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Columbia Climate Center Launch

Welcome: Mary-Elena Carr, Associate Director, Columbia Climate Center
Opening Remarks: Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
Remarks: Robert C. Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning, United Nations

Introduction of the Columbia Climate Center: Peter Schlosser, Director, Columbia Climate Center

Meeting the Climate Challenge: A Discussion
Ted Turner, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist and Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Presentations by Columbia Climate Experts:
Richard Seager, Palisades Geophysical Institute Senior Research Scientist; Doherty Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Patrick Kinney, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Science, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Presentations by Columbia Climate Experts:
Walter Baethgen, Director, Program for Latin America and the Caribbean, International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Sabine Marx, Associate Director of the Center of Research on Environmental Decisions, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions

Climate Expert Wally Broecker, Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
Closing Remarks: Mary-Elena Carr