COP24 and the IPCC 1.5 Special Report: The Paris Rulebook Negotiations in the Wake of the Final Climate Science Warning
Wednesday 28th November 16:00 - 18:00. LH213, Lord Hope Building, University of Strathclyde
This event is free but please register at Eventbrite.
Description
When the international community came together in Paris in December 2015 to adopt the Paris Agreement on climate change, they already knew many of the operational details of this new treaty would have to be elaborated in subsequent years. Hence they also agreed on a mandate to negotiate rules, modalities, procedures and guidance – collectively referred to as the “Paris Rulebook” – and later set the deadline for this process: December 2018, during the climate summit in Katowice, Poland. That same summit will see discussion of the outcomes of a facilitative “Talanoa Dialogue” that has sought to assess where national climate efforts currently stand and where they need to head going forward, as well as a recently published special report from the UN body responsible for climate science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on implications of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Less than a week before the Katowice climate talks kick off, SCELG experts will address all three developments based on their own relevant work.
Michael Mehling
Michael Mehling is a Professor of Practice at the University of Strathclyde Law School and Deputy Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Previously, Michael served as founder and President of Ecologic Institute in Washington DC, and has held research and teaching appointments at Georgetown University and the Universities of Greifswald, Helsinki and Constance. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed quarterly Carbon & Climate Law Review.
In these roles, he has coordinated research and advisory projects for international organizations, government agencies, and civil society organizations in North America, Europe, and the developing world. His work focuses on legal and institutional aspects of energy and environmental policy, including carbon pricing and other instruments for climate change mitigation; comparative climate and energy policy; energy transitions; and interactions between the international regimes on climate climate change and free trade.
