Climate Change Task Force Meeting, Manchester 2010
July 6, 2010
Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom
IPD's 2010 Climate Change Task Force meeting aimed to take stock of the status of a global climate change agreement after Copenhagen and to contribute to advancing the discourse on what would constitute a least unfair bargaining equilibrium, especially from the perspective of developing countries.
Partners
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Brooks World Poverty Institute
University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom -
Sustainable Consumption Institute
University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom
The principles for sharing what is left of the carbon space and the practice of how to do so are intertwined with the issues of financing and access to technology for mitigation and adaptation. The discussions at the meeting focused on determining what a fair burden sharing agreement would look like. What kinds of compromises might or should be acceptable?
There is now almost universal recognition that there will have to be a “global climate deal.” But so far, the maximum that the recalcitrant developed countries are willing to put on the table is less than the minimum that even most of the reasonable developing countries are willing to accept. We believe that part of the reason for this gap is that the issues have been framed in the wrong way, and the full implications, including for development, have not been adequately assessed. The ideas put forth at this meeting envisaged a small, but important, step in closing this gap.
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Clive Agnew
Task Force Member
Head of School of Environment and Development
The University of Manchester, School of Environment and Development
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Amar Bhattacharya
Task Force Member
Director
G24 Secretariat
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Charlotte Billingham
Task Force Member
Foundation for European Progressive Studies
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Frank Ackerman
Task Force Member
Stockholm Environmental Institute
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Kevin Conrad
Task Force Member
Executive Director
Rainforest Coalition
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Zhiyuan Cui
Task Force Member
Professor, Public Policy and Management
Tsinghua University
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Ato Newai Gebre-Ab
Task Force Member
Economic Adviser to Prime Minister;
Government of Ethiopia
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Stephany Griffith-Jones
Task Force Member
Financial Markets Program Director
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
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Joseph Stiglitz
Task Force Chair
President
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
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Akbar Noman
Task Force Member
Senior Policy Fellow
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
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Ambuj Sagar
Task Force Chair
Professor of Policy Studies
Indian Institute of Technology
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Stephen Spratt
Task Force Member
Researcher
Globalization Team
Institute of Development Studies
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Nicholas Stern
Task Force Member
Director
Asia Research Centre
London School of Economics
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Deepak Nayyar
Task Force Member
Vice Chancellor
University of Delhi
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Martin Khor
Task Force Member
Executive Director
South Centre
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Mohan Munasinghe
Task Force Member
Chairman
Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND)
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Jintao Xu
Task Force Member
Professor of Natural Resource Economics
Department of Environmental Sciences
Peking University
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Sivan Kartha
Task Force Member
Director of the Climate and Energy Programme
Stockholm Institute
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John Broome
Task Force Member
Professor
University of Oxford
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Willi Semmler
Task Force Member
Professor
Economics
New School for Social Research
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Michelle Chan
Task Force Member
Friends of the Earth
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Jose Maria Figueres
Task Force Member
Former President of Costa Rica
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Luis Miguel Galindo
Task Force Member
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
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Louis Lemkow
Task Force Member
Professor
Barcelona Autonomous University
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Kirit Parikh
Task Force Member
Indira Gandhi Institute
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Manoj Roy
Task Force Member
Researcher
Brooks World Poverty Institute
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Wolfram Schlenker
Task Force Member
Columbia University
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Robert Hahn
Task Force Member
Professor
Sustainable Consumption Institute
University of Manchester
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Hirofumi Uzawa
Task Force Member
Professor
Doshisha University