I appreciate the points raised and diplomacy found in Navroz's comments.
The title of the conference may be a fine irony as the USA has been a
bystander for roughly two decades -- with little expectation for very
substantial change. This said, global climate policy may be up for
major conceptual as well as practical restructuring in the next decade,
and the USA is one player among several important players. If the
conference makes contributions to concepts that allow for politically
feasible advances that limit dangerous climate change, it will be
highly appreciated.
Best regards,
Detlef
On 01-Nov-12 5:02, Navroz Dubash wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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/
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For more information, please contact Susanne Stahl at
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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.
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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 <tel:203.436.8970>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/DKysar.htm
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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 <mailto:[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.
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