SKELLIG SESSIONS (www.SkelligFoundation.ie)

A SKELLIG FOUNDATION PUBLIC FORUM FOR

Round Table DISCUSSIONS on SUSTAINABILITY AND

CLIMATE CHANGE

Join the Global Conversation….

c.cecile dias

Nov 20th (1pm-8pm), 2014 at the ROYAL IRISH

ACADEMY

SUSTAINABILITY:

CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS Free Admission

Preliminaries: Lunchtime Talk: 1-2pm

“Mapping the Road in Between the Sciences and

the Humanities”

c. Rhianna McCarthy

“From Modernism to the“Environmental” Humanities: The Twelve Pilgrims’ Tales.”

(Dr. T O’Connor, Skellig Foundation/ Fondation Des Treilles Arts/Science Initiative)

WELCOME and INTRODUCTION (2.0)

(Deirdre Breen, Skellig Foundation)

Session 1 (2.1opm-3.20pm)

TRASH and RECYCLING:

CHALLENGES and POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

(Chair, tentative: Jeremy Irons, Artist/ Environmentalist)

Colm Munnelly, Packaging Technology Advisor, Repak Ireland

“Options for Packaging Waste Management”

James Nix, Director of Policy & Operations, An Taisce

"What would mass burn incineration mean for recycling in Ireland?"

ECO-UNESCO (Ireland’s Environmental Education and Youth Organization):

A Young Environmentalists’ Perspective

Dr. Gavin Collins and Stephanie Connelly, Microbiology Department and Ryan Institute National

University of Ireland Galway Title - ‘The Waste-Energy-Health Nexus: Opportunities in Challenges’

Session 2 (3.20pm - 4.30pm)

RENEWABLE ENERGY and ENERGY SAVINGS

c. Rhianna McCarthy

(Issue: The world is powered by fossil fuels that are running out and the burning of which produces greenhouse gases that contributes to gobal warming. What are some alternatives?

Prof Owen Lewis. Irish Green Building Council

‘Greening the Built Environment’

Michael Doran, Action Renewables

“Ireland’s Bioenergy Potential”

Speaker TBD – “Energy from the Sea”

Ronan Mac Giollapharaic - Comharchumann Fuinnimh Oileáin Árainn (Aran Island Energy Co-op)

“The Aran Islands: Our Steps to a Future of Energy Independence”(4.30 - 5.15)

COFFEE BREAK - DISCUSSIONS –)4: 30pm-5.15pm)

Session 3

C. Cecile Dias

The Changing Climate and Its Consequences. (Chair, Prof. Frederick Dias, School of Mathematical Sciences, UCDublin)

5.15: Topic: “The Atmosphere: The Rise in atmospheric CO2 and other Greenhouse gases… sources and consequences.”

Dr. Conor Sweeney, School of Mathematical Sciences, UCDublin

"Climate change, the atmosphere and Ireland: A review."

5.45: Topic: “Atmosphere/Ocean Exchange - Effects on Algae”

Dr Dagmar Stengel, Botany and Plant Science. Ryan Institute. National University of Ireland

Galway

Title - ‘Anticipated impacts of global change on marine algal productivity’

Session 4

Climate Change and the Oceans. 6.15pm

Prof Poul Holm, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin.

'Oceans Past and Future’

(15 Minutes: Questions and answers Session)

7.00: Politics and Climate Change Tentative …..Mr. Frank McDonald, Environment Editor Irish Times

7.30: ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalists’ Panel

"Climate Change: Our Uncertain Future"

c. Rhianna McCarthy

7.45: Prof. Tyler Volk, New York University

‘Is global prosperity possible?’

8.00 Closing Remarks:

Skellig Sessions: Tales Worth Spreading

(c. Google image bank. A woodcut from William Caxton's second edition of The Canterbury Tales printed in 1483)