Valuing our life support systems – Day 1 Programme
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2015-07-01T09:08:24+00:00
Savoy Place, London. 29 April 2009.
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9.00am | Registration and coffee |
9.30am | Opening remarks | Fiona Fox, Director, Science Media Centre
(Chair for the day). |
9.40am | Ecosystem services in decision making | Prof Gretchen Daily, Director of the Interdisciplinary Programme on Environment and Resources, Stanford University (video address) |
10.10am | The importance of the ecosystem approach | Prof Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor, Defra. | |
10.30am | Health challenges | Prof Sir Mark Walport, Director, Wellcome Trust. | |
10.50am | Water and marine resources | Priority areas: Prof Maggie Gill, Chief Scientific Advisor, Rural Affairs and the Environment, Scotland.
Sustainable water industry: Barrie Clarke, Director of Communications, Water UK. |
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11.25am | Coffee break | |
11.55am | Energy and climate change | Rt Hon Elliot Morley MP, chair Energy and Climate Change select committee |
12.10pm | Global trends: Impacts on the environment | Climate Change: Prof Lord May of Oxford, Climate Change Commission.
Transport: Richard Brown CBE, CEO, Eurostar.
Energy: Gearoid Lane, Director of British Gas New Energy, Centrica UK |
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13.00pm | Lunch | |
13.50pm | People and their environment | Society, Environment and Development: Prof Paul van Gardingen, University of Edinburgh.
Public Attitudes: Prof Nick Pidgeon, Professor of Environmental Psychology, Cardiff University & ESRC Climate Change Professorial Fellow.
Spiritual well-being and the environment: Prof Philip Esler, Chief Executive, Arts and Humanities Research Council. |
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14.40pm | Multiple demands on agriculture | Farming: Andrew Clark, Head of Policy Services, National Farmers Union
Food: Lucy Neville Rolfe, Director of Corporate and Legal Affairs, Tesco.
Sustainable land management: Dr Helen Phillips, Chief Executive, Natural England. |
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15.30pm | Coffee break | |
15.50pm | Current and future policy challenges | Prof John Beddington, HM Government Chief Scientific Adviser. | |
16.10pm | Science and policy | Science informing policy: Graham Wynne, Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Living with environmental change: Prof Andrew Watkinson, Director, LWEC programme.
Monitoring and managing ecosystem services: Prof Mark Bailey, Science Director, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. |
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16.50pm | Closing remarks | Prof Rosie Hails MBE, Chair, Natural Capital Initiative. | |
17.00pm | Wine reception | |
18.00pm | Close | |