• Sep 16, 2015 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
  • Location: Columbia University - Maison Francaise in Buell Hall
  • Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2019

A conversation with Laurence Tubiana and Scott Barrett moderated by Gavin Schmidt

Part of a series of events in anticipation of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference

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The United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP21, will take place in Paris in December 2015.  Laurence Tubiana and Scott Barrett discuss the expectations, hopes, and likely outcomes of the upcoming climate negotiations and consider what the next steps should be to maintain any chance of mitigating the disastrous global climate changes experts are expecting in the coming decades.

Laurence Tubiana is founder and director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations IDDRI at Sciences Po in Paris and Professor of International Affairs at Columbia s SIPA.  Laurence Tubiana was appointed Special Representative of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius, for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. Scott Barrett is the Lenfest Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics. Professor Barrett is one of the world's leading researchers on international cooperation, including the dynamics of climate diplomacy. He has advised a number of international organizations on climate change, and was previously a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Event co-sponsored by the Alliance Program, Earth Institute, and SIPA.  Support for this event provided by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

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