PANEL DISCUSSION--14:20 - 15:20

Speakers

Allison Chin Kevin Conrad Alice Gast Ashok Khosla Julia Marton-Lefevre Barbara Stocking

From left to right:

Allison Chin, President, Sierra Club
Kevin Conrad, Executive Director of the Coalition of Rainforest Nations
Alice Gast, President, Lehigh University
Ashok Khosla, Chairman, Development Alternatives and also President, Club of Rome and President, IUCN

Julia Marton-Lefevre, Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature
Barbara Stocking, Chief Executive, Oxfam GB ,

Blessed. Distressed: Environmental Sustainability (14:20 - 15:20)

We have put economic growth first on our developmental agenda, and are only now becoming aware of the impact this will have on our long term sustainability.

- How has the race for succeeding in competition threatened our natural resources?

- Is economic growth for the developing world compatible with sustainability?

- How will climate change effect the way the global economy works in 2010? 2015? 2050?

- What are the human impacts of climate change?

- What’s the true cost of losing a species?

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