Chicago Botanic Garden

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International Climate Change Forum

As part of World Environment Day, the Garden will host a daylong event featuring local, regional, national, and international experts on global warming and climate change, who will discuss ways individuals, corporations and municpalities can reduce their carbon footprint.

Speakers will include Dr. Ashok Khosla, former director of the UN Environment Programme; Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund; Amy Fraenkel, director, Regional Office North America, United Nations Environment Programme; Suzanne Malec-McKenna, commissioner of the City of Chicago, Department of the Environment; Demetria Giannisis, president and CEO, Chicago Manufacturing Center, Sustainability Growth Network; John W. Rowe, chairman, president and CEO, Exelon Corporation; Andrew Armishaw, chief technology and services officer, HSBC-North America; Arthur J. Gibson, vice president, Baxter Environment, Health and Safety, Baxter International, Inc.; and Mary Gade, former Region 5 US EPA administrator.

Facilitation for the day will be conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Register by calling (847) 835-8261.

Forum only $100.00
Dinner only $200.00
Forum and Dinner $250.00
Premium Seating for Forum and Dinner $500.00

No registration required for free simulcast in the Linnaeus Room of the Regenstein Center.

International Climate Change Forum

10:30 a.m. Welcome and World Environment Day Opening Remarks
Sophia Siskel, President & CEO, Chicago Botanic Garden

10:45 a.m. 2008 United Nations Environment Programme Report Highlights
Amy Fraenkel, Director, Regional Office North America United Nations Environment Programme

11:15 a.m. City of Chicago Climate Action Plan
Suzanne Malec-McKenna, Commissioner, Department of Environment, City of Chicago

Noon Buffet Luncheon, Knowledge and Action Marketplace Access, and viewing of International Children’s Art Exhibition

1:30 p.m. Reducing CO2: Social, Political, and Economic Actions for Saving our Planet
Keynote: Dr. Ashok Khosla
Former Chairman United Nations Environment Programme

Response
Suzanne Malec-McKenna
Commissioner, Department of Environment, City of Chicago

Mary A. Gade
Former Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5

Demetria Giannisis,
President and CEO, Chicago Manufacturing Center, Sustainability Growth Network

Conversation with audience

3:00 p.m. Break

3:15 p.m. Reducing CO2: Energy and Healthcare Actions for Saving our Planet
Keynote: Fred Krupp
President, Environmental Defense Fund

Response
John W. Rowe
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Exelon Corporation

Andrew Armishaw
Chief Technology & Services Officer, HSBC - North America

Arthur J. Gibson
Vice President, Baxter Environment, Health & Safety, Baxter International, Inc.

Conversation with audience

Dinner Program

5:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception

6:00 p.m. United Nations World Environment Day Dinner

Welcome
Sadhu Johnston
Chief Environmental Officer, City of Chicago

Save the Plants, Save the Planet
Sophia Siskel
President & CEO, Chicago Botanic Garden

Dinner and Dessert

Dinner Remarks
Dr. Ashok Khosla
Former Chairman, United Nations Environment Programme

8:45 p.m. Adjourn

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Ashok Khosla has combined life in academia with development programs for the rural poor. He was a member of the team at Harvard that designed the first undergraduate course on the environment in the early 1960s. In 1976, he was appointed director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), where he designed and launched Inforterra, the global environmental information exchange.

In 1983, Dr. Khosla founded Development Alternatives, the first major non-governmental organization dedicated to environmentally sound development.

Dr. Khosla has served on the Boards of the Club of Rome, the World Conservation Union, and the
International Institute for Sustainable Development and as an advisor to the World Bank, UNEP, and the Indian government. He serves on UNEP’s International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management.

In 2002, Dr. Khosla was awarded UNEP’s prestigious Sasakawa Environment Prize for his work creating sustainable livelihoods that empower people subsisting below the poverty line.

Fred Krupp is president of Environmental Defense Fund, a national nonprofit organization that links science, economics, and law to solve the most serious environmental problems. The group concentrates on four goals: climate, oceans, human health, and the common issues affecting land, water, and wildlife.

Krupp and the Environmental Defense Fund helped develop market-based solutions such as the acid rain reduction plan in the 1990 Clean Air Act. Krupp was a founding member of the United States Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of leading corporations and environment organizations supporting mandatory limits in the United States on global warming pollution.

The largest private equity deal ever, the purchase of TXU, was made contingent on Environmental Defense’s approval of the greenhouse gas management plan. Krupp has led the organization in a series of corporate partnerships with McDonald’s, BP, FedEx, and others.

Generously Underwritten by
Price Waterhouse Coopers, Baxter, HSBC and Exelon

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