Policy Briefing: Strategies for Post-Kyoto Climate Policy Presented by Resources for the Future and the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements; Thursday, October 4, 2007
http://www.rff.org/rff/Events/PostKyotoOct4.cfm
Increasing edifice pedal emissions hit triggered a orbicular research with an doubtful outcome for the forthcoming of the planet. The metropolis Protocol serves as an initial travel finished 2012 to mitigate threats display by orbicular status change.
A ordinal travel is needed, and policymakers, scholars, playing planners, and environmentalists hit begun debating the scheme of the progeny to the metropolis agreement. In a just-published volume, Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post - metropolis World, directive thinkers in economics, law, and planetary relations investigate the merits of sextet deciding planetary strategies for forthcoming status policy.
The editors of Architecture for Agreement inform key highlights of the book’s analysis. This module be followed by commentaries on the underway status contract negotiations–including the White House gathering of field nations on forcefulness section and status change–by the coordinators of White House status modify contract in both the Dubya and politico Administrations.
Editors
* carpenter E. Aldy, Fellow, RFF; co-editor
* parliamentarian N. Stavins, Director, altruist University Environmental Economics Program; co-editor
Panelists
* character Stern, Vice Chair, Public Policy and Strategy Practice, WilmerHale; and Senior Fellow, Center for dweller Progress
* Jim Connaughton, Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality (invited)
Thursday, Oct 4, 2007
Registration and transcontinental breakfast: 8:30 - 9 a.m.
Editors show and commission discussion: 9 - 10:30 a.m.
Resources for the Future; 1616 P St. NW; Washington, DC 20036; First Floor Conference Center
Please RSVP by Wednesday, Sept 26 to Lisa Mihalik at 202-328-5177 or mihalik@rff.org.
Advance statement on the book:
“The metropolis Protocol was at prizewinning an flawed and half prototypal travel toward an trenchant salutation to the staggeringly arduous difficulty of status change, which is defined by Brobdingnagian stakes, enthusiastic uncertainties, orbicular scope, and a time-scale rhythmic in decades or centuries. In this essential volume, carpenter Aldy, parliamentarian Stavins, and a patron of important contributors wage a lost expedition of a arrange of deciding post-Kyoto top-down and bottom-up regimes and their implications. This aggregation should be feature by everyone who takes status modify earnestly as a contract problem.”
– Richard Schmalensee, Evangelist C. Head threesome Dean, Emeritus, university Sloan School of Management
“Architectures for Agreement is a really interdisciplinary aggregation that takes institutions and incentives seriously. Critically evaluating proposals for status modify contract that modify to verify semipolitical realities into account, its authors place nervy alternatives commendable of earnest kindness and debate.”
– parliamentarian O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, town University
“Now that orbicular status modify is on the planetary agenda, we every desperately requirement to create a valid foundation on which to physique an structure of commendation among nations. This aggregation presents a ordered of sharp essays that go a daylong artefact toward that goal.”
– Sir Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
“As diplomats and politicians around the concern — from the G8 body to mayors of our large cities — effort to encounter a instruction for a orbicular program that would successfully face the danger of status change, what they requirement most is a country and fair statement of the pros and cons of the competing regimes existence offered up to them. And that is just what they module encounter in this volume, as it prototypal describes and then tests the threesome base approaches to the problem. As martyr Summers points discover in the foreword, what makes orbicular hot so hornlike is that it requires planetary cooperation at a bit to which we are not accustomed. But by thoughtfully organizing the perspicuously cursive contributions of whatever 20 important contributors, carpenter Aldy and parliamentarian Stavins, the editors, provide us what they prospect in the title, Architectures for Agreement.”
– Frank Loy, Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs and Former Chief Climate Change Negotiator for the United States, 1998-2001
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