| Date/Time : |
03/02/07
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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| Location : | UCLA Covel Commons |
| Organizer : | Sean Hecht |
| Sponsor : | Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy Program |
| Cost : | Free for general public; $100 for MCLE credit for attorneys |
| Description : | |
Registration for this event is now closed.
The UCLA School of Law Evan Frankel Environmental Law & Policy Program
in collaboration with the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, the Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, the UCLA Institute of the Environment, and the State Bar of California Environmental Law Section
presents:
The 2007 Frankel Symposium: Coping With Global Warming
Friday, March 2, 2007
Covel Commons, UCLA
Policymakers, scientists, legal scholars, and other expert speakers, along with over 120 participants from government agency, advocacy groups, academia, students, and members of the public, gathered to discuss how we will adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change on our world, even as we all work to prevent or lessen the pace of global warming. Many academics and policymakers at the local, state and federal levels are currently focusing intensely on how to reduce future emissions of greenhouse gases. While it is clear that we must reduce such emissions dramatically, climate change is unfortunately already having an impact. No matter what happens to change our future emissions patterns, we will also have to work hard to protect fragile ecosystems and to try to minimize the human costs of the climate change that is already occurring. Our conference will address how we go about doing that, focusing on legal, technological and cultural adaptations.
The program was valuable to lawyers, academics, policymakers, businesspeople, students, and environmental advocates who learned about current knowledge and predictions of global warming impacts and how government, businesses, and the rest of us can work to minimize the serious costs of climate change to our society.
Speakers at this conference included lead authors of many of the most important studies relating to combating and adapting to the negative impacts of global warming in California, nationally, and internationally. Topics included the necessity of adaptation and overall adaptation strategies; impacts on biodiversity, impacts on human health; impacts on water supply; adaptation by government, businesses, and insurers to the new risk landscape; and impacts on indigenous cultures in the developing world.
8:15-8:45 Registration
8:45 Opening Remarks
Sean B. Hecht, Executive Director, UCLA Environmental Law Center, UCLA School of Law
9:00-10:30 Panel I
Adaptation as strategy and as necessity
Moderator/Commenter:
Dr. J. R. DeShazo, Associate Professor of Public Policy, UCLA School of Public Affairs and Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Panelists:
Daniel H. Cole, Professor, Indiana University School of Law
Dr. W. Michael Hanemann, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Brian H. Hurd, Associate Professor, New Mexico State University, Dept. of Agricultural Economics
Dr. Amy Lynd Luers, California Climate Manager, Global Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
10:45-12:00 Panel II
Adaptation to specific impacts
Moderator/Commenter:
Mary D. Nichols, Director, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Professor-in-Residence, UCLA School of Law
Panelists:
Ann Carlson, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Dr. Lee Hannah, Senior Research Fellow, Conservation International and University of California, Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Management
Dr. Jonathan Patz, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00-1:00 Lunch and Dean's Remarks
Michael H. Schill, Dean and Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
1:15-2:45 Panel III
Adapting to climate change's impacts on water supply
Moderator/Commenter:
Jeffrey Kightlinger, General Manager, Metropolitan Water District
Panelists:
Holly Doremus, Professor of Law, University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall)
Dr. Jeffrey Mount, Professor, Dept, of Geology, University of California, Davis
David Sandino, Chief Counsel, California Department of Water Resources
3:00-4:15 Panel IV
Risk management: adapting to a new paradigm
Moderator/Commenter:
Jonathan Zasloff, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Panelists:
Daniel A. Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Dr. Evan Mills, Scientist, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Timothy Malloy, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
4:30-5:00 Closing Session - Islands in the Storm: Lessons from Micronesia
Dr. Eric Metzgar, Independent ethnographer and documentary filmmaker, Triton Films
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