Multiple Meeting Announcements
Time for Change: Reframing the Conversation on Energy and Climate
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Washington, D.C.Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interactions in
International Governance
30 November - 3 December 2009
Washington, D.C.REMINDER: Polar Climate and Environmental Change
in the Last Millennium
1-3 February 2010
Torun, Poland
- Time for Change: Reframing the Conversation on Energy and Climate
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Washington, D.C.
A meeting entitled 'Time for Change: Reframing the Conversation on
Energy and Climate' is scheduled for Tuesday, 24 November 2009 at 1:00
p.m. EST. It will be convened at the National Academy of Sciences in
Washington, D.C.
The goal of this meeting is to contribute to reframing the conversation
on energy and climate by illuminating opportunities inherent in the
transition away from carbon intensity. The meeting, which is timed to
take place two weeks before the United Nations Climate Change Conference
in Copenhagen, will focus on how technologies already in use can be
combined with common-sense policies and 21st century modes of
organization to create jobs, advance innovation, and enhance
international cooperation. The meeting will engage leaders from
business, government, and academia in a discussion of the societal
possibilities inherent in the creation of climate solutions.
Led by the Science Adviser to the President of the United States, John
Holdren, and informed by a yearlong project on energy and climate at the
National Academy of Sciences, the meeting will be organized into a set
of forward-looking conversations respectively emphasizing opportunities
for business, the United States, and the global community of nations.
For further information or to RSVP, please go to:
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/innovations.html.
- Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interactions in
International Governance
30 November - 3 December 2009
Washington, D.C.
A meeting entitled 'Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interactions
in International Governance' is scheduled for Monday, 30 November -
Thursday, 3 December 2009. It will be convened at the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, D.C.
The Antarctic Treaty Summit will involve plenary presentations with
panel discussions during the first three days followed by a final day of
topical workshops that will apply the science-policy lessons from the
international, interdisciplinary, and inclusive dialogues. The plenary
sessions include:
- Origin of the Antarctic Treaty;
- Development of the Antarctic Treaty System;
- Antarctica's Role in Global Science;
- Scientific Advice in the Antarctic Treaty System;
- International Cooperation in Antarctica;
- Interactions Between the Antarctic Treaty System and other
International Regimes; and
- Governing International Spaces: Lessons From Antarctica.
The topical workshops on the fourth day will consider 'Arctic Governance
- Lessons from Antarctica and 'The History of International Spaces.'
The Antarctic Treaty Summit is a project of the International Polar
Year, endorsed jointly by the International Council of Science and World
Meteorological Organization. The Smithsonian Institution is the host
sponsor with administrative coordination through the Bren School of
Environmental Science and Management at the University of California
Santa Barbara and the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University
of Cambridge.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.atsummit50.aq/.
Or contact:
Michael Lang
Email: Langm [at] si.edu
- REMINDER: Polar Climate and Environmental Change
in the Last Millennium
1-3 February 2010
Torun, Poland
An international conference entitled "Polar Climate and Environmental
Change in the Last Millennium" will be held 1-3 February 2010 in Torun,
Poland. The conference will be convened in the Uniwersytecki Hotel.
The aim of the conference is to present scientific achievements and
detect gaps in the historical climatology of the polar regions based on
early meteorological observations, history, dendroclimatology,
paleolimnology, geophysics, geomorphology, and other sources.
The conference topics are:
- Sources of paleoclimactic information;
- Research methods of climactic changes in historical times;
- The climate of polar regions in the last millennium and its
changeability;
- Causes and effects of climate change in historical times; and
- Climate change scenarios in polar regions in the 21st century.
Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 30 November 2009.
Additional conference information can be obtained at:
http://www.zklim.umk.pl/nowa/polarna. For information in English, please
click on the "english_torun-1-circular.doc" link.
Or contact:
Rajmund Przybylak
Email: rp11 [at] umk.pl
Andrzej Arazny
Email: andy [at] umk.pl