This is a most interesting conference and I am glad Yale is organizing it. It strikes me as very worthwhile that this conversation is being opened by US academics. But I cannot resist noting what seems to be a slight irony in the way it is put together: a conference that is aimed at suggesting it is time the world moved on without the US is built almost entirely around participation by US academics!
This is not to in any way denigrate the remarkable contribution by the stellar list of participants, many of whom I have certainly learnt from directly or indirectly. But if the idea is that the world needs to move on without the US, it might be worth soliciting the opinions of the world outside the US and engaging beyond the mandatory single "developing country voice". At the same time, I recognize it is incumbent on those of us in other parts of the world to pull our weight and both get our views out there cogently, and organize our own efforts at facilitating conversation. I understand all such efforts operate under constraints of time and funds, so it may well be that this conference is intended as a conversation opener intended specifically to provoke discussion at home in the US. But I hope the merits of a bit more diversity and breadth of engagement might be factored into the design of any follow up efforts. with regards, Navroz Dubash On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Kysar, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > *Global Climate Change Policy Without the United States:***** > > *Thinking the Unthinkable***** > > Yale Law School | 127 Wall Street | New Haven, CT 06511**** > > November 9-10, 2012**** > > ** ** > > Lawmakers, diplomats, and academics have traditionally discussed global > climate change policy on the assumption that U.S. participation is > necessary to achieve meaningful success - an understandable view given the > substantial share of annual and historic greenhouse gas emissions that are > attributable to the United States. Yet, for the better part of two decades, > confusion and fracture in the U.S. position on climate change policy have > complicated development of a robust international regime. > > Please join us November 9-10 for a conversation with leading experts from > a variety of disciplines to consider possibilities for global progress on > climate change without the leadership and participation of the United > States. Professor Sir Robert Watson, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel > on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, will give the opening keynote > address on Friday, November 9, and Ambassador Stuart Beck, Permanent > Mission of Palau to the United Nations, will give the lunch keynote on > Saturday, November 10. > > The full conference agenda, along with speaker biographies, is available > at > http://envirocenter.yale.edu/climate2012/agenda<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001XOI5KLr6YS7q32refXvGbVQIzXlRxlrNBeRE8uM07fpe44LA25Wf2VazBzOzAV61wZnLhP12riVYE07wY0dvY0im_x0mZ8a2gdAF_0ldjtsJ99H5PTBIOsrn4Jv9quyIjXOQMxO7860kiUqxnTwhEg==>. > Registration is available online > athttp://globalclimatepolicy2012.eventbrite.com/<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001XOI5KLr6YS4EP0NXNr8VIVkvbJ_lyLy5m4tLuSKhr4llPW9mmIHZEWqmMdwO9g4_zKjLN-AdNQ34ty1F7YAb3rcsKYwj1MpT4N28oY3xGAHzFvfftoz_g8zhMreGhN-CyZmPRAiXm5aE5IJ-eAPQfg==>. > For more information, please contact Susanne Stahl at > [email protected]**** > > The conference is co-sponsored by the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at Yale Law > School, the Yale Climate & Energy Institute, and the Yale Center for > Environmental Law & Policy.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > > **************************************************************************************** > **** > > Douglas A. Kysar**** > > Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law and Deputy Dean**** > > Yale Law School**** > > 127 Wall Street**** > > New Haven, CT 06511**** > > 203.436.8970**** > > [email protected]**** > > http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/DKysar.htm**** > > > **************************************************************************************** > **** > > ** ** > -- Dr. Navroz K. Dubash Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri New Delhi 110 021, India Tel: +91-11-2611-5273/74/75/76 Email: ndubash@gmail <[email protected]>.com Web page: http://www.cprindia.org/users/navroz-k-dubash Recent Publications: - Regulatory State of the South<http://dmmsclick.wileyeurope.com/view.asp?m=pi1jugruj0ep02qhp9bs&u=20408875&f=h>, Special issue of *Regulation and Governanc*e, 2012. *- Handbook of Climate Change and India<http://www.cprindia.org/publications/books/3672-handbook-climate-change-and-india-development-politics-and-governance> *, OUP and Earthscan, 2012.
