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Climate III

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Geneva sessions: 22 - 26 June, 2008

Fieldtrips: June 27 - July 4, 2008

Sunday, 22 June 2008

20:00 Welcome buffet at L’Hôtel des Arcades, Place de la Gare, with Media21 staff and other guests.

Day 1: Monday, 23 June 2008

Location: World Meteorological Organization, Press room, 7 avenue de la Paix, Geneva

8:00–8:45 Breakfast with: Michel Jarraud, Secretary General, World Meteorological Organization

9:00–10:30 Food security, multi-hazard early warning system, improving water management

Introduction: Ms. Carine Richard Van Maele, WMO Communication and Public Affairs

Mrs. Maryam GOLNARAGHI, Chief, Disaster and Risk Reduction Division, WMO

Dr. Manavar SIVAKUMAR, Chief, Agricultural Meteorology Division, WMO

Mr. Wolfgang GRABS, Chief, Hydrological Forecasting & Water resources Division, WMO

10:30 Coffee break

11:00–12:30 Conferences and key findings

Cecilia Ugaz, UNDP, Deputy of the Human Development Report Office, will present the Human Development Report "Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world”. After that we will have a discussion about the document.

Dr Buruhani NYENZI, Director, Climate prediction and Adaptation Division, WMO

Mr Gilles SOMMERIA-KLEIN, Consultant, IPCC

13:00-14:00 Brown bag lunch at WMO (Press room).

Mr. Edward SARUKHANIAN, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of WMO

Mr Christian MOREL, Photographer, Our Polar Heritage, WMO project

14:00–15:00 - Editorial discussion on key themes (in presence of Laurent Charpentier, Meteo-France journalist).

Led by a moderator with a strong journalistic background supported by several outside experts, this session will seek to bring the participants together as a group and to share ideas, experiences and coverage needs. It will also examine how different journalists could collaborate on individual stories, particularly their reporting from the field.

16:00-17:30- The Post-Kyoto era: where do we go?

José ROMERO, Swiss Climate change negotiator

Moderator: Nick Mills, or Noé21

Day 2: Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Location: UNDP and UNEP, International Environment House, Room 3

8:45–9:30 Breakfast with: (tbc).

9:30-10:00 The basic notions of climate change

Ms. Rie Tsutsumi (UNEP)

10:00 Coffee break

10:30–12:00 Towards sustainable prevention:

What can the international community, notably aid agencies, donors, private sector (corporate, tourist organizations)…, but also local government and civil society do to alleviate or prevent disaster? Can affected communities (e.g. island states) seek legal remedy against those responsible for climate change, such as through class action?

Alexandre EPALLE, Service of Sustainable Development, Canton of Geneva)

Jean FABRE, former Deputy Director of UNDP, Geneva

Alexander LIKHOTAL, Director, Green Cross International

12:15-14:00 Lunch with Marisol SANJINES, UNDP – Climate Change and Communication

15:00-16:00 Panel presentation at US mission

Protecting People from Severe Weather: The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) presents a new US-funded mechanism for protection against climate change, flash floods, and other forms of severe impact in Central America and eventually elsewhere.

Jose Achache, Director of GEO

US Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr. NOAA Administrator, and U.S. undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere

Jacqueline E. Schafer, USAID Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade

17:00-18:00 Excursion to visit waste and recycling facilities of the Canton of Geneva with special emphasis on the use of new environmentally friendly technologies.

Moderator: Daniel Wermus; Edward Girardet, Media21

Day 3: Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Location: Geneva Press Club, La Pastorale, route de Ferney 106 (facing Intercontinental Hotel)

9:15-10.30 Climate Change: Greening the Economy - The impact on enterprise, workers and policy makers

Peter POSCHEN, Sustainable development and climate change, International Labour Organization

Per SANDBERG, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Javed A. AHMAD, The Global Subsidies Initiative

Moderator: Dan O'Brien; The Economist Intelligence Unit

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Helping bankers and investors go green

Chaim MISSIM, Noé21, action for a New Orientation of the Economy

Discussant: Jean FABRE, Former Deputy Director, UNDP

Location: Cité du Temps, Pont de la Machine, Geneva

14:30-16:00 Towards a clean energy for all – Proposals of a visionary entrepreneur

Mr. Nicolas HAYEK, co-founder of Swatch Group

16:00–18:00 Time allotted for independent reporting, research and interviews

Day 4: Thursday, 26 June 2008

Location: Villa Rigot, 9 avenue de la Paix (down Place of Nations)

08:30-09:15 Breakfast with Walter FUST, CEO-Director-General, Global Humanitarian Forum-Geneva

The human face of climate change – the outcomes of the Forum’s 1st annual meeting

09:30-11:00 Can industry clean the planet?

Prof Suren Erkman, industrial ecology specialist, Lausanne University

Krov Menuhin, , Ushuaia TV programme Producer (on how involved journalism can influence public awareness and the political agenda – i.e. The Nicolas Hulot effect in France)

11:30-13:00 Final Editorial Meeting

Friday, 27 June 2008

Departure to Songhai Centre in Benin.

Established by a Dominican priest in 1985, the Songhai Centre is a research institute for training, research, and production for ecological and sustainable livelihood. Its objective is to improve the lives of Africans, most of whom live in rural areas. The Centre is an NGO based in Benin that currently trains about 700 students each year in organic agriculture, agricultural equipment manufacture, food processing, aquaculture, and marketing. It is self-financed by its production sold in the local market.

Thursday, 3 July, 2008: Return to Geneva

Friday, 4 July, Saturday, 5 July, 2008: return flights

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