Veolia Institute

Who are we

• The Institute
• Veolia Institute Governance
• The Foresight Committee

Our topics

Our publications

• The Veolia Institute Review - FACTS Reports
  • Essential services in Africa
  • Indoor air quality
  • Urban agriculture
  • Reinventing Plastics
  • Resilient cities
  • Artificial Intelligence and Robotics - Special Issue 17 (2017)
  • Smart Cities at the Crossroads - Special issue 16 (2017)
  • Decentralized electrification and development - Special Issue 15 (2016)
  • Environmental and social acceptability of major industrial projects - Special issue 14 (2016)
  • Migration and Health - Special issue 13 (2015)
  • Last Mile Delivery - Special issue 12 (2014)
  • Stories of Innovative Democracy at Local Level - Special Issue 11 (2014)
  • Improving Health Among Immigrant Populations - Special issue 10 (2014)
  • Haïti : Innovations locales, clés pour un développement durable et inclusif - Special issue 9 (2014)
  • Access to Healthcare, Healthcare Funding and Performance - Special issue 8 (2013)
  • Livelihoods - Special issue 7 (2013)
  • Reconciling Poverty Eradication and Protection of the Environment - Special issue 6 (2012)
  • Women's and Children's Health - Special issue 5 (2012)
  • Fighting Poverty, between market and gift - Special issue 4 (2012)
  • Brazil - Special issue 3 (2011)
  • Migration and Health - Special issue 2 (2010)
  • Urban Agriculture - Special issue 1 (2010)
  • The oldest issues of the Veolia Institute Review
• Other publications
  • Studies
    • Measuring the environmental performance of cities
    • The carbon footprint of urban transport – case study: Mumbai
    • Comparative carbon footprints of European cities
  • S.A.P.I.E N.S
    • Large-scale restoration
    • Resilient cities
    • IUCN Commissions
    • Cities and climate change
    • Visualizing the world
  • Activity Report & presentations

Our events

• Conferences-debates
  • Innovating for essential services in Africa
  • Viruses, pollutants and air quality
  • Indoor air quality
  • Urban agriculture & resilience
  • Urban agriculture
  • How to make plastic circular?
  • Reinventing Plastics
  • Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  • Smart Cities
  • Resilient cities and regions
  • COP 22 in Marrakesh "methane"
  • COP 22 in Marrakesh: side event on decentralized electrification and development
  • Conference-debate "Decentralised electrification and development" - FACTS Reports special issue
  • Conference-debate on "The environmental and social acceptability" - FACTS Reports
  • COP 21 : 2 Side-events
  • Environmental economics and sustainable development
  • Last-mile delivery and the informal sector
  • Haiti: Memories of development
  • Participation in the Entretiens du Grand Paris – 3rd edition
  • RIO+20 : 2 side-events
  • 3 post-conference workshops - Beijing 2010
  • Other workshops and seminars
• The international conferences
  • Resource Availability in a Low Carbon World
    • The programme of the conference
    • Lord Nicholas Stern's Special Address
  • Mitigating methane emissions : from science to innovative solutions
    • Take-home messages
    • The infographic on our "Methane Initiative"
  • Ecosystems, economy and society: how large-scale restoration can stimulate sustainable development
    • Take-home messages
  • RIO+20 – Poverty-Environment Conference
  • Reconciling poverty eradication and quality of the environment: What are the innovative solutions?
    • Special addresses
    • Session 1: Poverty eradication and climate change
    • Session 2: Poverty eradication and biodiversity
    • Session 3 : Poverty eradication and quality of the environment in urban and peri urban areas
    • Session 4 : Poverty eradication and quality of the environment, what is the role of the private sector?
  • Trade, urbanization and the environment
    • Special addresses
    • Plenary sessions
    • 6 parallel sessions
  • Climate 2050: Technology and policy solutions
    • Special addresses - Climate 2050
    • Parallel session 1 - Climate 2050
    • Parallel session 2 - Climate 2050
    • Parallel session 3: Climate 2050
  • Energy, environment, and development: analysing opportunities for reducing poverty
  • Public services and Management: designs, issues and implications for local governance
  • Education, Environment and Health
  • Other international conferences
• The Veolia Institute Talks

Our News

• Discover the Veolia Institute's 2020 activity report
• Water, Waste & Energy: Prospects for essential services in Africa
• Raw materials markets and the Covid-19 crisis
• What role do metals play in the energy transition?
• The Veolia Institute welcomes Amy Luers to its Foresight Committee
• Find the Veolia Institute 2019 Activity Report
• "Indoor air quality: tackling the challenges of the invisible” - The new Veolia Institute publication
• "Urban agriculture: another way to feed cities” - The new Veolia Institute publication
• Overview of geopolitical issues with Thomas Gomart (IFRI)
• 3 questions to Mathieu Detchessahar on new management trends
• The 2018 Veolia Institute activity report is available!
• Conferences-debates on the theme of plastics
• Interview with Nicolas Miailhe, Co-founder and President of "the Future Society"
• The challenge of plastics in the oceans
• Resilient cities The Veolia Institute Review - Facts Reports N.18
• Interview with Philippe Chalmin on Global markets for raw materials
• The Veolia Institute's Activity Report 2017 is online
• Conference Debate Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
• Filling the gaps in research
• Signals of hope: cultural shifts that are making resource availability possible
• Scaling up resource efficiency
• 'In the long run...' Demand, supply, and the economics of resource availability
• Release of the latest issue of FACTS Reports on Artificial Intelligence
• The Institute's Letter- December 2017
• Conference Debate on Smart Cities
• All the content from the conference is now available
• All the videos from the resource conference are now available
• Follow Lord Stern's Special Address on Nov 2nd for The Institute's International Conference on Resource Availability
• #resourceavailability2017 Conference Launch
• One month to go before the Institute's Resource Availability Conference
• Opening of the colloquium "Resilient cities and regions"
• The Institute's Letter- July 2017
• Release of the latest issue of FACTS Reports on Smart Cities
• Foresight Committee meeting on the Future of Hydrocarbons
• The Activity Report 2016-2017 is online
• 10th International Conference - Resource Availability in a Low Carbon World
• Call for Papers - S.A.P.I.EN.S special issue - Resource Availability In A Low Carbon World
• The Veolia Institute partners with the Oxford Martin School
• Lord Nicholas Stern joins the Institute's Foresight Committee
• The Veolia Institute Letter is available!
• COP 22 – Marrakech – Side Event Institut Veolia et CCAC
• COP 22 – Marrakesh – Side Event Veolia Institute and FERDI “Decentralized electrification and Development”
• Conference-debate & release of the FACTS Report Special Issue « Decentralized Electrification and Development »
• Yuriko Koike, first woman to be elected Governor of Tokyo
• Save the date of October 7: Conference-debate on the “Decentralized Electrification and Development”
• Conference-debate on "The environmental and social acceptability" - FACTS Reports
• The Veolia Institute Letter is now available!
• Discover the key messages of the Methane initiative in a video
• Meeting of the Foresight Committee in Tokyo, Japan
• Conference-debate on the environmental and social acceptability of major industrial projects
• The Veolia Institute Activity Report 2015-2016 is online.
• The podcast of Olivier Godard is online
• The Board of Directors meeting
• The 14th special issue of FACTS Reports has just been published in its English version
• Participation in the WSTB Board meeting - Washington
• The infographic about our Methane Initiative
• S.A.P.I.EN.S. - Publication of a new issue
• The Veolia Institute Letter is online
• The Institute granted the official "Observer NGO" status
• The film on the Methane Conference is available!
• Foresight Committee members' call to tackle methane emissions
• COP21 - Two side-events on December 8 2015
• Follow the Methane Conference on Twitter @InstitutVeolia #ConfMethane #COP21
• Only a few days left before the Conference on Methane
• Methane Conference COP21 J-14 !
• Conference-debate with Olivier Godard
• Conference on Methane COP21 – Speakers Lineup announced
• Activity Report 2014-2015
• Methane conference - Registration is open