SYMPOSIA- CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Friday, January 18, 2008, 10:30 a.m.

1. Beyond Kyoto – Elements of a 2020 International Agreement  - Dilip Ahuja, National Institute of Advanced Studies; Scott Barrett, Professor and Director, International Policy Program, Johns Hopkins University; Jonathan Pershing, Director, Climate, Energy and Pollution Program, World Resources Institute; Richard Moss, World Wildlife Fund; Malachy Hargadon, Environment Counselor, Delegation of the European Commission
   
   
2. Climate Change and International Development  - Moderator: Mohan Munasinghe, Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Chairman, Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Thomas Schelling, University of Maryland; Adrian Vazquez, Commission for Environmental Cooperation; Ralph Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences
   
   
3. Role of Philanthropic Foundations: Promoting Strategic Initiatives on Climate Change   –  Moderator: Sharon Alpert, Program Officer of the Environmental Program, Surdna Foundation; Andrew Bowman, Director of the Climate Change Initiative, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Kathleen Welch, Deputy Director of the Environmental Program, the Pew Charitable Trusts; Eric Heitz, President, the Energy Foundation; Elizabeth Chadri, Program Officer for Conservation and Sustainable Development,  John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
   
   
4. Business and Finance: Opportunities and Challenges from Climate Change – Moderator: Jeff Leonard,  CEO, Global Environment Fund; Bruce Schlein, Vice President Environmental Affairs, Citi; Mindy Lubber, President, Ceres; Ben Lashkari, Director, Environmental and Commodity Markets, Swiss Re; Mark Tercek, Director, Goldman Sachs' Environmental Markets Initiative
   
   
5. Forging Alliances Between Business and Society - US Climate Action Partnership, Tim Mealey, Senior Partner, Meridian Institute; DuPont; Exelon Corporation; Environmental Defense; The Nature Conservancy; Pew Center on Global Climate Change; Shell
   
   
6. Legislative Agenda for Addressing the Carbon Problem  – L. Jeremy Richardson, 2007-2008 AAAS Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship; Margaret Turnbull, Space Telescope Science Institute; Ken Colburn, Center for Climate Strategies; Lexi Shultz, Representative for Climate Policy, the Union of Concerned Scientists
   
   
7. Engaging State and Local Government: Developing and Implementing Climate Action Plans - Moderator: Dan Kammen, University of California- Berkeley; Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson, Mayor, Salt Lake City, Utah (2000-2008); Gary Radloff, Director of Policy and Strategic Communications, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection 
   
8. Climate Scientists and Decisionmakers: The Communication Interface –  Moderator:Rebecca J. Romsdahl, Science & Technology Policy Fellow, US Climate Change Science Program;  Stacy Rosenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics & Environmental Studies, SUNY Potsdam; Deborah Cowman, Assistant Research Scientist, Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy, Texas A&M University; Chris Pyke, Constructive Technologies Group, Inc.; Kit Batten, Director of Environmental Policy, Center for American Progress; David Bookbinder, Senior Attorney, Sierra Club; Roger Pulwarty, National Drought Information System, NOAA, Boulder, CO
   
   
9. Communicating Climate Science to the Public Through the Media – Moderator: Deborah Potter, NewsLab; David Malakoff, Editor/Correspondent, NPR Science Desk; Stephen Schneider, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University; Joe Witte, Meteorologist, WJLA-TV; Doyle Rice, USA Today Weather Editor; Sara Espinoza, National Environmental Education Foundation
   
   
10. Science for Carbon Management – Moderator: Eric Sundquist , US Geological Society; Richard Birdsey, U.S. Forest Service; Sandra Brown, Winrock International; Stephen Faulkner. U.S. Geological Survey; Brian McPherson, University of Utah; Robert Trautz, Electric Power Research Institute