Für interessierte Achgut-Leser in Grossbritannien: The Oxford Energy Society cordially invites you to join them on Tuesday, 28 May at the Oxford Union for their Big Energy & Climate Debate 2013.
“This House Would Stop the Annual UN Climate Summits”
For the 19th time, representatives of governments, industry and NGOs will be meeting this year in Warsaw to attend the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Looking back on 18 years of negotiations, we can perhaps see the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and its recent extension as the most notable result. Currently however, the Kyoto protocol commits only 37 countries to binding targets, which together produce not more than about 13% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Attempts to establish a successor agreement with binding targets for a greater number of countries, particularly including the United States and the great emerging economies, such as India, China and Brazil, have so far not seen a breakthrough.
Will the great climate deal ever come or is it time to start working on unilateral solutions instead? Have 18 UN climate summits so far produced results that justify the time and money invested in them? Does it make sense at all to try to achieve the ambitions emission targets of the UNFCCC or is all this just a waste of time?
Proposition
Dr Benny Peiser
Director, Global Warming Policy Foundation
David Rose
Writer, The Mail on Sunday
Prof Myles Allen
Leader, ECI Climate Research Programme
Opposition
David Symons
Director, WSP Environment and Energy
Fiona Harvey
Environmental Journalist, The Guardian
Dr Chukwumerije Okereke
Reader in Environment & Development, University of Reading
Tuesday, 28th May (6th Week),
The Oxford Union
FREE for members, £2 for non-members
There will be a pre-drinks reception with some of the speakers from 7pm in the Morris Room. Please RSVP to christian.wehrenfennig@energysoc.org, if you want to attend the reception, as numbers are limited.
