THE INITIATIVE FOR POLICY DIALOGUE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
CLIMATE CHANGE TASK FORCE MEETING AGENDA
Monday, July 5
19:00 Drinks in the Mezzanine Lounge of the Malmaison Hotel, ground floor
19:30 Dinner at the Mal Two dining room in the Malmaison Hotel, ground floor
Tuesday July 6
All meetings will be held at in the Board Room on the second floor of the Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester (#36 on campus map, see logistics note for directions from the hotel)
09:30 - 10:30 Introduction (Stiglitz , Noman) A broad introduction to the meeting: motivation, key issues, goals and discussion /fine-tuning of the agenda
10:30-12:00 Fairness and Justice: Multiple Dimensions (Agnew, Broome , Munasinghe) Discussion of the key dimensions of fairness and justice in the climate arena. This will include a fair and equitable global deal, promoting sustainable development, and paying attention to the interests/concerns of the poor.
12:00-13:00 Lunch in the adjacent Humanities Bridgeford Street Building first floor mezzanine
13:00-15:00 Beyond Copenhagen (Bhattacharya, Stern ) Review of the major developments at and after Copenhagen and their implications for the future of climate negotiations, and for addressing developmental impact, fairness and justice in the climate regime. Alternative frameworks and proposals.
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:00 A Fair Global Deal (Figueres , Stern) What would a fair global deal look like? What are the key elements that would constitute a ‘fair deal’? How do we think about trade-offs and prioritization across these elements? How do current major proposals on the table measure up? Can we craft a new proposal that may be more politically feasible? How could we promote this?
17:30-19:00 Public Panel at the Cordingley Lecture Theater, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, Ground Floor (#35 on campus map) Organized by Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester
Meeting Sponsors Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
19:30 Dinner for Public Panel Speakers and Advanced Graduate Workshop Students at the Alumni Club Room, Manchester Business School (#29 on campus map) Task Force delegates are invited
Wednesday July 7
Meetings held at the Board Room on the second floor of the Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester (#36 on campus map)
9.00-10:30 The Economics of Climate Change and Equity (Ackerman, Uzaw a)
10.30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Technology, Financing and Fairness (Jintao , Parikh, Sagar)
12:30-13:30 Lunch in the adjacent Humanities Bridgeford Street Building first floor mezzanine
13:30-14:30 Pricing Carbon, Enforcement and Cross-Border Taxes (Chan, Semmler , Spratt)
14:30-16:00 Protecting the Poor and the Vulnerable (Conrad, Khor, Sagar ) What steps might be needed in the short-term to protect the interests and respond to the concerns of the poor and vulnerable populations? Mitigation vs. adaptation?
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Conclusions and Next Steps (Stiglitz, Noman , Sagar) What will we do next, both in substantive intellectual terms (i.e., an edited volume?) and political engagement?
Meeting Sponsors Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester