Top researchers and policy makers will gather at Columbia University on May 2nd at the "350 Climate Conference" in New York to examine the need to and potential solutions for lowering atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to sustainable levels by 2050. In the run-up to negotiations in Copenhagen later this year, this conference will help set the context and framework for technical, political, and individual steps necessary to mitigating climate change far below levels being presently considered by many policy makers.
Dr. James Hansen: director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, will examine the need to dramatically lower atmospheric carbon to sustainable levels--possibly to 350 ppm or lower
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/
Dr. Daniel Hillel: world-renowned soil scientist, hydrologist and agronomist, editor of the "Encyclopedia of Soils of the Environment," will discuss the impacts and carbon sequestration potential of terrestrial ecosystems
http://ccsr.columbia.edu/researchers/hillel.html
Prof. Michael Gerrard, JD: director of the Center for Climate Law at Columbia University, will discuss the imperative and legal implications of post-Kyoto negotiations in Copenhagen in December
http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Michael_Gerrard
Dr. Johannes Lehmann: leading "biochar" researcher (an exciting proposed means of sequestering carbon from the atmosphere and locking it the soil in an energy-generation process known as pyrolysis); professor of soil science at Cornell University and editor of forthcoming "Biochar for Environmental Management"
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann.html
Majora Carter: founder of Sustainable South Bronx; named most influential women of New York two years in a row; will discuss the ethical imperative for green jobs and ecojustice in the burgeoning green economy
http://www.majoracartergroup.com/
Seats are limited so please register soon!
www.350conference.org
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