"""Everyone's Going Green"" addresses the range of environmental issues businesses face and help people to approach them in an informed, ethical, and responsible way. Speakers and panelists discuss the following developments including increased regulation and enforcement, voluntary limits, innovation, your company’s carbon footprint, emissions trading, carbon offsets, ""green investing"", shareholder and activism. The program is co-sponsored by the Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity and Net Impact.
The event takes place on April 1, 2008, at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.
[Part 1: 115 Min.]
Opening Remarks: John A. Elliott, Dean of the Zicklin School of Business
Keynote Address:
The Future of Business in the Age of Global Warming
Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, Business Week
Panel I: The Green Company: Challenges for Corporate Leaders
Moderator: Donald H. Schepers, Associate Professor, Baruch College
Panelists:
Mark Brownstein, Managing Director, Business Partnerships, Environmental Defense Fund
Stefan Doering, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Peter Fusaro, Chairman & Founder, Global Change Associates
Zachary Karabell, Executive VP and Chief Economist, Fred Alger
[Part II: 113 Min.]
Panel II: The Innovators: How Visionary Corporations are Meeting the Challenge
Moderator: Naomi Gardberg, Assistant Professor, Baruch College
Panelists:
Val Cook Smith, VP, Environmental Affairs, Citigroup
Peter O'Toole, Director, Ecomagination, General Electric
Randy Price, VP Environment, Health and Safety, Con Ed
Ellen West, Director of Global Communications & Public Affairs, Google
Luncheon Address:
Sustainability: Costly Inconvenience or New Business Paradigm?
Daniel Mahler, Leader, Global Sustainability Practice, A.T. Kearney"
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