COP-14: United Nations Climate Change Conference

December 1 2008 - December 12 2008

Location:

Poznan, Poland

Contact:

Stephanie Hanson, Communications Associate

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The Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention is an annual conference hosted by the UNFCCC.

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Key Issues

Contacts

Stephanie Hanson
Communications Associate

Media Interviews

WRI Events

Event	Date	Location
Components of a Post-2012 Climate Deal. Rob Bradley and Jonathan Pershing: panelists. View slideshow	Friday, Dec 5 11:00-12:30	International Fair, Swan
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) session on adaptation metrics. Heather McGray: panelist	Friday, Dec 5 Time TBD	International Fair
Shaping the Global Agenda for Forests and Climate Change. Smita Nakhooda: panelist	Forest Day, Dec 6 Time TBD	University of Adam Mickiewicz
ICFPA-WBCSD-FAO—Forests, climate change and the forest industry: the business perspective. Rob Bradley and/or Florence Daviet: panelist.	Forest Day, Dec 6 14:30-16:00	325, 3rd floor
How Will We Know? Taking Credible Forest Actions. Florence Daviet, Fred Stolle, Jake Werksman & Lars Laestadius: panelists.	Forest Day, Dec 6 16:30-18:00	327, 3rd floor
Environmental Investigation Agency—Learning from Illegal Logging: Transforming the global timber trade to support successful REDD and forest governance. Florence Daviet: panelist	Forest Day, Dec 6 Time TBD	Kuraszkiewicz, Basement
Development and Climate Day	Saturday, Dec 6 Sunday, Dec 7	Sheraton Hotel
Ecoconcern Sustainable Energy Event—Sustainable Investment Panel. Rob Bradley, Britt Childs Staley, Robert Heilmayr & Jenna Goodward: panelists	Tuesday, Dec 9 16:00-18:00	International Fair
Land use change: marginalisation, smallholders and incentives for change. Fred Stolle: panelist	Monday, Dec 8 18:30	Mercure Hotel

WRI Experts at COP-14

Contact Stephanie Hanson to arrange to speak with WRI experts during COP-14.

Stephanie Hanson Communications Associate Media & communications	Jonathan Pershing Climate & Energy Program Director International & U.S. Climate Policy
Rob Bradley Director, International Climate Policy International Climate Policy	Jennifer Layke Deputy Director, Climate & Energy U.S. Climate Policy, business engagement
Deborah Seligsohn Director, China Program China	Lars Laestadius Senior Associate III Forests
Jenna Goodward Research Analyst Renewable energy, technology	Crystal Davis Research Analyst Forest governance
Smita Nakhooda Senior Associate Electricity governance	Florence Daviet Senior Associate Forests
Taryn Fransen Senior Associate Greenhouse gas accounting Developing country actions	Britt Staley Associate Technology Deployment
Heather McGray Senior Associate Vulnerability and adaptation	Hilary McMahon Senior Associate Developing countries International negotiations
Susan Minnemeyer Associate II and GIS Manager Forestry, GIS	Weili Weng Research Analyst China
Xiaomei Tan Associate China	Fred Stolle Senior Associate III Forestry
Robert Heilmayr Research Analyst U.S. Climate Policy	Ruth Bell Greenspan Senior Fellow International negotiations
Aarjan Dixit Research Assistant Adaptation	Dennis Tirpak Senior Fellow Greenhouse gas accounting, International negotiations

Key Publications

Capturing King Coal: Deploying Carbon Capture and Storage Systems in the U.S. at Scale
This report examines the challenges of a large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage technology under four broad categories of technology, policy, legal and regulatory framework, and investment, and their implications for CCS as part of the solution to mitigate adverse climate change impacts.

Correcting the World’s Greatest Market Failure: Climate Change and the Multilateral Development Banks
This report examines the challenges of mainstreaming climate change at the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). It reviews the country strategies and project documentation for the energy sector portfolios of the World Bank Group, the Asia Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank, and concludes that MDBs must do more to internalize the environmental and social costs of climate change into their decision-making.

Financing Adaptation: Opportunities for Innovation and Experimentation
This paper explores the opportunities and challenges involved in financing adaptation efforts in developing countries. The last two years have seen a surge of interest in adaptation finance with new funding proposals floated on an almost weekly basis. But many critical questions remain. How much will adaptation cost? Which proposals are most likely to generate an adequate and predictable flow of funds? How should these funds be channeled so that they reach those most in need? How do we ensure adaptation funds are used most effectively? This paper seeks to provide some answers, and to lay out the state of play in the fledgling field of climate adaptation finance.

Guidelines for Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport, and Storage
This report is the product of a diverse group of over 80 stakeholders to develop Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) Guidelines to ensure CCS projects are conducted safely and effectively. Its purpose is not to make a case for or against CCS, but rather to develop practical considerations for demonstrating and deploying CCS technologies.

Leveling The Carbon Playing Field: International Competition and U.S. Climate Policy Design
This report analyzes the impacts that climate policy would have on carbon-intensive US manufacturing sectors, and raises an array of policy options for addressing these impacts at different stages of international climate policy development.

Plants at the Pump: Biofuels, Climate Change, and Sustainability
Plants at the Pump examines the feasibility of achieving significant emissions reductions from the proliferation of biofuels. It starts with the challenges raised by today’s production and distribution technologies, turns to current biofuels policies and their environmental impacts, and looks at how these policies drive investment. The report concludes that biofuels are not a complete, nor even the primary, solution to our transport fuel needs.

Scaling Up: Global Technology Deployment to Stabilize Emissions
This report is analysis of ways to promote the policy and market structures for deploying low-carbon technologies to mitigate climate change. It is a collaboration between WRI and the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets.

Slicing the Pie: Sector-based Approaches to International Climate Agreements.
What form will sectoral commitments take? Which sectors are best suited to sectoral approaches to climate mitigation? How might sectoral agreements be integrated into the broader climate regime? This report looks at potential answers to these questions.

Weathering the Storm: Options for Framing Adaptation and Development.
This report clarifies the relationship between adaptation and development by analyzing 135 projects, policies, and other initiatives from the developing world that have been labeled by implementers or researchers as “adaptation to climate change.”

Discussion Papers

Discussion papers have not been subject to comprehensive peer review, and should not be cited or referenced as WRI publications.

Five Components of a New Financial Agreement under the Convention (PDF, 329 Kb)
Paying for Mitigation Technology
From Positions to Agreement (PDF, 556 Kb)
Technology and Finance at the UNFCCC
Beyond Carbon Financing
The Role of Sustainable Development Policies and Measures in REDD
Measuring The Way to a New Global Climate Agreement (PDF, 203 Kb)