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The International Student Energy Summit (ISES) is a global forum that focuses on sustainable resource management and the role that students will play in defining the future of energy development. ISES targets international, multidisciplinary post secondary students in undergraduate and graduate studies interested in energy. The event is occurring in Trondheim, Norway from June 13-15, 2013.
ISES 2013 has secured the world’s experts in energy and environment to speak at this year’s event.
ANA AGUADO CORNAGO Chief Executive Director, Friends of the Super Grid
BRUCE LEVELL Chief Scientist Geology, Shell
DR. PIERCE RIEMER Director General, World Petroleum Council
MICHAEL RÜHLE Head of Energy Security, NATO
PROF BJØRN LOMBORG Director of Copenhagen Consensus Center and Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School
Bjørn Lomborg Putting Global Warming in Perspective 31 May 2011, 18.30-20.30 At Bristol Bjørn Lomborg believes that global warming is real, man-made and will have a serious impact on humans and the environment toward the end of thiscentury. In a range of books (including The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It), articles and now a film, Lomborg argues that we need to look at the costs and benefits of the proposed measures. He demonstrates that drastic, here-and-now measures are the worst way to spend money as climate change is a 100-year problem that cannot be fixed in ten years. Instead we should focus on the smartest solutions to the problems that the world faces, whether we’re dealing with climate change, communicable diseases, malnutrition, or agricultural subsidies. If we want to help the world to the greatest extent we can, we do need to fix climate, but should do so smartly and effectively, and we should also remember there are many other important things we can focus on right now, like micronutrient supplementation and fortification, community nutrition programmes, expanded vaccination coverage for children, elimination of financial barriers to education, improving agricultural technology that would do amazing things at very low cost. He presents his case and then debates it with local experts including Juliet Davenport (CEO and founder of green power firm, Good Energy), Professor Jim Longhurst (University of the West of England) and Peter Madden, Director, Forum for the Future. 
MILKEN Institute Global Conference, Los Angeles 
Lomborg's upcoming Australian Speech Tour. Kindly contact the organizers if you want to attend any of the events March 1, 9am, Melbourne Green Cities 2011 Conference 
Bjørn Lomborg: Cool It! – The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming A controversial figure in the climate change debate, the self-proclaimed Danish ‘skeptic’, academic and environmental writer talks about his much-discussed and criticised analysis on the subject as outlined in his book and film Cool It. Part of the series of Greenland events. This Platform is followed by a booksigning Tickets £3.50 (£2.50 concessions) Running time 45 minutes Tue 15, February 2011, 6:00 pm GREENLAND events: