State of the World 2007 Briefing - Welcome - Christopher Flavin

State of the World Briefing Program

Welcome: Christopher Flavin, Worldwatch Institute President

Introductory Remarks: Molly O’Meara Sheehan, State of the World 2007 Project Director (Listen)

Keynote Remarks: Jaime Lerner, Former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil (Listen)

State of the World 2007 Panel:
Peter Newman: Greening Urban Transportation (Listen)
Janet Sawin: Energizing Cities (Listen)
Danielle Nierenberg: Farming the Cities (Listen)
Zoë Chafe: Reducing Natural Disaster Risk in Cities (Listen)
Janice Perlman: Fighting Poverty & Environmental Injustice in Cities (Listen)

Question & Answer Session (Listen)

Christopher Flavin
President, Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC

Mr. Flavin is active in international policy circles and has participated in several historic international conferences, including the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and the Climate Change Conference in Kyoto Japan in 1997. More recently, Mr. Flavin delivered a plenary speech to 5,000 delegates at the 18th World Petroleum Congress in Johannesburg and brought together technology, policy and business leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area to discuss strategies for ramping up the use of clean energy technologies. His work has been featured in various Worldwatch publications as well as The New York Times, Technology Review, The Harvard International Review, and TIME.