Thursday 29 March 2011 |
| Day 4: Planetary Stewardship |
| 8:30 | Arrival Opening ceremony |
| 9:00 | High-level welcome
David Willetts, UK Minister for Universities and Science
Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO |
| | Conference Declaraion
Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and
Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia
Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General (video address) |
| Plenary presentations Welcome to the Anthropocene |
| 09:30 | Towards planetary stewardship: the nature of the challenge
Sybil Seitzinger, Executive Director, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Sweden. |
| 09:45 | Interconnected risks and solutions: policy recommendations
Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Frank Biermann, Professor, VU University Amsterdam |
| | Rio + 20: Navigating the Anthropocene |
| 10:00 | Future Earth and a new contract between science and society
Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden and co-chair of Future Earth Transition Team |
| 10:15 | High-level responses from policy, major groups and society
Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Coordinator of Rio+20 and former Minister for Energy and Environment of Barbados, Achim Steiner, Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Felix Dodds, Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, Margit Fischer, President, Austrian Science Center Network and Colin Drummond, Chief Executive of Viridor |
| 10:45 | Open discussion
We invite your questions.
Facilitator: Nisha Pillai |
| 11:15 | Refreshment Break / Press conference |
| Igniting the paradigm shift: a shared vision for the future |
| 11:45 | Reducing economic disparity
Richard Norgaard, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 12:00 | Creating sustainable cities
Shobhakar Dhakal, Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, Japan |
| 12:15 | Panel discussion: delivering governance for global sustainability across scales Carlos dos Santos, Ambassador of Mozambique to UK
Maria Ivanova, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston and Co-Director, Center for Governance and Sustainability, USA
Henri Djombo, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Forestry, Republic of Congo
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature
Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor, European Commission
Patricia Pinho, Research Scientist, Centre for Earth System Science, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Moderator: Oliver Morton, The Economist |
13:00
14:00 | Lunch, key events and posters
Afternoon refreshments |
| 15:00 | Parallel Sessions Click to view sessions and key events for day 4 |
| 16:30 | End of sessions |
| | Plenary closing: Beyond Rio+20 |
| 16:45 | Bridges to the future
Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia |
| 16:55 | Vision from youth |
| 17:00 | Awards
Rik Leemans, Wageningen University, Netherlands |
| 17:05 | The way ahead
Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, on behalf of the UNESCO Director-General |
| 17:15 | End of Conference
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