Climate Change: Financing Green Development
May 3-5, 2009
Climate Change: Financing Green Development aims to build robust and workable climate finance mechanisms that will secure developing country participation, support sustainable development, and leverage cost-effective solutions to mitigating climate change. Successfully meeting the challenge of climate change is not only an environmental imperative, but also a huge economic challenge as well as potential economic opportunity. It will require both a new global agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol and new financial arrangements to generate swift large-scale investments in mitigation efforts—by 2030, an additional USD 100 billion annually will be required for mitigation in developing countries. Yet the financial mechanisms that currently exist as part of the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol and elsewhere are not up to the task of delivering either this level of funds or associated technologies in ways that will successfully engage developing countries and further their development.
This conference will address the structure, regulation, and governance of the various existing and proposed new forms of climate mitigation finance, with a focus on their implications for developing countries. The conference will engage a select group of high level developing and developed country policy-makers and academics, representatives of the climate finance industry, multinational businesses, international organizations, and NGOs.
The conference is generously supported by the Government of Abu Dhabi, NYU Abu Dhabi and the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research and organized by the NYU School of Law, the Institute for International Law and Justice and the NYU Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law.
For further details please refer to the conference agenda brochure. (PDF)
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website: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/conference/law/
SunYoung Suh
Intern, Institute for International Law and Justice at NYU School of Law
A student of International Relations at the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University, Sun-Young Suh comes to IILJ with interest in the role of law in international cooperation and in particular the Global Administrative Law project. Her research seeks to identify incentives for cooperation in climate finance mechanisms, and how they might serve as benchmarks for further cooperation in multilateral settings. She has previously interned at the Planning Division of Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of Republic of Korea, wrote culture reviews for the International Herald Tribune-JoongAng Daily, and studied religion-based political disputes as a researcher at the Current Affairs Team of Korea Broadcasting System. Sun-Young obtained a B.A. in Western History from Korea University, and hopes to soon attend law school in the United States.
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