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Leading New York environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will take part in the Reuters Forum on The Green Hand: Are Efficient Markets the Path to Sustainable Development? at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism on Wednesday, May 3, at 6 p.m. The discussion will also be Webcast live at http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/reuters/.
Other panelists include Graciela Chichilnisky, Nitin Desai and Nikki Tait. Chichilnisky holds Columbia's UNESCO Chair of Mathematics and Economics, and serves as director of Columbia's Center for Risk Management and the Program on Information and Resources.
A key environmentalist in New York, Kennedy is senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and president of the Water Keeper Alliance. He has prosecuted governments and companies for polluting the Hudson River and Long Island Sound; expanded citizen access to the shoreline; and sued sewage treatment plants to force compliance with the Clean Water Act. He is credited with leading the fight to create New York City's watershed agreement, which is internationally regarded as a model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development.
Desai is Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations. Tait serves as the Chicago bureau chief of the Financial Times. Prior to becoming Chicago bureau chief in 1997, she ran the Sydney, Australia bureau.
As free markets become the dominant economic institutions in the world economy, their impact on the environment is increasingly being questioned. What are the dangers to the environment of corporations acting as free agents in the global economy unencumbered by regulators? Who should be responsible for the environmental stewardship of the global economy?
The Reuters Forum brings together leading thinkers on global economics and politics to discuss the key economic and political topics that shape the globalization debate, addressing such issues as whether the positive effects of globalization have reached the world's poor, and how displaced workers have made the transition to the "high tech" economy. The Reuters Forum was begun in 1991 with a grant from The Reuters Foundation.
For more information or to register for the Reuters Forum, call (212) 854-6840 or 854-2711; fax (212) 854-3900 or register online at http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/reuters/.
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