Climate Policies, International Regimes & Global Trade (Conference)

J Robertson — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:11:09 +0000

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting a conference titled 'Climate Policies, International Regimes & Global Trade: A Transatlantic Perspective' from 10-11 June 2011.

The conference will begin Friday 10 June with a keynote by Matthew Hoffmann of the University of Toronto followed by a roundtable discussion and reception. Saturday will be filled with three sessions and eleven presentations.

For more details click here.

If you would like to attend, click here to RSVP as space is limited. Also please indicate whether you plan on attending the entire conference or only Friday or Saturday.

<Update 14 June 2011> We would like to thank everyone who helped make the Climate Conference a success.

Click here to view photos from the Conference. The Rapporteur Report is available as a summary of the conference talks or you can view the presentations below for more details.

Session 1 Taking Stock: Climate Policy Approaches in the EU, US and Canada

North American Climate Change Governance: Challenges of Multilevel Policy Making

Henrik Selin Boston University

Will Different Approaches to Climate Change Policy in Canada, US and EU Create Trade Issues?

Gray Taylor Chair, Climate Change & Emissions Trading Group and Corporate Law Partner, Bennett Jones LLP

Free Allocation and the Risk of Carbon Leakage in the EU ETS

Stefan Pauer European Commission DG Climate Action

Session 2 International Regimes and Climate Policy

Border Adjustment for European Emissions Trading: Competitiveness and Carbon Leakage

Onno Kuik VU University Amsterdam

Global Climate Regime-What we can learn from Global Trade Negotiations

Thomas Cottier World Trade Institute, University of Bern

Application of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme to Foreign Airlines

Armand de Mestral McGill University

Session 3 International Trade, Border Adjustments and Carbon Policies

Implementing a border adjustment in complement to the European Union emission trading system: the rationale, the design and the consequences

Stéphanie Monjon Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnment et le Développement, Nogent sur Marne, France

The Carbon Content of International Trade

Karl Steininger University of Graz

A Transatlantic Carbon Market-Real Prospect or Pipe Dream?

Wolfgang Sterk Climate Institute Wuppertal

Climate change mitigation and competitiveness issues: How to move from scattered price instruments to a global carbon market?

Alain De Serres OECD Paris

Taming the Tiger: Defining Best Practice in Border Carbon Adjustment

Aaron Cosbey International Institute for Sustainable Development

'From economic miracle to bailout: the trouble with the Portuguese economy' (Upcoming Talk)

J Robertson — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:17:32 +0000

The IES is proud to announce that, as part of the Jean Monnet Outreach Series, Associate Professor at the School for International Studies - Simon Fraser University, Alvaro Pereira, will be giving a talk titled 'From economic miracle to bailout: the trouble with the Portuguese economy'. The talk will take place on 29 March 2011 at the Geography Building on the UBC campus.

To RSVP, email europe(at)exchange.ubc.ca. Please RSVP no later than Monday 28 March as space for this event is limited.

Some of his most recent publications include:

The Fear of Failure: History and Economic Policy in Portugal (2009), Lisbon: Esfera dos Livros
The Myths of the Portuguese Economy (2007), Guerra e Paz Editores

Whose Regional Expertise?: Know-how and Know-where in the European Bureaucracy (Colloquium)

J Robertson — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:11:21 +0000

Later this month, Merje Kuus of the UBC Department of Geography will be giving a talk on the politics of regional expertise inside EU institutions in Brussels. Please see flyer for details.

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Climate Policies, International Regimes & Global Trade (Conference)

'From economic miracle to bailout: the trouble with the Portuguese economy' (Upcoming Talk)

Whose Regional Expertise?: Know-how and Know-where in the European Bureaucracy (Colloquium)