Programme
4 March 2009
17:30 21.30 Registration
at ARoS Art Museum
5 March 2009
8:00 8:30 Registration
at Concert Hall Aarhus
8:30 - 10:15 Opening session I
Welcome by Rector Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen, Aarhus University
Special Envoy on Climate Change for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
Former Director-General of WHO and Prime Minister of Norway
Beyond Kyoto the need for cooperation and participation by science, business and civic society
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and Director of Research at Cambridge University
Towards global sustainability for nine billion people
Founder and CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy, USA
Citizen Activation: Enabling Global Solutions
10:45 - 12.15 Opening Session II
Danish Minister for Development Cooperation
Beyond Kyoto - What are the Synergies between Policy on Climate Change, Food Security and Poverty Reduction?
Earth & Environmental Sciences Lamont-Doherty, Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA
The worst of global warming and how we might combat it
Department of Agroecology and Environment, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Lead author of the 4th IPCC Assesment report
The complex and multidimensional role of agriculture in climate change
Member of the Danish Parliament
The Rocky Road to Copenhagen
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:30 Sessions
Theme 1 - Climate policy: the role of law and economics
Theme 2 - Biodiversity and ecosystems
Theme 3 - Agriculture and climate change
Theme 4 - Nanotechnology solutions for a sustainable future
Theme 5 - Citizens and society
Theme 6 - The Arctic Case
16:00 - 18:00 Sessions
Theme 1 - Climate policy: the role of law and economics
Theme 2 - Biodiversity and ecosystems
Theme 3 - Agriculture and climate change
Theme 4 - Nanotechnology solutions for a sustainable future
Theme 5 - Citizens and society
Theme 6 - The Arctic case
18:00 - 19:00 Poster session
19:00 - 21:00 Reception organised by Aarhus Municipality
6 March 2009
8:00 - 10:00 Sessions
Theme 1 - Climate policy: the role of law and economics
Theme 2 - Biodiversity and ecosystems
Theme 3 - Agriculture and climate change
Theme 4 - Nanotechnology solutions for a sustainable future
Theme 5 - Citizens and society
Theme 6 - The Arctic case
Theme 7 - Need for Integrated Energy Solutions
10:30 - 12:30 Sessions
Theme 1 - Climate policy: the role of law and economics
Theme 2 - Biodiversity and ecosystems
Theme 3 - Agriculture and climate change
Theme 4 - Nanotechnology solutions for a sustainable future
Theme 5 - Citizens and society
Theme 6 - The Arctic case
Theme 7 - Need for Integrated Energy Solutions
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Sessions
Theme 1 - Climate policy: the role of law and economics
Theme 2 - Biodiversity and ecosystems
Theme 3 - Agriculture and climate change
Theme 4 - Nanotechnology solutions for a sustainable future
Theme 5 - Citizens and society
Theme 6 - The Arctic case
Theme 7 - Need for Integrated Energy Solutions
16:30 - 17:30 Closing session - Panel debate & Press conference in Danish
19:30 - 23:00 Conference dinner
7 March 2009
9:00 - ? Technical Excursions
| Tour No. 1: | Low Carbon Energy Technologies | DKK 600 |
Visits at hydrogen research and innovation centres | ||
| Tour No. 2: | Low Carbon Energy Large Infrastructures | DKK 600 |
Visits at waste centre and heating plant | ||
| Tour No. 3: | Reducing Agricultural GHG Emissions | DKK 750 |
Visits at biodiesel and biogas plants | ||
| Tour No. 4: | Renewable Energy Island Tour | DKK 860 |
A day on Denmark´s Renewable Energy Island, Samsoe | ||
| Tour No. 5: | Biodiversity and Ecosystems | DKK 600 |
Visits at Mols Bjerge National Park and a sustainable golf resort | ||
| Tour No. 6: | Energy Efficiency - energy producing buildings | DKK 400 |
Visits at energy producing buildings |