Event Date: Thursday, 24 October, 2013 - 13:30 - 19:30
Chair: Andrei Marcu
Speakers:
Prof Dr Qi Ye, Director of the Climate Policy Institute and Professor of Environmental Policy at Tsinghua University, Beijing
Dr Sander Happaerts, Lecturer of Global Environmental Politics and Research Manager, HIVA Research Institute for Work and Society, and Senior Member, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven
Mr Jürgen Lefevere, Advisor for International and Climate Strategy, DG Climate Action, European Commission
Prof Dr Nguyen Quang Thuan, Vice-President of the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at the Institute for European Studies, Hanoi
Mr David Belis, Consultant for Climate Change and Environmental Policy, Taishindo Services, Leuven
Dr Hans Bruyninckx, Executive Director, European Environment Agency
Secretary:
Isabelle Tenaerts
Responsible:
Andrei Marcu
International Seminar on 'A Pivotal Turn in Global Climate Governance?'
Much has changed since the onset of the global climate regime in the early 1990s. The globalization of the Western economic model and the rise of emerging economies are transforming the very structure of global governance. Due to decades of energy-intensive economic growth and exponential rise in greenhouse gas emissions, major developing countries such as China can no longer be on the sidelines. But even smaller emerging economies such as Vietnam are expected to participate fully in a future agreement. The 2011 Durban Platform, launched to negotiate a global deal by 2015, will need to confront the differentiation of commitments to ensure wider participation. This international seminar addresses how the European Union attempts to build multilateral support for future global climate action and how it develops practical bilateral cooperation with emerging economies such as China and Vietnam. These experiences also provide valuable lessons for international negotiations under the UNFCCC umbrella. As climatologists are calling for a peak in global emissions before 2020, a ‘pivotal turn’ in global climate governance is urgently required if the world is serious about reaching the 2°C target agreed upon in Copenhagen.
See full Details: http://www.ceps.be/event/international-seminar-pivotal-turn-global-climate-governance
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