PROGRAMME
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Opening Plenary Session (General Assembly Hall)
Ceremonial opening:
Mr.
Djimon Hounsou
, Actor, Two-time Academy Award nominee (Video: RealPlayer, YouTube)
Students
from a diverse group of countries (Video: RealPlayer, YouTube)
Speakers:
H.E. Mr.
BAN Ki-moon
, Secretary-General of the United Nations (Video: RealPlayer, YouTube)
Dr.
Rajendra Pachauri
, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Video: RealPlayer)
H.E. Mr.
Barack Obama
, President of the United States of America (Video: RealPlayer)
H.E. Mr.
Mohamed Nasheed
, President of the Republic of Maldives (Video: RealPlayer)
H.E. Mr.
Hu Jintao
, President of the Peoples Republic of China (Video: RealPlayer)
H.E. Mr.
Yukio Hatoyam a
, Prime Minister of Japan (Video: RealPlayer)
H.E. Mr.
Paul Kagame
, President of Rwanda (Video: RealPlayer)
H.E. Mr.
Fredrik Reinfeldt
, Prime Minister of Sweden (Video: RealPlayer)
H.E. Mr.
Óscar Arias Sánchez
, President of Costa Rica (Video: RealPlayer)
H.E. Mr.
Nicolas Sarkozy
, President of France (Video: RealPlayer)
Professor
Wangari Muta Maathai
, Founder, Green Belt Movement, Kenya (Civil Society) (Video: RealPlayer)
Ms.
Yugratna Srivastava
, Asia-Pacific UNEP/TUNZA Junior-Board representative, India, age 13 (Youth) (Video: RealPlayer)
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Four Interactive Roundtables
(to be held in parallel)
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Press conference on Leadership Forum
(Conference Room 4)
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm
Mid-day Press Update (Room S-226)
Mr. Janos Pasztor, Director, Secretary-General''s Climate Change Support Team
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Leadership Forum Luncheon
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Four Interactive Roundtables
(to be held in parallel)
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Closing Plenary Session (General Assembly Hall) (Video: RealPlayer)
H.E. Mr.
Tillman Joseph Thomas
, Prime Minister of Grenada
H.E. Mr.
Ahmad Babiker Nahar
, Minister of Environment and Urban Development of Sudan
H.E. Mr.
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
, Prime Minister of Denmark
H.E. Mr.
BAN Ki-moon
, Secretary-General of the United Nations (Video: RealPlayer)
6:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Closing Press Conference
(Conference Room 4)
H.E. Mr. BAN Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark