Global Environmental Health in the 21st Century: From Governmental Regulation to Corporate Social Responsibility: Workshop Summary (2007)

8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

The Honorable Paul G. Rogers

Chair, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine

Partner, Hogan and Hartson

8:40 a.m.

Remarks and Charge to Participants

Samuel Wilson

Member, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine

Deputy Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH

Moderator:

Ann Wolverton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Economics

9:00 a.m.

Environment Management Systems: Overview and One Tool in the Toolbox

Edwin Pinero

Director, Office of the Federal Environmental Executive

9:20 a.m.

Environmental Management Systems in Practice

Deanna Matthews

Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University

9:40 a.m.

Measuring What We Should Be Measuring: Limitation of Environmental Management Systems and Doing More Than Checking off Boxes

Cary Coglianese

Associate Professor, Kennedy School of Business, Harvard University

10:00 a.m.

General Discussion

Moderator:

Charles Bennett, Senior Research Associate, Global Corporate Citizenship, The Conference Board

10:50 a.m.

Using Management Systems to Improve Performance in the Chemical Industry

Terry F. Yosie

Vice President, The Responsible Care Initiative, American Chemistry Council

11:30 a.m.

Cradle to the Grave: Impacts on Environmental Health

Jack Azar

Member, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine

Senior Vice-President, Environment, Health, and Safety, Xerox Corporation

11:50 p.m.

General Discussion

12:10 p.m.

Lunch

12:50 p.m.

Green Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Alternative Synthetic Pathways

Berkeley W. Cue, Jr.

Consultant, Pfizer, Inc.

1:10 p.m.

Product Stewardship: Responsible Care in Action

Gregory Bond

Corporate Director of Product Responsibility, Dow Chemical Company

1:30 p.m.

Foxes and Henhouses: One NGO’s Experiences with Voluntary Programs

John Balbus

Director, Environmental Health Program, Environmental Defense

1:50 p.m.

General Discussion

Moderator:

Daryl Ditz, Coordinator, National Educational Campaign on U.S. Persistent Organic Pollutants Ratification, Center for International Environmental Law

2:50 p.m.

Global Corporate Policies on Health, Safety, and Environment

Barry Castleman

Consultant, School of Hygiene and Public Health

Johns Hopkins University

3:10 p.m.

The REACH Initiative: Promises for the European Union

Robert Donkers

Counselor, Transportation, Energy, and Environment

Delegation of the European Commission to the United States

3:30 p.m.

The REACH Initiative: Can It Realistically Be Achieved?

James Bus

Director of External Technology, Dow Chemical Company

3:50 p.m.

General Discussion

4:10 p.m.

Canadian Environmental Protection Act: Protecting Human Health and the Environment

Daniel Krewski

Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa

4:30 p.m.

U.S. Approach to Regulation: TSCA and Public Health

Lynn Goldman

Member, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine

Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

4:50 p.m.

Working Across Borders on Chemical Issues: The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)

John Buccini

Consultant, United Nations Environmental Program

5:10 p.m.

General Discussion

Moderator:

Garrick Louis, Associate Professor of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia

8:40 a.m.

Opening Moderator Remarks

8:50 a.m.

Environmental Health Performance Is Driven by Management Systems

Brian Flannery

Manager, Science Strategy and Programs, Corporate Safety Health and Environment, ExxonMobil Corporation

9:15 a.m.

Health and Environment in Practice: Building of the Chad-Cameroon Project

Andre Madec

Manager, Corporate Public Affairs, ExxonMobil Corporation

9:35 a.m.

Public Health Lessons Learned from the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project

Burton Singer

Professor, Demography and Public Affairs, Princeton University

9:55 a.m.

Strategic Management of Environmental Health Management Systems

Djordjija Petkoski

Lead Specialist, World Bank

10:15 a.m.

General Discussion

Moderator:

Kathryn Gordon, Senior Economist, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

10:55 a.m.

Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

Norine Kennedy

Vice-President for Environment, United States Council on International Business

11:15 a.m.

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Context of Regulation

Eric W. Orts

Guardsmark Professor; Professor of Legal Studies and Management, Director, Environmental Management Program, Wharton School of Business

11:35 a.m.

Corporate Social Responsibility: Roles of Government, the Private Sector, and Civil Society

Kernaghan Webb

Adjunct Research Professor, Law and Public Policy

Carleton University, Ottawa

11:55 a.m.

General Discussion

Moderator:

Peter Illig, Member, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Executive Director, International Society for Physicians for the Environment

• How do we raise awareness of environmental health through accountability at all levels?

Carol Henry, Member, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Vice-President for Research, American Chemistry Council

Richard Wells, International Adjunct Professor, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Advanced Studies

Charles Bennett, Senior Research Associate, Global Corporate Citizenship, The Conference Board

William Blackburn, Consultant, William Blackburn Consulting

Kernaghan Webb, Adjunct Research Professor, Law and Public Policy, Carleton University, Ottawa

2:30 p.m.

General Discussion

3:30 p.m.

Summation