[ZeroES.announce] Meeting next week (not today), Walk Against Warming preparations start now!, Seminar on Tuesday

[Robert Wiblin]

Hi everyone,

Unfortunately quite a few people won't be back in Canberra today
(particularly myself!) so there won't be a meeting this week. However,
next week on Monday at 4pm I think we should have a fairly brief
meeting then get out and about and start putting up advertising for
the Walk Against Warming (http://www.walkagainstwarming.org/). The
Walk Against Warming will be on Sunday two weeks before the election,
and we have been contacted by the local climate change campaigner at
the Conservation Council to make sure that we can cover the entire
campus with information about it. They are hoping to get a record
crowd out for it this year to demand real action on climate change as
this is by far the biggest nationaln environmental rally every year.
At the same time we can put up sme www.VoteClimate.org.au posters
(check out that website for details of federal party policy).

The election will be called soon, so the earlier we can get this
information out there, the better. I'll try to get posters and
stickers for pickup in the Students' Association soon and will
announce where to get them on this list.

*** Enrol to vote! ***

Something really important to do as the election approaches is make
sure that everyone you know who isn't enroled to vote yet, enrols to
vote BEFORE the election is called. Thanks to Coalition skulduggery
the electoral rolls will now close on the day the election is
announced, which will mean a lot of young people will miss out if they
haven't put in their forms already. Be sure to hassle anyone you think
might have forgotten to do this, especially people who know about
climate change! This is especially important to spread the word at
Halls and Colleges.

***SYDNEY, DC, BALI: WHERE TO GLOBAL CLIMATE POLICY?***

Tuesday 18 September 2007 12.30-1.30pm
Seminar Room B, Coombs Building, ANU

Abstract

International negotiations on climate policy have been given a boost by
rising awareness that climate change is real and action is needed soon.
The recent declaration by the G8 and major developing countries to work
towards a post-Kyoto agreement has revived the climate negotiations.
Hard on the heels of the APEC summit in Sydney, a meeting of the major
greenhouse emitters is convened by the US, followed by the Bali UN
climate conference. Meanwhile new emissions trading schemes are
emerging, including in Australia. But strong action on greenhouse gases
is needed both in industrialised and developing countries, and thorny
issues of equity, responsibility and capability stand in the way of
broad international cooperation. Views diverge on what are the best
international architecture and economic instruments for future climate
policy, but there could be room for a convergence of approaches. In this
talk I present some analysis of where international climate policy is
at, and offer thoughts on where it may be going.

Bio

Frank Jotzo is research fellow and environmental economist at RMAP. He
has worked on climate change policy analysis for the last ten years.


Thanks - I hope you all had a relaxing or at least productive lecture break!

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