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Adapting to Climate Change: Problems and Solutions

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For Immediate Release
March 23, 2010

Media Contact:
Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT:

"Adapting to Climate Change: Problems and Solutions"

 

WHEN:

Friday, March 26, 2010, 9:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

 

WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center

Hotung Building - Room 1000

550 First Street, NW

Washington, D.C.  20001

Please use Tower Green entrance.

 

SCHEDULE:

9:45 - 10:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Kym Hunter, Editor-in-Chief, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review

Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director, Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center and Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Panel 1: Human Dimensions of Climate Change

Sara Hoverter, Senior Fellow, Harrison Institute for Public Law and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)

Lindsay Wiley, Global Health Law Program Director, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

John Balbus, Senior Advisor for Public Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Panel 2: Regulatory Frameworks for Adapting to Climate Change

Peter Byrne, Faculty Director, Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center and Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)

Alejandro Camacho, Professor, University of Notre Dame Law School

Orr Karassin, Lecturer, Sapir College Law School (Israel)

Armin Rosencranz, Consulting Prior in Human Biology, Stanford University and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch Discussion

Maria Blair, Deputy Associate Director for Climate Change Adaptation, White House Council on Environmental Quality

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Panel 3: Biodiversity/Natural Resources Management

Hope Babcock, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)

David Takacs,Visiting Professor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Paul Kibel, Professor, Golden Gate University School of Law

Dan Schramm, Staff Attorney, Environmental Law Institute

2:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks

Rachel Bowen, Executive Editor, Symposium, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review

 

NOTE:

This symposium will explore the role of laws and policies for adaptation in the areas of natural resources, human impacts, and institutional and regulatory design.

This conference is sponsored by the Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and Environmental Law Institute.

A Web cast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.

Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.