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. |
