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Subject: 	Enabling Long-Term Climate Policy>>Call for Abstracts for the 
International Conference "Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and 
Decisions", Copenhagen, 10-12 March 2009
Date: 	Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:19:49 +0200
From: 	Detlef Sprinz <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: 	Detlef Sprinz <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Colleagues,

in preparation for the COP-15 of the UNFCCC at Copenhagen in late 2009, 
the University of Copenhagen is hosting an international scientific 
congress on "Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions", 
10-12 March 2009, in Copenhagen, Denmark.  As part of the congress, I 
have been asked to convene sessions on the theme of "Enabling Long-term 
Climate Policy."

Climate change is a quintessential long-term policy challenge.  Agreeing 
on and implementing credible long-term climate policies engenders 
intergenerational, time-inconsistency, distributional and informational 
problems.   The fragmentation of domestic politics and the challenge of 
long-term international cooperation aggravate this challenge. This 
session brings together methods, institutional design options, and 
empirical studies which elucidate the factors which enable or hamper the 
pursuit of long-term climate policy.  Besides scientific research on 
climate policy, insights from the management of other long-term issues 
(such as mandatory pension plans, financial crises,  accounting 
methodologies, risk management, public finance, policy forecasting, 
robust adaptive planning, and from other environmental issues) are 
encouraged to contribute to managing long-term climate policy.

The congress is organized by the ten leading universities of the 
International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU).  The main aim of 
the congress is to provide a synthesis of existing and emerging 
scientific knowledge necessary in order to make intelligent societal 
decisions concerning application of mitigation and adaptation strategies 
in response to climate change. The results of the conference will be 
made available in a compact format to the decision-makers at COP-15.

The official deadline for submitting abstracts is 01 September 2008.  
Given the various academic schedules, there is flexibility to submit 
abstracts for Session 50 on "Enabling Long-Term Climate Policy" until 15 
September 2008.

More information on the conference and the submission of abstracts can 
be found at:

    * conference description: http://climatecongress.ku.dk
    * call for abstracts: http://climatecongress.ku.dk/call-for-abstracts


I look forward to your insights and ideas on enabling long-term climate 
policy,
     Detlef Sprinz

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Detlef F. Sprinz
Senior Scientist

PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods (RD IV)
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam, Germany

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