United Nations General Assembly 61st session
President

Informal Thematic Debate
Climate Change as a Global Challenge

31 July - 1 August 2007
Trusteeship Council Chamber, United Nations

Programme

A printable PDF version of the Programme is available here.

Tuesday 31 July

10:00 am - 10:30 am
Opening Statement by the President of the General Assembly
Statement by the Secretary-General of the United Nations

10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Panel 1 - Climate Change: the Science, the Impact and the Adaptation Imperative

• Moderator : Kemal Dervis (Administrator, UNDP)
  
  
• John Holdren (Harvard University)
  Presentation [MS PowerPoint format]
  
  
• Sir Nicholas Stern (London School of Economics)
  Presentation [MS PowerPoint format]
  
  
• Hervé Le Treut (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS)
  Presentation [MS PowerPoint format]
  
  
• Kenrick R. Leslie (Caribbean Community Climate Change Center)
  Presentation Part 1 [MS PowerPoint format] Presentation Part 2 [MS PowerPoint format]
  
  
• Sunita Narain (Director, Centre for Science and Environment, India)
  Presentation [PDF]
  
  
• Respondent: Neroni Slade (Samoa)
  
  

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Panel 2 - Mitigation Strategies in the context of Sustainable Development

• Moderator: Mohamed El-Ashry (UN Foundation)
  Presentation [PDF]
  
  
• Robert Socolow (Princeton University)
  Presentation [MS PowerPoint format]
  
  
• Anthony Olusegun Adegbulugbe (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)
  Presentation [PDF]
  
  
• Hasan M. Qabazard (Director of Research Division, OPEC)
  Presentation [PDF]
  
  
• Michael Liebreich (CEO, New Energy Finance)
  Presentation [MS PowerPoint format]
  
  
• Bjorn Stigson (President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
  
  
• Yvo de Boer (Executive Secretary, UNFCCC)
  Presentation [MS PowerPoint format]
  
  
• Respondents: Masayuki Sasanouchi (Environmental Affairs, Toyota) and Paul Bledsoe (US National Commission on Energy Policy)
  
  

6:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Concluding Address: Jeff Sachs (Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University)

Special Guests

• Former President Ricardo Lagos (Secretary-General’s Climate Change Envoy)
  
  
• Han Seung-soo (Secretary-General’s Climate Change Envoy)
  
  
• Sha Zukang (USG Dept. Economic and Social Affairs)
  
  
• Jacques Diouf (Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization)
  
  
• Jake Siewert (Vice President, Environment and Public Strategy, Alcoa)
  
  
• Hans Verolme (Director, Climate Change Program, World Wildlife Fund)
  
  
• James E. Rogers (Chairman and CEO, Duke Energy)
  
  
• Kate Hampton (Head of Policy, Climate Change Capital)
  Presentation [PDF]
  
  
• Graeme Sweeney (Executive Vice President, Renewables, Hydrogen, CO2 & Power, Shell International Renewables B.V.)
  Presentation [PDF]
  
  
• Martin Khor (Editor, South – North Development Monitor)
  Presentation [PDF]
  
  
• Tariq Banuri, (Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Asia)
  
  
• Yahia Bouadellaoui (Professor, Hassan II Institute of Agronomy, Morocco)
  
  

Wednesday 1 August

10:00 am - 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Informal meeting of the Plenary. Member States are invited to make statements about their ‘National strategies and international commitments to address climate change’.