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2. Monday – State of the Planet Τμήμα Άποψης
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 Monday 26 March 2012 | | Day 1: State of the Planet |
08:30 | Arrival
Opening Ceremony | | 09:00 | Welcome from conference Chief Scientific Advisor Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Laureate 2009 Economic Sciences, Indiana University, USA | | | Welcome from the hosts of the conference Lord Martin Rees, Past President, the Royal Society, UK | | | Co-Chairs’ conference vision and declaraion Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and
Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia | | | United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Georgios Kostakos, Acting Deputy Executive Secretary, High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, United Nations | | | The voice of youth Planet under pressure UK youth voice project with support from the British Science Association, Research Councils UK, Sciencewise-ERC and The Royal Society | | Plenary presentations Planet under pressure | | 09:50 | Drivers of global environmental change
Diana Liverman, Professor of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, USA and co-chair Future Earth Transition Team | | 10:10 | State of the Planet: biogeophysical and climate
Will Steffen, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, Australian National University, Australia | | 10:30 | Refreshment break | | 11:00 | State of the Planet: ecosystems
Sandra Diaz, Professor, Córdoba National University, Argentina | | 11:20 | State of humanity: economic and political challenges
Anthony Giddens, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics, UK | | 11:40 | Panel discussion: The planet in 2050 Sir John Beddington, UK Chief Scientific Advisor
Carlos Joly, Biodiversity Senior Adviser, Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation, Brazil
Martin Haigh, Senior Energy Advisor, Scenarios Team, Shell
Jill Jaeger, Senior Researcher, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Austria
Rowan Douglas, Chief Executive Officer, Global Analytics, Willis Re, UK Moderator: Nisha Pillai | 12:30
13:00 | Lunch and posters
Key event (40 mins): White papers and policy briefs for Rio+20 introduced by ICSU President Yuan-Tseh Lee | | 14:00 | Parallel Sessions Click to view sessions and key events for day 1 | | 15:30 | Refreshment breaks | | 16:00 | Parallel Sessions | | 17:30 | Poster Session 1
Contributions from submitted abstracts
Poster Session drinks reception sponsored by
The Centre for Carbon Measurement at NPL
 | | 19:30 | End of Day One
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