actors
- Participative and collaborative social models
- Socially impacting financial tools
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