United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies Climate Change Lecture Series on

Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Post-2012 Options

Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 4:00 to 5:30 pm at UNU-IAS in Yokohama

Programme

4:00 – 4:10 pm	Opening Remarks by Professor Zakri, Director of UNU-IAS
4:10 – 5:00	Presentation by Frank Biermann, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam
5:00 – 5:30	Q & A and Discussion, Chaired by Claudia ten Have, UNU-IAS Managing Research Fellow

Background

Since the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia in December 2007 (UNFCCC COP13), Parties to the UN climate regime have been engaged in a negotiation process aimed at forging a post-2012 agreement. To aid this process, in 2006 an integrated research project was initiated to develop novel policy options for global climate governance architecture post-2012, titled the ADAM Project (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Supporting European Climate Policy). The ADAM Project is a research consortium of 26 leading research institutions and some 120 researchers in the field of climate policy from 15 countries mainly in the European Union. Running until 2009, the results of the ADAM project seeks to better understand the trade-offs and conflicts that exist between adaptation and mitigation policies to support development in climate policies. As a lead ADAM researcher, Frank Biermann will introduce the ADAM Project and present the findings of the ADAM working group on post-2012 options related to architecture (e.g., institutional fragmentation), agency (e.g., role of private actors), and adaptiveness (e.g., protection of climate refugees).

Speaker’s Biography

Frank Biermann is Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he also heads the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis at the Institute for Environmental Studies. Professor Biermann is interested, in particular, in the role of non-state actors in environmental governance, especially of international bureaucracies and scientific networks; in the influence of public-private and private co-operation in environmental governance; in the interplay of global institutions, notably of the trade regime with environmental regimes; in the distributive effects of environmental regimes; and in the development of a long-term stable climate governance architecture. His most recent research focus has been the development of a theory of earth system governance as a crosscutting concept in the study of global change. Biermann is active in a variety of international research networks. Among others, he is the founding director of the Global Governance Project, a network of twelve European research institutes. In October 2008, he was appointed chair of the Earth System Governance Project, a new long-term international research programme under the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP, see earthsystemgovernance.org).

Venue:	UNU-IAS, 6F International Organizations Centre, Pacifico Yokohama, Minato Mirai, Yokohama
Registration:	Registration is free and open to the public. For further information please contact:

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