Friday, April 6, 2012
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert Center
Beyond Competition? China, Climate Change, Security and the Developing World
Beyond Competition? China, Climate Change, Security and the Developing World
How will China manage rapid economic growth without ignoring climate change?
For more information, see http://angle.watsoninstitute.org/beyondcompetition/.
April 6, Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert Center
8:30 Coffee & Registration
9:00 Vulnerability, Opportunity: China’s Risks and Options on Climate
Chair: Timmons Roberts
Yinlong Xu
Deborah Seligsohn
Xueman Wang
Mark Levine
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Keynotes
Sheldon Whitehouse, US Senator from Rhode Island
Dan Reifsnyder (Invited), Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Sustainable Development at the U.S. Department of State
12:30 Lunch break
1:30 Brown efforts to understand and inform the climate negotiations
“Three Hungry Giants: China, the US and the EU in the Search for Resources in the Developing World”
“The Brown Report from Durban”: Brown students report on their work in support of the Least Developed Countries negotiating group, and research focused on issues of China, South-South development cooperation, USA-China relations
3:15 Beyond Competition? New Directions in U.S.-China Relations in Global Climate Science and Policy
Mizan Khan
Deborah Seligsohn
Caroline Karp
5:00 Reception, Urban Environmental Lab