2022 Global Futures Conference
The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, in partnership with the Earth League, hosted GF22 from Sept. 20-22, 2022 in New York City. Each day included presentations and working sessions around each ‘must-have’ topic, which provided a forum for participants to engage in rigorous and lively discussions on ‘must-have’ outcomes and ‘must-do’ actions.
GF22 steering committee
Co-chair, ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory and The Earth League
Co-chair, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and The Earth League
Fridays for Futures & Re-Earth Initiative
Forest Peoples Programme
Conservation X Labs
ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
The World Academy of Sciences
Institute for Future Initiatives
JUCCCE: Greening China Together
Independent sustainability adviser
U.N. Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and the U.N. Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Standard Chartered
Conservation International
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
The Global KAITEKI Center
World Health Organization
Program
Unless otherwise noted, sessions occur in the Plenary Ballroom (Rm. 411/413)
Unless otherwise noted, sessions occur in the Plenary Ballroom (Rm. 411/413)
8 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
9 a.m.
Opening Session
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Welcome to the Global Futures Conference
• Peter Schlosser, GF22 co-chair
• Rachel Petero, founder and CEO, Rise2025
9:15 a.m.
Keynote | Sylvia Earle
Oceanographer and founder of Mission Blue
9:35 a.m.
Conversation for the Future
• Xiye Bastida, founder, Re-Earth Initiative
• Natalia da Silveira Arruda, YouthMappers Regional Ambassador Everywhere She Maps for Brazil and Colombia and PhD student
• Ghislain Irakoze, founder and CEO, Wastezon
• [moderator] Justin Worland, senior correspondent, TIME
10:05 a.m.
Conversation with the Rt. Hon. Helen Clark
Former prime minister of New Zealand
10:25 a.m.
Systems change to survive
Gillian Caldwell, chief climate officer, USAID
10:40 a.m.
Break
10:50 a.m.
10 Must-Haves Initiative
Peter Schlosser and Johan Rockström, GF22 co-chairs
11:50 a.m.
Lunch
1 p.m.
Must Have #1
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No more loss of nature’s functions and services
Address by M. Sanjayan, CEO, Conservation International
1:20 p.m.
No more loss of nature’s functions and services panel discussion
• Maria Damanaki, principal advisor, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
• Alex Dehgan, CEO and co-founder, Conservation X Labs
• Joji Carino, senior policy advisor, Forest Peoples Programme
• Carlos Nobre, climate and Amazon scientist, Institute for Advanced Studies at University of Sao Paulo
• [moderator] Julia Marton-Lefèvre, independent sustainability advisor
1:50 p.m.
Must Have #2
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An economy that operates within safe and just planetary boundaries
Address by Ali Hartman, head of responsible investment, Tiger Global Impact Ventures
2:10 p.m.
An economy that operates within safe and just planetary boundaries panel discussion
• Mark Campanale, founder, Carbon Tracker Initiative
• Renat Heuberger, co-founder and CEO, South Pole
• Riddhima Yadav, sustainable investing group, Goldman Sachs
• [moderator] Hari Balasubramanian, founding managing partner, EcoAdvisors, and co-founder, EcoInvestors Capital
2:40 p.m.
Break
2:55 p.m.
Working Sessions: Must Haves #1 and #2
Room 504
4:10 p.m.
Break
4:25 p.m.
Day 1 Report Out
6-8 p.m.
Reception and dinner
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
455 5th Avenue 7th Floor, New York, NY 10016
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Performance by Valencia Clement
Address by Peter Seligmann, CEO, Nia Tero
Catered by Pinch Food Design
Unless otherwise noted, sessions occur in the Plenary Ballroom (Rm. 411/413)
7:30 a.m.
Grab-and-Go Breakfast
Garden Eatery & Café, Javits Center 4th Floor
8 a.m.
Must Have #3
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Limit global warming to well below 2°C by 2050
Address by Gary Dirks, director of LightWorks and senior director at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
8:20 a.m.
Limit global warming to well below 2°C by 2050 panel discussion
• Habiba Ali, managing director and CEO, Sosai Renewable Energies
• Dawn Lippert, founder and CEO, Elemental Excelerator
• Gavin McCormick, co-founder and executive director, WattTime
• Youba Sokona, vice chair, IPCC
• [moderator] Justin Worland, senior correspondent, TIME
8:50 a.m.
Must Have #4
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Transform governance to stay within planetary boundaries
Address by Martin Chungong, secretary general, Inter-Parliamentary Union
9:10 a.m.
Transform governance to stay within planetary boundaries panel discussion
• María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, former president, U.N. General Assembly, and co-chair of the Coalition for the U.N. We Need
• Maja Groff, convener and lawyer, Climate Governance Commission
• Naoko Ishii, director, Center for Global Commons at The University of Tokyo
• Augusto Lopez-Claros, executive director, Global Governance Forum
• [moderator] Amanda Ellis, director of global partnerships, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
9:40 a.m.
Break
9:55 a.m.
Working Sessions: Must Haves #3 and #4
Room 504
11:10 a.m.
Break
11:25 a.m.
Lunch distribution in Plenary Ballroom
12 p.m.
Must Have #5
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Stability and peace for a global society
Address by Admiral Piyal de Silva, retired commander, Sri Lankan Navy
12:20 p.m.
Stability and peace for a global society panel discussion
• Geoff Dabelko, professor and associate dean, George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University
• Maria Ivanova, professor director, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University
• Lizzie Quigley, director of partnerships, Sustainability Alliance at ASU
• [moderator] Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir, chair of the board, Reykjavík Global Forum & Senior Advisor on Women’s Leadership, UN Women
12:50 p.m.
Must Have #6
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Healthy planet for human well-being
Address by Alex Dehgan, CEO and co-founder, Conservation X Labs
1:10 p.m.
Healthy planet for human well-being panel discussion
• Mercedes Bustamante, ecologist and professor, University of Brasilia
• Helga Flores Trejo, vice president public affairs international organizations, Bayer
• Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist, World Health Organization
• [moderator] Lisa Palmer, National Geographic Research Professor at GWU, journalist and author of “Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change”
1:40 p.m.
Break
1:55 p.m.
Working Sessions: Must Haves #5 and #6
Room 504
3:10 p.m.
Break and refreshments
3:25 p.m.
Must Have #7
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Healthy and secure food for the global population
Address by Gunhild A. Stordalen, founder and executive chairperson, EAT
3:45 p.m.
Healthy and secure food for the global population panel discussion
• Bruce Friedrich, co-founder and executive director, The Good Food Institute
• Leah Lizarondo, founder and CEO, Food Rescue Hero
• Lisa Palmer, National Geographic Research Professor at GWU, journalist, and author of “Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change”
• Marta del Rio Villanueva, founder, Wasi Organics
• Kathleen Merrigan, executive director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems at Arizona State University
• [moderator] Barbara Stinson, president, World Food Prize
4:15 p.m.
Must Have #8
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Safe digital world providing for security, equity and education
Address by Frank Niepold, senior climate education program manager and coordinator, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
4:35 p.m.
Safe digital world providing for security, equity and education panel discussion
• Greg Asner, director, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science
• Anthony Leiserowitz, director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
• François Taddei, chief exploration officer, Learning Planet Institute
• George Stephanopoulos, director, The Global KAITEKI Center
• [moderator] Diana Ayton-Shenker, CEO, Leonardo/ISAST
5:05 p.m.
Break
5:20 p.m.
Working Sessions: Must Haves #7 and #8
Room 504
6:35 p.m.
Hors d’oeuvres
Unless otherwise noted, sessions occur in the Plenary Ballroom (Rm. 411/413)
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast with Nest Summit
Garden Eatery & Café, Javits Center 4th Floor
8:30 a.m.
Day 2 Report Out
9:30 a.m.
Must Have #9
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Equitable access to responsible consumption for all
Alexandra Palt, chief corporate responsibility officer and CEO, Fondation L’Oréal
9:50 a.m.
Equitable access to responsible consumption for all panel discussion
• Jaya Adapa, head of Social Impact & Sustainability Partnerships, YouTube
• Vanessa Barboni Hallik, CEO, Another Tomorrow
• Ghislain Irakoze, founder and CEO, Wastezon
• Henk Rogers, founder, Blue Planet Energy
• [moderator] Meagan Fallone, chief impact officer, Innoterra Ag; director, Barefoot College International; Founder of Step Up Advisers
10:20 a.m.
Must Have #10
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Resilient global society
Address by the Hon. Henrietta Fore, CEO, Holsman International
10:40 a.m.
Resilient global society panel discussion
• Yetunde Ayo Oyalowo, founder & CEO, Market Doctors
• Ellen Jackowski, chief sustainability officer & executive V.P., Mastercard
• Vicky Robertson, chief executive and secretary for the Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand
• Leena Srivastava, former deputy director general for Science, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
• [moderator] Steven Hartman, founding executive director, BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition, UNESCO Management of Social Transformations Programme
11:10 a.m.
Break
11:25 a.m.
Working Sessions: Must Haves #9 and #10
Room 504
12:40 p.m.
Lunch with Nest Summit
Garden Eatery & Café, Javits Center 4th Floor
1:40 p.m.
Day 3 Report Out
2 p.m.
Closing session
Speaker information
Performance | Valencia Clement
Author, entrepreneur and scholar
2:10 p.m.
WE Empower UN SDG Challenge honorees
2:25 p.m.
Why We Cannot Achieve the 10 Must Haves without Visual Storytelling
Colin Butfield, co-founder and executive director of Studio Silverback
2:45 p.m.
Break
3 p.m.
Special address by Mahmoud Mohieldin
U.N. Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and the U.N. Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
3:10 p.m.
Reporting and integration session
4:45 p.m.
Next Steps
Johan Rockström and Peter Schlosser, GF22 co-chairs
GF22 sponsors
Mitsubishi Chemical Group
GF22 partners
