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Agenda
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Monday, March 29, 2004
Capturing the State of the Planet:
A Public Forum
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Conference
Moderator: John C. Mutter, [Bio] Deputy
Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Location: Roone Arledge Auditorium
in Lerner Hall, Columbia University
2920 Broadway (between 114 th & 115 th Streets), New York, NY |
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| 8:00 am |
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Registration
Breakfast |
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9:00 am |
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Welcome
Jeffrey D. Sachs, [Bio] Director
of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable
Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management
at Columbia University, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General
on the Millennium Development Goals
Wallace Broecker, [Bio] Winner of the National Medal of Science, Newberry
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont
Doherty Earth
Observatory, Columbia University
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| 9:30 am |
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Session One
"Biodiversity and Earth’s
Environment"
Edward
O. Wilson, [Bio] Winner
of the National Medal of Science and the Pulitzer Prize
in Literature, Pellegrino University Professor, Museum
of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
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| 10:00 am |
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Break |
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10:30 am |
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Session Two
"Earth EKG: Expanding
Knowledge of the Globe"
Retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad Lautenbacher, [Bio] Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
and NOAA Administrator
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| 11:00 am |
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“World
in the Balance”
A two-hour Nova Earth Day special, explores the
relationship between people and the planet. These clips
highlight the social and economic forces that have
produced starkly different population profiles. |
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| 11:15 am |
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Session Three
"Global Health-Is a Rational Future
Even Possible?"
Dr. William Foege, [Bio] Fellow, Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Emeritus Presidential
Distinguished Professor of International Health, Emory
University
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11:45 am |
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Lunch |
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| 1:15 pm |
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Session Four
"Signs and Politics of Climate
Change Implications for Poverty Alleviation and Development"
Robert Watson, [Bio] Chief Scientist,
Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development
Network, The World Bank
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1:45 pm |
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“World
in the Balance”
This two-hour Nova Earth Day special explores the relationship between
people and the planet. These clips highlight the social and economic
forces that have produced starkly different population profiles.
Click HERE to visit the PBS web site for "World in the
Balance" |
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| 2:00 pm |
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Session Five
"Ending Hunger in Africa: What
Needs to be Done"
Pedro Sanchez, [Bio] Director
of Tropical Agriculture, The Earth Institute at Columbia
University
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| 2:30 pm |
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Break |
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| 3:00 pm |
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Session Six
"Back to the Future: The Great
Climate Experiment"
Daniel Schrag, [Bio] Professor
of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Director,
Laboratory for Geochemical Oceanography, Harvard University
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| 3:30 pm |
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Session Seven
"A Human Rights Approach Adds
Value"
Mary Robinson, [Bio] Executive Director
of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, former President
of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights
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Closing
Remarks
Jeffrey D. Sachs, [Bio] Director of the Earth Institute,
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor
of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University,
Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium
Development Goals
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Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Interventions for Sustainable Development
A working session for scientist, by invitation
Conference Moderator: John
C. Mutter, [Bio] Deputy
Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Location: The Teatro in Casa Italiana, Columbia
University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue (at 117 th Street),
New York, NY |
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| 8:00 am |
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Registration
Breakfast |
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8:30 am |
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"Toward
a Global Consensus for Sustainable Development"
Jeffrey D. Sachs, [Bio] Director of
the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable
Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management
at Columbia University, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General
on the Millennium Development Goals |
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| 9:00 am |
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ENERGY
What energy strategies could poor countries implement to
achieve desperately needed economic growth while avoiding
the negative impacts on climate and ecology associated
with fossil fuels?
Related
Resources - additional bibliographical materials
related to this panel, including articles, papers,
books, and interim reports from the Milliennnium Development
Project.
Panel Moderator:
Lisa Anderson, [Bio]
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia
University
Panel Chair:
Klaus S. Lackner, [Bio] Ewing
Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Earth and Environmental
Engineering, Columbia University
Panelists:
John Ashton, [Bio]
Director for Strategic Partnerships, LEAD International,
Imperial College
David Hawkins, [Bio] Director, Climate
Center, Natural Resource Defense Council
Susan McDade, [Bio] Manager, Sustainable
Energy Programme, United Nations Development Programme
Vijay Modi, [Bio] Professor, Mechanical
Engineering, Columbia University
David Nissen, [Bio] Professor, School
of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
James Sawyer, [Bio] Chief Financial
Officer, Praxair, Inc.
Robert Williams, [Bio] Senior
Research Scientist, Princeton Environmental Institute,
Princeton University
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Break |
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| 10:30 am |
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FOOD
What
action is needed to ensure that fisheries remain viable,
agriculture meets the needs of the world’s hungry and ecosystem loss does not
threaten Earth’s ability to feed its population?
Background
Statement (PDF
download, 464 kb)
Related
Resources - additional bibliographical materials
related to this panel, including articles, papers,
books, and interim reports from the Milliennnium Development
Project.
Panel Moderator
and Chair:
William Masters, [Bio]
Visiting Professor, School of International and Public
Affairs, Columbia University
Panelists:
Simeon Ehui, [Bio]
Senior Sector Economist, The World Bank
Robert E. Evenson, [Bio] Professor of Economics, Economic Growth Center, Yale
University
Claire Kremen, [Bio] Assistant Professor
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Bonnie McCay, [Bio]
Professor of Human Ecology, Rutgers University
Robert L. Paarlberg, [Bio] Professor
of Political Science, Wellesley College
Ellen K. Pikitch, [Bio] Executive Director,
Pew Institute for Ocean Science
Prabhu Pingali, [Bio] Director,
Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization,
United Nations
Sara Scherr, [Bio] Director, Ecoagriculture
Partners, Forest Trends
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Lunch
"The
State of Vaccines"
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Adel Mahmoud, [Bio] President,
Merck Vaccines |
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| 1:15 pm |
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WATER
Looking for innovative solutions to an urgent
problem central to life in the 21st century.
Related
Resources - additional bibliographical materials
related to this panel, including articles, papers,
books, and interim reports from the Milliennnium Development
Project.
Panel Moderator:
Jan P. Pronk, [Bio]
Professor, Theory and Practice of International Development,
Institute of Social Studies
Panel Chair:
Upmanu Lall, [Bio] Professor,
Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
Panelists:
Margaret Catley-Carlson, [Bio] Chair,
Global Water Partnership
Wolfgang Kinzelbach, [Bio] Professor,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute
of Hydromechanics and Water Resources Engineering
Roberto Lenton, [Bio] Senior
Advisor, International Research Institute for Climate
Prediction, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Eugene Z. Stakhiv, [Bio] Chief,
Planning and Policy Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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| 2:30 pm |
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Break |
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| 2:45 pm |
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HEALTH
What is the state of the world's health systems
and what actions are needed to address the world’s preventable
diseases, emerging diseases and problems that disproportionately
affect the health of the world’s poor?
Related
Resources - additional bibliographical materials
related to this panel, including articles, papers,
books, and interim reports from the Milliennnium Development
Project.
Panel Moderator:
Dr. Allan Rosenfield, [Bio]
Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Panel Chair:
Dr. Ronald Waldman, [Bio] Professor
of Clinical Population and Family Health, and Deputy Director,
The Center for Global Health and Economic Development,
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Panelists:
Dr. Gerald T.
Keusch, [Bio] Professor
of Medicine and Professor
of International Health, Assistant Provost for Global
Health,
Medical Campus, Associate Dean for Global Health,
School of Public Health, Boston University
Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, [Bio] Director
and Principal Investigator, Jerome L. and Dawn Greene
Infectious Disease Laboratory, Mailman School of Public
Health, and Professor of Neurology and Pathology, College
of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
Dr. Alfred Sommer, [Bio] Professor and
Dean, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins
University
Awash Teklehaimanot, [Bio] Director,
Malaria Program, The Center for Global Health and Economic
Development, and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology,
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Dr. Derek Yach, [Bio] Executive Director
of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, World
Health Organization
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| 4:00 pm |
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Refreshments |
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| 4:30 pm |
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"Mobilizing
the Sciences to Fight Global Poverty"
Closing remarks by Jeffrey Sachs
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