Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH: Nachrichten

Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH: Nachrichten

01.12.2010 (18.00 - 20.30 clock)

Colloquium "Tilting the climate policy?"
Discussion meeting of the Bertelsmann Foundation on the Hartwell theses

Of 29 November to 10 December 2010 held in Cancun, Mexico, the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention at the United Nations. The focus of the talks are a follow-up arrangement for the expiring in 2012's first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. After the failure in Copenhagen, governments have screwed this time their ambition clearly down. Instead of a comprehensive agreement in Cancun, only partial agreements are reached in areas such as adaptation and technology cooperation.

Against this background, a discussion of fundamental re-orientation will be conducted in climate policy. The in May 2010 presented by a number of international economists and social scientists Hartwell theses have initiated a controversial debate. Do we need a new direction in international climate policy? Do the Hartwell theses prospects for the blocked climate negotiations? These questions are the focus of a colloquium in Berlin Bertelsmann representation.

Professor Gwyn Prins of the London School of Economics, one of the leading authors of the Hartwell-theses will introduce it in an input speech. Subsequently, representatives from government, industry and academia to discuss, among them Hermann E. Ott and Ottmar Edenhofer. The event was organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute.
The number of participants is limited, so are invited to register at Nicole.Adams @ Bertelsmann Stiftung.de

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