Breakfast seminar: BIG Emitters – The politics of Climate Change

The 21^st round of the UN Climate talks are fast approaching, and the outcome in Paris will to a large extent be determined by the domestic politics of the big emitters.

CICERO Director Kristin Halvorsen and The Center for International Climate and Energy Policy (CICEP) together with the ZERO Emission Resource Organization kicks off this year’s Zero Emission Conference with a deep dive into what drives the domestic politics of global key actors, and a discussion on the prospects for reaching an ambitious and binding agreement in Paris

Sanjeev Kumar (Founder of Change Partnership)

Narendra Taneja (National Spokesperson on Energy, Bharatiya Janata Party, India’s ruling party)

Guri Bang (Research Director CICERO and expert on the US)

Haakon Vennemo (Partner at Vista Analysis and expert on China)

Steffen Kalbekken (Research Director at CICERO, Director of CICEP and expert on UNFCCC)

Book launch: The Domestic Politics of Global Climate Change: Key Actors in International Climate Cooperation

This book complies insights from experts in comparative politics and international relations to describe and explain climate policy trajectories of seven key actors: Brazil, China, the European Union, India, Russia, and the United States. Given the important roles that the seven actors play in addressing the global climate change, the book’s in-depth comparative analysis will help readers assess the prospects for a new and more effective international climate agreement for 2020 and beyond

Place: Kulturhuset, Oslo

Time: Tuesday 27^th of October, 08:30-09:45, breakfast from 08:00

Registration here