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Sunday 25 March 2012 British Summer Time: Please note that British Summer Time comes into effect on at 01.00 am on Sunday 25 March. Clocks will move forward one hour to 02.00 am across the UK.
Day 0: Registration and Reception
16:00	Registration opens
16:30-17:30	Young participants networking event
17:45	Lecture: Environment and development challenges: The imperative to act Sir Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor Department of Environment and Rural Affairs and Professor, University of East Anglia, UK, on behalf of the Blue Planet Laureates.
18:00	Welcome reception supported by the Asahi Glass Foundation, awarders of the Blue Planet Prize
20:00	End of reception – registration closes
Monday 26 March 2012
Day 1: State of the Planet
08:30	Arrival Opening Ceremony
09:00	Welcome from conference Chief Scientific Advisor Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Laureate 2009 Economic Sciences, Indiana University, USA
	Welcome from the hosts of the conference Lord Martin Rees, Past President, the Royal Society, UK
	Co-Chairs’ conference vision and declaraion Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia
	United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs **Georgios Kostakos, Acting Deputy Executive Secretary, High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, United Nations**
	The voice of youth Planet under pressure UK youth voice project with support from the British Science Association, Research Councils UK, Sciencewise-ERC and The Royal Society
	Plenary presentations Planet under pressure
09:50	Drivers of global environmental change Diana Liverman, Professor of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, USA and co-chair Future Earth Transition Team
10:10	State of the Planet: biogeophysical and climate Will Steffen, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, Australian National University, Australia
10:30	Refreshment break
11:00	State of the Planet: ecosystems Sandra Diaz, Professor, Córdoba National University, Argentina
11:20	State of humanity: economic and political challenges Anthony Giddens, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics, UK
11:40	Panel discussion: The planet in 2050 Sir John Beddington, UK Chief Scientific Advisor Carlos Joly, Biodiversity Senior Adviser, Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation, Brazil Martin Haigh, Senior Energy Advisor, Scenarios Team, Shell Jill Jaeger, Senior Researcher, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Austria Rowan Douglas, Chief Executive Officer, Global Analytics, Willis Re, UK Moderator: Nisha Pillai
12:30 13:00	Lunch and posters Key event (40 mins): White papers and policy briefs for Rio+20 introduced by ICSU President Yuan-Tseh Lee
14:00	Parallel Sessions Click to view sessions and key events for day 1
15:30	Refreshment breaks
16:00	Parallel Sessions
17:30	Poster Session 1 Contributions from submitted abstracts Poster Session drinks reception sponsored by The Centre for Carbon Measurement at NPL
19:30	End of Day One
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Day 2: Options and opportunities
	Plenary presentations Thinking globally: big ideas for a crowded planet
08:30	Green economic development Yvo de Boer, Special Global Advisor, Climate Change and Sustainability, KPMG,The Netherlands and former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
08:45	Securing food and water for the world's poorest: time for innovative cooperation Bina Agarwal, Director and Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, India
09:00	Planetary stewardship: risks, obstacles and opportunities Georgina Mace, Professor, Imperial College London, UK
09:15	Panel discussion: Innovative solutions for a planet under pressure Nigel Cameron, President, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, USA Coleen Vogel, Independent scholar, South Africa Mohammad Shahbaz, Advisor to the National Centre for Research and Development, Higher Council for Science and Technology, Jordan Keith Clarke, Director of Sustainability, Atkins, UK Priya Shyamsundar, Program Director of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics Pamela M. Collins, Doctoral student in palaeobiogeography, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Moderator: Richard Black, BBC
10:00	Refreshment breaks
10:30	Parallel Sessions Click to view sessions and key events for day 2
12:00	Lunch, key events and posters
14:00	Parallel Sessions
15:30	Refreshment breaks
16:00	Parallel Sessions
17:30	Poster Session 2 Contributions from submitted abstracts
17:30 – 19.30	Unconference
19:30	End of Day Two
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Day 3: Challenges to Progress
	Plenary presentations The role of equality and equity in governance for global sustainability
08:30	Societal equality and global sustainability Richard Wilkinson, Professor, University of Nottingham and University College London, UK.
08:45	Equity and development in the 21st century Mamphela Ramphele, Founder of Citizens Movement for Social Change, South Africa and former director, World Bank
09:00	Global governance 2.0: planetary stewardship Laurence Tubiana, Director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations, France
09:15	Panel discussion: governance 2.0 Oran Young, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Gustavo Fonseca, Head of Natural Resources, Global Environment Facility, USA Daniëla Mariuzzo, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Rabobank International, Brazil Warren Evans, Senior Adviser, Sustainable Development, World Bank Yannick Glemarec, Director of Environment Finance at UNDP Angela Cropper, Special Advisor to the Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme Vasna Ramasar, Research Associate, Earth System Governance Project Moderator: Andrew Revkin, New York Times
10:00	Refreshment breaks
10:30	Parallel Sessions Click to view sessions and key events for day 3
12:00	Lunch, key events and posters
12:30-13:30	Young Generations's Vision for the Future
14:00	Parallel Sessions
15:30	Refreshment breaks
16:00	Parallel Sessions
17:30	Poster Session 3 Contributions from submitted abstracts
19:30	Dinner reception
Thursday 29 March 2011
Day 4: Planetary Stewardship
8:30	Arrival Opening ceremony
9:00	High-level welcome David Willetts, UK Minister for Universities and Science Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO
	Conference Declaraion Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General (video address)
	Plenary presentations Welcome to the Anthropocene
09:30	Towards planetary stewardship: the nature of the challenge Sybil Seitzinger, Executive Director, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Sweden.
09:45	Interconnected risks and solutions: policy recommendations Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Frank Biermann, Professor, VU University Amsterdam
	Rio + 20: Navigating the Anthropocene
10:00	Future Earth and a new contract between science and society Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden and co-chair of Future Earth Transition Team
10:15	High-level responses from policy, major groups and society Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Coordinator of Rio+20 and former Minister for Energy and Environment of Barbados, Achim Steiner, Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Felix Dodds, Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, Margit Fischer, President, Austrian Science Center Network and Colin Drummond, Chief Executive of Viridor
10:45	Open discussion We invite your questions. Facilitator: Nisha Pillai
11:15	Refreshment break Press conference
	Igniting the paradigm shift: a shared vision for the future
11:45	Reducing economic disparity Richard Norgaard, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
12:00	Creating sustainable cities Shobhakar Dhakal, Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, Japan
12:15	Panel discussion: delivering governance for global sustainability across scales Carlos dos Santos, Ambassador of Mozambique to UK Maria Ivanova, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston and Co-Director, Center for Governance and Sustainability, USA Henri Djombo, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Forestry, Republic of Congo Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor, European Commission Patricia Pinho, Research Scientist, Centre for Earth System Science, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Moderator: Oliver Morton, The Economist
13:00 14:00	Lunch, key events and posters Afternoon refreshments
15:00	Parallel Sessions Click to view sessions and key events for day 4
16:30	End of sessions
	Plenary closing: Beyond Rio+20
16:45	Bridges to the future Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia
16:55	Vision from youth
17:00	Awards Rik Leemans, Wageningen University, Netherlands
17:05	The way ahead Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, on behalf of the UNESCO Director-General
17:15	End of Conference