Energy Justice Conference Agenda 2009


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Friday, 23 October 2009
   
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Ceremonial Opening with Musical Overture
9:15 - 10:15 a.m.
Keynote Address: Dr. Kandeh Yumkella, Chair, UN Energy and Director-General, UNIDO (confirmed)
10:15 - 10:45 a.m.
Break
 
Conceptual Underpinnings
 
10:45 - 11:45 a.m.
Session 1: Energy Justice: What and Why?
Chair: TBA

Speaker 1: Dr Lakshman Guruswamy, Nicholas Doman Professor of International Environmental Law, University of Colorado Law School, and Director, Center for Energy & Environmental Security at the University of Colorado Law School (confirmed)

Speaker 2: Dr. Jonas Ebbesson, Professor of Environmental Law, Director of Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre (confirmed)
 
11:45 - 12:45 p.m.
Session 2: Energy Justice & Empowerment of Women
Chair: TBA

Speaker 1: Dato Ambiga Sreenevasan, Recipient 2009 International Women of Courage Award, past President Malaysian Bar Association (confirmed)

Speaker 2: Dr. Amy Smith, D-Lab, MIT (i)
 
12:45 - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch
 
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Session 3: Adaptation & Energy Justice
Chair: TBA

Speaker 1: Dr. Mickey Glantz, Director of the Consortium for Capacity Building, CU-Boulder (confirmed)

Speaker 2: Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr., Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder and Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) (confirmed)
 
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Break
 
Practical Solutions
 
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Session 4: Energy Justice and Public Health
Chair: TBA

Speaker 1: Dr. Kirk Smith, Professor of Global Environmental Health, UC Berkeley (i)

Speaker 2: Dr. Bryan Willson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University (CSU) and founder of the CSU Engines & Energy Conversion Laboratory (confirmed)
 
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Session 5: Energy Justice and Sustainable Development
Chair: TBA

Speaker 1: Dr. Ashok Gadgil, Senior Scientist & Deputy Director, Lawrence Berkeley Lab; Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (confirmed)

Speaker 2: Dr. Bernard Amadei, Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Founding President of Engineers Without Borders - USA and co-founder of Engineers Without Borders-International (confirmed)
 
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Reception & Theatre for Justice and Development: Panama & Guatemala
Facilitator Beth Osnes, Asst. Professor of Theatre & Dance University of Colorado (confirmed)
 
Saturday, 24 October 2009
 
 
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
 
Institutional: UN & Civil Society Responses
 
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Session 6: Intergovernmental Responses
Chair: Dr Pradeep Monga, Director, Energy and Climate Change Branch, UNIDO (confirmed)

Speaker 1: TBA
Speaker 2: TBA
 
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Break
 
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Session 7: Regional and National Responses
Chair: Dr. Marianne Osterkorn, International Director, the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) (confirmed)

Speaker 1: TBA
Speaker 2: TBA
 
11:30 - 12:30 p.m.
Session 8: NGO & Private Responses
Chair: TBA

Speaker 1: William Easterly, Professor of Economics, NYU; author The White Man's Burden (i)

Speaker 2: Nick Burn, International Director, Practical Action (confirmed)
 
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch
 
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Session 9: Universities, and Law Schools
Chair: Chief Judge Robert Henry, United States Court of Appeals 10th Circuit (i)

Speaker 1: Christopher Edley, Dean, Berkeley Law, & Special Advisor to the President, University of California (confirmed)

Speaker 2: TBA

 
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Session 10: Financing and Scaling Up Energy Justice & The World Energy Justice Partnership (WEJP)
Chair: TBA

Speaker 1: Larisa Dobriansky, Director, Global Energy Network and Charter Member, National Energy Center for Sustainable Communities (confirmed)

Speaker 2: TBA
 
4:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Break
 
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Session 11: The International Agenda, Copenhagen & Energy Justice
Chair: TBA
Speaker 1: TBA
Speaker 2: TBA
 
5:30 - 6:15 p.m.
Empowering Voices for Advocacy: An Interactive Session
Facilitator Beth Osnes, Asst. Prof. of Theatre & Dance, University of Colorado (confirmed)

Summing Up
Speaker: TBA
 
 
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