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Washington Launch

Policy Pathways Toward Improved Governance of a Warming Arctic

21 April 2009, Washington

2:00 pm	Registration and Coffee
2:30 pm	Welcome Craig Kennedy President, German Marshall Fund of the United States Sascha Mueller-Kraenner Vice-President, Ecologic Institute
2:45 pm	Environmental security and foreign policy implications of a melting Arctic David Balton Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. State Department Aud Kolberg Deputy Chief of Mission, Norwegian Embassy
3.30 pm	Coffee Break
3:45 pm	Arctic TRANSFORM: key findings The Arctic TRANSFORM project aimed to develop transatlantic policy options for supporting adaptation in the marine Arctic environment. The project was funded by the European Commission R. Andreas Kraemer Director, Ecologic Institute Aaron Best Senior Fellow, Ecologic institute
4:00 pm	Responses Caitlyn Antrim Executive Director, Rule of Law Committee for the Oceans Paul Berkman Head, Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge Kenneth Yalowitz Director, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College
5:00 pm	Open discussion
5:45 pm	Summing up John K. Glenn Director of Foreign Policy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
6:00 pm	Close and reception at 1744 R St NW

This event is co-sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the
Ecologic Institute, Berlin - Brussels - Vienna - Washington DC