Topic and Time:
The Carbon Market in China 9:00-11:30, Dec. 22.
The sustainable Development 9:00-11:30, Dec. 24.
Global Trends in the Knowledge Revolution 9:00-11:30, Dec. 27
Event Location:
NKIIE Meeting Room, 12th Floor, Econ. School Building
Speaker:
Graciela Chichilnisky, Professor of economics department of Columbia University, Director of Columbia University Committer of Risk Management (CCRM).
Prof Graciela Chichilnisky h
olds the UNESCO Chair in Mathematics and Economics and is professor of statistics at Columbia University, where she is the director of the Program on Information and Resources and its Center for Risk Management. Graciela Chichilnisky is the author of the carbon market of the UN Kyoto Protocol that became international law in 2005. She also created the concept of Basic Needs voted by 153 nations at the 1993 UN Earth Summit to be the cornerstone of Sustainable Development, and in 1996 created the formal theory of Sustainable Development that is used worldwide. Chichilnisky is a world renowned economist and mathematician that the Washington Post calls an "A-List Star" and appeared in the 2009 Time Magazine on "Heroes of the Environment". Chichilnisky acted as a US Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the 2007 Nobel Prize. A special adviser to several UN organizations, heads of state and US Congress, her pioneering work uses innovative market mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions, conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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