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How to Conserve Biological Diversity By Improving Public and Corporate Policies - The policy workshop
Session Organizer: John MacKnight Fitzgerald

Description: The workshop will enable attendees to better discern the policy implications and potential their own work and that of SCB as a whole, starting with the five main issue areas, but not limited to those.
Attendees will also gain an improved ability and influence public and corporate policies that enhance or reduce the conservation of biological diversity.
With this policy workshop, SCB hopes to gain additional volunteers and contacts to enhance its policy work and teams. The results in new ideas and recruits will be described in the SCB Newsletter, website, and other reports and publications.

John Fitzgerald, Policy Director of SCB will moderate the workshop and participate in several panels. The issues discussed will be:
-Climate Change
-Integrity of Science
-Key Issues in Conservation Treaties
-Biological Security
-The CIVIC$ of Investing
-Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
-Resources
-SCB’s Policy Process, Sections and Chapters
-The interplay between investors, companies and public policy makers

Speakers (non exhaustive list):
Jim Barrett, Ph.D., Executive Director, Redefining Progress
Francesca Grifo, Ph. D., Director, Science Integrity Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Mike Kelly, former National Marine Fisheries Service biologist
Dominick Dellasala, Ph.D., former member of the Spotted Owl Recovery Team
Noah Greenwald, Chief Scientist, Center for Biological Diversity
Dinah Bear, former Chief Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality
Dean Wilkinson, former Commerce Department represenative on the Interagency Invasive Species Council
Stuart Pimm, 2006 La Roe Award Winner and Conservation Biologist
Kevin Eckerle, former AAAS Fellow and now of Esty Environmental Partners, Inc.