LAUNCH: Building the Climate Change Regime

This new paper titled Building the Climate Change Regime: Survey and Analysis of Approaches reviews over 130 proposals by governments, NGOs and academics on the design of the climate change regime. It shows that a menu of options is available for scaling up global climate action by mobilizing a constellation of actors at the sub-national, national and international level. The launch will focus in particular on two of the issues reviewed in the paper: options to increase ambition and the legal form the climate agreement.

Speakers include:

• Phil Hogan, Environment Minister, Government of Ireland (TBC)
• Kaveh Zahedi, United Nations Environment Programme
• Jennifer Morgan, World Resources Institute
• Remi Moncel, World Resources Institute
• Lavanya Rajamani, Center for Policy Research (invited)
• John Sweeney, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (invited)

Snacks and refreshments will be available.