The Climate Change Communication Forum (Activities)

Government of Mexico
Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Concept: Simon Anholt

Grand Velas Resort Riviera Maya
December 3rd, 2010

Agenda

9:15 – 9:50 Opening ceremony
“Communication and Climate Change: What is at stake in Cancun?”
Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources
Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
(Introduction by Gonzalo Canseco, Chief of Staff, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico)

9:50 – 10:30 “Public vs. Expert Opinion – What the Surveys Tell Us”
Chair: Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Jennifer Scott, Global Managing Director of Strategy + Planning, USA
Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale Project on Climate Change, USA

10:30 – 11:45 Discussion panel 1
“Challenges in Getting the Story Out – What’s Working and What’s Not?”
Chair: Oliver Morton, The Economist, UK
Panelists:

• Joseph Ageyo, News Editor of NTV Kenya
• Haili Cao, Caixin, senior writer, China
• Leonardo Curzio, Enfoque Noticias NRM, Mexico
• Fiona Harvey, Financial Times, UK
• Katie Mandes, VP of Communications, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, USA
• Arturo Menchaca, Mexican Academy of Sciece, Mexico
• Nick Nutall, Head of Media, United Nations Environmental Program

11:45 – 12:00 Break

12:00 – 12:30 Simon Anholt
“How to Engage an Indifferent Public: the Media and Public Diplomacy”
(Introduction by Gonzalo Canseco, Chief of Staff, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Buffet)

13:30 – 14:00 Keynote speaker
Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
(Introduction by Gonzalo Canseco, Chief of Staff, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

14:00 – 15:15 Discussion panel 2
“Communicating Climate Science”
Chair: Andy Revkin, NYT, USA
Panelists:

• Doug Boucher, Union of Concerned Scientists, USA
• Estrella Burgos, Director of Cómo ves? magazine, UNAM, Mexico
• Renate Christ, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Simon Lewis, Fellow of the Royal Academy, UK
• Mario Molina, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1995, Mexico
• José Sarukhán, UNAM/CONABIO, Mexico

15:15 – 15:30 Recess

15:30 – 16:45 Discussion panel 3
“New Voices: Alternative Messengers and Media”
Chair: Javier Tello, Foro TV, Mexico
Panelists:

• Colin Beavan, blogger: noimpactman.typepad.com, USA
• Ray Chaplin, educator, South Africa
• Yang Fuqiang, Director of the WWF's Global Climate Solutions
• Sonja Kruse, blogger: letterdash.com/skruse, South Africa
• Manuel Olimón, Catholic clergyman and historian, Mexico
• Gabriel Quadri, CEO SIGEA Carbon, Mexico
• Carlos Zarco, Chief Executive OXFAM Mexico

16:45 – 17:15 Closing Remarks
Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores
Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change

17:15 End of Forum

18:00 Reception Noche Mexicana (transportation will be provided)