SENSE Summer Symposium 2005

Thursday June 23, "De Reehorst", Ede

SENSE Summer Symposium 2005:
"Kyoto and Beyond: A Good Climate
for Responding to Climate Change?"

featuring Dr. LAURIE GELLER and Dr. BERT METZ

The full programme of the Symposium has been moved to here.

A full photographic documentary can be seen at this website

Climate Change: perhaps the single most challenging (and threatening ?) environmental problem of all time. No wonder that SENSE decided to focus this year's SENSE Summer Symposium, hosted by WIMEK, on the broad range of aspects that are involved with the climate change problem. The organizing committee is working hard to put together a symposium that covers as much of the climate change related research that is conducted within SENSE as possible. Additionally, the programme will be completed with researchers and other professionals from outside SENSE and thus a broad day is composed, which will be interesting for anyone who is working or just interested in the field of Climate Change.

The keynote speakers:

Geller Dr. Laurie Geller from the International Council for Science in Paris (http://www.icsu.org/) serves as ICSU�s Science Officer for Scientific Planning and Review, and coordinates ICSU�s activities in the realm of Science and Technology for Sustainable Development. Previously, she served as a Study Director at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council, and as an AAAS Science Policy Fellow working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Her scientific background is in atmospheric sciences and global change, and she has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Colorado.

Metz Dr. Ir. Bert Metz was leading the Netherlands delegation to the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol to the Climate Convention. In 1997 he moved to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency at RIVM to head the group on climate change and global sustainability and was elected as co-chairman of the Working Group on Climate Change Mitigation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (http://www.ipcc.ch/) of the UN for the preparation of the Third Assessment Report. In 2002 he was re-elected in that position for the 4th Assessment Report cycle. Currently he is senior researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.