October MSc & PhD Reading Group - International Environmental Negotiations
Gallery and Presentations
Gallery https://www.flickr.com/photos/146532237@N06/albums/72157675269782566
The pathways along which governments turn scientific knowledge concerning environmental problems, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, into action are tortuous and riddled with potholes.
At the intergovernmental level, assistance in this complex and often fraught process comes from international treaties, like the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, and scientific bodies, like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
Join Prof. Mark Rounsevell, University of Edinburgh and Dr Annalisa Savaresi this discussion where we will explore how effective these processes are in achieving their different goals, and what is the potential for the future.
This event is very much discussion based, please read the blogs in advance and have a think about the questions posed in Annalisa Savaresi's blog
Mark Rounsevell's blog http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/global-environment-society-academy/2016/01/20/two-sides-of-the-climate-change-coin-climate-science-and-policy-institutions/
Annalisa Savaresi's blog http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/global-environment-society-academy/2016/01/20/the-paris-agreement-a-new-start-for-international-climate-governance/
COP21 De-brief, what did our staff and academics think http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/sustainability/news/cop21-debrief
October MSc & PhD Reading Group - International Environmental Negotiations
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation