Global Warming Fall Time Line
This fall is going to be extremely busy in the climate change world, with meetings across the globe from the UN in New York and the State Department in DC to Bali, Indonesia. In order to help you keep up with most of these meetings we've pulled together the following list. I'm sure we missed a few, but it's at least a start! If you'd like more information on any of these or need anything else, please let us know.
April Ambrose
Representative
Arkansas Climate Awareness Project
501-733-9996
info@arclimate.org
www.arclimate.org
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September 10 - 11
G8 Meeting: Gleneagles Dialogue
Berlin, Germany
Energy and environment ministers from the 20 largest energy consuming nations will gather in Berlin for the Gleneagles Dialogue, which started at the 2005 G8 meeting. Key issues for discussion will be finance and investment as well as the elements to the post-Kyoto regime. (This meeting ended recently, but we still wanted to flag it for you.)
http://www.net.org/documents/GleneaglesBerlin.pdf
September 24
UN Meeting - The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change
UN Headquarters - New York, NY United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will convene a meeting of heads of state or government to promote discussion for advancing negotiations on a new global agreement on climate change at the upcoming United Nations climate change conference in Bali, in December.
http://www.un.org/climatechange/2007highlevel/
September 27-28
President Bush's meeting of Major Emitters/Economies on Energy Security and Climate Change
State Department - Washington, D.C.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will host a meeting of the world's richest nations and most prolific emitters to talk about/starting to talk about/agreeing to talk about (finally) doing something on climate change.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070803-7.html
http://www.net.org/documents/draftagendameeting.pdf
September 27-28
Bali and Post 2012 Preparatory Meeting
U.N. Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts offices - Washington, D.C.
The National Environmental Trust/Pew Environment Group, Chatham House and the U.N. Foundation have invited representatives from 15 countries, including
China and India, to Washington, DC, for a meeting to parallel the President's major emitters meeting. This forum will highlight multinational perspectives
and viewpoints that are likely to be somewhat muted at the President's conference. The main focus of this meeting will be to discuss how these organizations can strengthen and support the climate negotiations taking
place this December in Bali.
More information on this meeting to follow...
November 12-17
27th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Valencia, Spain
This is the final meeting of the IPCC to adopt the Fourth Assessment Report on climate change. At this meeting the IPCC will release the final summary for policymakers, which will make recommendations based on the three previous reports from earlier this year.
http://www.ipcc.ch/meet/27session.htm
December 3-14
United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 13 and MOP 3)
Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia
This is the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the third Meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol. We will send out more information on this meeting when it is available.
http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php