Video and Audio of the Proceedings
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Welcome
John C. Mutter, Deputy Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University; Chair, State of the Planet Conference Steering Committee
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Opening Remarks
Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
Keynote Speaker
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University; Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
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SESSION ONE: RESEARCH AND INGENUITY
Moderator: Darcy B. Kelley Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University; Chair, Frontiers of Science, Columbia College
Ismail Serageldin, Director, Library of Alexandria in Egypt
Dato Lee Yee-Cheong, President, World Federation of Engineering Organisations 2003-05; Co-Coordinator, UN Millennium Project "Science, Technology and Innovation" Task Force; Senior Fellow, Academy of Sciences Malaysia
Tim Palmer, Head of Probability Forecast Division, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast
Steven E. Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP p.l.c.
Frank Rijsberman, Director General, International Water Management Institute
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Keynote Speaker
Reforming the UN System to Help Meet the MDGs
Mark Malloch Brown, Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary-General, United Nations
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SESSION TWO: DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURESModerator: Albert Fishlow Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Director, Institute for Latin American Studies, Columbia UniversityCarol Bellamy, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Learning; Former Executive Director, UNICEF
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute; Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Eric V. Schaeffer, Director, Environmental Integrity Project
Georg Kell, Executive Head, United Nations Global Compact
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Keynote Speaker
Changing Values for a Sustainable World
Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University
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Day 1 Closing Remarks
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Keynote Speaker
Managing Risk in an Uncertain Climate: A Reinsurer’s Perspective
John Coomber, Retired Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Re Group
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SESSION THREE: TAPPING INTO MARKET FORCES AND THE ECONOMY
Moderator: David Nissen Director, Program in International Energy Management and Policy at the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, Professor in Practice, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Abby Joseph Cohen, Partner and Chief U.S. Investment Strategist,Goldman, Sachs & Co
Joseph Romm, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
Stuart L. Hart, Samuel C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise, Professor of Management, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
David J. Refkin, Director of Sustainable Development, Time Inc.
Amy Davidsen, Director of Environmental Affairs, JPMorgan Chase
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SESSION FOUR: CHALLENGING BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS AND PERSPECTIVES
Moderator: Roberta G. Balstad Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Joel E. Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller University; Professor of Populations, Columbia University; Head of the Laboratory of Populations, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Rockefeller University
Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge; Fellow of St. John's College
Johan Rockström, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute
Parker Mitchell, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Engineers Without Borders, Canada
Andrew Dobson, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
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SUMMATION: IS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FEASIBLE?
Moderator: John Rennie Editor in Chief, Scientific American
Joel E. Cohen
Abby Joseph Cohen
Sir Partha Dasgupta
Nicholas D. Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Conference Closing Remarks
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Audio Podcast and MP3 Files
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