WELCOME
Dear Editor,
To those of you who joined us on October 9-11 for our Global Editors’ Forum, From Kyoto to Copenhagen, it was wonderful to see you, and we warmly thank you for making the weekend a success.
For those of you who were unable to join us, please keep visiting our Web site, http://www.project-syndicate.org, where we will be posting exclusive video footage from the forum over the coming days and weeks.
Suffice it to say, the conference was a great success. Some of the highlights included:
- Friday night’s reception at the Royal Opera House, where former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, and Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen addressed the gathering;
- Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s opening remarks on Saturday morning at the Falconer Conference Center;
- George Soros’ momentous pledge on Saturday evening at the Copenhagen Town Hall to invest $1 billion in alternative energy and donate $100 million to establish the Climate Policy Initiative;
- Above all, more than 300 editors of Project Syndicate member newspapers from 119 countries traveled to Copenhagen.
To view pictures from the Forum, please go to www.fromkyototocopenhagen.com, where you can freely download and publish any images you like. Please note that the username and password for the site can be found in the upper right-hand corner of the home page. You must be logged in to be able to download the high-resolution photos for publication.
We are also keen to see your photos and read the articles that you have written, so please don’t hesitate to share them with us. Thank you to those of you who have already forwarded your articles.
Sincere regards,
Project Syndicate
PROGRAM
Conference Schedule
9 - 11 October 2009
Global Editors' Forum co-sponsored by the Government of Denmark and Project Syndicate
Preliminary Schedule and Invitees
Friday, October 9th
| 1800-1900 |
OPENING RECEPTION AND DINNER HOSTED BY PRIME MINISTER LARS LØKKE RASMUSSEN
Location: Royal Opera House, Copenhagen |
| 1900-1945 |
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Roman Frydman, Director and Editor, Project Syndicate Keynote Speakers: LARS LØKKE RASMUSSEN, Prime Minister of Denmark KOFI ANNAN, former Secretary General of the United Nations JOSE MANUEL BARROSO, President of the European Commission |
| 2000-2230 | DINNER HOSTED BY THE PRIME MINISTER LARS LØKKE RASMUSSEN |
Saturday, October 10th
| 0830-0920 |
EDITORS' BREAKFASTS
Hosted by The Environmental Defense Fund and The National Resource Defense Council Speaker: David Yarnold (Chair), Executive Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund Richie Ahuja, India Program Director, Environmental Defense Fund Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council Hosted by Rockwool Speaker: Eelco van Heel, CEO Jens Lausten, Senior Energy Policy Analyst , International Energy Agency Hosted by Project Syndicate Speakers: Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Israeli Foreign Minister Esther Dyson, internet entrepreneur Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard, former Chief Economist, The International Monetary Fund |
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0920-0930
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OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Niels Thygesen, Chair, Danish Organizing Committee Andrzej Rapaczynski, Director and Editor, Project Syndicate |
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0930-1015
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
TBD |
| 1015-1045 |
COFFEE BREAK
(Scheduled interview sessions with select speakers and panelists) |
Saturday, October 10th
| 1045-1055 |
GUEST SPEAKER: EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION
Speaker: Jules Kortenhorst, CEO, European Climate Foundation |
| 1055-1245 |
Panel One: The Science and Ethics of Global
Warming
Chair: Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of Earth Institute, Columbia University, Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General Panelists: Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany Katherine Richardson, Professor University of Copenhagen, chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of the 2009 Copenhagen Scientific Congress on Climate Change Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University Nicholas Stern, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and IG Patel Professor at The London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 1300-1500 |
Lunch
(Scheduled interview sessions with select speakers and panelists) |
| 1500-1510 |
GUEST SPEAKER: DONG ENERGY
Speaker: Anders Eldrup, CEO, DONG Energy |
| 1510-1655 |
PANEL TWO: ECONOMIC/BUSINESS IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND INCREASED ENERGY SECURITY
Panelists: Jeremy Bentham, Shell VP Global Business Environment Ditlev Engel, CEO, Vestas Energy Systems, Denmark Joseph Stiglitz, Professor of Economics, Columbia University; Nobel Laureate Ernesto Zedillo, Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; former President of Mexico |
| 1900-2330 |
Cocktail Reception and Dinner
Location: Town Hall, Copenhagen Welcome Address: Ritt Bjerregaard, Mayor of Copenhagen Niels Thygesen, Chair, Danish Organizing Committee Keynote Speaker: George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute |
Sunday, October 11th
| 0830-0945 |
PROJECT SYNDICATE MEMBER EDITORS BREAKFAST MEETING
Location: Falconer Conference Center |
| 1000-1050 |
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Keynote Speaker: TBD |
| 1100-1130 |
COFFEE BREAK
(Scheduled interview sessions with select speakers and panelists) |
| 1130-1315 |
Panel Three: The Politics of Climate Change
and Energy Security
Chair: Joschka Fischer, former German Foreign Minister and leader of the Green Party Panelists: Connie Hedegaard, Danish Minister for Climate and Energy David Sandalow, Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, US Energy Department Mohammed Hasan Mahmud, Bangladesh State Minister in charge of the Ministry of Environment and Forest Yuriko Koike, Member of the Japanese Parliament for the LDP-party, former minister for the environment and minister for defense Pan Jiahua, Executive Director CASS (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) research center on Sustainable Development, Member of China’s Expert Panel on Climate Change |
| 1330-1530 |
LUNCH
(Scheduled interview sessions with select speakers and panelists) |
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