We will go ahead and get started. The Environmental Energy Study Institute thank you for joining us back i hope everybody got all the candy. Thank you for joining us this morning we have a wonderful panel and will be learning about the Global Commission of a global call for leadership. The urgency of Climate Change may feel more acute but the issue of Climate Change has been with us for decades. Esi stated in 1988 addressing Climate Change is a moral imperative. Many scientists m Public Policy experts have been working on the issue proposing solutions i hope what were actually seeing his momentum to act there is some evidence this is the case last week i testified before the Senate Energy committee that probably would not have been the case a few years ago in Speaker Pelosi and the House Select Committee is another example. As we know now that inaction on Climate Change makes it harder and harder to achieve. We have to act now to contribute to that momentum constantly reinforce it. So
Panel and will be learning about the Global Commission of a global call for leadership. The urgency of Climate Change may feel more acute but the issue of Climate Change has been with us for decades. Esi stated in 1988 addressing Climate Change is a moral imperative. Many scientists m Public Policy experts have been working on the issue proposing solutions i hope what were actually seeing his momentum to act there is some evidence this is the case last week i testified before the Senate Energy committee that probably would not have been the case a few years ago in Speaker Pelosi and the House Select Committee is another example. As we know now that inaction on Climate Change makes it harder and harder to achieve. We have to act now to contribute to that momentum constantly reinforce it. So we can inform policymakers of the best and latest data and best practices to share Lessons Learned to help them understand the urgency to make meaningful progress to address Climate Change. All we ne
They tell you this all the time, but to hear from another dean, gifts like yours and support like yours make an enormous difference to a place like this. Thank you. Thank you very much. You certainly honored us with your presence. I enjoyed the conversation very much. Will you join me in thanking Justice Kagan . [applause] thank you very much. [applause] president obama and his family are celebrating a quiet thanksgiving at the white house. Spent time at the executive mansion. The menu included turkey, prebaked ham, corn stuffing, oyster stuffing, greens as well as green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, macromedia and shes, and dinner rolls. For dessert, the family had a choice of nine highs, including huckleberry pie, pecan pie, chocolate cream pie, sweet potato prime, Coconut Cream pie, and banana cream pie. The guest list was made public. Wasnt made public. Span, a look at sugar policy in the u. S. With the doctor who hosted a Youtube Video that went viral. Then Supr
Be funded from our core funding programs, both poor urban and rural areas, including section 53 of seven and 5311. The point being that there is an eligibility that was extended to these mobility Management Options that then can be funded with federal dollars because we would like to see them more and more. I think we had prehundred 25 325,000 dollars was being spent with a eligibility first happened back in 2005, and out is more than 40 million i think per year on these services. We have seen a huge jump in interest. I think that reflects the growing need of our increasingly elderly population. Im concerned that there is a aboutf Public Awareness these services and about the mobility managers. This is an issue that because of america ierica itn followed very closely. And somebody who represents a state by median age is the also havethe nation i a great interest in how we are going to meet this need. Prior to this hearing, i was not aware of these mobility managers. I wonder what is be
It is not quite a revival, but there is going to be a lot of science. The science should influence the policy. The problem is, politics get in the way. That is where law comes in. With that, lets go ahead and start. First of all, i have no disclosures, no Food Industry concern is putting me up to this. [laughter] in 2011, just two years ago, u. S. Secretary general announced that noncommunicable disease that is, type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease was now a bigger problem not just for the developed world, but for the developing world, than was infectious disease. This was a paradigm shift as to how medicine was going to be conducted from here on in and where the resources have to go. The question is, how do you deal with this . They plan to target tobacco, alcohol and diet. Tobacco and alcohol, that is easy. We have paradigms that already work for those. We have 15 years of alcohol control policy, for instance, but what about diet . Are we going to influence total calories . We h