UN Climate Roundtable: What should we expect from the UN climate negotiation process? A Discussion of International Climate Governance
Rebecca Dell
Wed Jan 19, 03-04:00pm, 5-231
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The international community unanimously resolved to "prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system" at Rio Earth Summit in 1992. In the 18 years since then, we have achieved one binding international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions--the Kyoto Protocol--but global emissions now exceed the worst case scenario outlined in the 1990s. Many have found the international process slow, confusing, and uninspiring, but there is no viable alternative framework for addressing a truly international problem like climate change.
Please join us for a round-table discussion on the UN climate negotiations process, where we will try to clarify how the UN is addressing climate change, what are some of the key sources of conflict and obstruction, and where the UN is making progress (because we are making progress in some areas). The discussion will be lead by Rebecca Dell, a PhD student in climate science and the MIT student delegate to the recent meeting of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico.
Light refreshments will be served.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mitei/iap
Contact: Rebecca Dell, rwdell@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Energy Initiative
Latest update: 11-Jan-2011
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