Climate Frameworks:
Implications, Opportunities and Threats
This
invitation-only conference will give an update of the latest science on
climate change, and an overview of the latest policy developments.
Then, as its name suggests, it will move into an examination of three
frameworks for mitigation/adaptation, and how these relate to issues of
Reduced Deforestation, carbon markets and the public policy framework
needed to drive investment.
It
takes
place simultaneously with the IPCC's final "Fourth Assessment Report"
meeting in
Valencia, Spain and three weeks before the latest round of
UNFCCC
negotiations in Bali, Indonesia.
The
conference will not seek to
arrive at consensus; rather it seeks to clarify issues and options and
'road-test' various frameworks for the mitigation of- and adaptation
to- anthropogenic climate
change.
The conference moderator is Isabel Hilton, of China Dialogue and Radio 3's Nightwaves
This event is being organised in
conjunction with the Tyndall
Centre Manchester.