Tuesday 29 January 2008
Supported by BT Health and BT Conferencing,
British Medical Journal and The Lancet
held at the Royal College of Physicians
Please note that the content of these presentations must not be used or reproduced in any way without permission.
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Opening remarks and welcome
Professor Ian Gilmore, President, Royal College of Physicians
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Chair: Mr David Shukman,
BBC Environment and Science Correspondent
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Opening speech
Mr Tom Burke CBE, Chief Adviser, Environment Policy, Rio Tinto
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Climate and weather: an historical perspective
Professor Mark Maslin, Director, Environment Institute, University College London
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Fossil fuels and climate change
Professor Sir David King, Director, Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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The biotic effects of climate change - past, present and future
Professor Adrian Lister, Research Leader, Department of Palaeontology,
The Natural History Museum, London
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Impacts of climate change: health, energy and policy
Dr Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
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Panel discussion
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The economics of climate change
Lord Adair Turner, Former Director General, CBI
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Migration and war
Professor Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies, Bradford University
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Panel discussion
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What must be done? Reducing emissions
Mr Ben Cotton, Head of Fund Relationships, MF Global UK Ltd
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Health co-benefits of climate change policies
Professor Ian Roberts, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Turning concern into action: how do we mobilise the health professions?
Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief, BMJ
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Panel discussion
Panel to be joined by Professor Alan Maryon-Davis, President, Faculty of Public Health
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Closing remarks – by live video link to New York using BT Video Conferencing
Dr James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies,
Columbia University, New York
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Plenary and close
Dr Hugh Montgomery, Director, Institute for Human Health and Performance, University College London (conference organiser)