Dear Colleague,
I would like to invite you to attend a UNDP Washington Roundtable on Friday, December 5. The topic will be “A New Multilateralism? (Part Two): Prospects for U.S.-UN Cooperation on Climate Change.”
Our Roundtable will feature Aimee Christensen, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Christensen Global Strategies; Amy Fraenkel, Regional Director for North America, UN Environment Programme; and Olav Kjørven, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy.
The Roundtable will take place from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which is located at 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW. Lunch will be served.
President-elect Barack Obama, in a 2007 article for Foreign Affairs, called for a renewal of U.S. leadership in the world. “I intend,” he wrote, “to rebuild the alliances, partnerships, and institutions necessary to confront common threats and enhance common security.” Such a rebuilding, he asserted, would be crucial to “defeat[ing] the epochal, man-made threat to the planet: climate change.” Moreover, Candidate Obama pledged to enact a U.S. cap-and-trade system; to develop low-carbon, clean technology at home and abroad; and to participate in a global agreement that includes binding and enforceable commitments to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
During the first two weeks in December, the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will convene in Poznán, Poland. The Poznán conference marks the midway point between the Bali Action Plan of last December and the new post-Kyoto Protocol agreement that is expected to be signed in Copenhagen at the end of 2009. Against the backdrop of the Poznán conference and the recent U.S. election, our Roundtable will discuss the state of the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol as well as the state of negotiations for a new agreement, particularly as both processes relate to developing countries. We will also discuss how the incoming Obama Administration could provide new international leadership in the main areas of the UNFCCC talks: mitigation, adaptation, technology and financing.
Please RSVP by Wednesday, December 3, by sending an email to wdc.events@undp.org. And please feel free to pass on this invitation to your colleagues.
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