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Adapting to Climate Change
The Unavoidable Threat

The world's most reknowned climate experts agree that the globe is warming faster than initially predicted, threatening the basic elements of life for people around the world – access to water, food production, public health, infrastructure, organism diversity, ecosystems, and the environment. Even under the best-case scenarios, hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and displacement due to coastal flooding as the world warms over the next century. All countries will be affected, and nations least responsible for the problem likely will suffer the most. In the United States, trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure are projected to be at risk from climate change. Panelists will discuss the unavoidable threats of climate change, the possibility of “climate refugees,” the introduction of new mapping technologies to help communities prepare for climate change, and actions being taken to reduce the risks.

Remarks by Nancy Sutley
Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality

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Dr. Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE,
Founder of Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace

Emcee

Mike Chrisman
California Secretary for Natural Resources, United States

Moderator

Bryan Walsh
Environment Columnist for TIME Magazine

Speakers

[Speaker] Chris Gregoire
Governor Chris Gregoire of Washington, United States (Co-host)

[Speaker] Gordon Campbell
Premier Gordon Campbell of British Columbia, Canada

[Speaker] Ana Júlia Carepa
Governor of Pará, Brazil

[Speaker] Michele de Nevers
Senior Manager of the Environment Department at The World Bank

[Speaker] Yannick Glemarec
Executive Coordinator for the Global Environment Facility and Director of Environment Finance for United Nations Development Programme

[Speaker] Richard Moss
Vice President and Managing Director of the United States Climate Change Program at the World Wildlife Fund

[Speakers] Dr. Stephen Schneider Melvin and Joan Lane
Professors for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University

[Speaker] Larry Schweiger
President of the National Wildlife Federation

[Speaker] Abera Tola
Director of Oxfam’s Horn of Africa Regional Office

[Speaker] Ann Veneman
Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and former United States Department of Agriculture Secretary

[Speaker] Dr. Dessima M. Williams
Ambassador of Grenada to United Nations and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States