Workshop programme_A Pioneers™ Alliance for Climate Action

Workshop
A Pioneers' Alliance for Climate Action
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
16/17 October 2015
A Pioneers’ Alliance for Climate Action
Klimalog Authors’ Workshop
16/17 October 2015
Effective implementation of the prospective new climate agreement will depend on
ambitious climate action around the globe. Some countries are willing and able to
go further faster to raise the level of ambition in international climate policy.
This authors’ workshop brings together experts from all world regions and explores
the potentials of a transformative pioneers‘ alliance to complement the formal
multilateral process and to build additional momentum for climate action.
Time:
Friday, 16 October 2015, 09:30 – 19:00
Saturday, 17 October 2015, 09:00 – 14:00
Venue:
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Tulpenfeld 6, 53113 Bonn
Organiser:
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in cooperation with Wuppertal Institute for Climate,
Environment and Energy
PROGRAMME
A Pioneers’ Alliance for Climate Action
Day 1: Friday, 16 October 2015
Time
Programme
09:30
10:00
Speakers, Moderators
Registration, Welcome Coffee
Welcome from
DIE Director
Dirk Messner (Director of DIE)
Welcome from the
Organizers
Hermann Ott (Wuppertal Institute)
Steffen Bauer (DIE)
Clara Brandi (DIE)
10:15
Round of
Introduction
All participants
11:00
Introductory
Remarks
Where do we start from? Introductory
remarks on the state of climate policy and
the need for more ambitious action
Hermann Ott (Wuppertal Institute)
Lutz Weischer (Germanwatch)
Clara Brandi (DIE)
11:40
Comment
Promises and pitfalls of minilateral approaches to global climate governance
Robert Falkner (LSE)
12:00
Plenary Discussion
13:00
14:00
Lunch break
Critical appraisal
briefs and
discussion
16:00
16:30
19:00
All participants
The Domestic Dimension – What is the
situation in participants’ home countries
and regions regarding climate policy?
Where do we see potential for cooperation in the context of a pioneers’ alliance,
where do we see challenges?
All participants,
facilitated by
Hermann Ott
(Wuppertal Institute)
Coffee break
Plenary discussion
possibly break-out
groups
The International Dimension – What
might a “Pioneers’ Alliance” look like?
Legal Basis, structure, procedures, obligations, carrots and sticks, common ground
to forge ahead etc.
All participants,
facilitated by
Steffen Bauer (DIE) and
Clara Brandi (DIE)
Workshop Dinner courtesy of DIE
Day 2: Saturday, 17 October 2015
Time
09:00
Programme
The Author’s Dimension
10:30
Speakers, Moderators
Contents and structure of country cases.
All participants (facilitated by Hermann Ott)
What should the authors’ contributions
entail, how should they be structured etc.?
Coffee break
11:00
Conclusions and follow-up, commitments Steffen Bauer (DIE)
regarding deliverables and milestones,
Clara Brandi (DIE)
dates and outline of second workshop etc. Hermann Ott (Wuppertal Institute)
Wrap-up
12:30
14:00
Lunch
End of the
Workshop
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
A Pioneers’ Alliance for Climate Action Kick-Off-Workshop
Name
Affiliation
Country
Eduardo Sanhueza
Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS)
Chile
Liao Maolin
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
China
Robert Bakiika
Environmental Management for Livelihood
Improvement Bwaise Facility
Uganda
Emilio Larovere
University of Rio de Janeiro / COPPE
Brazil
Penehuro Lefale
LeA International
New Zealand
Fernando Tudela
ex environment minister, Professor, Centre for
Global Change and Sustainability in the SE Region
Mexico
Saleemul Huq
Int. Centre for Climate Change and Development
Bangladesh
Lutz Weischer
Germanwatch
Germany
Christophe Cassen
Centre International de Recherche sur
l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED)
France
Robert Falkner
London School of Economics
United Kingdom
Britta Rennkamp
Energy Research Centre, Univ. of Cape Town
South Africa
Badr Ikken (tbc)
Institut de Recherche en Energie Solaire et Energies
Nouvelles (IRESEN)
Morocco
Atul Kumar
TERI The Energy and Resources Institute
India
Hermann Ott
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy
Germany
Florian Mersmann
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy
Germany
Steffen Bauer
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut
für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Germany
Clara Brandi
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut
für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Germany
Okka Lou Mathis
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut
für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Germany
Sander Chan
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut
für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Germany
Dirk Messner
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut
für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Germany
Philipp Knill
Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche
Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)
Germany
DIRECTIONS
The best way to reach the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für
Entwicklungspolitk (DIE) is by subway (lines U16/63 or U66) or by bus (lines 610 and 611) from
Bonn Central Station (Hauptbahnhof).
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Take the U-Bahn (Subway) U 16 / U 63 or U 66 towards “Bad Honnef / Bad Godesberg”
and get off at the station “Heussallee / Museumsmeile”.
You may buy your ticket at vending machines either at the Station or on board (choose
ticket type 1b; 2.80 Euro, coins only).
Subway services are available directly to the DIE from ICE Bahnhof Siegburg/Bonn using
subway line U66 (i.e. stop Heussallee/Museumsmeile, about 30 minutes).
Cologne/Bonn Airport offers an express bus service (SB 60). The bus leaves every 20
minutes, please follow the signs at the airport.The ride to Bonn central station
(Hauptbahnhof) takes about 30 minutes.
DINNER RECEPTION
On October 16th, at 19:00, we invite you for dinner and at Restaurant Zur Lese (Adenauerallee 37).
From DIE to Restaurant Zur Lese (about a 30 minutes walk along the Rhine)
By public transport:
From U-Bahn ‘Heussallee/Museumsmeile’ take line 16/63/66, to ‘Juridicum’. At Juridicum, head
northwest on Adenauerallee (about 2 minutes), Restaurant Zur Lese is at no. 37.