Conference: What now? Climate change and energy after Paris

The Centre for Rising Powers, the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at Cambridge Judge Business School, and the Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge, in association with Climate Policy, are pleased to co-sponsor the conference:

What now? Climate change and energy after Paris

The conference will take place on the 22nd January 2016 at Selwyn College, Cambridge. 

Draft Programme

08.30-09.00: Registration and welcome

09.00-09.30: Opening keynote: Richard Kinley (Deputy Executive Secretary, UNFCCC Secretariat)

09.30-11.00: Panel 1 – Are we any closer to avoiding dangerous climate change? An assessment of the Paris outcome (1.45h)

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 Panel 2 – Geopolitics and governance of climate change: who has the power to deliver the low-carbon transition?

13.00-14.00: Lunch to be held at Selwyn College

14.00-15.30: Panel 3: The investment transition: matching the rhetoric with money

15.30-16.00: Tea

16.00-17.30 Panel 4: Who should pay for the impacts? Adaptation and beyond

17.30-18.00: Closing keynote: David King (UK Government Special Representative for Climate Change)

19.00 for 19.30: Pre-dinner drinks (New SCR) and dinner (Dining Hall) to be held at Selwyn College.