Friday, October 21:

8:30 Welcome and Introduction
Ernesto Zedillo, Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

8:45-10:30 Climate Change Detection and Scenarios: Re-Examining the Evidence
Chair: J. Gustave Speth, Dean, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
• Rajendra K. Pachauri, TERI and Chair, IPCC
• Richard Lindzen, MIT
• Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

11:00-1:00 Key Vulnerabilities to Climate Change
Chair: Xuhui Lee, Professor of Forest Meteorology and Micrometeorology, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
• Robert W. Corell, American Meteorological Society
• Stephen Schneider, Stanford University
• Anthony Nyong, Jos University, Nigeria
• Rob Mendelsohn, Yale University
• Cynthia Rosenzweig, GISS, NASA

2:00-4:00 The Kyoto Protocol: Consequences and Opportunities for Transformation
• William Nordhaus, Yale University
• Robert Stavins, Harvard University
• Ken Newcombe, The World Bank
• Gernot Klepper, Kiel Institute for World Economics

4:00-5:45 Alternative Climate Policy Options
Chair: Arnulf Grübler, Professor in the Field of Energy and Technology
• Thomas Heller, Stanford University
• Klaus Lackner, Columbia University

Saturday, October 22:

8:30-10:30 Climate Policy in the Industrialized Countries
Chair: Daniel C. Esty, Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
• Jos Delbeke, Director, Directorate “Air and Chemicals”, DG Environment, EU Commission
• Alexander Bedritsky, Federal Meterological Service and WMO, Russia
• Howard Dalton, Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA, UK
• US representative
• Canadian representative

11:00-1:00 Linking climate change control and development policies
Chair: Robert Repetto, Professor in the Practice of Economics and Sustainable Development, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Country perspectives:
• India – Jyoti K. Parikh, Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe)
• China – Shen Longhai, China Energy Conservation Investment Corporation
• Brazil representative

2:00-3:30 Panel Discussion
• Scott Barrett, Johns Hopkins University
• Dan Bodansky, University of Georgia
• Ambassador Raúl Estrada Oyuela, Special Representative for Environmental Affairs, Foreign Ministry, Argentina
• J. Gustave Speth, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
• Ernesto Zedillo, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

3:30 Adjourn