ERIC BAZIN WELCOMES THE CLOSING OF GLOBAL CONFERENCE BY GERARD MESTRALLET

USPA NEWS - “Planetworkshops“founded by Eric Bazin and George Gendelman, identified five project leaders who, through a mini TED format, showcased their initiatives and give a boost of their action. JL Borloo former Ecology Minister, spoke on the electrification of Africa and G.Mestrallet, ENGIE´s CEO concluded

INTERVIEW WITH ERIC BAZIN REGARDING THE 3 DAYS OF GLOBAL CONFERENCE OF PLANETWORKSHOPS------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jean Louis Borloo former Ministry of Ecology, spoke on the electrification of Africa initiated by his foundation. Gerard Mestrallet, ENGIE´s CEO, closed the conference by announcing that he is leaving to devote ENGIE has its foundation against the exclusion.INTERVIEW : Rahma Sophia Rachdi had a candid conversation with Eric Bzin CoFounder of “ThePlanetWorkshops“ The initiator of the global conference on the thematic "The actors break" See Article AT 10TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE 700 EXPERTS IN CHANTILLY FRANCE WILL GATHER 6 TO 8 JULY BY THE PLANETWORKSHOPS - See more at: http://www.newsrama.uspa24.com/bericht-4419/at-10th-global-conference-on-climate-700-experts-in-chantilly-france-will-gather.html#sthash.7wBYsO3n.dpuf)

QUESTION: Is it a good year for the annual Global Conference of The "Planetworkshops"?---------------------------------------- ANSWER: This year was extraordinary with the impulse of civil society under the repeated motto order that was "Rupture is synonymous with responsibility." We had the impression that the message was understood and restore the citizen's share of their responsibility vis a vis the problematics of the Earth, whether they target NGOs, Greek debt or the field activities in Africa. Each evening after the 3 days of the Global Conference, men and women came away the evening with the hope and the idea that civil society is the last alternative in alliance with the heads of state to make things happen.-------------------------- QUESTION: What was the annual meeting participation rate of Global Conference, this édition? --------------------------ANSWER: We received this year many participants and speakers from 63 countries from all continents. Foreigners bring an awakening of conscience to the objectives as they are animes by the well being of others to imagine such initiative, with the means at hand. The indebtedness of some countries, following the financial crisis of 2008, the ambient terrorism with armed groups that disrupt the regulation of the global forward progress. In France, the people who began this march will enable to break free, it is inescapable.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION: What was the slogan of "The Planetworkshops" Global Conference, this year ?---------------------------------------- ANSWER: One of the themes was to find a new, more responsible development model suggested by the participants of the Global Conference.The motto of this year is “All Actors of the Rupture“.

QUESTION: Are there any reports issued from the workshop debated during the workshops ?-------------------------------------- ANSWER: We will compile all the rich results at the conclusion of three days of our conference. Last year we published a White Paper 237 pages. This year we prefer to make a smaller more digestible synthesis in a 20-page document, which will be delivered in 3 weeks realised by 20 students of the American University of Paris, and major business schools HEC, ESSEC under the supervision of Adam Baiz.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION: What are the impacts in their different fields from the workshops?------------------------------------------------------- ANSWER: This document will be submitted and presented in various French and international institutions such as the National Assembly, the Senate, Economic and Social Council, OECD, UN as a working tool in preparation to the COP21.---- QUESTION: At a workshop of the Global Conference on the first day, the question that often emerged was “the difficulty of reconciling the desire to make things happen with often distant political reality“? Is this question was iterative during the 3 days of the conference?-----------------------------------------------------ANSWER:Yes it is true that this idea has emerged several times during the 3 days conference and highlighted the difficulty of reconciling the inability political difficulties with the real. Gerard Mestrallet is a Big Boss has said in concluding, confessed his next other that are new active objectives after what he has realised at his level. He is a living example of sliding awareness that illustrates perfectly the frustration of this constraint paradoxically deprived from acting unless you are detached from the power. This tone of freedom of speech has a natural credit and a legitimate meaning in a context like that preoccupies us more than ever.-------------------------------------------------- QUESTION : What are the obstacles recognised at the outcome of the Global Conference?----------------------------------------- ---------------------------ANSWER: There are no more responsible development model because it implies a relationship cynical relationship to another. in this period when corruption is present everywhere. The developed countries facing the emerging countries, are those that are in decline and which disintegrate by maintaining the corruption, that is present everywhere.

QUESTION: The actual thematic of the "Planetworkshops" of the this year is "The Actors of Rupture", then what are the impacts issued thereafter the Global Conference? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ANSWER: Yes we managed to do advance, share and exchange ideas and proposals with participants from around the world. For example Jean Louis Borloo (Former Ministry of Ecology and founder of Energy for Africa Foundation) also shared his desire with ease and motivation of electrifier Africa bitch has its foundation knowing that 18% of the population of the world is proof light and this figure is double in Africa.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION: What is the next step and the involvement of "Planetworkshops" with the COP21 to be held in Paris? -----------------------------------------------------------------ANSWER: I distrust the lessons donors who are “prescribers of ideas." I believe more in the culture or the naivety of man's originality. Gerard Mestrallet CEO of ENGIE has swept a 10-minute conclusion of our week that the bank Indo Suez has become in 20 years with the goal of serving the European groupe to sensitise the authorities by block. He said what he has on the heart, and announces that he will step down as CEO of ENGIE, beginning in 2016 to consacrer has its foundation against the exclusion. He quoted Isabelle Cochere, who will replace him. She was the challenger coached by himself, will be the first woman and the CAC 40. Gerard Mestrallet is the founder of FACE (Foundation Against Exclusion) and CEO of ENGIE (GDF-SUEZ Group of Energy).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION: Did you feel having reached your goal on that focus aimed by the Global Conference from each side of the “˜Actors of Rupture“ in preparation of COP21?---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------ANSWER:It would be wrong to boycott the COP21, otherwise it would be a great hypocrisy. This will make you ideal for afire hear claims and justify and submit proposals. The COP21 should be the field of all fields and laboratories. That's why I prefer to stay naive each morning in a state of wonder of simple things. This is my beautiful morning naivety burst that pushes me to move things forward.

THE PLANETWORKSHOPS WITH ECOACT TO PERFOM "BILAN CARBON" TO REDUCE CARBON EMISSION To minimise their impact on the climate, The Planetworkshops have used EcoAct to perform the Bilan Carbone (Carbon Balance) and carbon offsetting of the Global Conference 2015 X edition. The idea is to conduct a Bilan Carbone® amounts to quantify the direct or indirect emissions of greenhouse gas, of an activity or a site. By prioritising emissions posts, the Bilan Carbone® more easily targets the actions to implement a better climate performance. After action of reduction implemented, an incompressible share of greenhouse gas remains to neutralise in order to move towards carbon neutrality. Carbon offsetting is a mechanism to help the funding of sober projects greenhouse gases. By offsetting those residual emissions, we also avoid elsewhere the emission of greenhouse gases that we could not avoid within our own activity.

AN ORIGINAL NON FINANCIAL INDEX WITH SOCIAL IMPACT- LIKEWISE SUCCESSFUL IN THE USA------------- One of the original subjects and high value green conscience, the MANA a non financial indicator which means : “MANA: a new non-financial indicator“ . At the workshop presented by the speaker, Kiti MIGNOTTE, Co-founder, MANA Community (France), nne-Cécile RAGOT, Co-founder, MANA Community (France) addresses the ins and outs of MANA, an extra-financial index designed for SRI investors to disinvest from corporations which impact on the environment is socially inacceptable. From an algorithm that aggregates and weights all negative tweets related to environmental issues addressed from NGOs, citizens and whistle blowers to corporations, MANA develops a perception index that takes into account the voice of civil society. That is a one approach been presented to be both responsible and closer to the concern of the citizens concerned by the problematic of the planet, the limit of each monetary-financial system getting breathless.This initiative was welcomed as was the case in the US, or Goldman Sachs issued bonds has social impact. According to Johnson, Goldman officials “are proud, very proud, that their firm made the first investment ever in a public-private “˜pay for success´ program““”a $10 million loan for starting up a cognitive behavioural therapy program for juveniles at New York City´s Riker´s Island. Johnson writes, “Goldman Sachs´ entrance into this kind of financing“”most often known as social impact bonds“”could change the way both Wall Street and governments do business,“ essentially bringing everyone“”nonprofits, government, and investors“” to the table to design and drive social programs. (Source : Nonprofitquaterly.org)

GREECE IS MORE CONCERNED THAN EVER BY GLOBAL WARMING EFFECTS ADVERSE FINANCIAL------------ The emergencies to be treated are demanding for now and the future, for survival reasons. And it is more critical than ever to debate but especially to put forward concrete proposals and justifiable to act quickly and well at the scale of the planet's suffering. Ironically "The Planetworkshops" and the overall conference was held concurrently with the negotiations to resolve the Greek debt (European Council in Brussels on July 7). Knowing that the debt linked to climate change consequences is twice as important as the financial debt, given the financial fallout on Greece already strangled by its creditors, will suffer the effects of climate warming more than other European countries because the proximity of the Mediterranean Sea. Climate change will weigh heavily on Greece. Its cumulative cost will be in the range of 436 to 701 Billion euros by 2100, according to measurements taken or not, says the Bank of Greece, in an unpublished study released Wednesday 1 June 2013 (Source Le Monde). This study, commissioned two years ago by the bank to a panel of scientists, identifies three scenarios on the impact of global warming, which should particularly affect countries bordering the Mediterranean, exposed to an average temperature increase up to 4 degrees and a sharp drop in rainfall. For more information see : www.globaldconference2015.org, www.planetworkshops.org, www.engie.com, www.bollore.com, www.fondationface.org, www.lemonde.fr, www.energiespourlafrique.org SOURCES: http://fr.sputniknews.com/french.ruvr.ru/2013_07_12/L-histoire-ingrate-de-la-creme-chantilly-7570/ http://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/01/26/wall-street-finds-social-impact-bonds-to-be-attractive-investment-options/ http://www.socialimpactexchange.org/sites/www.socialimpactexchange.org/files/domain-3/sie_fenton_logo.gif