Beyond Kyoto: Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change
5 - 7 March 2009, Aarhus, Denmark
The overall goal of the multidisciplinary conference in Aarhus in March 2009 is to contribute to the development of plausible scenarios for a pot-2012 regime. A brief description of the conference is enclosed.
By this email we would like to draw your attention to the conference. We also kindly ask you to support The Conference by bringing this information to the attention of any potential participant.
The challenges of climate change to sustainable development globally require creative thinking and holistic ideas, innovative solutions, and development of new technologies. Climate change also creates new opportunities.
The challenges can be used to break new ground in terms of research, products and politics. This can be achieved through innovative thinking, inventiveness, creativity, profitability, sustainability and alternative outlooks.
During this international climate
conference (2-day conference followed by 1-day technical excursions to a selection of related private and public demonstration sites) you will have the opportunity to gain cutting edge knowledge, share and develop ideas and network with key players on the climate scene.
Denmark is very much at the forefront with regard to research, consumer and business behaviour as well as public policy aimed at limiting or adapting to the effects of climate change nationally and internationally.
Denmark will be hosting the UNFCCC-climate summit (COP15) later in 2009. Themost important issue of COP15 will be global regulatory agreements that can join forces of the major economies in the world.
The present agreement - the Kyoto-Protocol is expected to be replaced by a stronger commitment. The questions are at present which environmental, ethical, social, economic, and business considerations will determine the negotiations for the period after 2012 - and what global commitments can be achieved.
There is a need for innovative
solutions, technology development and public participation, and a need for cooperation across the multiple interests of the global society.
The conference in Aarhus on 5-7 March 2009 ‘Beyond Kyoto: Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change - Science Meets Industry, Policy and Public’ will focus on these questions in a multidisciplinary approach.
Conference Focus and Objective
The University of Aarhus welcomes you to an International Climate Conference with a global approach and local outreach. The conference will address issues that are important for a sustainable future and a concern to the public and private sector as well as to the society at large.
Conference Focus
The focus of the conference will be: ‘Treading new ways with climate change’.
The conference will facilitate the integration of current, cutting-edge scientific knowledge on the impacts of climate change and innovative ideas and possibilities for adaptation and mitigation.
Conference Objective
The objective of the Conference is to contribute to advanced use of knowledge as the basis for regulatory frameworks, innovation and the development of new technologies for sustainable development and eco-efficiency.
This is addressed concurrently in six central themes:
- Climate Policy - The role of law and economics
- Biodiversity and Ecosystems
- Agricultural Production
- Nano-technology solutions for a sustainable future
- Citizens and Society
- The Arctic Case
The conference addresses the challenges of climate changes by bringing together scientists, NGOs, business representatives and leading decision-makers from the public sector to facilitate the integration of current, cutting-edge scientific knowledge and experiences with the industrial, political and public future needs.
Editors from different leading scientific magazines will be invited to participate at the conference to advance the opportunity for early publishing of articles based on the papers presented at the conference.
Anna Serzysko
Klimasekretariatet
Aarhus Universitet
Ndr. Ringgade 1, bygn. 1431
8000 Århus C
tel: 8942 2478
fax: 8619 7029
ase@adm.au.dk
www.klima.au.dk
