Note to Correspondents

General Assembly Second Committee to Hear Experts Discuss Key Climate Concerns

 

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs will kick off a three-part series of special events on climate change, beginning tomorrow, 13 October, with a focus on the state of the climate change negotiations, followed in the two succeeding weeks by events on the impacts and threats of climate change, and the opportunities for “green” growth.

The panel discussions, which are being organized under the auspices of the United Nations General Assembly’s Second Committee (Economic and Financial), will feature some of the world’s leading solution-oriented thinkers on climate change.

The schedule is as follows:

13 October ‑‑ Climate Change:  The Road to Copenhagen

-- Dr. Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning

-- Dr. Massimo Tavoni, Research Associate, Princeton Environmental Institute

-- Dr. Tariq Banuri, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

-- Dr. Michael Levy, Director, Council on Foreign Relations, Programme on Energy Security and Climate Change

-- Dr. Jessica Seddon Wallack, Director, Center for Development Finance, Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai, India

19 October ‑‑ Climate Change:  Impacts and Threats

-- Prof, Simon Dalby, Carleton University, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

-- Dr. Nicholle Warner, Head of the Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation Section at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

-- Dr. Rolph Payet, Special Adviser to the President of the Republic of Seychelles

-- Dr. Geoffrey Dabelko, Director, Environmental Change and Security Programme, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars

-- Ms. Margareta Wahlström, Assistant Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction

26 October—Green Growth and Sustainable Development

-- Prof. Robert Pollin, Professor, founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

-- Prof. Tim Jackson, Professor, University of Surrey, and author of Prosperity without Growth

-- Mr. Rae Kwon Chung, Ambassador for Climate Change, Republic of Korea

-- Dr. Pavan Sukhdev, Project Leader for UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative; Chairman, Deutsche Bank’s Global Markets Centre Mumbai

All events will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Conference Room 2 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

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