2. Monday – State of the Planet


Monday 26 March 2012

Day 1: State of the Planet

08:30

Arrival
Opening Ceremony

09:00

Welcome from conference Chief Scientific Advisor

Elinor OstromNobel Laureate 2009 Economic Sciences, Indiana University, USA
 

Welcome from the hosts of the conference

Lord Martin ReesPast President, the Royal Society, UK
 

Co-Chairs’ conference vision and declaraion

Lidia BritoDirector of Science Policy, UNESCO and
Mark Stafford-SmithCSIRO, Australia
 

United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit

Caroline SpelmanSecretary of State for the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Georgios KostakosActing 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 LivermanProfessor 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 SteffenExecutive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, Australian National UniversityAustralia
10:30 Refreshment break
11:00 State of the Planet: ecosystems
Sandra DiazProfessor, Córdoba National University, Argentina
11:20 State of humanity: economic and political challenges
Anthony GiddensEmeritus Professor, London School of Economics, UK
11:40

Panel discussion: The planet in 2050

Sir John BeddingtonUK Chief Scientific Advisor
Carlos JolyBiodiversity Senior Adviser, Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation, Brazil
Martin HaighSenior Energy Advisor, Scenarios Team, Shell
Jill JaegerSenior Researcher, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Austria
Rowan DouglasChief 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

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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 
The Centre for Carbon Measurement at NPL
19:30 End of Day One


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