State of the World 2007 Briefing - Panelist - Janet Sawin

State of the World Briefing Program

Welcome: Christopher Flavin, Worldwatch Institute President (Listen)

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
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)

Janet L. Sawin
Senior Researcher & Director, Energy & Climate Change Program, Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC

As an adviser to the Chinese government, Dr. Sawin helped influence China’s renewable energy law that went into effect in January 2006. Her paper for the German government for the first major international renewable energy conference in decades, Renewables 2004, appeared in an Earthscan book released in October 2006. Her work has been cited extensively, including in the recent US Department of Energy report, Policies to Promote Non-Hydro Renewable Energy in the United States and Selected Countries. She currently serves on the Steering Committee for the US Department of Energy/ American Wind Energy Association National Wind Action Plan.