Agenda
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
8:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.
Welcome
John C. Mutter, Deputy Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University; Chair, State of the Planet Conference Steering Committee
Opening Remarks
Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
9:30 a.m.
Keynote Speaker
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University; Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
10:00 a.m.
SESSION ONE: RESEARCH AND INGENUITY
Moderator: Darcy B. Kelley
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University; Chair, Frontiers of Science, Columbia College
Mobilizing Research and Ingenuity for Sustainable Options
Ismail Serageldin, Director, Library of Alexandria in Egypt
Science, Technology and Innovation for Global Sustainability through the Millennium Development Goals
Dato Lee Yee-Cheong, President, World Federation of Engineering Organisations 2003-05; Co-Coordinator, UN Millennium Project "Science, Technology and Innovation" Task Force; Senior Fellow, Academy of Sciences Malaysia
Climate Prediction on Timescales of Seasons to Decades:
A Requirement for Sustainable Development in the 21st Century
Tim Palmer, Head of Probability Forecast Division, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast
Mobilizing Research and Ingenuity for the World’s Needs
Steven E. Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP p.l.c.
Mobilizing Science and Technology for Sustainable Development of Water and Land Resources
Frank Rijsberman, Director General, International Water Management Institute
12:45 p.m.
Lunch Break
2:00 p.m.
Keynote Speaker
Reforming the UN System to Help Meet the MDGs
Mark Malloch Brown, Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary-General, United Nations
2:30 p.m.
SESSION TWO: DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES
Moderator: Albert Fishlow
Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Director, Institute for Latin American Studies, Columbia University
The Serious Business of Children
Carol Bellamy, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Learning; Former Executive Director, UNICEF
Needed Reforms to International Economic Governance for Development
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Evolving Institutional Structures for Sustainable Development: Connecting Macro Policy with Grassroots Action
Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute; Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Environmental Enforcement in Market-based Economies
Eric V. Schaeffer, Director, Environmental Integrity Project
The UN Global Compact: A Voluntary Approach to Connecting Global Policy with Local Business Action
Georg Kell, Executive Head, United Nations Global Compact
5:15 p.m.
Keynote Speaker
Changing Values for a Sustainable World
Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University
5:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
8:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.
Welcome
9:15 a.m.
Keynote Speaker
Managing Risk in an Uncertain Climate: A Reinsurer’s Perspective
John Coomber, Retired Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Re Group
9:45 a.m.
SESSION THREE: TAPPING INTO MARKET FORCES AND THE ECONOMY
Moderator: David Nissen
Director, Program in International Energy Management and Policy at the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, Professor in Practice, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Financial Markets at the Crossroads
Abby Joseph Cohen, Partner and Chief U.S. Investment Strategist,
Goldman, Sachs & Co
Climate, Coal and the Car of the Future
Joseph Romm, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
Enterprise as a Driver of Sustainable Development
Stuart L. Hart, Samuel C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise, Professor of Management, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Sustainable Development: A Business Opportunity—One Publisher’s Perspective
David J. Refkin, Director of Sustainable Development, Time Inc.
Financial Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities
Amy Davidsen, Director of Environmental Affairs, JPMorgan Chase
12:20 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:35 p.m.
SESSION FOUR: CHALLENGING BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS AND PERSPECTIVES
Moderator: Roberta G. Balstad
Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Education in Developing Countries
Joel E. Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller University; Professor of Populations, Columbia University; Head of the Laboratory of Populations, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Rockefeller University
Discounting Global Warming
Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge; Fellow of St. John's College
A New Perspective on Water Poverty and Sustainability: Green and Blue Water Options to Attain the MDGs
Johan Rockström, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute
The Globalization of Green Values: The Culture and Politics of Sustainability
Denis Hayes, President, The Bullitt Foundation;
National Organizer of the first Earth Day
Exploring the Practical Challenges of Creating Positive Change in Development
Parker Mitchell, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Engineers Without Borders, Canada
Ecosystem Collapse and Sustainable Development
Andrew Dobson, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
4:40 p.m.
SUMMATION: IS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FEASIBLE?
Moderator: John Rennie
Editor in Chief, Scientific American
Joel E. Cohen
Abby Joseph Cohen
Sir Partha Dasgupta
Nicholas D. Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Jeffrey D. Sachs
5:15 p.m.
Conference Closing Remarks