The Kyunghyang Forum

Program

The Kyunghyang Forum 2021

Program

Time	Session	Program
08:00 ~ 08:30		VIP Registration
08:30 ~ 08:40		Opening Video Presentation
08:40 ~ 09:00	Opening Remarks	Kim Seok-jong CEO of The Kyunghyang Shinmun
08:40 ~ 09:00	Congratulatory Remarks	Moon Jae-in President of the Republic of Korea Park Byeong-seug Speaker of National Assembly of The Republic of Korea Kim Boo-kyum Prime Minister of The Republic of Korea Oh Se-hoon Seoul Metropolitan City Mayor
		Session 1. Procrastination no more: the necessary shift in crisis perception
09:00 ~ 09:40	Keynote Addresses	Ban Ki-moon The 8th UN Secretary General; President of the Assembly and Chair of the Council of Global Green Growth Institute(GGGI)
09:40 ~ 10:20		Jeremy Rifkin Economic and social theorist; Author of The End of Work, The Global Green New Deal
10:20 ~ 11:00		Al Gore Former Vice President of the United States; Founder and Chairman, The Climate Reality Project
11:00 ~ 11:40	Dialogue	[Moderator] Choe Jae-chun Professor of Life Sciences at Ewha Womans University; Founder of The Biodiversity Foundation Al Gore and Jeremy Rifkin
11:40 ~ 12:40		Lunch & Networking
12:40 ~ 13:20	Keynote Address	Yannick Glemarec Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund
		Session 2. The earth in crisis
13:20 ~ 13:50	Presentations	David Wallace-Wells Author of The Uninhabitable Earth; National Fellow at the New America Foundation
13:50 ~ 14:20	Presentations	Hope Jahren Author of The Story of More; J. Tuzo Wilson Professor at the University of Oslo
14:20 ~ 14:30		Break
14:30 ~ 15:00	Special Presentations	Cho Hyo-je Professor of Sociology at SungKongHoe University; Author of The End of Carbon Society
		Session 3. The growing crisis amid inaction
15:00 ~ 15:30	Presentations	Michael E. Mann Distinguished Professor at the Pennsylvania State University; Author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, The New Climate War
15:30 ~ 16:00	Presentations	Angel Hsu Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
		Session 4. The search for a sustainable earth
16:00 ~ 17:00	Discussion	[Moderator] Hong Jong-ho Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University Yannick Glemarec Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund David Wallace-Wells Author of The Uninhabitable Earth; National Fellow at the New America Foundation Michael E. Mann Distinguished Professor at the Pennsylvania State University; Author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, The New Climate War Angel Hsu Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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