Columbia University professor Peter B. deMonecal and French explorer Luc Hardy will join Pascale Richard, Editor-in-Chief of France-Amérique, to discuss global warming—a topic of growing international concern and of increasing importance in the political sphere. With the United States government’s rejection of the United Nations’ 1996 Kyoto Protocol, American policy is diverging from those of France and Western Europe. This panel will address important environmental policy questions and the actions each country must take in the immediate future.
Hot Topics focuses on major global issues with discussions that feature French and American perspectives. Each panel will highlight the different approaches of both countries and discovering some surprising parallels. The audience is invited to ask questions and each debate will be partly reproduced in France-Amérique, a bi-monthly publication distributed throughout the United States.
Moderator
Pascale Richard, Editor-in-Chief, France-Amérique
Panel
Peter B.deMonecal, Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Lenfest Columbia Distinguished Faculty 2008. Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal, Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Luc Hardy, French explorer. Expeditions to Greenland in 2007 and to Antarctic in 2003. Author of Aventure Antarctique. Founder of Sagax, an investment and consulting firm. |
