Sierra Club | 10 July 2013
Trans-Atlantic Trade Symposium
Streamed live on 9 Jul 2013
TAFTA Symposium Schedule
Tuesday, July 9 * 8:45am to Noon
Sierra Club, 50 F Street, NW, Eighth Floor, Washington, DC
Welcome [9:00-9:05am]
Debbie Sease, Sierra Club
Opening Panel: What’s at Stake [9:05-9:55am]
– Virginia Robnett, Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (moderator)
– Lori Wallach, Public Citizen (TAFTA context)
– Natacha Cingotti, Friends of the Earth Europe (European perspectives)
– Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO (labor perspectives)
Environment Panel [10:00-10:55am]
– Carroll Muffett, Center for International Law (moderator)
– Ilana Solomon, Sierra Club (investor-state, energy & climate)
– William Waren, Friends of the Earth U.S. (downward harmonization)
Food Panel [11:00-12:00pm]
– Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition (moderator)
– Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumer Association (GMOs)
– Karen Hansen-Kuhn, Institute for Trade & Agriculture Policy (emerging technologies)