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APPENDIX D
Agenda from the Summit on
America’s Climate Choices
March 30 - March 31, 2009
The National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC
PROGRAM
March 30, 2009
8:30 am Welcome and Goals
Albert Carnesale, Chancellor Emeritus of UCLA & Chair, Committee on
America’s Climate Choices
Ralph Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences
9:15 am session 1: Why is This sTudy needed? PersPecTives from sTudy sPonsors
• The Honorable Alan Mollohan (D-WV), Chair, House Appropriations
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies
• Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and
Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator
10:00 am Break
10:30 am session 2: KeynoTe PersPecTives on climaTe chanGe
• Robert Socolow, Princeton University
• James J. Mulva, Chairman and CEO, ConocoPhillips
11:30 am session 3: WhaT informaTion does conGress need? vieWs from The hill
• The Honorable Bart Gordon (D-TN) , Chair, House Committee on
Science and Technology
12:00 Pm Lunch
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APPENDIX D
1:30 Pm session 4: The climaTe challenGe
Moderator: Diana Liverman, University of Arizona & University of Oxford
• Certainty and Uncertainty in Climate Science—Framing a Basis for
Decisions: Susan Solomon, NOAA
• Impacts —The Avoidable and the Unavoidable: Stephen Schneider,
Stanford University
• Panel discussion: Acting on the certain and the uncertain
• Henry Jacoby, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Fred Krupp, Environmental Defense Fund
• Charles Holliday, DuPont
3:30 Pm Break
4:00 Pm session 5: The america’s climaTe choices sTudy: are We asKinG The riGhT QuesTions?
Overview of tasks from the Committee and four Panels
• Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change:
Robert Fri, Resources for the Future
• Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change:
Katharine Jacobs, Arizona Water Institute
• Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change:
Pamela Matson, Stanford University
• Panel on Informing Effective Decisions and Actions Related to
Climate Change: Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Committee on America’s Climate Choices: Albert Carnesale
Panel Chairs respond to questions from the audience.
Question/comment cards will be collected throughout this session.
5:30 Pm Informal Discussion with ACC Members in the Great Hall. Refreshments
provided.
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Appendix D
Tuesday, March 31
8:30 am session 6: KeynoTe PersPecTives on resPondinG To climaTe chanGe
Introductions: Albert Carnesale
• Mary Nichols, California Air Resources Board
• Lorents G. Lorentsen, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development
10:10 am session 7: WhaT sPecial challenGes aWaiT us?
Moderator: William Chameides, Duke University & Vice Chair, Committee
on America’s Climate Choices
• Integrating a National Response into a Global Framework: The
Honorable Eileen Claussen, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• Vulnerable Ecosystems: Carter Roberts, World Wildlife Fund
• Vulnerable Populations & Human Health: Howard Frumkin, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
• Threats to National Security: R. James Woolsey, VantagePoint Venture
Partners
12:15 Pm Lunch
1:30 Pm session 8: WhaT Tools are available To meeT The challenGes of climaTe chanGe?
Moderator: Thomas Wilbanks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Technology Levers: Robert Socolow, Princeton University
• Policy and Economic Levers: Jonathan Wiener, Duke University
• Regional Impacts & National Assessments: Jerry Melillo, Marine
Biological Laboratory
• Panel discussion:
• Jonathan Schrag, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Inc.
• Steve Nicholas, Institute for Sustainable Communities
• Heidi Cullen, Climate Central
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APPENDIX D
4:30 Pm session 9: are We asKinG The riGhT QuesTions? (TaKe 2)
Moderator: William Chameides
• Committee and Panel Chairs and Vice-Chairs take comments and
questions from the audience: Albert Carnesale, Robert Fri, Marilyn
Brown, Katharine Jacobs, Thomas Wilbanks, Pamela Matson,
Thomas Dietz, Peter Raven, Diana Liverman
closinG remarKs: William Chameides, Duke University and Vice Chair,
5:15 Pm
Committee on America’s Climate Choices
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