MEDIA ADVISORY, 4/27/06

4/27/06 - File #17249
Contact: Kathleen Maclay
(510) 643-5651
kmaclay@berkeley.edu

MEDIA ADVISORY
ATTENTION: Science, environment, health, business, and energy writers and
editors

WHAT: The China-U.S. Climate Change Forum at the University of California, Berkeley. It will bring together invited leaders from the Chinese and American scientific, business, policy and non-profit communities to discuss global climate crisis solutions and to spur new research. Former U.S. President Al Gore will make a special presentation.

WHEN: 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m., Tuesday, May 23, and Wednesday, May 24.

Gore's talk is at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

WHERE: The majority of the conference will be held at Wheeler Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley. The presentation by Gore will be at Zellerbach Auditorium on campus. A map is online at: http://www.berkeley.edu/map/.

WHO: Participants will include:

• Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel Prize winner in physics and director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• John P. Holdren, a Harvard University professor of environmental policy and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Inez Fung and Dan Kammen, co-directors of the UC Berkeley Institute for the Environment
• George Akerlof, UC Berkeley professor of economics and 2001winner of the Nobel Prize in economics
• Terry Tamminen, former chief of California Environmental Protection Agency
• Speakers from China's State Environmental Protection Administration, its national oil company, major universities, and other governmental panels
• Representatives of major insurance, venture capital and energy companies, including Royal Dutch Shell

DETAILS: The program will be free and open to the public. It will be conducted in English, with Mandarin translation as needed. More information will be available at www.chinausclimate.org. Media wishing to attend must contact Kathleen Maclay by Friday, May 19 at kmaclay@berkeley.edu.

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