Future Earth Key Event
Tuesday March 27 - 12:30-13:30 in room 11
The first conference event presenting Future Earth. The goal is to provide the background of how Future Earth came into being, to give a brief overview of its vision, to discuss some options for coordinated international funding and to answer general questions about this endeavor. Members of the Transition Team, the multistakeholder committee designing Future Earth, will be present.
Co-conveners
Prof. Yuan Tseh Lee, President, International Council For Science (ICSU).
Timothy Killeen, co-Chair, Belmont Forum.
Speakers
- Carthage Smith, Transition Team ex-officio member, Acting Executive Director of the International Council for Science (ICSU).
- Diana Liverman, co-Chair of the Transition Team, co-Director of the Institute of the Environment at The University of Arizona, U.S.
- Johan Rockström, co-chair of the Transition Team, Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden.
- Timothy Killeen, Transition Team ex-officio member, co-Chair of the Belmont Forum and Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation, U.S.
Programme
| 12.30-12.35 | Opening remarks by Prof. Yuan Tseh Lee |
| 12.35-12.45 | A presentation of the Alliance of partners for Future Earth, by Carthage Smith |
| 12.45-13.00 |
A presentation of Future Earth by Johan Rockström and Diana Liverman |
| 13.00-13.15 | An overview of mobilizing international funding by Timothy Killeen |
| 13.15-13.30 | Question and Answer session |
Additional Transition Team members available for Q&A panel
- Robert Watson, Chair of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, the Director for Strategic Direction for the Tyndall centre, and Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
- Peter Liss, Professor at University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.
- Roberto Sanchez, Professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Mexico, Mexico.
- Harold Mooney, Professor at Stanford University, U.S.
- Martin Visbeck, Professor at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences Kiel University, Germany.
- Bertha Becker, Emeritus Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Karen O’Brien, Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway.
- Stephen Zebiak, Director General at The International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, U.S.
- Heide Hackmann, Executive Director of the International Social Science Council (ISSC).
