Program

Monday, 28 January - AGS Annual Meeting Welcome Reception

Tuesday, 29 January - Pathways at Scale and in Time

The past is prelude: a conversation with IPCC lead authors (panel) (webcast)

Moderator: Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute

Panelists:

• Andreas Fischlin, Head, Terrestrial Systems Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETHZ
• Michael Golay, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Howard Herzog, MIT Energy Initiative
• William Moomaw, Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts University
• Adil Najam, Fredrick Pardee Professor of Global Policy and Director, Pardee Center for the Study of Long-Term Future, Boston University
• John Reilly, Associate Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
• Akimasa Sumi, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, The University of Tokyo

Is it too late? Response from academia (panel)

Moderator: Karin Markides, President, Chalmers University of Technology

Panelists:

• Hiroshi Komiyama, President, The University of Tokyo
• Ralph Eichler, President, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
• Henry (Jake) Jacoby, Co-director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (pdf)
• Janet Hering, Director, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) (pdf)

Lunch and Poster Session #1

Improving our impact: Challenges to research universities from industry, government, & civil society (panel)

Moderator: Sarah Slaughter, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Panelists:

• Martin S. Kaplan, Trustee, V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation (pdf)
• William Bonvillian, Director, Washington DC Office, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Simon Pitts, Executive Director, Ford-MIT Alliance, Ford Motor Co. (pdf)
• Mindy S. Lubber, President, CERES

Parallel Sessions
Deploying sustainability research in society: Strategies for success

Group A: Business and Industry

Moderator: Sarah Slaughter, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:

• Richard Sears, Vice President, Academia for Shell and Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (pdf)

Group B: Government and Policy

Moderator: Renate Schubert, Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), Chair of Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (pdf)

Discussants:

• John Bolduc, Environmental Planner, Community Development Department, City of Cambridge
• Greg Watson, Vice President for Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative

Group C: NGO/Public Interest sector

Moderator: Peter Edwards, Plant Ecology, Institute of Integrative Biology Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

Discussants:

• Praveen K. Amar, Director, Science and Polisy, NESCAUM
• Katja Brundiers, Managing Director, seed sustainability (pdf)
• Lubna Maria Nabi , Director of Resource Development, design that matters

Wednesday, 30 January - Pathways at Scale and for All

Why bad things happen to good technologies (keynote)
John Sterman, Forrester Professor of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (pdf)

Agents of change: Model partnerships with academia (panel)

Moderator: Joanne Kauffman, Advisor and former Executive Director, Alliance for Global Sustainability

Panelists:

• Lennart Billfalk, Senior Advisor, Vattenfall AB (pdf)
• Ernest Moniz, Director, MIT Energy Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (pdf)
• Theodore (Ted) Smith, Executive Director, Henry P. Kendall Foundation
• Elizabeth Kolbert, Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Rebuilding the City of New Orleans: working across sectors to achieve a common goal (keynote)
John Fernandez, Professor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (pdf)

Sustainability for all: Implications of new pathways for the developing world (panel)  

Moderators:

• Kensuke Fukushi, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, The University of Tokyo (pdf)
• Chongrak Polprasert, Professor of Environmental Engineering, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology (pdf)

Panelists:

• Barbara Becker, Managing Director, North-South Centre, ETH-Zentrum (pdf)
• Robert Asiedu, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (pdf)
• Karen Polenske, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (pdf)
• LI Shantong, Director, Department of Development Strategy and Regional Economy, Development Research Center of the State Council, P.R. China (pdf)
• Lars Reuterswärd, Director, Global Division, UN-HABITAT (pdf)

(panel)

Moderator: Stephen Connors, AGS Flagship Director

Panelists:

• Pathways to Sustainable European Energy Systems - Filip Johnsson, Chalmers University of Technology (pdf)
• Sustainable Transportation Systems: challenges and opportunities - John Heywood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (pdf)
• Human Well-being/Ecosystems Services - Greg Morrison, Chalmers University of Technology (pdf)
• Sustainable Japanese Energy Management from The Viewpoint of Demand Side - Ryozo Ooka, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo (pdf)

Thursday, 31 January - From Insights to Action

Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for the Eastern Mediterranean
Manfred Lange, Director, Energy, Environment, and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute (pdf)

Influencing the Future Through Collaboration: Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute
Jeremy Semrau, University of Michigan

Highlights from the Parallel Sessions
Amanda Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Future is What We Make for Ourselves

Moderator: Didac Ferrer-Balas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Panelists:

• Anup Bandivadekar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Toshihiro Inoue, The University of Tokyo
• Sabrina Krank, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
• Pascal Mages, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
• Lisa Willman, Chalmers University of Technology

Action Steps and Closing comments

• Greg Morrison, Chalmers University of Technology
• David Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Andreas Fischlin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
• Akimasa Sumi, The University of Tokyo