Informal Thematic Debate of the General Assembly
Climate Change as a Global Challenge
Trusteeship Council Chamber, United Nations

Tuesday 31st July
10.00 – 10.30 am
Opening Statement by the President of the General Assembly
Statement by the Secretary-General of the United Nations

Panel 1 – Climate Change: the Science, the Impact and the Adaptation Imperative
10 .30 am – 1.00 pm
Moderator: Kemal Dervis (Administrator, UNDP)
Mario Molina (University of California, San Diego)
Sir Nicholas Stern (London School of Economics)
Herve le Treut (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS)
Kenrick R. Leslie (Executive Director, Caribbean Community Climate Change Center)
Sunita Narain (Director, Centre for Science and Environment, India)
Respondents: John Holdren (Harvard University) and Judge Neroni Slade (Samoa)

Panel 2 - Mitigation Strategies in the context of Sustainable Development
3.00 pm - 6.00 pm

Moderator: Mohamed El-Ashry (UN Foundation)
Robert Socolow (Princeton University)
Anthony Olusegun Adegbulugbe (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)
Abdalla Salem El-Badri (Secretary-General, OPEC) – tbc
Michael Liebreich (CEO, New Energy Finance)
Bjorn Stigson (President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
Yvo de Boer (Executive Secretary, UNFCCC)
Respondents: Masayuki Sasanouchi (Environmental Affairs, Toyota) and Paul Bledsoe
(Director, US National Commission on Energy Policy)

Special Envoys
President Ricardo Lagos (Secretary-General’s Climate Change Envoy)
Han Seung-soo (Secretary-General’s Climate Change Envoy)

Special Guests
Jeff Sachs (Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University)
Jake Siewert (Vice President, Environment and Public Strategy, Alcoa)
Hans Verolme (Director, Climate Change Program, World Wildlife Fund)
Jim Rogers (Chairman and CEO, Duke Energy)
Kate Hampton (Head of Policy, Climate Change Capital)
Graeme Sweeney (CEO, Shell Renewables and President, Shell Hydro)
Martin Khor (Editor, South – North Development Monitor)
Tariq Banuri, (Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Asia)
Jacques Diouf (Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization)
Achim Steiner (Executive Director, UNEP)
Yehia Bouabdellaoui (Director, Hassan II Institute of Agronomy, Morocco)