cc: "Mike Hulme" , "Neil Adger" date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:32:53 -0000 from: "Tim O'riordan" subject: WSSD conference to: "Trevor Davies" Dear Trevor, Mike and Neil, I support Mike's suggestion of a clear contact person for this task as there will be a lot to do and it must go smoothly. I phoned Sheila McCabe who was full of good cheer. She has virtually guaranteed five grand and told ud also to to hard for DTI funding as they will bite if DEFRA is in the frame. I also talked to Bill Clark. I got a supportive email from him with an excellent summary of all that is going on in sustainability science in the world. I will forward his email onto you all. The big meeting is in Maxico City on 20 to 23 May where the position paper for WSSD will be drawn up. I feel someone from UEA should try to get to that meeting, possibly with RS grant aid. Bill simply cannot do it but will lean on Corell to come. They are all very impressed with what we are trying to do so we are on the right track. I will email Bob Corell again and will call him from New York next week. I think we can land him given the profile we are generating. My list for invitees includes Richard Newton, BP; Richard Sykes, Shell; Martin Stanley TXU-europe, Angela Wilkinson, Shell; Jim Skea, PSI; Paul Ekins,PSI; Diedre Hutton Consumers Association; Ann Power, LSE; Rod Aspinwall, Enviros; Becca Willis, Green Alliance; Ute Collier, WWF; Charles Secrett, FoE; Mike Ashley,LGIB; Bill Adams, Cambridge; Polly Courtice, CPI;Malcolm Grant, Cambridge; Chris Harrison CUP; Sheila McCabe, DEFRA. I have not looked at the science community in any great detail. But people such as Brian Hoskins, Richard Mcrory, John Pethick, Geoffrey Boulton, Brian Moss, and Ghillain Prance spring readily to mind. Cheers, Tim Prof. T. O'Riordan School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ Tel : 01603 592840 Fax: 01603 250588