The Governors' Global Climate Summit 3: Building the Green Economy offers a discounted price for academics — which is welcome news at UC Davis, where the summit is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 15 and 16.

The registration fee for faculty and staff is $150, providing access to all summit sessions, the Global Pavilion, all break services and buffet lunches, and the Monday night reception. This is the same as what you would get with a general admission ticket priced at $350.

UC Davis students are invited to attend free of charge, provided the students are committed to environmental sciences, policy and issues.

Gov. Schwarzenegger presents the Governors’ Global Climate Summit in partnership with the United Nations’ Development and Environment programs. Four other governors join Schwarzenegger as co-hosts.

Summits 1 and 2 took place in Los Angeles in 2008 and 2009. This year, UC Davis provides the venue and co-sponsorship.

“This summit is coming to UC Davis at an ideal time for the state, the nation and the world,” Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi said. “At our university, we have a vision to be a leader in sustainability and an economic engine that drives a clean-energy future."

She noted that UC Davis is in the midst of shaping a clean-energy innovation hub in the Sacramento-San Francisco Bay Area. “The momentum continues to build, and the summit helps draw attention to the skills and expertise of our global campus,” she said.

The summit’s official opening is set for 10:30 a.m. Nov. 15 in Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, with remarks by Katehi, Schwarzenegger and former Secretary of State George Shultz, and an address by Linda Adams, who heads the California Environmental Protection Agency.

The Nov. 16 program is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. with an opening conversation led by Dean Steven Currall of the Graduate School of Management, on the subject of “Capitalizing the Green Dream.”

The Governors' Global Climate Summit 3 website describes the event as “a feast of offerings” and goes on to state: “Like all good meals, this event will be preceded by appetizers — in the form of knowledge bites.”

UC Davis experts are ready to serve those bites all afternoon Nov. 14, one day before the summit opens. This program, caled Regional Solutions Research Appetizers: Knowledge Bites for Creating a Sustainable, requires separate registration ($75).

Starting time is set for 1:30 p.m. in the lobby of Gallagher Hall, across from the Mondavi Center. Here are the speakers:

ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE

• Michael Kleeman — professor of civil and environmental engineering
• Mark Schwartz — professor of environmental science and policy; and director, UC Davis' John Muir Institute of the Environment
• Thomas Tomich — professor of human and community development; W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Food Systems Sustainability; and director, UC Davis' Agricultural Sustainability Institute

TRANSPORTATION AND ENERGY

• Nicole Woolsey Biggart — professor of management; Chevron Chair in Energy Efficiency; and director, UC Davis' Energy Efficiency Center
• Bryan Jenkins — professor of biological and agricultural engineering; and director, UC Davis Energy Institute
• Daniel Sperling — professor of environmental science and policy; director, UC Davis' Institute of Transportation Studies; and member of the California Air Resources Board
• Case van Dam, professor and chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering; and director, California Wind Energy Collaborative, a partnership of UC and the California Energy Commission (the collaborative is housed at UC Davis)

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE GREEN ECONOMY — THE WAY FORWARD

• Dean Currall
• Andrew Hargadon — professor, management; and Charles J. Soderquist Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship

After the presentations, the Regional Solutions agenda comprises a networking reception and poster viewing, and a tour of some of the campus’s sustainable elements.

More tours of other facilities and research projects are planned on Nov. 15. The itinerary includes the August A. Busch III Brewing and Food Science Laboratory, and the Teaching and Research Winery — a two-building complex that opened recently at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.

The university designed and built the food science lab, brewery and winery to meet the highest standards of sustainability, worthy of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Platinum certification (with LEED standing for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).

The complex would be the first of its kind in the world to garner LEED Platinum status — provided everything checks out during the certification process.

Other tour stops:

• California Lighting Technology Center
• D-Lab — developed by the Program for International Energy Technologies (a unit of the Energy Efficiency Center), in collaboration with UC Davis’ Center for Entrepreneurship, the Institute of Transportation Studies and the Energy Institute, as well as the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Keck Center for Active Visualization in Earth Sciences, or CAVES
• Olive Center
• Plug-in Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Research Center
• Western Cooling Efficiency Center
• West Village — under construction as a planned zero-net-energy community

Other notable participants

Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial co-hosts are Jim Doyle of Wisconsin, Jennifer M. Granholm of Michigan, Chris Gregoire of Washington and Ted Kulongoski of Oregon.

Schwarzenegger’s office announced that other notable participants will include Nobel Prize winner Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; British Prime Minister David Cameron; British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell; Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia of Cebu, Philippines; Vice Gov. He Duanqi of Yunnan, China; Director General Gao Guangsheng of the Climate Division of the National Development Reform Commission in China; Ambassador Richard Jones, deputy director of the International Energy Agency; Pavan Sukhdev, head of the Green Economy Initiative, U.N. Environment Programme; Gov. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan of Delta State, Nigeria; and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson.

Award-winning Hollywood producer and director James Cameron and actor Harrison Ford also are due to participate.

Last year’s summit drew more than 1,200 participants from more than 70 states, provinces and countries to partner on ways to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, create a healthier environment and build green economies.

“I’m proud that we can bring together world-renowned leaders to collaborate on such important issues that affect us all," Schwarzenegger said. "There is no better way to address the devastating effect that climate change has on our environment and our economy than by building these partnerships around the globe and influencing the global climate movement.”

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