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Monday 26 March 2012
Day 1: State of the planet
09.00: Welcome from conference Chief Scientific Advisor
Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Laureate 2009 Economic Sciences, University of Indiana, USA
Welcome from the hosts of the conference
Lord Martin Rees, Past President, the Royal Society, UK
Co-Chairs’ conference vision and statement
Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy and Capacity Building, Natural Sciences, UNESCO and Mark Stafford Smith, Science Director, Climate Adaptation Flagship at CSIRO, Australia
United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit
Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Georgios Kostakos, Acting Deputy Executive Secretary, High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, United Nations
Planet under pressure UK youth voice project with support from the British Science Association, Research Councils UK, Sciencewise-ERC and The Royal Society
09.50: Drivers of global environmental change
Diana Liverman, Professor of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, USA and co-chair Future Earth Transition Team
10.10: State of the Planet: biogeophysical and climate
Will Steffen, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, Australian National University, Australia
10:28: ASTC Youth Film Scenarios: Global Energy Consumption
10.30: The Daily Planet
11.00: State of the planet: ecosystems
Sandra Diaz, Professor, Córdoba National University, Argentina
11.20: State of humanity: economic and political challenges
Anthony Giddens, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics, UK
11.40: Panel discussion: The planet in 2050
Panel Moderator: Nisha Pillai
Sir John Beddington, UK Chief Scientific Advisor
Carlos Joly, Biodiversity Senior Adviser, Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation, Brazil
Martin Haigh, Senior Energy Advisor, Shell
Jill Jaeger, Senior Researcher, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Austria
Rowan Douglas, Chief Executive Officer, Global Analytics, Willis Re, UK Youth representative
12:28: ASTC Youth Film Scenarios: Water and Coastal Management
12.30: The Daily Planet