Thursday 29 March 2012
Day 4: Planetary Stewardship

09.00: High-level welcome - Irina Bokova Director General of UNESCO

09.15: Conference Statement
Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and
Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia

09.27: U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s Video Address
09.30:Towards planetary stewardship: the nature of the challenge
Sybil Seitzinger, Executive Director, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Sweden

09:50: Interconnected risks and solutions: policy recommendations
Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Frank Biermann, Chair, Earth System Governance Project (ESG)
10.00: David Willetts UK Minister for Universities and Science
10.10: Future Earth and a new contract between science and society
Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden and co-chair of Future Earth Transition Team

10.30: Margit Fischer, President, Austrian Science Center Network; First Lady of Austria

10.40: High-level responses from policy, major groups and society
Nisha Pillai, Moderator
Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Coordinator of Rio+20 and former Minister for Energy and Environment of Barbados
Colin Drummond, CEO, Viridor and Chairman LWEC Business Advisory Boar
Felix Dodds, Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
Margit Fischer, President, Austrian Science Center Network, First Lady of Austria
Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden and co-chair of Future Earth Transition Team

10 13: ASTC Youth Film Scenarios: Exploring our Local Water Issues

11.15: The Daily Planet

11.45: Reducing economic disparity
Richard Norgaard, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

12.00: Creating sustainable cities
Shobhakar Dhakal, Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, Japan

12.15: Panel discussion: delivering governance for global sustainability across scales
Oliver Morton, The Economist, Moderator
Carlos dos Santos High Commissioner of Mozambique to UK
Maria Ivanova, Director, Global Environmental Governance Project, U. of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor, European Commission
Patricia Pinho, Research Scientist, Centre for Earth System Science, INPE

ASTC Youth Film Scenarios: Water and Coastal Management

13.00: The Daily Planet

16.45: Bridges to the future
Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia

16.55: Pamela Collins, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne presenting the Young Scientist/Youth Declaration

17.00 Bo Kjellén Chair of the 1992 Earth Summit Preparatory Committee; (Working Group One), Stockholmm presenting the Board of Patrons Response to the Conference Declaration

17.05 Carlos Nobre, Former Chair, IGBP and Senior Scientist, Brazilian National Space Research Institute


Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

End of Conference