Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Wellcome Collection Conference Centre,183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Time Topic
8:45 – 9:00 Tea and coffee
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome from Prof. Nicholas Stern
(Chair, Grantham Research Institute and CCCEP; IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, LSE)
9:15 – 11:00 The outlook for international climate-change mitigation policies post-Durban
(i) Prof. Nicholas Stern (CCCEP/LSE): The global development of policy regimes to combat climate change
(ii) Dr. Robert Falkner (CCCEP/LSE)
(iii) Prof. Michael Grubb (Senior Adviser, OFGEM; Senior Research Associate,
Cambridge University)
11:00 – 11:15 Tea and coffee break
11:15 – 13:15 Aspects of policy design
(i) Prof. Scott Barrett (Columbia): Catastrophe risk and policy
(ii) Prof. Sayantan Ghosal (CAGE) and Dr. Sean Walsh (University of Western
Ontario): Unilateral measures and emissions mitigation
(iii) Dr. Sean Walsh (University of Western Ontario): Compliance mechanisms in global climate regimes: Kyoto and post-Kyoto
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 16:45 Regional perspectives
(i) Prof. Robert N. Stavins (Albert Pratt Professor of Business and
Government, Harvard Kennedy School): U.S. perspectives on global climate change policy regimes
(ii) Prof. Christian Egenhofer (Associate Senior Research Fellow, Centre for
European Policy Studies (CEPS); Visiting Professor, College of Europe
(Bruges & Natolin), SciencesPo (Paris) and LUISS University (Rome)): After
Copenhagen and the economic crisis: Does the EU need to go back to the drawing board?
(iii) Dr. Ruth Kattumuri (Co-Director, Asia Research Centre and India
Observatory, LSE): Sustainable growth and climate change: Evolution of
India’s strategies
(iv) Dr. M. Wang and Dr. Y. Zhou (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): A
Chinese perspective
16:45 – 17:00 Tea and coffee break
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17:00 – 17:45 Macroeconomics and climate mitigation policies
(i) Dr. Alex Bowen (Principal Research Fellow, GRI/CCCEP/LSE): The scope for
‘green growth’ and a new technological revolution
17:45 – 18:00 Next steps
Dr. Alex Bowen (CCCEP), Prof. John Whalley (CAGE/CIGI) and general discussion
18:00 – 19:00 Drinks