DETROIT—What are local industries doing now to prepare for the potential consequences of climate change? What have scientists learned about greenhouse gases and their links to a changing global climate? Is the Earth getting warmer or isn’t it?

Participants at a March 22 conference at Cobo Conference Center in Detroit will get answers to these questions and more. Titled “Global Climate Change—The Greenhouse Gases: Implications for Industry,” the one-day conference will provide concise scientific information concerning greenhouse gases and current industry initiatives to reduce these gases.

Conference participants will join the Economic Club of Detroit Luncheon for an address by Daniel Reifsnyder, director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Climate Change. Reifsnyder will address the social, economic and political impacts of international treaty negotiations on global warming.

Speakers will include representatives from General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, Detroit Edison, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the University of Michigan.

The conference is co-sponsored by ESD The Engineering Society and the U-M. Conference and registration information, an agenda and additional background material are available at:

http://www.research.umich.edu/research/events/greenhouse_conf.html

Contact ESD at (800) 589-9907 for more details.