         
Event: Talk - "What Life For Climate Policy After Copenhagen?"Event: Talk - "What Life For Climate Policy After Copenhagen?" On: Wednesday 5th of May, 2010 From: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Contact: Climatex Venue: Danson Room, Trinity College, Details: Special lecture by Prof. Gwyn Prins called DEATH IN A COLD CLIMATE: WHAT LIFE FOR CLIMATE POLICY AFTER COPENHAGEN? The conventional model of climate policy crossed two watersheds in the winter of 2009/10. The first was the crisis of trust in climate science triggered by “climategate”; the second was the failure of the Copenhagen Conference to come to any meaningful agreements. It is plain that the model of climate policy represented by the Kyoto Protocol is no longer viable, yet it continues with momentum because of the vast amount of political capital sunk into it. How did this come about? What does it mean? What would it be sensible to do next? This lecture will explore these questions. Professor Gwyn Prins is a professor at the London School of Economics and the director of the LSE Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events. For over twenty years he was a Fellow and the Director of Studies in History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Cambridge. |