<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Panel Discussion Invitation</font></b></span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class="">..........................................................................................</i></font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class=""><b class=""><font color="#993300" class="">‘Cooperating for Climate Resilience - Learning to Play in the Sandbox'</font></b></i></font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class=""><font color="#993300" class=""> </font>……………………………………………………………………………</i></font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><font color="#993300" class="" size="4">Save-the-Date</font></b></i></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><font size="4" class="">Host</font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b class="" style="text-align: start;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class="">Baruch College </font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b class="" style="text-align: start;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class="">Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity</font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class=""><font class="">RSVP</font></span></span><font class=""><b class="">:</b><font class=""><b class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> </b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cooperating-for-climate-resilience-learning-to-play-in-the-sandbox-tickets-37386265326" class="">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cooperating-for-climate-resilience-learning-to-play-in-the-sandbox-tickets-37386265326</a></font></font></span></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><p class="" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><font class="" face="Calibri"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">Date: </b> September 19</span></span>, 2017</span></font></p><p class="" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><font class="" face="Calibri"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class=""><span class="">Time</span>: </b>6:00 – 8:00pm <font color="navy" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></font></p><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class=""><span class=""><font class=""><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">Venue:</b></span> </span></font></span></font><span class="">Baruch College l Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity</span><span class=""> - Room 750, 151 E. 25</span><sup class=""><span class="">th</span></sup><span class=""> Street (between Lexington and 3</span><sup class=""><span class="">rd</span></sup><span class=""> Avenue)</span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class=""><font class=""><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">Moderator:</b></span></span></font></span></font><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class=""> Ann Goodman, Ph.D, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center</span></font></span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class=""><font class=""><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">Panelists:</b></span></span></font></span></font><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class=""> <span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Lou </span></span></font><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">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</span></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class=""><span class=""><font class=""><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">Topic:</b></span> </span></font></span></font><span class="">‘Cooperating for Climate Resilience - Learning to Play in the Sandbox'</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">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.</span><span class="" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class="">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.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class="">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.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class="">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.</font></span></p><div class=""><b class=""><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-size: 15px;">About the Sponsors:</font></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></font></b></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font class="" face="Calibri"><span class="" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"></span></span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class=""><font class="" face="Calibri"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="">The <span class=""><b class="">Sustainability Practice Network</b></span></span><font class=""><span class=""> (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. </span></font></span></font></div><div class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="" face="Calibri"><br class=""></font></span></span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class="">Baruch College - Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity</font></span></b></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class="">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.</font></span></p></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>