https://globalchange.gatech.edu/events/global-climate-action-symposium/

Registration is free:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-climate-action-symposium-european-climate-diplomacy-week-registration-69731806711

Schedule of Events

9 - 9:30 AM

Registration and coffee

Kendeda Building atrium

Part 1 – Science, Technology, and Policies

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Opening remarks

Kendeda Building auditorium

• Shan Arora, Director, The Kendeda Building
• Kim Cobb, Director, Global Change Program
• President Cabrera, President of Georgia Tech
• Emmanouil Androulakis, Consul of Greece, on behalf European Consul

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Science & Engineering Panel Discussion

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• Moderator: Beril Toktay, Professor of Operations Management, Brady Family Chair, ADVANCE Professor, Faculty Director, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, Scheller College of Business
• Chloé Arson, Associate Professor, Geosystems Engineering Sustainable Communities School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Science
• Eri Saikawa, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
• Zachary Lancaster, PhD student, City & Regional Planning, Georgia Tech

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Break

11:20 AM - 12:30 PM

Business & Policy Panel Discussion

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The panel will feature:

• Moderator: Michael Oxman, Managing Director, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business; Professor of the Practice, Sustainable Business, Scheller College of Business
• John McIntyre, Professor, Executive Director, GT CIBER, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, author of CSR and Climate Change Implications for Multinational Enterprises
• Dagmara Koska, Counsellor on Climate and Energy, EU Delegation to the USA
• Jairo Garcia, Chief Executive Officer, Urban Climate Nexus
• Strata Solar representative
• Kingspan Insulation representative

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

A sustainable, plant-forward lunch will be provided for pre-registrants.

Part 2 – Student Engagement, "Fridays for Future"

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Introducing "Fridays for Future"

Pierre Gourjon will introduce video interviews of students from Belgium, Germany, France, Greece, Ireland, and other countries.

1:50 PM - 2:20 PM

"Fridays for Future" Discussion

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• Moderator: Ruthie Yow, Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain

2:20 PM - 3:15 PM

Keynote

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Destiny Loyd, Citizen's Climate Lobby

Introductory remarks by Kim Cobb, Georgia Power Chair and ADVANCE Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Break

Part 3 – Art & Climate Future

"Urban Wilderness + Man-Mad Nature", a collaborative exhibition by documentary and fine art photographer Virginie Drugjon-Kippelen and conceptual photographer Shannon Davis, creative director and adjunct professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, will be featured throughout the day.

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Carte Blanche Visual Artists

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The panel will feature:

• Guy Gabon, eco-artist, designer and filmmaker, whose work explores the interrelationship between the natural and urban environment and has been exhibited in Canada, Mozambique, Madagascar, France notably.
• Gwenola Wagon, artist and assistant professor, Department of Visual Art, University of Paris 8, has produced numerous installations in France and abroad, and Pierre Cassou-Noguès, philosopher and professor, Department of Philosophy of the University Paris 8, author of several books as Les rêves cybernétiques de Norbert Wiener (Seuil, 2014) or Technofictions (Cerf, 2019).
• Erin Jane Elson, artist, whose work has recently been exhibited at the Withney Museum of American Art in New York and at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Conversation with Artists

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• Moderator: Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Chair and Professor, School of Modern Languages; Founding co-Director, the Atlanta Global Studies Center, Georgia Institute of Technology

Part 4 – Reception

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Reception

Kendeda Building atrium