Thursday 25th February 2010 – 76 Portland Place, London. The FIELD Panel Discussion on The Road to Mexico COP 16 was a packed event with a candid and lively debate on some of the most pressing and gritty issues facing the climate community this year. Who will take up the leadership of the UNFCCC process with the departure of Yvo de Boer? Where are we in terms of financing climate adaptation? How will trust be re-built between the Parties? Is anyone optimistic for the road ahead?
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Panellists Jan Thompson (Head of Negotiations, DECC) Bruno Sekoli (Chief Climate Change Negotiator for Lesotho and COP15 LDC Group Chair) Joy Hyvarinen (Director, FIELD) Ehsan Masood (Editor, Reseach Fortnight & Research Europe) and Camilla Toulmin (Director, IIED)
Background
In November world leaders and policy makers will once again pick up the pieces of the climate change negotiations and try to come to a meaningful solution to one of the world’s most pressing problems.
Climate change is now a major global industry, encompassing big business, financial institutions, multinational corporations and small companies as well as NGOs, civil society groups and governments. Climate change is being played out on the world agenda as part of strategic and global public policy issues.
The year ahead and the road to the Mexico summit may be paved with good intentions, with a plethora of reports, workshops, official negotiating meetings and conferences - but it will be a bumpy, problem ridden path; not least because of the current credibility gap that has emerged as a result of both the lack of a legal agreement at Copenhagen and revelations from the University of East Anglia together with subsequent disillusionment with the IPCC process. All this has led to an increase in scepticism and mistrust on the part of the public.
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