Changing the World to Save the World

Speakers

-  Dan Reicher, Executive Director Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford Faculty SGSB & Stanford Law School, former Director Climate Change at Google and Assistant Secretary for Energy under three US presidents, Graduate Dartmouth, Stanford

-  Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford Faculty School of Earth Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Graduate UC Santa Cruz and Stanford

-  Jan Corfee- Morlot, Head of the Climate, Environment and Development Unit at the OECD, member of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. MIT & Berkeley graduate

-  Geoffrey Rothwell, Principal Economist Nuclear Energy Agency OECD, former Stanford faculty Dept of Economics, Graduate Berkeley & California Institute of Technology

-  Jean-Marc Jancovici, Main developer of the “Bilan Carbon” assessment tool for the ADME and the French Inter-ministerial Greenhouse Gas Mission, founder The Shift Project, author of many publications and professor at Mines-ParisTech, Polytechnique (X) & ENTC graduate

• Speakers will discuss why we need to act NOW on global warming, the risks if we continue on the current path and if temperatures continue to rise, the consequences on water, earth, populations, security, migrations, and the future of developing and developed countries.

They will exchange views on solutions to move away from current trajectories and re-define global models; speak of policies and laws, energy, economy, sustainable development, inclusive growth;  delve into geo-political implications; give examples of how innovative research centers, Stanford and other universities tech labs, are working to tackle climate change and will share their expectations for the historical international conference COP21

• With a Special Testimony on melting glaciers and polluted rivers in Tibet, known as the roof of the world, by Minister of Information and International Affairs of Tibet, McGill graduate, Dicki Chhoyang and inputs from CNRS- MHNS Senior Science Researcher, Paris 6- ENS-NYU graduate Yorick Gitton

Chair

Maria Adle
Founding President Ivy Plus European Leaders

Hosts:

Maria Adle, President - Rebecca Buechel, Executive Board Ivy Plus European Leaders

Nicolas Tollet, President - Lindsay King, Executive Board Berkeley Club of France

Pierre-Yves Carpentier, President HEC Pole Globalisation &  International Development