Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on October 3rd, 2008
by Pincas Jawetz (PJ@SustainabiliTank.com)
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The Columbia University Earth Institute, the UNFCCC. and the otherwise honorable IISD present on Yom Kippur:
“The Kyoto Mechanisms: Key to combating climate change?”
The International Institute for Sustainable Development and The Earth Institute at Columbia University invite Climate-L readers to attend an important high-level discussion between Yvo de Boer and Jeffery Sachs on the role of the Kyoto Mechanisms in combating climate change in New York, Thursday, October 9, 2008 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Seating is limited and will be reserved on a first come first served basis. If you would like to attend this event, please register online at www.earth.columbia.edu If you are unable to attend, the discussion will be webcast at http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/v….
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will discuss whether a carbon market or carbon taxes are the best way to cut greenhouse gas emissions—a critical question for governments working to establish a framework to address climate change amid a global financial crisis and market uncertainty.
IISD Climate Change and Energy Director John Drexhage is the moderator of the event, designed to focus attention on a critical core element of the global climate change negotiations in the lead up to Copenhagen in December 2009.
Other discussants are Geneva-based International Emissions Trading Association President and CEO Henry Derwent and Columbia University Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics Klaus S. Lackner.
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Time: 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. EST
Location: 555 Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University
2920 Broadway, New York, NY (between 114th and 115th Streets)
Map: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/m…
Seating is limited. Register online at www.earth.columbia.edu
This event will be webcast at http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/v….
Links to the webcast will also be available at www.iisd.org and www.unfccc.int
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