Climate Frameworks:
implications, opportunities and threats


at the Royal Society,
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AG

Wednesday 14th November 2007
9am to 5pm

Speakers  Frameworks Useful Documents Useful links Calendar

LINKS TO PRESENTATIONS/NOTES

09.00 Registration and refreshments
09.30 Climate science- today's and tomorrow's”

Peter Cox of the Hadley Centre 

What has happened since IPCC AR4? What is the major scientific tasks in the coming years?

Peter Cox's powerpoint

Notes we took while he spoke
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10.00 Bali and Beyond

What has been happening on the road to Bali? What will happen beyond it?

Speakers: Nick Mabey, e3g, Elliot Morley MP,  Globe International, 


Notes we took while Nick Mabey spoke
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Elliot Morley's powerpoint

Notes we took while he spoke
10.30 What makes a "good" framework?
Scientific Perspective
Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre Manchester
NGO/Social Enterprise
Malini Mehra, CSM World (in Ms Mehra's absence, her presentation will be made by Nick Mabey)
Economic Policy
Andrew Sentance, Warwick University 
Kevin Anderson's powerpoint

Notes we took while he spoke

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Ms Mehra's speech (given by Nick Mabey)

Andrew Sentance's powerpoint

Notes we took while he spoke
11.00 Break
11.25 Three frameworks

Contraction and Convergence, BASIC Project,  and the Russian proposal 

How they relate to a) concentration targets b) carbon markets and c) technology transfer

Speakers : Niklas Hohne, (Ecofys)  Benito Muller, (Oxford Institute of Energy Studies), Tim Helweg-Larsen (CAT) 

Niklas Hohne's powerpoint

Notes we took while he spoke
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Benito Mueller's powerpoint

Notes we took while he spoke

Notes we took while Tim Helweg-Larsen spoke
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12.10 Moderated panel discussion and Q&A on commonalities and divergences, "implications, opportunities and threats".
Q and A session
12.45 Lunch (buffet at Royal Society)
13.35 Can Reduced Deforestation be part of the Climate Regime?
What is ReDD? What will be on the table at Bali?  How do the frameworks under discussion cope with this concept?
Speakers; John Lanchbery, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , Deepak Rughani, Biofuelwatch
John Lanchbery's powerpoint

Notes we took while he spoke
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Deepak Rughani's powerpoint

Notes we took while he spoke
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14.20 What do we need to do to make the carbon markets work: a practitioner's perspective
Speaker , Steve Drummond, CantorC02e, 
Notes we took while James Emanuel spoke
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15.00 Break, Refreshments
15.25 The Public Policy Framework: Key Requirements for Business. Where to do we want to be in 2020 and how do we get there?”

How to accelerate the beyond the (weak) signal of a price for carbon dioxide?
What barriers exist for investment (price volatility, the short time-frame of Kyoto)
What do to about intellectual property rights?

Speakers: Kirsty Hamilton, BCSE, Rory Sullivan (Insight Investment) 

Notes we took we Rory Sullivan spoke

Notes we took while Kirsty Hamilton spoke
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16.25 What to take to Bali, and remember beyond it

How has each framework performed? Unanswered questions and further work...