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  PAPER ABSTRACTS & PRESENTATIONS

 

Climate Change and Global Sustainability: Need for A New Paradigm for International Cooperation

By Mukul Sanwal,
Making human well-being as the central objective, a new paradigm for climate change and sustainable development is emerging.


Great Powers Strategy and the Climate Change Discourse

By Mr. Yue Li,
The issue of climate change is not only a problem of environment protection, but also a key factor in Sustainable Development.


Linkages between climate change and security

By Tobias Feakin,
In terms of what I will speak about, I will talk about the linkages between climate change and security and how understanding these issues should become increasingly important in government policy and decision making processes.


Brazil in the Global and Regional Politics of Climate

By Eduardo Viola,
Brazil shares around 4% of the global carbon emissions. Three dimensions of Brazilian participation in the global carbon cycle are unique


Climate Change Mitigation and Global Solidarity: How should the European Union Act?

It is one of the most tragic ironies of climate change that the ones damaging the environment the least are the ones getting affected the most.


Interplay between Climate and Trade policies: Challenges and Opportunities

By Harro van Asselt,
Current human-induced climate variability is linked to past economic patterns, which are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions.


Carbon Budget Proposal

Jiahua Pan and Ying Chen Research Centre for Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences


Financial & Regulatory Framework for Wind Energy

By Ravindra Utgikar,
These days open any daily or periodical you are likely to come across articles and columns on Climate change, its dire consequences and what we as a global community can do about it.


Financing climate change mitigation and adaption: the options for forests and peatlands

By Benjamin L. Caldecott,
In mitigating and adapting to climate change, policy makers often overlook the role of the natural world: specifically,


Nuclear Energy and Climate change

By C. Pierre Zaleski and Sophie Meritet,
The paper will discuss the possibilities of the development of nuclear energy in the world in the midterm and long term.

Presented by: Mr. Stephane Rouhier


Promoting India's Development: Energy Security and Climate Security are Convergent Goals

By Rajan Gupta,
This talk will provide a perspective on what steps India could take to foster development and provide a convergence of energy and climate security.


Climate Change Mitigation in India: Policies and Mechanisms for Deploying Viable Options

By Varun Rai,
As the debate on Climate Change (CC) mitigation gets serious major developing countries like China, India,


Climate Change: An Indian Perspective

By Jyoti K. Parikh,
India needs to grow rapidly for a number of years if she is to eradicate poverty and give her people a satisfactory standard of living.


Climate Protection with Biofuels?

By Joachim Spangenberg,
The European Union has set ambitious targets for renewable use to protect climate change: 20 percent less carbon emissions and 20 percent of energy consumption from renewables by 2020,


Climate Change – The Adaptive Response

By K.S Kavikumar,
There is a general reluctance to include adaptation as a policy option in climate change negotiations,


The global relevance of a post-Kyoto agreement: lessons from India and central South Asia – REASONS FOR ACTION

By Diana Reckien,
The impacts of progressing climatic changes are felt with different intensity around the globe.


 
 
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Rosa Luxemburg
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is actively involved in political education throughout the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Observer Research Foundation
ORF Vision: India, in the next 25 years, will join the ranks of the world’s great economic powers
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MULTIMEDIA
Financing Mechanisms For A Low Carbon Economy
Need for a new architecture rather than new mechanisms
 
The Road to Copenhagen
Sustainable Development Framework for The 21 Century
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