Finance, food and energy crises: the consequences for the environment and land use change

Location: G32, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ.

Time	Title	Who
10:30	Opening – Welcome by the Royal Society	Lorna Casselton (Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society)
Session 1	Land Use and Resource Competition	Yonglong Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
10:45	How to feed an additional 3 billion people?	Ian Crute (Rothamsted Research, UK)
11:05	Impacts on biodiversity	Osvaldo Sala (Brown, USA)
11:25	COFFEE
Session 2	Climate change and Land use	Mary Scholes (Wits, RSA)
11:45	Agricultural production and climate change implications	Erda Lin (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, China)
12:05	Biofuels and their environmental implications	Robert Howarth (Cornell Uni, USA)
12:25	The Amazon and its carbon rivers	Reynaldo Victoria (USP, Brazil)
13:00	LUNCH
Session 3	Finance, food and energy	Ian Crute (Rothamsted Research, UK)
14:00	Future of the global food trade	Peter Hazell (IFPRI, Imperial, UK)
14:20	Food security and environment: tradeoffs	John Ingram (Oxford , ECI, UK)
14:40	Climate change, energy and innovation	Peter Pearson (Imperial College, UK) /
15:00	TEA
Session 4	Integration: policy and legal issues	Peter Pearson (Imperial College, UK)
15:20	Sustainability assessments in developing countries	Rocio Diaz-Chavez (Imperial, UK)
15:40	Implications for international conflict migration	Ian Douglas (Manchester Uni, UK)
16:00	Living at the Carbon Margins: climate and environmental change	Michael Redclift (KCL, UK)
16:25	Open discussion- summing up	Jeremy Woods (SCOPE UK/Porter)
17:00	Close

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