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Sunday, May 3
OPENING SESSION (9:30am)
Introductions
Mariët Westermann, Provost, NYU Abu Dhabi
Addresses
Razan Al Mubarak, Managing Director, Emirates Wildlife Society – World Wide Fund for Nature
Sam Nader, Director, Carbon Management Unit, Masdar
PANEL 1 (10:00am)
NEW MECHANISMS FOR CLIMATE FINANCE
In this panel, the representatives of the Catalyst Project, Environmental Defense Fund, developing countries, and multilateral financial institutions will present innovative proposals to finance climate mitigation in developing countries. These include a reverse auction strategy for climate mitigation investment, emissions allowances for developing countries that make early commitments, and REDD credits. The proposals will provide the basis for the day’s discussion, which will include considerations of the merits of these novel architectures, potential convergence issues with other proposed mechanisms, and the relation among these proposals and a potential Kyoto successor global climate agreement.
Chair: Richard Stewart, NYU School of Law
Panelists:
Federica Bietta, Coalition for Rainforest Nations
Raekwon Chung, Ambassador for Climate Change, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea
Luis Gomez-Echeverri, Global Energy Assessment Program
Tom Heller, Climate Adviser to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and George Soros / Stanford Law School
Nathaniel Keohane, Environmental Defense Fund
Bert Metz, European Climate Foundation
Murray Ward, Global Climate Change Consultancy
PANEL 2 (2:00pm)
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND CLIMATE FINANCE MECHANISMS
This panel will discuss the climate finance proposals discussed in Panel 1 and other approaches under active discussion in the run-up to COP 15 at Copenhagen from the perspective of developing countries. It will discuss whether the continued economic growth of developing countries has been productively addressed, what alternatives will engage developing countries more effectively than others, and whether the current proposals exhaustively capture the economic opportunities that climate finance can generate for developing countries.
Chair: Ngaire Woods, Oxford University
Panelists:
Navroz Dubash, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Israel Klabin, Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável
Arvind Mahajan, KPMG
Anthony Okon Nyong, Africa Development Bank
Rajeev Palakshappa, The Climate Group (India)
Youba Sokona, Sahara and Sahel Observatory
Jie Yu, The Climate Group
PUBLIC LECTURE (6:00pm)
THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
Professor Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University
There is growing consensus around the pressing need for global collaboration in designing a new climate change agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. With all eyes looking to the next round of negotiations in Copenhagen in December, Professor Oppenheimer, a leading expert in both the science and policy of climate change will address the question, Why the urgency? Scientific understanding indicates that the risk of dangerous climate change would increase sharply absent prompt action to curb global greenhouse gas emissions. Professor Oppenheimer’s presentation will highlight the scientific underpinnings of sensible policy responses and the need for truly global action to reduce emissions.
