A d i l N a j a m

The Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public PolicyProfessor of Geography, Environment, & International Affairs Pardee Center for the study of the Longer-Term Future

B o s t o n U n i v e r s i t y

Questions?

What is the nature of “globalness” in our globalized world?

How is climate change changing how we organize and manage our planet?

Why climate change must no longer be seen simply as an ‘emissions’ problem?

#1. The hopes we had invested in Copenhagen were unrealistic and, maybe, unreasonable.

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#3. The things Copenhagen could have achieved, it had achieved

before Copenhagen.

#2. As a meeting and as as ‘event’ everything that could have gone

wrong, went wrong.

#4. Copenhagen was certainly not

a success. But it was also not a failure. Not yet.

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Proposition #1:The environment is too

important to be left to environmentalists alone.

Proposition #2:There is a new carbon

economy in the making and it will not be stopped.

Proposition #3:Climate change will hit the poorest first, will hit the poorest most, and will hit the poorest disproportionately.

Proposition #4:

Internationally, the politics of climate will

remain fractured

Decarbonization Technologies

Broad Participation

-Define multiple forms of participation

- Remove Institutional Barriers

Fulfill Kyoto Commitments

-Adaptation is Key

-Meet Annex 1 Emission targets

International faultlines persist beyond Copenhagen

-Address Capacity Constraints

-Tech Transfer & Other Commitments

Beyond Forum Shopping: The

multilateralism of multiple institutions.

Proposition #7:To be ‘Effective’ a ‘New

Multilateralism’ is struggling to emerge