cc: "Mike Hulme" <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>, "Neil Adger" <N.Adger@uea.ac.uk>
date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:32:53 -0000
from: "Tim O'riordan" <t.oriordan@uea.ac.uk>
subject: WSSD conference
to: "Trevor Davies" <t.d.davies@uea.ac.uk>

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


