Florida Climate Change - Alex Sink, Chief Financial Officer; Charles Bronson, Commissioner of Agriculture

Coastal inundation from hypothetical increases in sea level
GFDL/NOAA

 

Conversations on Climate Change

SESSION ONE
CLIMATE CHANGE: AN OVERVIEW

DATE: Tuesday, April 3, 2007
TIME: 11:00 a.m., after the Florida Cabinet Meeting
LOCATION: Florida Cabinet Meeting Room, The Capitol, Lower Level, Tallahassee

From the Tree Tops - A High-level View of Our Climate
Dr. Margaret Lowman, Director of Environmental Initiatives, New College of Florida

Florida’s Future and the Science of Climate Change
Dr. Stephen Mulkey, Climate Change Science Advisor, Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida

Florida’s Beaches and Sea Level Rise  
Dr. Stephen Leatherman,
Director of FIU Int'l Hurricane Research Center & Coastal Research Lab

An Insurance Perspective on Climate Risk
Tim Wagner, Nebraska Director of Insurance and Co-Chair of Climate Changes and Global Warming Task Force of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)

Clean Energy Investments
Kenneth Locklin,
Principal, Clean Energy Group, an expert on clean energy enterprise investment, development, management, and finance

International Relationships – Carbon and the UK
Keith Allan, British Consulate-General, stationed in Miami

Farm to Fuel – Opportunity in Renewables
Mike Bowman, 25X25, An organization with a vision: By 2025, America’s farms, forests and ranches will provide 25 percent of the total energy in the US.