Date:
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Low Memorial Library, The Rotunda
Contact:
Columbia Climate Center, CCC@ei.columbia.edu or call 212-854-2525
RSVP:
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Event Description:
Speakers: Ted Turner, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist;
Jeffrey D. Sachs, The Earth Institute at Columbia University;
Robert Orr, United Nations;
Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia University;
Peter Schlosser, Columbia Climate Center;
and Columbia University climate experts.
Meeting the Climate Challenge: Columbia Climate Center Launch
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
4:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Columbia University, Low Memorial Library, Rotunda
Directions: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/low.html
A discussion between:
Ted Turner, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Special remarks by:
Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning, United Nations
Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
Peter Schlosser, Director, Columbia Climate Center
Presentations by Columbia University climate experts:
Walter Baethgen,
Director, Program for Latin America and the Caribbean, International Research
Institute for Climate and Society,
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Wally Broecker, Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
Patrick Kinney,
Associate Professor of Environmental Health Science,
Mailman School of Public
Health, Columbia University
Sabine Marx, Associate Director, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University
Richard Seager,
Palisades Geophysical Institute Senior Research Scientist,
Doherty Senior
Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
The Earth Institute at
Columbia University
Moderated by Mary-Elena
Carr, Associate Director, Columbia Climate Center,
The Earth Institute at
Columbia University
Columbia Climate Center: http://www.climate.columbia.edu
BLOG: http://www.climate.columbia.edu/blog
Sponsors:
Earth Institute
