International Climate Change Negotiations Post-Copenhagen

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Gustav Gans says: 01 Mar 2010 14:49

Climate policy on the global level demands democracy on the global level. The COP15 failed, but it help building awarness: lack of democracy at the global level. Recently Graham Watson (MEP and leader of the ALDE group 2002-2009) and other published the "Brussels declaration on global democracy" in the European Parliament: http://en.unpacampaign.org/news/482.php Bolivia is organizing a peoples' conference on climate policy: http://pwccc.wordpress.com/ ps: The IIEA is doing great work!

About this Event

18 Feb 2010 @ 12:45

Perspectives from France and the UK

Download the audio podcast of Brice Lalonde's keynote address here

Download the audio podcast of Fiona Harvey's keynote address here

About the Event:

Copenhagen for some did not live up to expectations, for others it achieved all that could reasonably be expected. One thing is sure: the Copenhagen Accord has introduced a great deal of uncertainty into international climate negotiations. Many, from politicians, academics, investors and environmentalists are trying to figure out what will happen next.

Our two speakers, both close observers of international negotiations, will offer contrasting perspectives on the outcome of the conference and future direction of international negotiations on the path to Mexico in December 2010.

Mr. Lalonde will take a French and an individual perspective on international climate change negotiations and will consider the outcomes from Copenhagen, the likely consequences, identifying measures which need to be taken in light of the conference.

Fiona Harvey will explain why, from her perspective, the widespread coverage of Copenhagen calling it a failure was mistaken, and argues that actually the summit achieved most of what it was meant to.

About the Speakers:

Brice Lalonde is chair of the Sustainable Development Roundtable for the OECD, and is the former French Minister for the Environment (1988 to 1992). Mr. Lalonde now also serves as a senior advisor for state environment agencies, as well as consulting to major companies and local governments in the fields of environment, energy, and development. He is also the chairman of the Expert Advisory Committee to the European Carbon Fund, the first private fund created in Europe focusing on the Clean Development Mechanism in developing countries, set up by the Kyoto Protocol.

Fiona Harvey is the environment correspondent of the Financial Times, appointed in 2004. She covers all environmental issues, including climate change, emissions trading, renewable energy, water, waste, agriculture, fisheries, pollution and environmental regulation.

Her interviewees have included Ban Ki-moon, Tony Blair and Al Gore, as well as a host of prominent chief executives. She has twice won the Foreign Press Association award for Best Environment Story of the year, in 2005 and 2007, and was named Environment Journalist of the Year at the British Environment and Media Awards in 2007. She was named one of the 1,000 most influential people in London by the Evening Standard in 2007.

Fiona has been a journalist since 1994. Before joining the FT, she was editor of PC Week. She has also written on a freelance basis for Scientific American, the New Scientist and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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