[SPN-Discussion] SPN l Baruch Panel Discussion: 'Cooperating for Climate Resilience - Learning to Play in the Sandbox' September 19, 2017

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Panel Discussion Invitation  
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‘Cooperating for Climate Resilience - Learning to Play in the Sandbox'
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Host
Baruch College 
Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity


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Date:  September 19, 2017

Time:  6:00 – 8:00pm 

Venue:  Baruch College l Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity - Room 750, 151 E. 25th Street (between Lexington and 3rd Avenue)

Moderator: Ann Goodman, Ph.D, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center

Panelists: Lou Ferretti, Project Executive, Product Environmental Compliance and Supply Chain Social Responsibility, IBM; Kimberly Hill Knott, Policy Director, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice; Nilda Mesa, Director, Urban Sustainability and Equity Planning, Urban Design Lab, Columbia University; COL. Mark Read, Head, Department of Geography & Environment Engineering, United States Military Academy

Topic:  ‘Cooperating for Climate Resilience - Learning to Play in the Sandbox’

To tackle complex challenges such as climate change, we have to learn to cooperate, collaborate and generally work better together. No one sector can combat the threat to our environment. Success requires the partnership of an untold number of experts from virtually every discipline. 

This need to better work together is echoed increasingly throughout the sustainability community. For instance, at the EPA’s March Climate Leadership Conference, a discussion on how communities can create a resilience strategy quickly turned to the need for cities to more effectively cooperate with the private sector.  Despite the wondrous technologies we humans continue to devise, it seems we still haven’t learned some basic lessons—like how to play in the sandbox.

The lack of effective collaboration is exacerbated by the fact that the players are changing.  Former climate supporters, such as the federal government, are stepping back. In their place, are new environmental advocates including Big Business and the Armed Forces. While these new allies understand the risks of climate deterioration, we don’t necessarily understand how best to work with one another toward a common goal.

This panel discussion will bring together representatives from various sectors in order to elicit a better understanding of their unique needs, the incentives and rewards that motivate them and the ways they operate and think.  The aim is to formulate some principles from which we may be better able to collaborate for climate resilience.

About the Sponsors:

The Sustainability Practice Network (SPN) is a New York based inter-disciplinary community of professionals who seek to learn and share knowledge to advance sustainable development across sectors and disciplines. We mobilize our members to practice sustainability in their lives and work. Our mission is to raise awareness of the importance of individual and corporate sustainability and thereby create a more stable and equitable world. 

Baruch College - Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity

The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity is a forum for discussion of a broad range of contemporary issues confronting US corporations and capital markets. Our concerns include: transparency of corporate reporting, corporate governance, examining legal and ethical corporate behavior, spotlighting executive accountability, corporate responsibility in global business development, risk assessment and amelioration, resolving conflicting corporate stakeholder interests, and evaluating the role of governmental regulation.

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