The two-day program, "After Kyoto, What Next? Prospects for the Future," is free and open to the public. Part of the University of Michigan's Environmental Theme Semester, the event is co-sponsored by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (Undergraduate Initiatives) and the School of Natural Resources and Environment, Office of the Vice President for Research, and the International Institute.

The program kicks off on Jan. 30 at 3 p.m. in Room 1324 of East Hall on the U-M Central Campus with a series of keynote addresses. The talks will be delivered by Stephen Schneider, a Stanford University professor who is one of the world's leading experts on climate change, White House National Security Council member David Sandalow, and Neroni Slade, the ambassador from Samoa and the Alliance of Small Island States, are scheduled as a keynote speakers.

On Jan. 31, from 9:30 a.m. to noon, U-M political scientist Harold K. Jacobson, the Jessee Siddal Reeves Professor of Political Science and a senior research scientist at the U-M Institute for Social Research, will moderate a panel discussion among the three keynote speakers plus, Constance Holmes, senior vice president of the National Mining Association and Dr. Atul Khare, Counselor of India's Permanent Mission to the UN. A question-and-answer session will follow the panel discussion.

For more information on the U-M Environmental Theme Semester, call the semester office at (734) 647-1122 or access the Web site at http://www.umich.edu/~envsem.