VII International Media Forum on the Protection of Nature
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Historical Residence
Domus La Quercia
Morning session
09.30 – Address
Alfonso Cauteruccio
Secretary-General of Greenaccord
Lorenzo Chiarinelli
Bishop of Viterbo
Alessandro Mazzoli
President of the Province of Viterbo
Chair: Anna Maria Fausto
Director of the Environmental Department, University of Tuscia
10.00 – Lectio Magistralis
The basis for a global agreement on climate
Leena Srivastava
Executive Director of TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, India
11.00 – Discussion with the Speaker
11.30 – Coffee break
12.00 – First presentation
How to protect the climate and come out of the global financial crisis
Janet Larsen
Director of Research, Earth Policy Institute, USA
12.45 – Discussion with the Speaker
13.10 – Communication
Antonio Bertolotto
Managing dir. Marcopolo Engineering S.p.A.
13.30 Lunch
Afternoon session
Chair: Gianfranco Astori
Director of Asca
15.00 – Second Presentation
Climate change and Planet health conditions
Erik Assadourian
Research associate at Worldwatch Institute, USA
15.45 – Discussion with the Speaker
16.15 - Green Economy of recycling:
advantages and opportunities for environmental protection
Saturno Illomei
Manager-Corporate Communications, CONAI,
National Packaging Consortium, Italy
16.30 – Coffee break
17.00 – Third Presentation
The relationship between economic crisis and environmental crisis
Stefano Zamagni
Professor of Economic at the University of Bologna, Italy
18.00 – Discussion with the Speaker
18.30 – Close of day one
20.00 - Tour of food and wine tasting from Marche
Offered by TreValli – Cooperlat
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Historical Residence
Domus La Quercia
Morning session
Chair: Raniero De Filippis
Director of the environmental department, Regione Lazio
09.00 – Fourth Presentation
Climate, the lesson of History
Brian Fagan
Professor of Anthropology at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA
09.45 – Discussion with the Speaker
10.15 – Fifth Presentation
The evidences of the change under way in the Mediterranean area
Antonio Navarra
Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre
for Climate Change, Italy
11.00 – Discussion with the Speaker
11.30 – Coffee break
12.00 – Sixth Presentation
Glaciers melting in Antarctica
Joellen L. Russell
Assistant Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona, USA
12.45 – Discussion with the Speaker
13.15 – Lunch
Climate and People:
direct evidences
Afternoon session
Chair: Michele Candotti
Secretary-General of Wwf Italy
15.00 - The campaign “Climate Witness”, WWF International
Claire Carlton
Manager Climate Witness Programme, Australia
Climate witnesses
15.20 - The decrease in the production of milk
Diego Redini
Italy, farmer
15.50 – Discussion with the Speaker
16.10 - Glaciers melting and agricultural crisis
Mbiwo Constantine Kusebahasa
Uganda, farmer
16.40 – Discussion with the Speaker
17.00 – Coffee break
17.20 - The retreat of mountain glaciers
Alton Byers
USA, Mountain Geographer
17.40 – Discussion with the Speaker
18.00 – Communication
Wang Yong-Chen
Journalist, China
18.30 – Close of Day two
20.00 - Dinner at the farm holiday “Il Castello”
Grotte Santo Stefano
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Historical Residence
Domus La Quercia
Climate and People:
direct evidences
Morning session
Chair: Franco Siddi
Secretary-General of FNSI
09.00 - Impact on the alpine eco-region
Marco Onida
Secretary-General of the Alpine Convention, Austria
09.30 – Discussion with the Speaker
Climate witnesses
09.50 – Drought
Nelly Damaris Chepkoskei
Kenya, farmer
10.20 – Discussion with the Speaker
10.40 – Coffee break
11.00 - Glaciers melting and polar bear
Apa Sherpa – Dawa Sherpa
Nepal, students
11.30 – Discussion with the Speaker
11.50 - The transformation of Mousuni island
Jalaluddin Saha
India, farmer
12.20 – Discussion with the Speaker
13.00 – Lunch
Afternoon session
15.00 - Guided tour
19.00 - Visit to the “Ambientarti” exibition
20.00 - Viterbo, Palazzo del Governo
Evening reception
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Historical Residence
Domus La Quercia
Morning session
Chair: Diego Gavagnin
Director “Quotidiano Energia”
09.00 – Seventh Presentation
Rail sector and climate change
Barbara Morgante
FS, Italy
09.30 – Discussion with the Speaker
10.00 – Eighth Presentation
Evidences of climate change in the agricultural sector
Riccardo Valentini
Professor at the University of Tuscia, Italy
10.30 – Discussion with the Speaker
11.00 – Coffee break
11.15 – Ninth Presentation
Humanity’s Carbon Footprint: Cognition, Conflict and Denial
William Rees
Professor at the University of British Columbia, originator
of the “ecological footprint” concept, USA
12.00 – Discussion with the Speaker
12.30 - Impacts and adaptations to climate changes in the mediterranean basin
Maurizio Sciortino
(L’agone Nuovo – Enea), Italy
Domenico Guadioso
(ISPRA), Italy
13.00 – Lunch
Climate and People:
direct evidences
Afternoon session
Chair: Antonio Cianciullo
Journalist
Climate witnesses
15.00 - Coral bleaching
Tony Fontes
Australia, Sub
15.30 – Discussion with the Speaker
15.50 - Extreme weather events
David Tobar Franco
Guatemala, accountant
16.20 – Discussion with the Speaker
16.40 – Coffee break
17.00 - Khar Us lake
Marush Narankhuu
Mongolia, herdsmen
17.30 – Discussion with the Speaker
18.00 – Close of Day four
19.30 - Presentation of the exhibition “AmbientArti”
20.30 Buffet and musical entertainment
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Historical Residence
Domus La Quercia
Morning session
Which message we can communicate through the evidences
Chair: Roberto Zalambani
OdG
09.00 - Greenaccord Network: Journalists’ presentations
Pavel Antonov, Hungary
Haroldo Castro, Brazil
Ahmed Raza, Pakistan
Ana Gonzales Wonham, Spain
10.30 – Coffee break
11.00 - Greenaccord Network: Journalists’ presentations
Alexandru Savulescu, Canada
Katiana Murillo, Costa Rica
Raphael Mollandy Mweninguwe, Malawi
Elisabetta Guidobaldi, Italy
Dick Russell, USA
Leon Marshall, South Africa
13.15 Lunch
Afternoon session
Greenaccord Network
14.30 - Presentation of the plea to Copenhagen Conference
Andrea Masullo
Chairman of Greenaccord Scientific Committee
15.00 – Acknowledgments
15.30 – Close of Forum 2009 – Departures
