Earth System Governance at UN Climate Change Conference

ICSU and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) are hosting a side event, ‘Earth System Governance: Theories and Strategies for Sustainability’, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali.

When: Saturday, 8 December 2007, 1.00–3.00pm

Where: Room Wave, Grand Hyatt, Bali

Chair: Agus Sari, Executive Director, Pelangi-Ecosecurities, Indonesia

Speakers:

• Institutions for Sustainability: Core Findings of the Long-term IHDP IDGEC Research Project
  Professor ORAN YOUNG, Chair of IHDP and Chair of the former IHDP Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) core project, and University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
• Options and Challenges for Adaptation: Examples from the Project on Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS)
  Professor Diana Liverman, Chair of the GECAFS project, and Oxford University, UK.The Earth System Governance
• Research Programme: Outline and Core Assumptions
  Professor FRANK BIERMANN, Chair of the IHDP Earth System Governance Scientific Planning Committee, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Earth System Governance: Intergovernmental Processes and Practitioners’ Needs
  Dr KARSTEN SACH, negotiator climate, Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and
  Nuclear Safety, Government of Germany.