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G-Forse 2004 Highlights

The three-day Forum, which was held at Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore, had a plenary session addressed by the senior officials of the Government of Pakistan, senior officials of the United Nations and leading athletes.

The Forum had three panel discussions on:
1. Corporate Environment Responsibility
2. Sport & Environment – Concept & Reality
3. Partnership for a Better Environment (with schools, industry, sport associations and athletes)

Panelists:

Panel I - Corporate Environmental Responsibility
:
Pakistan Minister for Sports (Moderator)
-Michel Parraudin – President, World Federation of Sporting  Goods Industry:"The Environment and the Sporting Goods Industry".
-Tariq Rangoonwala-Heading ICC Pak Chapter 
- Amir Pasha- (The Coca Cola Experience)
- Qaiser Jamal- MD, National Refinery Limited - NRL- (Environmental Initiatives in the Refinery Sector)
-Tore Brevik – UNEP Special Representative for Sports and Environment
(Olympic Games Contractors and Corporate.
 - Ambreen Waheed – CEO, Responsible Business Initiative: "The Pakistani Experience of Corporate Environmental  Responsi
bility".
-Kh. Zakauddin – Head of the Organisational Committee of Sialkot, MD Capital Sports.
(Sialkot Initiatives)
- Rapporteur: Theodore Oben (UNEP).

Panel II: Sports & Environment – Concept & Reality:
- Dr. Asif Shuja (General Presentation), Moderator.
-Tatsuo Okada (Linkages between Sports and Environment)
-Anders Bulow – President International Sport and  Culture Association (culture and the environment for promotion of sport)
- Asad Sumbul – Leadership for Environment and Development Fellow - LEAD
-Hartmut Stahl- Oeko Institute/ FIFA 2006 World Cup Organizer.
-Alexis Gallice – Director Green Football France (Football and the Environment – the Experience of France)
-Ali Hasan Habib- Executive Director, WWF Pakistan (Action on the Ground-Pakistan)
- Nasir Dogar-ILO IPEC- (Warning signs for Sialkot)
- Dr Mohammad Khursheed- Biodiversity expert, Mountain Area Conservation Project-MACP.
-Rapporteur: Faiz Shah (GSA).
+ Zabreen Hassan.

Panel III: Partnership  for a Better Environment :
-Huma Mustafa Beg – Moderator
-Lt. Gen. Syed Arif Hasan- Chairman, Pakistan Olympic Association- POA 
-(Sports Events to Showcase and Mobilze the Environmental Agenda)
 - Antonio Lucio – Madrid 2012 Director of Environment  (The role of future games in promoting environmental awareness  and actions)
-Aftab Rana- Executive Director, Adventure Foundation Pakistan
-(Mobilizing the Youth for Sports and Environment)
- Andres Gorgemans - Secretary General, World  Federation of Sporting Goods Industry (possible partnerships with  the sporting goods industry to promote sustainable development)
- (Partnerships with the Sporting Goods Industry to Promote Sustainable Development
- Nazir Sabir- Mountaineer (Mountain Environment and Mountain Sports)
- Dr. Elizabeth Odera – Director, UNEP/GSA Nature and Sports Camp Kenya
-Rameez Raja- Sports Personality (Sports People for Education)
- Ibrahim Al Zu’bi – Director, Emirates Diving Association (Partnership for a Better Environment – The Experience of the Emirates Diving Association)
-Rapporteurs: Jason Chare (GSA)+ Zabreen Hassan.

Closing Session:
- Closing Remarks- M. Farrukh Irfan Khan, Eric Falt, Tatsuo Okada

Sialkot Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI)
- Arrival of guests in SCCI
-Recitation from the Holy Quran
-Welcome address by the President, (SCCI)
-Address by the Chairman, G-ForSE 2004
-Presentation on Social and Environmental Scenario of the Sporting Goods Industry (short video on Child Labor)
- Address by the President, WFSGI and other delegates
- Chief Guest- Minister of State for Environment


Press Briefing :
- Lt. Gen. Syed Arif Hasan
- Eric Falt
- M. Farrukh Irfan Khan
-Michel Parraudin
-Tatsuo Okada

Prizes for Best practices on Sports and the Environment.
The forum provided top prizes to best environmental practices in the following categories:
1. Sporting Goods
2. Sporting events
3. Sporting facilities

Recycle Art Programme
A National competition for schools in Pakistan on recycled Sport equipment was organized by G-ForSE. The best entry was selected for exhibition and prizes given to winners of the competition.

Field Trip
Participants of the Forum had a field trip to Sialkot, located about 100 km from Lahore. Sialkot is the base of several sporting good manufacturers in Pakistan. The field trip provided them with an opportunity to review the environmental aspects of many of the sporting goods manufacturers and discussed ways of reinforcing the environmetal aspects of their work.

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