IFPRI is pleased to invite you to the following IFPRI Policy Seminar, which will be held in our fourth floor conference facility located at 2033 K Street, NW (entrance to building on 21st street between K & L streets). Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues.
Kindly RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee (Tel: 202.862.8107; s.hill-lee@cgiar.org).
****IFPRI Policy Seminar****
Copenhagen and Beyond: Three Perspectives on Agriculture and Climate Change
Panelists:
William Hohenstein, USDA
David Waskow, Oxfam America
Gerald Nelson, IFPRI
Chair:
Mark Rosegrant, Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
*Please join us for a light lunch beginning at 11:45 am*
Abstract
The climate change negotiations in Copenhagen:
- failed miserably,
- were rescued at the last minute, or
- resulted in a promising set of new initiatives that will ultimately lead to a binding international treaty.
William Hohenstein (USDA), David Waskow (Oxfam), and Gerald Nelson (IFPRI) will provide perspectives on which of these three outcomes ultimately prevailed, how to remove the brackets in the negotiating text, and what the future might hold for policies and programs for agricultural climate change adaptation and mitigation.
William Hohenstein serves as the Director of the Climate Change Program Office (CCPO) at the USDA. The CCPO serves as a focal point for support to the Secretary of Agriculture on the causes and consequences of climate change, as well as for strategies for addressing climate change.
David Waskow is the Climate Change Program Director in the Washington office of Oxfam America. He was previously the international program director at Friends of the Earth - US.
Gerald Nelson is a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Environment and Production Technology Division.
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