SCIENCE TO ACTION DAY Science Partnering with Practitioners to Advance Ambitious Climate Action An Affiliate Event of the Global Climate Action Summit September 11, 2018 8:30 am to 4:00 pm The Exploratorium Pier 15, San Francisco, California Please note, all morning plenary sessions and the morning keynote will be held in the Observatory. Overflow seating will be available in the Forum. The afternoon closing sessions will be held in the Forum. No overflow seating is available for the afternoon session. 8:30-8:50 Welcome Christine McEntee, Executive Director and CEO, AGU (5 mins) Ken Alex, Senior Advisor to Governor Brown and Director, Governor's Office of Planning and Research (5 mins) Chris Flink, Executive Director, Exploratorium (10 mins) 8:50-9:00 The Challenge
Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute 9:05 10:10 Perspectives on Science to Action Rich Sorkin, Jupiter Intelligence Amber Mace, California Council on Science and Technology Lynn Scarlett, The Nature Conservancy Markus Terho, Sitra Honorable Esteban Rodas, Mayor of the City of Quito (Invited) Moderator: Amy Luers, Future Earth 10:15-10:55 Keynote: Gina McCarthy Former EPA Administrator, Director of the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Introduction by Matthew Rodriquez, Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency 10:55 11:05 Transition Observatory Forum 11:05 12:05 Challenge Area 1: Healthy Energy Systems Stage Setting: Adam Zurofsky, State of New York, Deputy Secretary of Energy Challenge Area 2: Inclusive Economic Growth Stage Setting: Sarah White, California Workforce Development Board (invited)
Mary Ann Piette, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tim Doherty, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Roland Kroebel, Agriculture Canada Dee Lawrence, Cool Effect and Project Mirador Darlene Chiu Bryant, China:SF Alessandra Jerolleman, Jacksonville State University Moderator: Chris Brown, PolicyLink Moderator: Jim Byrne, University of Lethbridge 12:05-12:45 Lunch Boxed Lunches Available in the Observatory 12:50 1:50 Challenge Area 3: Sustainable Communities Kif Scheuer, Local Government Commission Julie Cerqueira, US Climate Alliance Moderator: Missy Stults, City of Ann Arbor Challenge Area 4: Land and Ocean Stewardship Stage Setting: Sybil Seitzinger, University of Victoria Pamela Matson, The Woods Institute, Stanford University Margaret Leinen, University of California, San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography Peter Kareiva, University of California, Los Angeles Moderator: Chris Field, Stanford University 1:55-2:55 Challenge Area 5: Transformative Climate Investment: Adaptation Assessment: An Evolving Tool to Support Action Stage Setting: Katharine Mach, Stanford University
Stage Setting: Bruce Guile, New Advisory Group Mark Stacey, University of California, Berkeley Stephen Luby, The Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University Benjamin Lee Preston, RAND Corporation Jonathan Jarvis, UC Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity Derek Butts, Workday, Inc. Kari Christine Nadeau, Sean N. Parker Center at Stanford University Patrick Gonzalez, UC Berkeley Moderator: Bruce Guile, The New Advisory Group Seth Schultz - Urban Breakthroughs (invited) Kathy Jacobs, University of Arizona Louise Bedsworth, California Strategic Growth Council Andrew Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Moderator: Richard Moss, Columbia University/U of Maryland 2:55 3:05 Transition time 3:05 3:15 Forum The Role of the University in Advancing Climate Action Janet Napolitano, President, The University of California 3:15 4:00 Forum Call to Action: Initiatives to Catalyze and Support Climate Action Moderator: Ben Houlton, University of California, Davis Thriving Earth Exchange (Raj Pandya, American Geophysical Union) Applied Climate Assessment (Richard Moss) Global Environmental Measurement and Monitoring Network (GEMM) (Tom Baer, Stanford University) Hope for the Coast Pledge (Sarah Newkirk, The Nature Conservancy)
Earth Challenge 2020 (Kathleen Rogers, Earth Day Network) The Accelerator: A Joint Venture of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (William Collins, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Closing Call to Action: Eric Davidson, President, AGU 4:00 5:00 Optional: Explore exhibits and demonstrations in the museum with guidance from Exploratorium Explainers Thank You to our Sponsors
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