Climate Change Forum Set for June 7

CLIMATE CHANGE FORUM

June 7, 2014

The Lodge at Leathem Smith, Sturgeon Bay

920.743.5555

[email protected]

climatechangedoorcounty.com

A $15 contribution is requested from attendees to help cover the costs of the Forum.

• 9 am, Introduction: Why Re-Starting the Dialogue is So Important, Tia Nelson, executive secretary, Wisconsin Board of

Commissioners of Public Lands and co-chair of Governor Doyle’s Global Warming Task Force (2007-8).

• 9:15 am, No Going Back: Challenges and Opportunities for Wisconsin in the Face of a Rapidly Changing Climate, Paul Robbins, director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• 10:30 am, Climate Change Impacts to the Great Lakes: Lessons from Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands, Bob Krumenaker, superintendent, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

• 11:30 am, Doing Our Part: Wisconsin’s Changing Emission Profile; the Risks We Face, Roy Thilly, former CEO of WPPI Energy and co-chair of Governor Doyle’s Global Warming Task Force (2007-8).

• 1:10 pm, Good Things Are Happening in Wisconsin: A report from Jane Elder, executive director, The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.

• 1:40 pm, Forum Discussion – audience, speakers and resource guests (including Steve Hiniker, executive director, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin; Roger Kuhns, president, SustainAudit LLC; Kathy Kuntz, executive director, Cool Choices, Inc.; Keith Reopelle, senior policy director, Clean Wisconsin.

• 3:10 pm, How Can We Work Together?

• 3:30 pm, Conclusion.