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Year of China
April 6, Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert Center
8:30Coffee & Registration
9:00Vulnerability, Opportunity: China’s Risks
and Options on Climate
9:00Vulnerability, Opportunity: China’s Risks
and Options on Climate
11:00Coffee break
11:15Keynotes:The Big Picture: China and
the U.S. in the Global Climate Negotiations,
and Impacts on the Rest of the Developing World
- Chair: Matthew Gutmann
- Sheldon Whitehouse, US Senator from Rhode Island
- Dan Reifsnyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Sustainable Development at the U.S. Department of State
12:30Lunch break
1:30Brown efforts to understand and inform
the climate negotiations
- Caroline Karp
- “Three Hungry Giants: China, the US and the EU in the Search for Resources in the Developing World”
- “The Brown Report from Durban”: Brown students report on their work in support of the Least Developed Countries negotiating group, and research focused on issues of China, South-South development cooperation, USA-China relations
3:15Beyond Competition? New Directions in U.S.-China
Relations in Global Climate Science and Policy
5:00Reception, Urban Environmental Lab