Dear all,
The following workshop will take place at the University of Glasgow, Friday
19th September, 2008.
If you would like to attend part/all of the workshop - please contact one of
the following:
Thomas Johnson ([log in to unmask] ) or,
Sen Du ([log in to unmask])
Best wishes
Jon
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Climate Change Post-Kyoto: Insights from BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India
and China), Friday, September 19, 2008
Seminar Room 217B, Gilmorehill Centre, University Avenue, University of
Glasgow
**Provisional Programme**
09.45-10.20: Registration and Coffee/Tea
10.20-10.30: Introduction – Professor Jane Duckett, Director, Scottish Centre
for Chinese Social Science Research, University of Glasgow
10.30-11.30: Isabel Hilton (ChinaDialogue & The Guardian): The post-Kyoto
deal: what can we expect from China?
11.30-12.00: Coffee/Tea
1200-13.30: Session One: Environmental Politics and the Politics of Climate
Change
(i)Bernardo Peredo-Videa (University of Oxford, UK): The politics of climate
change, environmental governance and post-Kyoto schemes in the north
western Amazon: What scope for synergies and interactions?
(ii)Nina Tynkkynen (University of Tampere, Finland): Exploring Russia's position
in global environmental politics
(iii)Jimin Zhao (University of Oxford, UK): Title: tbc
13.30-14.30: Buffet Lunch
14.30-15.30: Session Two: Climate Change Politics in Action
(i)Hongchun Zhou (Development and Research Centre of the State Council,
China): Energy-saving & emission reduction vs. energy structure optimization
in China
(ii)Simon Billett (University of Oxford, UK): Dividing climate change: Global
warming in the Indian mass media
15.30-16.00: Coffee/Tea
16.00-17.00: Session Three: Post-Kyoto
(i)Anna Korppoo (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland): Prospects
for Russian climate politics and policies beyond 2012
(ii)Sen Du (University of Birmingham, UK): The uncertainties of climate
change: A possible way forward
19.30: Conference dinner
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