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Progamme & Final Presentations
From 08.30 Registration, Refreshments & Exhibition
09.15 – 11.00 THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Welcome and introduction
- Seminar Host: Sally Magnusson, Presenter, Journalist & Writer
Setting the scene
Launch of the SEPA 2006 State of Scotland’s Environment Report
Keynote Speech: Choosing our future
- Ross Finnie MSP, Minister for the Environment and Rural Development
Scotland’s sustainable development strategy: making the links between the state of the environment to Scotland’s economic and social wellbeing.
11.00 – 11.30 Refreshments Break & Exhibition
11.30 – 13.00 THE BIG ISSUES
The Environment and human health
- Dr Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
(800k pdf)
How well do we understand the links between the environment and human health? To what extent is the health of people in Scotland affected by environmental factors? What needs to be done? Dr Burns, Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, examines the issues.
Biodiversity: its economic and social importance
Climate change: the global threat
- Professor Mike Hulme, Director, The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change (870k pdf)
The reality of the global threat posed by climate change is being increasingly recognised. What are the latest findings? What are the global implications and what can done? Professor Hulme, a leading voice on UK and global climate change, puts UK issues into the global context.
Expert panel chaired by
- Sally Magnusson, Presenter, Journalist & Writer
Panel to include:
- Speakers (Professor Galbraith and Professor Hulme)
- Tim Brett, Director, Health Protection Scotland
- Dr Chris Spray, Director of Environmental Science, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, who has led the production of the SEPA State of Scotland’s Environment Report
- Professor James Curran, leading expert on climate change in Scotland
Questions will be taken from the audience.
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch & exhibition
14.30 – 16.00 WORKSHOPS: SEEKING SOLUTIONS
Three workshops will examine different aspects of sustainable development in Scotland, seeking delegates’ views on finding the ‘win-wins’. How can we build a sustainable future for the environment, economy and Scotland’s people?
Workshop one: the environment and the economy: Economic opportunities in a sustainable Scotland, the low carbon economy, the importance of productivity and place
Lead contributors
Workshop two: people and the environment:
Education for sustainable development, engaging the public, securing sustainable communities
Lead contributors
Workshop three: natural resources and a sustainable environment
Managing natural resources, making sustainable choices, identifying environmental priorities.
Lead contributors
16.00 – 16.30 Refreshments break & Exhibition
16.30 – 17.30 ROUND UP FROM WORKSHOPS
ACTION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SCOTLAND
Living beyond our means?
- Professor Jan Bebbington, Vice Chair Scotland, the Sustainable Development Commission
Climate change, biodiversity loss, unsustainable use of resources. What difference can a small country like Scotland make to global scale problems? As chair of the Sustainable Development Commission in Scotland Professor Bebbington is well placed to summarise the issues and describe what can and is being done.
ROUND UP
CLOSING REMARKS
- Sally Magnusson, Presenter, Journalist & Writer
CLOSE
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