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Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on May 10th, 2005
by Pincas Jawetz (PJ@SustainabiliTank.com)

May 10, 2005, UN headquarters, New York City

present money managers with a total capitalization of over $US 3
trillion

program:

9:30 am Welcoming remarks
Amir A. Dossal, Ex Dir, UN Fund for International Partnerships
Kofi Annan, UN SG
Denise L. Nappier, Treasurer, State of Connecticut (Co-Chair)
Timothy E. Wirth, President, UN Foundation (co-Chair)

10:00 am CLIMATE RISK, NEW TECHNOLOGIES, and OPPORTUNITIES
John Holdren, Professor, Harvard U.

10:30 am TURNING CLIMATE RISK INTO OPPORTUNITY
Paul O’NEILL Former Treasury Secretary and former CEO Alcoa

12:00 am ADDRESSING CLIMATE RISK AND OPPORTUNITIES: PENSION FUND
PERSPECTIVES, Denise L. Nappier (moderator)
William C. Thompson Jr., Comptroller, City of New York
Jack Ehnes, CEO, California State Teachers’ Retirement System
(CalSTRS)
Peter Scales, Chair, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change &
Chief Executive, London Pensions Fund Authority

1:00 pm Luncheon presentations:
Richard H. Murray, Managing Director and Chief Claims Strategist,
Swiss Re
Klaus Toepfer, Exec Dir UNEP
Ted Turner, Chairman UN Foundation

2:30 pm ADDRESSING CLIMATE RISK and OPPORTUNITIES: INVESTMENT MANAGER
and
COMPANY PERSPECTIVES
Michael J. Johnston, Exec VP, The Capital Group Companies (moderator)
Abby Joseph Cohen, Partner & Chief US Portfolio Strategist, Goldman
Sachs
James Rogers, Chairman, President and CEO, Cinergy Corp.

3:15 pm CLIMATE CHANGE: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTOR, BUSINESS AND
GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP.
ALBERT GORE JR., Former VP, US, Chairman Generation Investment Mgmt.

3:45 pm INVESTOR ACTION PLAN to MANAGE CLIMATE RISK and CAPTURE
OPPORTUNITIES
Steve Westly, Controller, State of California and Board Member,
CalPERS/CalSTRS

4:00 pm Discussion moderated by Albert Gore Jr.

4:45 pm COCLUSIONS and NEXT STEPS
Timothy E. Wirth, President UN Foundation

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