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Equity and Global
Climate Change Conference |
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Panel Discussions
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Approaches to Equity: Many
approaches to cnceptualizing and addressing equity in the context
of climate change have been advanced, including: per capita emission
rights; various forms of "grandfathering;"allocating reductions
according to ability to pay; sharing costs according to historic emissions;
and combinations of these and other criteria. This panel's aim was
to explore some of these approches and addressed the question of whether,
ultimately, equity is more feasibly addressed through a political
bargain than through a given principle or formula.
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Luiz
Gylvan Meira, President, Brazilian Space Agency, Alex Evans, Director
of Communications, Global Commons Institute, Nancy Kete, Director,
Climate, Energy and Pollution Program, World Resources Institute,
US, and Benito Müller, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for
Energy Studies, United Kingdom
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Moderator:
Elliot Diringer, Director fo International Strategies, Pew Center
on Global Climate Change
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Economic Considerations: This
panel explored differing economic perspecitves, and examined opportunities
to address economic inequities through technology transfer, capacity
building, clean energy investment, and other climate change strategies.
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Panel
moderator Malik Amin Aslam, Executive Director, ENVORK, Thomas Black,
Director, Andean Cener for Economics and the Environment, Colombia,
Sujata Gupta, Fellow and Dean, TERI, India, and Thomas Rutherford,
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Colorado, USA
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Malik
Amin Aslam and Thomas Black
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Ethical, Moral and Cultural Considerations:
This panel
explored how differing ethical, religious and cultural perspectives
color the climate change debate and how a better understanding of
other cultures and traditions can lead to stronger international cooperation
against climate change.
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Above photo: Drew Christiansen, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University, Moderator Walter Grazer, US Catholic Conference,Wanee Samphantharak, Deputy Secretary General, Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment, Thailand, and Bert Metz, Global Environmental Assessment Division, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands |