Past Events
November 19, 2007
Speaker: Sir Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor Economics at the London School of Economics. Head of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change published in October 2006. Climate change poses severe risks to the economies and societies of the planet. This risk can be radically reduced with strong and timely action. If the appropriate economic and other policies are designed well and put in place now, then the costs will be much smaller than the damages averted. The policies do not imply the curtailment of economic growth and development.
November 14, 2007
Speaker: Ian Bowles, Secretary, Mass. Executive Office of Energy ; Brian Bolster, Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs; Daniel Goldman, CFO, Great Point Energy; Phillip D. Boyle, President and COO, Powerspan; Professor Daniel Schrag, Harvard. The changing climate in favor of clean technologies has launched a "green" revolution in areas like renewables and energy efficiency, biofuels and now businesses seeking to combat global warming through innovative new technologies.
November 06, 2007
Speakers: Dr. Adil Najam and Dr. Tariq Banuri. A panel discussion with two IPCC Lead Authors.
November 06, 2007
Speaker: Lee Raymond, Retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil
October 30, 2007
Speaker: Robin Chase '86, Founder of ZipCar and GoLoco
October 09, 2007
If you take as a given that humans now live on a geoengineered planet, then what is our responsibility for the future? Before discussing how to deal with Earth systems,
Brad Allenby asks that we think carefully about the complexity of human systems, especially our tendency to generate far more complexity than we realize, and to assume “that we have a reasonable handle going forward…and can therefore talk about (the future) with some degree of rationality.”