Plenary sessions 2009 Annual Meeting

Monday and Tuesday will each open up with a plenary session with keynote presentations and discussions. During both days, a second plenary session will take place.

On the Monday a round table with presentations and discussions will highlight the overall theme, ‘from the everyday to the extraordinary’, with contributions from Professor Ortwin Renn, Professor Glynis Breakwell and Professor Åsa Boholm.

In the afternoon, Dr. Johan Schaar, Head of the Secretariat of the Climate Commission on Climate Change and Development will provide insights from the then newly released final report of the Commission (upcoming in May 2009).

In the plenary session on Tuesday Professor Paul Slovic will give a keynote talk: "The more who die, the less we care: Confronting psychic numbing".

The final plenary session will focus on the challenges of shared international issues with contributions from prominent SRA leaders including Alison Cullen, Olivier Salvi and Daniela Leonte.