U.S. Governors to Gather at Yale University for High-Level Discussion On Climate Change

    NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

    WHAT:

    U.S. Governors from across the United States who have demonstrated
    leadership in addressing climate change will meet at Yale to review
    state-level programs to combat global warming and develop a strategy for
    future action.

    It is anticipated that several of the governors will sign a climate change
    declaration that addresses state and federal policymaking.

    The event will celebrate the centennial of President Theodore Roosevelt's
    landmark 1908 Conference of Governors which beckoned the nation's
    governors to the White House for a summit that effectively launched the
    conservation movement.

    Events to Include: 

• Governors Signing Session
  
  
• Press Conference
  
  
• Discussion of Governors on State-level Innovation
  
  
• Public Address by:

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

&

RK Pachauri (Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Winner of 2007 Nobel Prize with Al Gore)

    WHO:

    Jon Corzine, Governor of New Jersey

    Chet Culver,* Governor of Iowa

    Jim Doyle,* Governor of Wisconsin

    Deval Patrick,* Governor of Massachusetts

    Jodi Rell, Governor of Connecticut

    Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California

    Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas

    Christine Todd Whitman, Former EPA head and former NJ Governor

    Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
    Change and Nobel Prize Winner

    Theodore Roosevelt IV, Managing Director, Lehman Brothers

    Jean Charest, Quebec Premier

    Eduardo Bours,* Governor of Mexico's Sonora State

    Martin Bursik, Czech Environment Minister


    WHEN:  FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008, 8:30am - 3:00pm

WHERE: Yale University Campus, New Haven, CT (Exact location to be announced by noon on Thurs, April 17)

    ALL MEDIA MUST BE REGISTERED & CREDENTIALED

    Television crews to arrive no later than 8:00am for setup
    Print, Radio + Online press to arrive no later than 8:30am


    * To be Confirmed