Agenda

Presented by Marketplace and The Gary Comer Global Agenda

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Crawford Family Forum at the Mohn Broadcast Center
KPCC 89.3 | Southern California Public Radio

8:00 AM PT

Online Exclusive Interview

Dr. Stephen Schneider, Stanford University
Eric Pooley, BusinessWeek

8:45 AM PT

Welcome

Bill Davis, President and CEO, Southern California Public Radio
Judy McAlpine, Senior Vice President, American Public Media National Content Division

9:00 AM PT

Keynote: 9 Billion People + 1 Planet = ?

Andrew C. Revkin, Dot Earth Blogger, New York Times; Senior Fellow, Pace University

For the first time in Earth's history, a life-form has become a planet-scale force. Spikes in population and resource appetites have been achieved so far by technology and fossil fuels. But the choices we make today will either aid or impede the creation of a stable and prosperous global civilization. Andrew C. Revkin, an educator, prize-winning author, journalist and the Dot Earth blogger for the New York Times, explores how people, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Amazon to the White House are, and aren't, working to smooth the human journey.

10:00 AM PT

Panel 1: Climate Science in an Impolitic World

Stewart Brand, author, “Whole Earth Discipline”
Dr. Michael E. Mann, Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Ben Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Moderator: Kai Ryssdal, Host, Marketplace

Despite high-profile scandals involving hacked emails and public claims of over-reaching conclusions, climate science has advanced significantly over the last several years. What is our current understanding of the past, present and future climate? What are the implications for policymakers and the public? How do scientists stick to science when political controversy follows every new report?

11:30 PM PT

Panel 2: Finding the Policy Path

Michael Levi, Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Joe Romm, Climate Progress
Moderator: Andrew Revkin, New York Times

Despite widespread agreement among policy advocates on the magnitude of the climate challenge, proponents are bitterly divided over the proper way forward — regulation and taxation in one corner; research, development and innovation in the other. Two of the policy world’s most outspoken voices come together to find where these two separate visions of future policy can agree.

1:00 PM PT

Online exclusive interview

Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker

2:00 PM PT

Panel 3: Business Moves Forward

Mary Capozzi, Best Buy, Senior Director, Corporate Social Responsibility
Bruce Kahn, Senior Investment Analyst for Climate Change, Deutsche Bank
Mindy Lubber, President, CERES
Moderator: Liza Tucker, Marketplace Senior editor for Washington and Sustainability desks

Businesses are not waiting for governments to point the way forward. Instead, financial institutions, investors and consumer retailers are redefining risk and opportunity in a rapidly changing world. What are the long term challenges and opportunities for forward-thinking businesses? Where do consumers fit in? What's at stake for business in the short and medium term?

3:30 PM PT

Panel 4: Connecting Media, Policy and Science

Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Strategies for the Global Environment
Dr. Naomi Oreskes, University of California San Diego
Bud Ward, Editor, The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
Moderator: Sarah Gardner, Senior Correspondent, Marketplace Sustainability Desk

Over the past year, climate science has moved one way, while public opinion and the ensuing political debates have gone the other. Where does this disconnection originate? How do policy advocates on different sides of the issue manipulate scientific understanding? How does media coverage and public opinion influence policy at the highest levels?

5:00 PM PT

Closing

Ben Adair, Editorial Director, Sustainability and Global Climate Change Initiatives

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