Conference Schedule

Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online

Welcome by Ingrid C. “Indy” Burke
Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean, Yale School of the Environment

Opening Remarks by Graciela Chichilnisky
Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics, Columbia University; co-founder, Global Thermostat 

Opening Address by Carla N. Barnett
Secretary-General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online

Moderated by Elizabeth Riley
Executive Director, Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency

Panelists

David Farrell
Principal, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology

Sashi Jayatileke
Senior Climate Finance Advisor, USAID

Rodinald Soomer
Chief Executive Officer, CARICOM Development Fund

Colin Young
Executive Director, Caribbean Community Climate Change Center

Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online

Opening Remarks by Gerald Torres

Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale School of the Environment

Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online

Moderated by Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration,Yale University

Panelists

Sabohat Ahmadkhonova
Project Manager CAP, Moutain Societies Development Support Programme

Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu
Principal, Julani Varsity; Founder, African Child Press; Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of Rwanda; Visiting Assistant Professor of African Studies, Soka University of America

Tania Martinez-Cruz
Research Associate, Free University of Brussels

Ann Vaughan
Senior Advisor for Climate Change, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, USAID

Kroon Hall, Cvent

• PANEL 1:
  Gene editing in the livestock industry:  justice implications for farming systems and non-human animals
• PANEL 2:
  Legal dimensions of climate migration: Equity, justice and vulnerability in a warming world
• PANEL 3:
  Responding to Climate Change with Equitable Humanitarian Assistance

Location: Cvent

Moderated by Kevin Doyle
Executive Director, Office of Career and Professional Development, Yale School of the Environment

Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online

Moderated by Narasimha Rao
Associate Professor of Energy Systems, Yale School of the Environment

Panelists

Mahua Acharya
Managing Director & CEO, Convergence Energy Services Limited

Jennifer Boca
Head of Environment, Social and Governance, Lekela

Harish Hande
Founder & Chairman, SELCO India

Sonja Klinsky
Associate Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Kroon Hall, Cvent

• PANEL 1:
  Exposures:  Extraction, Environmental Racism and Relationships to Contaminated Land on the Navajo Nation
• PANEL 2:
  Heritage for All: Building resilience in preserving culture
• PANEL 3:
  Nature-Based Climate Solutions and Indigenous Rights
• PANEL 4:
  How Equitable Transportation Access Drives Distributive Justice and Development 

Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall

Moderated by Gerald Torres
Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale School of the Environment

Keynote speaker: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University