Event
UMD Climate Action 2016 Forum
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
9:00 a.m.
Stamp Student Union
forum@climateaction2016.org
http://umd.edu/climate_forum_2016/
The forum is a public conference that features a mix of University of Maryland and external experts speaking on how to advance the climate implementation agenda following the Paris Agreement.
It features 20 interactive sessions following six thematic tracks: city and sub-national implementation, resilience/adaptation, energy, sustainable land-use, analysis and tools to support decision-making, and climate and society.
In the opening plenary session, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, University of Maryland President Wallace H. Loh, and School of Public Policy Dean Robert Orr will deliver welcoming remarks. The keynote address will be given by H.E. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, vice chair of the United Nations Foundation and former prime minister of Norway.