As Chair holder, Professor Ramanathan pledged to further engage scientific discourse on these issues and to develop actions that can be implemented in the field.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Given that the conference is fundamentally a research conference, holding this event in such close proximity to the National Institutes of Health and other U.S. Government research facilities will also, hopefully, expand the level of scientific discourse between our scientists and researchers from around the world.

WHITEHOUSE: Office of National AIDS Policy Blog

The eighteenth century was the French century: Rousseau, Voltaire, Versailles and the court of the Sun King Louis the Fourteenth, Buffon and the Jardin des Plantes, Paris buzzing with the discourse of the enlightenment and the new supremacy of scientific method.

BBC: Part Three - France and the World