People For Earth

Time

(KST)(UTC +9)

Participants

DAY 1. Are We Ecologically Sustainable?

Session 1   Opening & Keynote Speech

10:30 – 12:00

Moderator: Wangbae Kim (Yonsei University Dept. of Sociology & Standing Chairperson of People for Earth)

Congratulatory Remarks: (v) Sanghyup Kim (Presidential Commission for Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth)

Congratulatory Remarks: (v) Maria Mercedes Sanchez (Coordinator of the UN Harmony with Nature Programme)

Keynote Speech: (v) Mary Evelyn Tucker (Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University) "Integral Ecology for a Flourishing Future"

Keynote Speech: (v) David Korten (Founder and President of the Living Economies Forum) "Wellbeing for All"

Session 2   “ESG: Roles and Goals of Corporations for This Era”

14:00 – 15:40

Moderator: Kumsil Kang (Chairperson of the Board of People for Earth)

Speaker: Hee Kim (Carbon Neutral Strategy of POSCO)
"Carbon Neutral Strategy of POSCO" 
Speaker: Youngtak Cho (Dept. of Economics, Hanbat National University)
"RE100's Status and Tasks in Korea" 

Panel: Youjung Lee (One Law Partners LLC)

Panel: Donghoon Jee (Fairtrade Korea)

Session 3    “Sustainable Earth Governance and Corporate Roles in Climate Change”

16:00 – 17:50

Moderator: Chunghae Kang (University of Seoul Law School)

Speaker: (V) Peter Burdon (University of Adelaide)
"Responsibility in the Anthropocene" 

Speaker: Siwon Park (Kangwon National University School of Law)

Panel: Heemoon Jo (Law School Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies)

Panel: Sangun Han (Korea Environment Institute)

DAY 1. Planetary Culture & Art

18:00 – 19:00

Eco-Food (Dinner Party) 
Location: 1FL, 66, Hoenamu-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul

19:00 -

Performance "Move to Harmony"

Directed by Youngduk Kang (People for Earth Culture and Arts Team)
Music: Soyeon Park (music director)

Dramaturg: Hokyung Lim (writer, actor)
Participants: Solji Kim (Yeon-Hee, actor), Nilu (violinist), Hangpyo Jo (dancer),

Jiahn Lee (dancer)
Location: 1FL, 66, Hoenamu-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
 

Exhibition "Companion Earth"

Participants: Youngju Park (film director), Sunhee Bae (theatre company ‘Archive Now’), Fay Shin (artist), Wonyeon Chung (artist), Johnong (musician)

Location: 1FL, 66, Hoenamu-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul

Organized by Korean Artists Welfare Foundation

Supported by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

DAY 2. Searching for Life and Paradigm Shift

Session 4    “Life Philosophy of the New Climate Regime”

10:30 – 12:20

Moderator: Kiwon Song (Dept. of Biochemistry, Yonsei University)

Speaker: Suyoung Hwang (Dept. of Liberal Arts, Hongik University)
"Understanding Life from the perspective of Philosophy of Becoming 
- Bergson and Simondon" 

Speaker: Seokhyun Choi (Program in History and Philosophy of Science College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University)
"Anthropocene, Gaia, Ecopoiesis: Time, Space, and Object-Oriented Politics 
in the New Climate Regime" 

Session 5    “Life Security: A New Political Ecological Approach”

14:00 – 15:50

Moderator and Speaker: Byongjin Ahn (Global Academy for Future Civilizations, Kyung Hee University)
"New cold war and the limitations of climate security regime"

Speaker: (v) Jonathan Everts (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
"A Politics of Scaling: Climate Change, Coal Phase-Out, and the Regional Self"

Speaker: (v) Simon Dalby (University of Victoria)
"Security in the Anthropocene"

Speaker: Junsoo Kim (Center for Anthropocene Studies, KAIST)
"Sand Metropolitan: Environmental Fix Strategies of Developmental 
Urbanization and the Production of New Space/Nature Between two Koreas.

Session 6    “IUGG Cooperation Session

An Approach through Academic Solidarity with International Community”

16:20 – 17:40

Moderator: Wontae Kwon (Former Director of APEC Climate Center)

Speaker: Sangmook Lee (Seoul National University School of Earth and Environmental Sciences) 
"Mid-Ocean Ridge and Planetary Renewal" 

Speaker: Baekmin Kim (Dept. of Environmental Atmospheric Bukyong National University) "Extinction by 6 Degree and Hope with 2 Degree"

Session 7    "Closing Speech"

17:40 - 18:00

 Wangbae Kim (Dept. of Sociology, Yonsei University, Standing Chairperson of People for Earth)

DAY 3. Climate Change Colloquium

International Solidarity and Changing the Value of the Climate Movement

10:00 – 13:00

Session 1

Moderator: Jaemin Lim (Energy Transition Forum Korea)

Speaker: Inhwan Ko (Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle) 
"Enhancing climate-energy justice in rural areas"
 

Speaker: Mingyu Sung (The Biodiversity Foundation) 
"How green are our green spaces? Biodiversity loss driven by urban climate mitigation" 

Panel: (V) Miyoung Song (Gyeonggi Research Institute)

Session 2

Moderator: Soyoung Hyun (People for Earth)
Speaker: Jihyuk Oh (Youth Climate Emergency Action)  
"Trapped in the Peninsula: How Climate Activism in South Korea Should Reach Out Internationally" 

Speaker: (V) Marlow Baines (Earth Guardians Youth Director)
"everyONE in a sustainable world"

Speaker: (V) Jamie Minden (Zero Hour, Co-Founder of Sunrise Silicon Valley)
"Climate Action Now: Movement Strategy and International Coordination"