What is the cost of not mitigating climate change?
January 20th
2009
Is there a technological fix that can solve the problem of climate change? What is the cost of not acting to mitigate climate change? Does climate change represent a threat to national and global security?
Join the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions on 10-12 March 2009. Thousands of experts within various fields of climate research from green technology, transport and energy to nature science, humanities, economics, law and security aspects of climate change will attend the Congress.
The Congress will provide a synthesis of the very latest, publicly available, scientific knowledge and technologies on climate change. The published findings (June 2009) will, after agreement with the Danish Government that is hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15), be handed over to the policy makers.
Who can participate?
Everyone can participate - scientists, politicians, companies, NGO’s, officials, assistants.
Who are the organisers?
The congress is organised by the University of Copenhagen in cooperation with the ’star alliance’ of the global university community, International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), including The Australian National University, ETH Zurich, National University of Singapore, Peking University, University of California, Berkeley, University ofCambridge, University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford, University ofTokyo and Yale University.
Who will speak?
Plenary speakers include the IPCC Chairman, Nobel Laureate Dr RK Pachauri; Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics; Prof Ross Garnaut, The Australian National University; Director and Prof John Schnellburger, Potsdam Institute; Prof Dan Kammen, Berkley University; President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barosso; the Danish Prime Minister, MrAnders Fogh Rasmussen; the Danish Minister for Climate and Energy, Mrs Connie Hedegaard. See the full program…
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Sign up for the International Congress on Climate Change 10-12 March 2009