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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE:
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS AND FINANCING MECHANISMS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
OCTOBER 20, 2006
300 WALLACE HALL
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
AGENDA
THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
9:30 am
Welcome Remarks
9:40 am
Why Global Warming is Controversial
George Philander, Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences,
Director of the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
10:10 am
Growing in a Greenhouse: Protecting the Climate by Putting Development First
Robert Bradley, Senior Associate, Climate Change Program,
World Resources Institute
10:40 am
Question and Answer Session
11:00 am
Break
ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND
FINANCING GREEN DEVELOPMENT FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Moderator: Leanne Tobias, Malachite LLC (WWS MPA’78)
11:15 am
Rural Electrification in Ghana
Clement Abavana, Technical Advisor to Ministry of Energy,
World Bank, Ghana
11:35 am
Biofuels in Brazil
Oswaldo dos Santos Lucon, Technical Advisor on Energy and Climate Change
of the State Secretary for the Environment, Sao Paulo, Brazil
11:55 pm
Private Sector Financing
Jeffrey Leonard, Founder and President, Global Environment Fund
(Politics PhD’85)
12:15 pm
Lunch with Question & Answer Session
1:15 pm
Closing Remarks
Sponsored by:
WWS Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy
Princeton Environmental Institute
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Center for Economic Policy Studies
WWAC Student Initiated Projects
Program in Latin American Studies
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The Graduate School
Program in African Studies