Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Time and location: 5:00 p.m. on March 20, 2006, 155 Dwinelle

As scientific evidence confirms the validity of global warming, government at the local, national, and international levels are developing policies that address the problem in the short, medium, and long term. The Peder Sather Symposium will address these questions:

• What are the requirements for building sound public policy?
• What are examples of such effective public policy at the various levels of government?
• What factors work against implementation of policy?
• What role do nongovernmental organizations play in facilitating the acceptance of policies?
• What role does the business community play?
• What role does public education and the media play in winning public support?
• What is the role of entities such as the European Union?

Panel video

Speakers

Lars-Erik Liljelund, Director-General of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket)

Arild Moe, Deputy Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, Norway

John Wilson, Advisor to Commissioner Arthur H. Rosenfeld, California Energy Commission

Commentators

David Caron, William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
John Harte, Professor of Energy and Resources and the Ecosystems Science Division of the College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley

About the Symposium

The Peder Sather Symposium represents an ongoing collaboration between the governments of Norway and Sweden and the University of California, Berkeley. The goal of the symposium is to promote the understanding of political, economic, and cultural issues. The event is designed to foster interdisciplinary discussion among scholars and policymakers from Europe and the U.S. on global and national issues of mutual concern.

About Peder Sather

Peder Sather was born in Norway in 1810. He emigrated to New York and then to California, where he founded the banking firm of Sather and Church. Peder Sather was one of the early trustees of the College of California and an active participant in aiding the institution that has become the University of California. Upon his death, the Sather and Church banking firm was absorbed by the Bank of California. Although it was Peder Sather who had accumulated the wealth and resources that helped fund education in California, it was the work of his wife, Jane Krom Sather, a native of New York State, who made the Sather name part of UC Berkeley's history. Through her generous endowments to the University's teaching resources and beautification effort (notably Sather Gate, which was the main entrance to the UC campus), the Sather name has come to symbolize a legacy of collaboration between Norway and the University of California. With the Sather legacy in mind, the University of California and the Royal Norwegian Consulate General of San Francisco inaugurated the first Peder Sather Symposium in 1991.

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