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• Future Megacities in Action
  Innovative Solutions for Energy- and Climate-Efficient Urbanisation
  14 – 16 May 2013, Hamburg, Germany
  The international conference Future Megacities in Action will highlight good practice examples of energy and climate efficient urbanisation from Asia, Africa and America, set against the European background. It will feature the results of the research programme “Future Megacities” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research since 2005: technical, social and economic solutions developed by participating bilateral and trans-disciplinary research teams for and with cities. It will also present innovative approaches taken in other cities that stand out in their efforts towards achieving greater sustainability.
• ICAO Symposium on Aviation and Climate Change
  Destination Green
  14-16 May 2013, Montreal, Canada
  Every three years, ICAO organizes a major environmental event to share information on the latest developments in the area of aviation and environment with its Members States and other key stakeholders. The purpose of these events is to inform and facilitate environment-related discussions and high-level decision-making at ICAO’s triennial Assemblies.
• 12th IAS-STS Annual Conference
  Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS)
  6 - 7 May 2013, Graz, Austria
  Conference Themes:
  • Gender – Technology – Environment
  • Life Sciences/Biotechnology
  • Towards Low-Carbon Energy Systems
  • Sustainable and Innovative Public Procurement & Ecodesign
  • Sustainable Food Systems
• 8th ITU Symposium on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change
  6 - 7 May 2013, Turin, Italy
  This years' edition of the symposium will be dedicated to the theme of Smart Sustainable Cities and it will focus on the issue of information and communication technologies (ICTs), the environment and climate change and the needs for smart green ICT technologies. Topics to be discussed will include, inter alia, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, e-waste, disaster preparedness, cost-effective ICT technologies, methodologies for the environmental impact assessment of ICTs, ICT technologies for smart cities and smart societies, as well as challenges and opportunities in the transition to a green and resource efficient economy.
• The Climate Challenge in the Arctic. Environmental impacts, new opportunities and future policy options
  International Workshop
  6 May 2013, Venice - Italy
  The workshop will open with an overview of the main drivers of change and their impacts in the Arctic marine area. The new economic opportunities and the role of emerging stakeholders will be subsequently explored. In addition, an overview of the international regulatory and governance regime in the Arctic will be provided, taking into account existing gaps and potential challenges. Finally, the workshop will bring together the above aspects to explore future policy options to address security issues in the region.

» Conference Announcements

• 65th Session of the WMO Executive Council Session
  15 - 23 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  • Work Plan
  • Documents
• Water in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Science and Governance
  Indicators, Thresholds and Uncertainties of the Global Water System'
  21 - 24 May 2013, Bonn, Germany
  The conference will provide the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows, and land use change. It will help to build links between science and policy and practice in the area of water resources management and governance, related institutional and technological innovations and identify in which ways research can assist policy and practice in the field of sustainable freshwater management.
• 3rd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2013)
  Engineering for Global Sustainability
  27 - 29 May 2013, Montreal, Canada
  The 3rd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2013) is a Canadian and international forum for the exchange of ideas for dealing with climate change. It is also an opportunity to keep abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change.
• Impacts World 2013
  International Conference on Climate Change Effects
  27 - 30 May 2013, Potsdam, Germany
  The IMPACTS WORLD 2013 conference aims to develop a new vision for climate impacts research by laying the foundations for regular, community-driven syntheses of climate change impact analyses. It will bring together leading scientists and decision makers from local to international levels.
• 9th South-East European Congress on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
  29 - 31 May 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria
  The EE & RE Congress will bring together for the 9th year in a row all relevant players from the Region: from the energy sector, grid operators and utilities, building industry, finance and state administration. It will emphasize the best environmental practices and will shape the challenges in the energy sector in South-East Europe.
• Resilient Cities 2013
  4th Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation
  31 May - 2 June 2013, Bonn, Germany
Topics:
• Risk and vulnerability assessment
• Adaptation and resilience planning and policy making
• Multi-stakeholder and community-based collaboration
• Governance
• Implementing specific adaptation solutions
• Financing resilience
• Urban Food Systems
• German “Energiewende” – between concept and implementation
  (in German)
  3 - 4 June 2013, Bonn, Germany
  Presentations, discussions and comments of the annual conference of the Europäische Akademie Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweilerwill deal with current problems and potential solutions to implement the “Energiewende” in Germany.
• 3rd International Conference on Energy Process Engineering (ICEPE 2013)
  Transition to Renewable Energy Systems
  3 - 6 June 2013, Frankfurt, Germany
  The conference will provide delegates from research, the private sector and politics with unique focused information on the major technologies transforming our energy system to renewable energy. It is designed to cover all technically relevant routes in scientific and technological depth.
• The Future of Consumerism and Well-being in a World of Ecological Constraints
  12 - 14 June 2013, Worcester, MA, USA
  The conference seeks:
  • To improve our understanding of the complex driving forces underlying prevalent consumerist lifestyles in the wealthy parts of the globe;
  • To generate insights about fostering a necessary transition toward alternative ways of pursuing individual and societal well-being in a technological society cognizant of ecological limits;
  • To build on recent developments to establish a vibrant global research community focused on sustainable consumption.
• 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy Storage (IC-SES)
  19 - 21 June 2013, Dublin, Ireland
  Themes:
  • Novel energy storage materials
  • Testing and characterisation of energy storage materials
  • Microscale & macroscale modelling of sustainable energy storage materials and applications
  • Demonstration of Sustainable Energy storage in buildings
  • Sustainable Energy options for buildings
• International Energy Workshop (IEW, 32nd Edition)
  19 - 21 June 2013, Paris, France
  The IEW is a leading conference for the international energy modeling community. The IEW provides a venue for scholars and researchers to compare quantitative energy projections, to understand the reasons for diverging views of future energy developments, and to observe new trends in global energy production and consumption.
• Second International Conference on Sustainable Business and Transitions for Sustainable Development
  20 - 22 June 2013, Opole, Poland
  Thirteenth International Conference on Current Issues of Sustainable Development
  Multilevel Governance and Strategic Approaches towards Sustainable (Product) Innovation
• 2nd International Conference Energy & Meteorology (ICEM)
  Weather and Climate for the Energy Industry
  25 - 28 June 2013, Toulouse, France
  The conference is a unique forum for exploring the nexus between weather, climate and energy, building upon the success of the first event held in 2011 in Australia.

• 8th International Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference (IPA)
  Societies in Conflict: Experts, Publics and Democracy
  3 – 5 July 2013, Vienna, Austria
  How do we think about the study of conflicts through interpretive lenses? What aspects do we consider both as analysts and practitioners, when facing conflicts and controversies in environmental, urban, planning or health care policies? In how far do the current policy debates force us to rethink, what we mean by “political” and “politics”? What is the role or function of policy analysis and analysts in times of multiple crises? These are some of the pending issues that will be addressed at the IPA conference 2013 in Vienna.
• 3rd International Exergy, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Workshop & Symposium (ELCAS-3)
  7 - 9 July, 2013, Nisyros - Greece
  ELCAS-3 will provide a multidisciplinary international forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners from all over the world to exchange information, to present high-quality research results and new developments in the wide domain covered by the tools of Exergy Analysis, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and issues relating to the environment, and sustainability. Climate Change, Renewable Energy Systems, Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Energy Systems etc are issues that very much effect the sustainability of countries, regions and cities.
• 7th ECPR General Conference
  4 - 7 September 2013, Bordeaux, France
  The climate governance section of the 2013 conference of the the European Consortium of Political Science (ECPR) welcomes submissions to the following panels:
  • Climate Policy Innovation: Sources, Patterns, and Effects
  • Climate Governance: A Leadership Perspective
  • Conflict Resolution in Local Climate Governance
  • Fragmentation and Integration in Global Climate Governance
  • Public-Private Responsibilities for Adaptation to Climate Change
  • Governing Energy Transitions: Design and Evaluation of Policies and Practices
  • Climate Governance: Controversy, Apathy or Action
• Energy for Sustainability 2013
  Sustainable Cities: Designing for People and the Planet
  8 - 10 September 2013, Coimbra, Portugal
  The conference series in Energy for Sustainability aims at creating a forum where stakeholders, researchers, practitioners and students from different scientific domains can discuss and share their experience and proposals regarding approaches to tackle the need for a more sustainable world. The theme for the EfS 2013 is "Sustainable Cities: Designing for People and the Planet" which is dedicated to debating the challenges posed by the increasing concentration of the world's population in cities. Up for discussion are topics grouped under four main categories: Smart Cities, Buildings and End-uses, Clean Energy Supply, Policy and Assessment.
• 3rd Oxyfuel Combustion Conference
  9 - 13 September 2013, Leon, Spain
  Oxyfuel Combustion is ready for demonstration. This will be the focal point of discussion for the 3rd Oxyfuel Combustion Conference. This conference willl also present the lessons learnt in the development of oxy-CFB. Furthermore, key results from Callide Oxyfuel Projects and other large scale demonstration pilot plants shall be sharing their experience toward to the discussion on demonstration of oxyfuel combustion technology.
• 2nd Post Combustion Capture Conference
  17 - 20 September 2013, Bergen, Norway
  Following the success of PCCC1 in Abu Dhabi, 2011 and the inception of 12 International Post Combustion Capture Network series since 2000, IEAGHG is proud to announce PCCC2 Conference to be held in Bergen, 2013. This conference series has proved to be a very important gathering for post-combustion capture experts to share their knowledge, findings and expertise. PCCC2 aims to continue the forum to discuss the various issues related to post-combustion capture technologies status and development.
• RegioResources 21
  A cross-disciplinary dialogue on sustainable development of regional resources
  18 - 20 September 2013, Catania, Italy
  RegioResources 21 started in 2011 to establish a permanent cross-disciplinary dialogue on sustainability features in planning, decision and policy making on multiple scale levels. The conference series intends (i) to provide an overview on the most recent questions and innovative solutions and (ii) to facilitate the intellectual exchange and methodological transfer between different disciplines involved in regional resource management, planning, decision making and policy support.
• First Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Climate Sciences
  23 - 24 September 2013, Lecce, Italy
  The conference aims to involve scientists, researchers, policy makers, Italians, and foreigners working in close contact with our country, whose activities closely affect aspects of climate change and their relationships on environmental and socio- economic systems.
• Multi-disciplinary perspectives on climate ethics
  26 - 27 September 2013, Como, Italy
  A rapidly growing body of research-drawing on a wide variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives-suggests that ethical considerations should be and/or are already at the center of international climate change policy and action discussions. Certainly, ignoring issues related to justice and morality in this domain is no longer an option for climate negotiators, issue advocates and others interested in crafting international responses to climate change that will be seen as legitimate by all relevant state and non-state actors.

• Energy Systems in Transition
  Inter- and Transdisciplinary Contributions
  9 - 11 October 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany
  The energy transformations in Germany and in many other countries worldwide include the rapid expansion of renewable energy sources, an ambitious increase in energy efficiency and, at least in Germany and several other countries, an accelerated phase-out of nuclear energy. These goals place substantial demands on energy research and energy policy making. Against this background, the aim of the conference is to address this broad variety of interconnected topics and create room for presenting an interdisciplinary portfolio of approaches and research findings. Conceptual as well as empirical studies from different disciplinary backgrounds (such as transition management, STS, environmental psychology, technology assessment, economics, social responses to energy technologies and infrastructure, sociology, political science, legal studies, and investigations about planning processes etc.) and in particular interdisciplinary contributions are highly welcomed.
• Local Renewables Freiburg 2013
  Shaping your solar city - Practical solutions from planning to implementation
  24 - 25 October 2013, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
  The conference series aims to advance the switch to renewable energy sources and accelerate sustainable development. Local Renewables achieves this through showcasing ground-breaking ideas and approaches to reduce energy consumption while enhancing energy efficiency in cities and towns.
• The Radical Emission Reduction Conference
  10 - 11 December 2013, London, UK
  This conference will bring together academics and practitioners, engineers and economists, policy-makers and civil society to detail evidenced-based opportunities for delivering urgent and deep reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases.
  Deadline for Abstracts: 28th June 2013

• World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2014)
  28 - 30 January 2014, Qatar
  The aims of the event are, inter alia, to provide universities all round the world with an opportunity to display and present their works (i.e. curriculum innovation, research, activities, practical projects) as they relate to education for sustainable development at university level

» Documents of past meetings

• 26th PhD Workshop on International Climate Policy
  Studies in economics, politics & social sciences
  25 - 26 April 2013, Paris, France
  The ICP workshops series is organized semi-annually under the auspices of the European PhD Network on International Climate Policy. It aims to offer doctoral candidates the opportunity to present their research ideas and results, receive feedback, and exchange information and assistance in an informal and interdisciplinary setting. PhD students from all disciplines working on topics relevant to climate policy and environmental economics are invited to submit applications. The 26th ICP workshop will cover topics of relevance for climate change mitigation and adaptation, such as:
  • climate change and energy economics
  • media and discourse research on climate change policies
  • construction of climate change representations
  • science-policy interface
  • politics, policies, polity and public opinion
  • climate change negotiations and new climate governance architectures
  • policy instrument design and market mechanisms
• Legal & Policy Pathways for Energy Innovation
  24 - 25 April 2013, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  The University of Minnesota’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences’ conference on Legal & Policy Pathways for Energy Innovation will bring together leading scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and business people to discuss how to make critical progress on energy law and policy. The panels will focus on four primary topics: (1) clean energy infrastructure; (2) environmental and energy governance; (3) climate, energy, and environmental justice; (4) sustainable regions and communities.
• 7th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns
  A green and socially responsible economy: a solution in times of crisis?"
  17 - 19 April 2013, Geneva, Switzerland
  The 7th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns comes at a moment when the world’s attention to the exemplary role of local governments in sustainable development may never have been as extensive, partly driven by the urgent need to find lasting solutions to present both financial and environmental crises. Participants will have the opportunity to be part of an event that will mark a milestone for Europe’s local governments in their quest to achieve sustainable communities and which will allow them to exchange experiences and good practices. The conference will explore sustainability in all areas of public administration and will try to identify effective institutional mechanisms to tackle the current financial and environmental crises.
• Stakeholder conference on the 2015 international climate agreement
  17 April 2013, Brussels, Belgium
  The European Commission is organising a stakeholder conference on 17 April 2013 in Brussels to help shape the EU’s input into negotiations on a new international agreement to protect the global climate system.
  • Live webstream
• Innovations for and Transitions to Sustainable Transport Systems
  12 April 2013, Wroclaw, Poland
• Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop in Sustainable Development 2013
  12 - 13 April 2013, New York City, USA
  The IPWSD is a conference open to graduate students working on or interested in issues related to sustainable development. It is intended to provide a forum to present and discuss research in an informal setting, as well as to meet and interact with similar graduate student researchers from other institutions. In particular, we hope to facilitate a network among students pursuing in-depth research across a range of disciplines in the social and natural sciences, to generate a larger interdisciplinary discussion concerning sustainable development.
• UNCCD 2nd Scientific Conference
  Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas
  9 - 12 April 2013, Bonn, Germany
  The conference is expected to produce sound scientific outputs and policy-oriented recommendations based on the analysis and compilation of peer reviewed and published literature that informs policy formulation and dialogue.
• 3. Statuskonferenz der BMBF-Fördermaßnahme "Technologien für Nachhaltigkeit und Klimaschutz - Chemische Prozesse und stoffliche Nutzung von CO2"
  (in German)
  9 - 10 April 2013, Berlin, Germany
• Energiewende – Think European!
  International Conference
  9 - 10 April 2013, Berlin, Germany
  Germany resolved to go down the path of its energy transition – the Energiewende – largely without consulting its European neighbors. Up to now, conceptual debates and practical steps taken have almost exclusively been limited to the national context. Yet, the Energiewende cannot be successful without Europe. The conference aims to give speakers from across Europe a chance to talk about the opportunities in and obstacles towards an Energiewende in Europe.
• Ninth International Conference on Green and Energy-Efficient Buildings Conference and New Technologies and Products Expo (GBC))
  1 - 3 April 2013, Beijing, China
  To implement the strategic deployment of the CPC Central Committee and State Council about reinforcing Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction,the International Conference on Green and Energy-efficient Building & New Technologies and Products Expo(IGEBC) was born in 2005 under great support and concern of Chinese and lots of foreign governments to the development of green building industry and effort of addressing Climate Change.
• European Climate Change Adaptation Conference
  18 - 20 March 2013, Hamburg, Germany The European Climate Change Adaptation Conference 2013 is an initiative of a number of major European research projects. This will be the first European conference which covers the broad range of issues related to climate change adaptation and follows international conferences in Australia in 2010 and in the United States in 2012. This conference will place a greater emphasis on understanding and assessing adaptation in action under the theme integrating climate into action.
• Berliner Recycling- und Rohstoffkonferenz
  (in German)
  4 - 5 March 2013, Berlin, Germany
• 2nd International Conference on Micro Perspectives for Decentralized Energy Supply [MES 2013]
  27 February - 1 March 2013, Berlin Germany
  The conference is addressed to practitioners and academics in the field of energy and development. Rather than focus on basic technological research, the conference is centred on a thematic range of interdisciplinary and practical approaches. The aim is to deepen and expand the integration of the international community in the field of decentralized energy supply with the explicit inclusion of practitioners and academics from the global South.
• 2nd International Conference on Climate Change and Humanity (ICCCH 2013)
  24 - 25 February 2013, Rome, Italy
  ICCCH 2013, is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Climate Change and Humanity to a common forum. The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Climate Change and Humanity. Another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners
• Mountains Under Watch (MUW 2013)
  20 - 21 February 2013, Forte di Bard, Italy
  Mountains Under Watch is an interdisciplinary conference that aims at bringing together scientists and experts working in the diverse fields of climate change studies in mountain areas around the world. The specific goal of the conference is to share experiences, methods and strategies for long term observations and monitoring of the climate change effects on different alpine environments ranging from the cryosphere to the biosphere.
• ICT4S 2013: ICT for Sustainability
  The challenge of making it real
  13 - 16 February 2013, Zurich, Switzerland
  ICT4S is a joint effort of academia, industry, national and international organizations to take stock of the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in energy efficiency and sustainable development. How can we utilize the transformational power of ICT for making our world more sustainable? How can we really use ICT to create more value from less physical input, to increase quality of life for all without compromising future generations´ ability to meet their needs?
• 8th Annual EU Energy Law & Policy Conference
  5 - 6 February 2013, Brussels, Belgium
  This two day conference will provide you with a unique opportunity to get fully updated on all the major and current EU energy related topics. You will gain an unparalleled insight in regard to present and upcoming changes in EU energy regulations and communications from Europe’s best known energy experts, lawyers, academics and decision makers.
• Earth System Governance Tokyo Conference
  Complex Architectures, Multiple Agents
  28 - 31 January 2013, Tokyo, Japan
  This event is part of the global conference series organized by the Earth System Governance Project, a ten-year research programme under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). This conference will be the fourth in a global series organized by the Earth System Governance Project. The Earth System Governance Tokyo Conference will be jointly hosted by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), the International Environmental Governance Architecture Research Group and the Tokyo Institute of Technology on behalf of the Earth System Governance Project.
• Outcome of Doha Negotiations
  8 January 2013, Zürich, Switzerland
  A workshop organized by the Zurich Carbon Market Association.
• Material use of biomass – the better option?
  More resource efficiency and climate protection through sustainable material uses of biomass
  11 December 2012, Berlin, Germany
  (in German only)
• Governance and Sustainable Development: Building Commerce and Communities
  10 - 13 December 2012, Coimbatore, India
  The overarching aim of the conference is to provide a forum for stimulating debate and exchange of ideas by exploring the latest developments in the governance of sustainable development from a variety of perspectives including environmental sustainability, social enterprise, corporate governance, legal pluralism, and social investment. The conference will appeal to academics, professionals from both business and non-profit entities, and policy makers.
• Communication Education Participation
  Successful Ways to Climate Protection
  29 - 30 November 2012, Berlin, Germany
  The conference "Communication, Education, Participation - Successful Ways to Climate Protection", taking place in Berlin on 29 and 30 November 2012, will focus on the role of "soft factors" such as education, participation and communication in a context of climate change and climate protection. In addition to presentations by experts, the workshops give the opportunity for an international exchange on successful methods in climate change education, on measures that include both effective climate protection and appropriate public participation, as well as on communication strategies for highlighting the importance of climate protection in the public debate and for motivating people to act against climate change.
• Catalyzing Action: EU Sustainable Lifestyles Roadmap & Action Plan to 2050
  26 - 27 November 2012, Brussels, Belgium
  The SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 European Social Platform project is currently concluding its two-year study and will present its findings in Brussels. The roadmap, the final outcome of the SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 European Social Platform project, outlines opportunity spaces (for policy, business, innovation, design, civil society, citizens, and research) to foster, enable and accelerate more sustainable living practices across Europe which are critical to achieving Europe’s 2020 strategy.
• Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECS-2012)
  The Need for a New Vision for Science, Policy and Leadership - Climate Change as an Opportunity
  22 - 24 November 2012, Marrakesh, Morocco
  This event is expected to provide an update of the newest understanding of environmental change caused by current development models and schemes, human security implications of this change, and options available for different societies to respond to present and future challenges. Participants will consider how understandings and conceptions of security are being transformed in the face of global environmental change (with a focus on climate change), and how urgent a shift – in science, policy and leadership – is required to manage efficiently and prudently the current dynamics.
• IWRM Karlsruhe 2012
  Interactions of Water with Energy and Materials in Urban Areas and Agriculture
  21 - 22 November 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany
  The rationale and significance of integrated water resource management (IWRM) are as applicable and highly relevant today as they were at the time of the first Karlsruhe convention and exhibition with this theme in 2010. What has increased, however, is the dimensionality that has to be considered in water resource management. The reasons for this include the increasingly systemic conflicts between water users, the increasingly important regulatory provisions for establishing IWRM, and the growing energy requirement for providing user-friendly water resources. IWRM Karlsruhe 2012 will bring together international researcher, decision-makers and users from the water industry and will thereby create the ideal link between science, politics and practical application
• 11th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies conference (GHGT-11)
  18 - 22 November 2012, Kyoto, Japan
  The objective of the GHGT conference is to bring together all stakeholders involved in the field of CCS to present and discuss new insights, experiences, developments and research in GHG emission reduction, from theory to experiment, from research to demonstration, from investment to deployment, from potential to risk, from cost to acceptance, and from policies to opportunities.
• The World Sustainability Forum 2012 (WSF-2012)
  e-conference
  1 - 30 November 2012, online
  The World Sustainability Forum 2012 (WSF-2012) will cover timely research topics concerned with sustainability and sustainable development. The conference will include six topical sessions focusing on:
  • Environmental Sustainability (Section A).
  • Corporate Sustainability Strategy (Section B).
  • Social Values for a Sustainable Economy (Section C).
  • Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources (Section D).
  • Sustainable Urban Development (Section E).
  • Sustainable Development Policy and Practice (Section F).
  • Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Innovation (Section G).
  • Remote Sensing for Sustainable Management of Land and Biodiversity,
  • Sustainable Agriculture (Section H)
  • General and related topics (Section I)
• Workshop on Uncertainty and Climate Change Adaptation
  8 - 9 November 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
  The CIRCLE-2 Joint Initiative is promoting the Workshop on Uncertainty and Climate Change Adaptation. The main goals of this event are to promote discussion and contribute with scientific insight by calling for the submission of abstracts that respond to the following question: How do decision-making processes on climate change adaptation, at the multi-decadal timescale, envision the future and deal with related uncertainties?
• CLIMATE 2012 / KLIMA 2012
  Climate Change, Island States and Sustainable Technologies
  The World´s CO2-friendly Scientific On-line Climate Conference
  5 - 9 November 2012, Online
  CLIMATE 2012 is being organized in cooperation with UNEP, SIDSnet, AOSIS, WMO, the Sahara and Sahel Observatory and further world bodies. Building on the success of the five previous online conferences (2008-2011) with millions of visitors and hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers, this year's interactive, free of charge online event will specifically focus on "Climate Change, Small Island Developing States and Sustainable Technologies".
• Sustainable Innovation 2012
  Resource Efficiency, Innovation and Lifestyles
  29 - 30 October 2012, Bonn, Germany
  Sustainable Innovation 12 will provide a platform to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to resource productivity, innovation and lifestyles related to products, services, technologies, infrastructures and business models. Sustainable Innovation 12 will include invited and refereed papers from academics, consultants, entrepreneurs, investors, technology providers, designers, innovation, sustainability managers as well as other business functions.
• The carbon Show 2012
  23 October 2012, London, UK
  The Carbon Show is the leading annual event on energy efficiency and the low carbon economy. Organised in partnership with the Carbon Trust and The ENDS Report, the event is a must-attend for sustainability professionals from industry, government, energy and finance who are working to increase energy efficiency and meet UK and European emissions targets.
• UNITAR International Symposium
  16 - 17 October 2012, Bergen, Norway
  The Bergen Symposium will explore how the interplay climate change – development – human rights works at different scales, from global down to local level, where people live, and also see how new technologies can bring value to create synergy in that regards.
• International Greening Education Event (IGEE)
  education for sustainability - for a greener tomorrow
  10 to 12 October 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany
  The event provides an exclusive forum to: examine how climate change, depleting natural resources, loss of biodiversity and other environmental threats are affecting education sector; deliberate on why and how to embed sustainability in curricula, courses and teaching material; debate on the ways to make educational institutions a part of the solution to address the evolving environmental, social and economic issues; discuss success stories, challenges and best practices for greening education; and get insights on how education is being reshaped to meet the requirements of the 21st century.
• 9. Deutsche Klimatagung
  Klima in Wissenschaft und Anwendung
  (in German)
  9 - 12 October 2012, Freiburg, Germany
• Evidence for Sustainable Development
  2012 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  5 - 6 October 2012, Berlin, Germany
  With this year's conference theme "Evidence for Sustainable Development" we address the knowledge basis of political decisions required for sustainable development, the construction of evidence, and the ways evidence is used in decision-making. The conference aims at bringing together scientists from different disciplines and strands of research that produce evidence to support decision-making for sustainable development, and those that study the use of such evidence. Furthermore, we invite policy-makers and practitioners working at the science-policy interface or dealing with issues of evidence use in policy making to share their experiences
• 2012 DFG-NSF Research Conference
  Reckoning with the Risk of Catastrophe
  3 - 5 October 2012, Washington, DC, USA
  The emphasis of the 2012 conference will be on scientific advances across disciplines to help societies assess and manage their vulnerabilities to catastrophic risks. The conference will showcase the most promising frontier research pertinent to risk identification, estimation, characterization, assessment, forecasting, prioritization, perception, communication, governance, mitigation, and policy-making.
• EcoSummit 2012 - Ecological Sustainability
  Restoring the Planet’s Ecosystem Services
  30 September - 5 October 2012, Columbus, Ohio, USA
  Ecosystems such as streams, rivers, inland and coastal wetlands, grasslands, and forests provide numerous services that fundamentally support human health and well-being. This international conference will explore innovative science-based strategies that are socially and culturally acceptable to create, manage, and restore these ecosystems, ensuring that society has access to all these ecosystem services.
• World Clean Technology Summit (WCTS)
  26 - 28 September 2012, Kampala, Uganda
  The Following are objectives for the World Clean Technology Summit:
  • Create a shared understanding of the role governments, private sector, non-Profit, academic and the media play in promoting clean technologies to achieve a sustainable future for all;
  • Provide a platform for companies, investors, Governments, foundations, academicians and civil society organizations to share the efforts they are undertaking to promote clean technologies and to publicize new commitments to action.
  • Inspire new forms of public-private, private-private partnerships, public policy measures, and associated business and development opportunities to overcome environment and development challenges at the country and international levels.
• IMPACT
  International Conference on Managing Protected Areas under Climate Change
  24 - 26 September 2012, Dresden, Germany
  IMPACT sets out to meet the growing need for sharing knowledge and experiences in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. Taking a transdisciplinary perspective, the aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, conservation managers and decision-makers in the field of nature conservation. It provides a platform for dialogue to develop a better understanding of the complex impacts of climate change on biodiversity on local level and the means to adapt management in protected areas accordingly.
• 11th Urban Environment Symposium
  Urban Futures for a Sustainable World
  16 - 19 September 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany
  The Urban Environment Symposium is a forum for recent research on all aspects of the urban environment. The first symposium was held in London in 1983 as a meeting place for researchers with a focus on urban pollution. Since then, there has been a growing interest for including other aspects of the urban environment to provide a more extensive cover of this research area. Topics at recent symposia in Madrid in 2008 and in Gothenburg in 2010 included air quality, urban water, climate change, contaminated sites, transportation and mobility. Continuing this tradition the upcoming 11th Urban Environment Symposium will cover a broad range of topics related to the urban environment.
• Culture, Politics & Climate Change
  13 - 15 September 2012, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  This cross-disciplinary conference will explore intersections between culture, politics, and science in order to enhance our understanding of public policy addressing climate change.
• International Conference on Tourism, Climate Change and Sustainability
  13 - 14 September 2012, Bournemouth, UK
  This conference aims at debating the broader conceptual ideas and contested relationships between climate change, sustainability and tourism as well as to examine worldwide responses and exchange cutting-edge research
• Bangkok Climate Change Conference - August 2012
  The informal additional sessions of the AWG-LCA, AWG-KP and ADP
  30 August - 5 September, Bangkok, Thailand
  • UNFCCC-Site
  • IISD-Site
  • ECO newsletter
• 3rd International Sustainability Conference
  Strategies for Sustainability: Institutional and Organisational Challenges
  29 - 31 August 2012, Basel, Switzerland
  The theme of this 3rd International Sustainability Conference is "Strategies for Sustainability: Institutional and Organisational Challenges". From a socio-economic perspective, we take institutional and organisational progress towards integrating sustainability to be one of the major tasks involved in the anticipated societal transformation toward sustainability. The ISC 2012 provides a platform for social scientists and economists working with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches in the field of sustainable development. The conference is committed to promoting dialogue, especially between economists and other social scientists. Moreover, the conference aims to act as a meeting point for committed individuals from the political, corporate and academic worlds as well as for representatives from civil society.
• 8th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC8)
  and 10th Symposium on the Urban Environment
  6 - 10 August 2012, Dublin, Ireland
  These meetings are preeminent events for the presentation of research on the urban climate effect at all scales and have set important benchmarks for the development of the field. The aims of this joint conference are to provide an international forum where the world’s urban climatologists can discuss modern developments in research, and the application of climatic knowledge to the design of better cities
• Petersberg Climate Dialogue III
  16 - 17 July 2012, Bonn, Germany
  • Live Stream
• Climate Change and Water Resources
  The 5th International Conference of SCU & ESES
  10 - 11 July 2012, Ismailia, Egypt
  The main theme of ESES 2012 will be "Socio-economic indicators of climate change, Impacts of climate change on natural resources (flora and fauna) and Water quality issues and sustainability of water reuse". Papers on all aspects of environmental sciences will be welcome as well. This conference will offer outstanding international speakers. There will be time for abstracts, posters, and many informal discussions that have helped make past meetings successful.
• ICAE2012 International Conference on Applied Energy
  Energy innovations for a sustainable world
  5 - 8 July 2012, Suzhou, China
  Major topics of the ICAE 2012 include renewable and green energy resources, advanced energy technologies, energy conservation in buildings, energy systems for power generation, environment, and climate change
• Defense, National Security and Climate Change
  Building Resilience and Identifying Opportunities Related to Water, Energy and Extreme Events
  25 - 26 June 2012, Washington, DC, USA
  U.S. defense and intelligence communities are increasingly focusing resources on the operational and national security implications of climate change, water and energy. With the most recent quadrennial report identifying climate change as a global destabilizing force for the first time
• United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 (UNCSD 2012)
  (also known as Rio+20)
  20 - 22 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  The Conference will aim at: securing renewed political commitment to sustainable development, assessing the progress and implementation gaps in meeting already agreed commitments, and addressing new and emerging challenges.
  • UN-Website
  • Fórum de Sustentabilidade FGV DIREITO RIO+20
• International Energy Workshop (IEW)
  19 - 21 June 2012, Cape Town, South Africa
  The International Energy Workshop (IEW) is one of the leading conferences for the international energy modeling research community. In a world of environmental and economic constraints, energy modeling is an increasingly important tool for addressing the complexity of energy planning and policy making
• International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC)
  Evaluation: Key to Delivery of Energy Efficiency
  12 - 14 June 2012, Rome, Italy
  The International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC) is an annual professional conference for energy program implementers, evaluators of those programs, local, state, national and international representatives, and academic researchers actively working in the field of evaluation. The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for the presentation, critique and discussion of objective evaluations of energy programs.
• Climate Adaptation Futures: Second International Climate Change Adaptation Conference 2012
  29 -31 May 2012, Tucson, Arizona, USA
  The conference focuses on adaptation to climate variability and change. The conference will bring together researchers, policy makers, and practitioners from developed and developing countries to share insights into the challenges and opportunities that adaptation presents. It will showcase cutting-edge research from around the world, focusing on themes of equity and risk, learning, capacity building, methodology, adaptation finance and investment, and ecosystem based adaptation approaches. It will explore practical adaptation policies and approaches, and share strategies for decision making from the international to the local scale.
• Technologies for Sustainable Development
  A Way to Reduce Poverty?
  29 - 31 May 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland
  The conference will look at how science and technologies can support both sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in developing and emerging countries. It aims to bring researchers and practitioners together to bridge the gap between the two communities, focusing on collaboration, methodologies, instruments and policies that could be used and/or encouraged. The possibility of a universal tool and policies for science, technology and innovation that could be of assistance in future collaborations will also be introduced.
• IAIA12 Energy Future
  The Role of Impact Assessment
  32nd annual conference of the International Association For Impact Assessment
  27 May - 1 June 2012, Porto, Portugal
• International Meeting on Marine Resources (IMMR 2012)
  24 - 25 May 2012, Peniche, Portugal
  The IMMR 2012 is planned to communicate the new scientific knowledge on marine resources for the understanding and sustainability of our planet. Our scientific programme has all the focus on innovative research in the fisheries and management, aquaculture, conservation and biodiversity, marine biotechnology and also seafood technology. The regular programme will be sustained by several international experts that kindly share scientific knowledge through state-of-the-art lectures as well as by young researchers with the latest scientific innovations, discoveries and practices on important subjects in the multidisciplinary field of marine resources. Altogether, we are convinced that the IMMR 2012 will be a prominent scientific meeting as well as a rewarding and effective event for all the participants.
• Global Conference on Oceans, Climate and Security
  21 - 23 May 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  The Global Conference on Oceans, Climate and Security will examine the conditions that are likely to be produced by climate change, how these conditions will affect coastal ecosystems and communities, and how they may affect human and national security interests. It will focus on three specific themes examining the overall problem from three different perspectives with a unified goal of enabling us to understand how to mitigate the effects that we can control and adapt to those that we cannot control. The three themes are:
  • Raising Visibility and Fostering Literacy
  • Science and Technology Needs
  • Security Policy & Governance Implications
• IWA World Congress on Water, Climate and Energy 2012
  13 - 18 May 2012, Dublin, Ireland
  The Congress will explore the topics of resilient and sustainable cities with a focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation. The challenges of climate change adaptation and incorporating uncertainty into the city vision and infrastructure will be discussed together with the impacts and responses of climate change on water resources. Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, operating in a carbon constrained world and a focus on renewable energy including practical applications and integration in to the energy mix will be covered.
• Resilient Cities 2012
  12 - 15 May 2012, Bonn, Germany
  ICLEI Resilience Cities 2012, 3rd World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change is already on its way to provide you with the keys to smarter infrastructure, better urban planning and state-of-the-art tools that will improve the future of cities.
• Towards Low-Carbon Prosperity
  National Strategies and International Partnerships
  9 May 2012, Berlin, Germany
  International Symposium of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
• 24th International Climate Policy Ph.D. Workshop
  3 - 4 May 2012, Freiburg, Germany
  The ICP workshops series is organised twice per year under the auspices of the European Ph.D. Network on International Climate Policy (ICP). It aims to offer doctoral candidates the opportunity to present their research ideas and results, receive feedback, and exchange information and assistance in an informal setting. Contributions of Ph.D. students from all disciplines working on topics relevant to climate policy are invited.
• Esri Forestry GIS Conference
  Solutions and Resources for Today's Forest Management Challenges
  1 - 3 May 2012, Redlands, CA, USA
  This conference is a unique opportunity to hear project success stories from forestry GIS users, talk to onsite Esri GIS specialists, participate in discussions and workshops, investigate cutting edge mobile GIS hardware and software in the field, and explore the advantages of GIS in a setting just for forestry professionals. The Esri Forestry GIS Conference is designed for forest managers and decisions makers as well as GIS users and specialists involved with forest management and forestry operations.
• Third Workshop on water and climate change adaptation in transboundary basins
  25 - 26 April 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
  This workshop will bring together persons from all over the world, engaged in activities on water and adaptation to climate change and variability, in particular in transboundary basins. The workshop offers a platform for exchanging experience on climate change adapatation strategies, best practices, success factors and lessons learned.
• Second Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop in Sustainable Development
  20 - 21 April 2012, New York, USA
  The IPWSD is a conference open to graduate students working on or interested in issues related to sustainable development. It is intended to provide a forum to present and discuss research in an informal setting, as well as to meet and interact with similar graduate student researchers from other institutions. In particular, we hope to facilitate a network among students pursuing in-depth research across a range of disciplines in the social and natural sciences, to generate a larger interdisciplinary discussion concerning sustainable development.
• Lund Conference on Earth System Governance
  Towards a Just and Legitimate Earth System Governance: Addressing Inequalities
  18 - 20 April 2012, Lund, Sweden
  This conference is part of a global series organized by the Earth System Governance Project. The first Earth System Governance conference was held in Amsterdam in December 2009 and the second in Fort Collins in May 2011. The Earth System Governance Project, a ten-year research programme under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), was launched in 2009 to address the problems of environmental governance. In this project earth system governance is defined as the interrelated system of formal and informal rules, rule-making mechanisms, and actor-networks at all levels of human society (from local to global) that are set up to steer societies towards preventing, mitigating, and adapting to global and local environmental change and earth system transformation, within the normative context of sustainable development.
• Dynamic Deltas
  Safety and Sustainability in rural delta regions
  17 - 20 April 2012, Vlissingen, the Netherlands
  Coastal protection is a world wide issue that requires huge investments to sustain safety, economy and ecology in low lying Delta areas under climate change. During this conference various scenarios will be critically reviewed by international experts and results will be presented at the conference. The subject of the conference, safety and sustainability in rural delta regions, will be introduced in a series of thematic sessions. International keynote speakers and co-referees will open the debate and introduce the parallel sessions and workshops.
• Knowledge Gaps PhD Conference 2012
  Knowledge Gaps In Climate Change Research – how are you tackling it?
  11 - 13 April 2012, Norwich, UK
  The conference is a valuable platform for PhD researchers to present their own cutting edge research. PhD researchers are at the forefront of novel research but rarely have the opportunity to independently communicate their ideas and engage with their peers. By presenting and stimulating peer-to-peer discussion, they receive critical feedback on aspects otherwise overlooked by established researchers. This conference has an explicit interest in the practicalities of interdisciplinary research, reflecting the ethos and experience of the Tyndall Centre.
• Planet Under Pressure 2012
  New Knowledge Towards Solutions
  26 - 29 March 2012, London, UK
  The conference will provide a comprehensive update of the pressure planet Earth is now under. The conference will discuss solutions at all scales to move societies on to a sustainable pathway and will provide scientific leadership towards the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development - Rio+20.
• Beyond carbon
  Ensuring justice and equity in REDD+ across levels of governance
  23 - 24 March 2012, Oxford, UK
  Since its inception in 2005, REDD+ has grown in scope from being a cheap mitigation option and opportunity to address the 15-20% of global GHG emissions attributed to deforestation into a wider set of activities that reach beyond the carbon dimension of REDD+. They promote forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forests and forest conservation as well as deliver co-benefits such as biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation. A host of state and non-state actors at all levels of governance have entered this emerging policy field. This conference takes stock of these developments to date. It addresses them from both natural and social science perspectives and discusses the role of justice and equity in current debates on REDD+.
• Energy and Society
  22 - 24 March 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
  Contemporary challenges of climate change, increased global energy demand and depletion of hydrocarbon resources have placed energy issues at the centre of political debate. In this context, it is timely and urgent to address social aspects of energy consumption and production. Yet, to date the social sciences have been slow to respond in addressing the range of important questions and issues regarding energy. This conference aims to bring together the state-of-the-art research and thinking in this area, providing insights that may contribute to a better understanding of these questions. Bringing together scholars from Europe and elsewhere that are interested and/or currently working on social aspects of energy issues, this conference intends to promote the formal constitution of the international network "Energy and Society" founded in 2010 by researchers in this emerging field of study. The conference also intends to provide an opportunity for researchers to connect with others interested in international research and collaboration in this area.
• Mediating Climate Change in the City
  Experimenting with Urban Responses
  19 - 23 March 2012, Durham, UK
  The aim of the Mediating Climate Change in the City workshop is to provide a focal point for dialogue and collaboration for early career researchers working in the broad area of urban responses to climate change and to develop capacity for advancing scholarship in this field.
• Workshop on Climate Change Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region
  Agency, Accountability and Adaptiveness
  14 - 16 March 2012, Canberra, Australia
  The workshop is designed for early-career researchers (ECRs) in the Asia-Pacific Region working in the field of climate change governance. ECRs from Australia and from low income country members of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) are particularly encouraged to apply.
• 6th World Water Forum
  12 - 17 March 2012, Marseille, France
  The goal of the 6th World Water Forum is to tackle the challenges our world is facing and to bring water high on all political agendas. There will be no sustainable development while the water issues remain unsolved. Everywhere on the planet, for all and everyone, the Right to Water (recognised by 189 states at the UN one year ago) must be guaranteed and implemented
  • The 4th edition of the UN World Water Development Report (WWDR4)
• Alternative World Water Forum
  14 - 17 March 2012, Marseille, France
  The objective of the Alternative World Water Forum (AWWF) - in French, the Forum Alternatif Mondial de l'Eau (FAME) - is to create a concrete alternative to the sixth World Water Forum (WWF) which is organized by the World Water Council. The AWWF will pursue and amplify the water movement by
  • creating and promoting an alternative vision of water management which is based on ecological and democratic values
  • continuing research to find solutions to the worldwide water crisis
  • making the water movement structure sustainable.
• The Expanding Role of Natural Gas: Comparing Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  IPIECA workshop
  6 - 7 March 2012, Dallas, Texas, USA
  The workshop aims to explore the expanding role of natural gas in energy supply and in important demand sectors such as electricity generation. Specific focus will be on recent estimates of life-cycle GHG emissions from natural gas production, transport and use, in relation to competing systems such as gas and coal fired power generation. There will be a special consideration of the implications for gas from unconventional sources and LNG systems. This work aims to build upon recent IPIECA workshops and work on both natural gas, and lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of unconventional fuels.
• Die Große Transformation
  Wege zu sozialer und Klimagerechtigkeit
  2 - 4 March 2012, Wittenberg, Germany
  (in German)
• IETA Carbon Forum North America
  1 - 2 March 2012, Washington, DC, USA
  This conference and exhibition will focus on North American government policies impacting carbon markets and carbon compliance , as well as take stock of critical developments related to the evolving international low-carbon finance and policy landscape.
• Leuphana Sustainability Summit 2012
  Enabling a Transdisciplinary Approach
  29 February - 2 March 2012, Lüneburg, Germany
  By bringing about mutual learning, collaborative research, and problem solving among business, government and civil society, transdisciplinarity can serve as an important guiding concept for sustainability science and practice. Over the last 10 years, progress has been made to better understand and design the interface between sustainability science and transdisciplinarity. The conference focuses on three leading questions:
  • What insights about the role of transdisciplinarity for sustainability transitions have we gained over the last 10 years?
  • What gaps in research still remain?
  • How can we fill these gaps?
  These guiding questions will focus the debates in workshops, plenary and parallel sessions in four topical areas: Biodiversity, Global Sustainability, Education, and Corporate Sustainability.
• Climate Leadership Conference
  29 February - 1 March 2012, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
  The conference will bring together leaders from business, government and academic institutions, and the non-profit community interested in exchanging ideas and information on how to address climate change while simultaneously running their operations more competitively and sustainably. Conference attendees will offer and hear climate related solutions on topics including:
  • Leveraging Clean Energy Opportunities
  • Managing Climate Risks and Building Resilience
  • Supply Chain Strategies
  • Disclosures and Questionnaires
  • Setting and Achieving GHG Reduction Goals
  • Education & Engagement Strategies
  • Making the Business Case for Climate Response
• Skills for a low carbon economy: what next?
  27 February 2012, Paris, France
  The forum aims to draw on lessons from current work conducted by the OECD, Cedefop, and other research and international organisations on the implications of the green economy for skills development and training policies. These insights will contribute to the OECD’s Green Growth Studies such as the LEED projects on Measuring the Potential of Green Growth, Improving the effectiveness of green local development initiatives and to Cedefop’s Green Skills activities, which contribute to the European Commission’s initiative on New Skills for New Jobs. The Forum also provides insights for the Rio+20 process and the G20 pillar on the "Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth" and the G20 work on "Development".
• 12th Symposium Energy Innovation
  Alternatives For The Energy Future In Europe
  15 - 17 February 2012, Graz, Austria
  The nuclear accident in Japan in march 2011, as a result of a tsunami caused by an earthquake, lead to new discussions concerning the future alternatives for Europe's energy supply. These discussions are furthermore incited by the German and Swiss resolutions for their respective nuclear phase out. In the search for alternatives the consideration of the topics energy efficiency, renewable energy sources as well as the development and design of future energy-market mechanisms is of utmost importance. Regarding the evolution of Europe's energy economy, the uncertainties about the security of supply (f.e. gas-supply-shortages occurring in the past years), future energy prices and also climate change where the main topics discussed. The aftermath of the aforementioned accident calls for a rethinking of the current approaches to solve these problems and to adapt them to today's situation. Besides Europe's economic order (including regulations) these new approaches need to consider energy production (RES, innovative energy-technologies), energy distribution systems as well as demand orientated measures. Science, economy as well as politics and the administration are therefore called upon to contribute to a beneficial development of Europe's energy economy and society. These contributions will be presented and discussed at the 12th Symposium Energy Innovation.
• 3rd International Conference on Climate Change and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
  5 - 7 February 2012, Gwalior, MP, India
  The international Conference (TIMS-12) on "Climate Change and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources" features an outstanding technical programme including keynote speeches, panel discussion, oral and poster sessions and cultural programme. As the conference topics are multi-disciplinary in nature, technical sessions will be arranged in different parallel sessions. The conference will examine evidences and causes of climate change (natural and anthropogenic), impact of climate change on humans and ecosystems, mitigation of climate change through technological, social, ethical and political responses, strategies for adaptation to climate change.
• 8th Austrian JI/CDM Workshop
  2 - 3 February 2012, Vienna, Austria
  With this event the Austrian JI/CDM Programme continues its series of annual international meetings to provide our audience with cutting edge information and networking opportunities. The focus of the event will be on
  • Results and implications of COP 17 in Durban
  • Roadmap 2050 and offsetting in Europe beyond 2012
  • Low-carbon initiatives around the globe
  • Carbon markets: developments and trends
• Towards democratic environmental governance at global level
  31 January 2012, Paris, France
  With the theme "Towards a new global governance of the environment", this conference aims to bring together the expectations of civil society and encourage discussion on the reform of global governance of the environment and the place of non-state actors in it.
• Environment and Security
  12th NCSE National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment
  18 - 20 January 2012, Washington, D.C., USA
  The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) will present its 12th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment: Environment and Security, January 18-20, 2012 in Washington, DC. The event will take place at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. The Environment and Security Conference will provide a forum to explore the connections between environment and security issues, their common underlying scientific threads, and the policy and governance needed to address security risks posed by a rapidly changing environment.
• 3rd International BaltCICA Conference
  Climate Change Adaptation in Practice
  18 - 19 January 2012, Helsinki, Finland
  The 3rd International BaltCICA Conference sets the spotlight on applied climate change adaptation. The Baltic Sea Region is expected to face changes in precipitation and flood patterns as well as rising sea levels. As coastal urban areas continue to grow, tourism is an important and growing economical factor, and nature and natural resources are to be protected, this leads to new challenges: How to safeguard drinking water availability and quality? How to manage riverine and coastal floods? How to design new urban areas and how to retrofit existing ones?
• World Future Energy Summit (WFES 2012)
  16-19 January 2012, Abu Dhabi
  World Future Energy Summit is the world’s foremost annual meeting committed to advancing future energy, energy efficiency and clean technologies by engaging political, business, finance, academic and industry leaders to drive innovation, business and investment opportunities in response to the growing need for sustainable energy.
  • Conference-Site
  • IISD-Site
• International Conference on Emerging Economies
  Prospects and Challenges
  12 - 13 January 2012, Pune, India
  The importance of emerging economies in the world order has gained immense attention from practitioners, researchers, academics, businesses and regulators, over the last few years. Most global economic analysts see emerging economies and markets as growth centers of the future. These economies are expected to be the drivers of future economic growth, but also likely to bring on complex challenges. Investor confidence in these emerging and developing nations particularly in the financial market sectors is high and these economies will show higher growth rates as compared to developed countries. With a world population likely to touch seven billion in 2011, major challenges are foreseen: increased demand for food energy and water, access to goods and efficient services, and rising greenhouse gas emissions. In the coming decade emerging economies will play a crucial role in areas like financial markets, consumption of goods and services, trade and commerce, sustainable development, innovation, infrastructure development and research.
• World Sustainable Energy Conference
  Launching the United Nations World Sustainable Energy Year 2012
  10 - 12 January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
  Objectives: Present and discuss all sustainable energy solutions and their implementation tools by energy type, quantity, annual investment and cost from now ’til 2050 and beyond. Show the positive impacts of sustainable energies on economies, jobs and health. Provide energy information input to the United Nations Rio+20 Anniversary Summit.
  Participants: Government and United Nations officials involved in energy and environment, industry delegates, academia and relevant NGO representatives.
• Informal Expert Meeting on the Impacts of Climate-related Geo-engineering on Biological Diversity
  5 - 7 January 2012, Newport Pagnell, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Climate change & Deforestation
  The Future of African Rain Forests
  4 - 6 January 2012, Oxford, UK
  The Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests is hosting a conference that provides a multidisciplinary examination of the fate of African tropical forests in the 21st century. The conference will ask the questions:
  • What are the potential scenarios of climate change and land use change for African forest regions?
  • What do we know about the sensitivity of African forests and their communities to these changes, and what consequences will these changes have for the future of the region?
  • How can this knowledge influence policy decisions on development and climate change adaptation?
  • What are the gaps in our knowledge and priorities for research?
• Eye on Earth Summit
  12 - 15 December 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE
  Through the Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI), the Government of Abu Dhabi is organising a global summit devoted to the issue of greater access to environmental and societal information. At Eye on Earth, global leaders, innovators and decision-makers will focus on an issue critical to the conservation of our planet: ensuring effective access to the world's expanding pool of environmental and societal data by all of those who need it.
• Natural Disasters and their Human Consequences in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
  6 - 9 December 2011, Suva, Fiji
  The University of the South Pacific will host a Conference on: Natural Disasters and their Human Consequences in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The recent tsunami in Japan, earthquakes in Christchurch and floods in Australia have all brought home the human consequences of these natural disasters. The impact of natural disasters maybe worse for small island states whose environments and economies are less resilient. This conference will examine the many challenges natural disasters pose for the small island states of the Pacific region. It will explore and identify strategies that can be adopted to manage and mitigate the impacts of natural disaster.
• RIO+20 - Nachhaltig vor Ort!
  Fünfter Netzwerk21 Kongress in Hannover
  7 - 9 December 2011, Hannover, Germany
  (in German)
• 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment
  A Paradigm Shift to Low Carbon Society
  23 - 25 November 2011, Bangkok, Thailand
  The SEE 2011 Conference will cover both fundamental and applied aspects of different technological developments as well as policy and economic considerations under the 6 major topics described below:
  • Bioenergy & Biofuels
  • Renewable and low carbon energy technologies
  • Energy efficiency
  • Cleaner use of fossil fuels and emission control
  • Energy and climate policy
  • Pollution and GHG emissions and mitigation
• 5th Conference on Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries
  23 November 2011, The Hague, The Netherlands
  The conference focuses on the risks of climate change and the importance of climate adaptation in food and water security. The conference takes place a few days before the next COP negotiations in Durban. One of the themes in these negotiations is the international financing of adaptation measures in developing countries.
• World Delta Summit 2011
  The Pulse of Deltas and the Fate of our Civilization
  21 - 24 November 2011, Jakarta, Indonesia
  This is the first Summit on World Deltas, which is organized to address and therefore aimed at strengthening the ultimate resilience of world deltas and hence securing our future civilization. This is to keep the momentum of the worldwide delta network culminated last year in Rotterdam’s Conference on Delta in Times of Climate Change by the launching of the Delta Alliance International. World Leaders, Federal or State Governments are invited to share and debate their world view on the present and future fate of our deltas and coastal lowlands, our shared responsibilities, common challenges and opportunities, state-of-the-art management practices and wisdom of their values from each respective countries. The Summit will offer leaders ample opportunities to address how our civilization will survive by maintaining the economic growth and keeping the ecosystem services of our deltas in their good shape, in the backdrop of climate change and demographic explosion.
• Flood Risk Management Conference
  North Sea Region
  17 - 18 November 2011, Hamburg, Germany
  SAWA´s Final Conference, a joint conference and workshop on sustainable water management actions and planning processes.
• Bonn 2011 Nexus Conference
  The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus
  Solutions for the Green Economy
  16 - 18 November 2011, Bonn, Germany
  The primary objective of the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference is to bring together a broad range of stakeholders from the water, energy and food sectors in an effort to improve understanding of the interdependencies and develop a joint perspective on the common challenges. The conference will focus its discussions on options and solutions as well as on enabling environments and incentives for change.
• Greenhouse Gas Strategies in a Changing Climate
  16 - 17 November 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA
  The conference organized by The Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA)will provide a forum for discussing local, state, regional, national, and international programs and initiatives, with a solutions-oriented focus on GHG emissions, reporting, policy, and regulatory issues; mitigation strategies and technologies; linkages to energy efficiency and conservation; and climate change adaptation. The conference will also examine a range of related topics, and take note of lessons learned and successful implementation strategies.
• 1st World Sustainability Forum (WSF-2011)
  1 - 30 November 2011, Online
  Research concerned with sustainability and sustainable development is progressing fast. Simultaneously, activities within industry, government and academia are becoming more globalized. Successful research requires interaction with multiple partners around the world. We are facing an obvious need for new types of communication within our scientific community. Sciforum.net electronic conferences provide a platform for fast exchange of the latest research findings, as well as a possibility for global meetings with no limitations related to traveling. The World Sustainability Forum 2011 (WSF-2011) will cover timely research topics concerned with sustainability and sustainable development. The conference will include six topical sessions focusing on:
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Economical Sustainability
  • Social Sustainability
  • Renewable Energy Self-Sufficiency
  • Energy Return-on-Investment
  • Governance & Sustainability
  • Sustainability Assessment and Policies
  • Remote Sensing for Sustainable Management of Land and Biodiversity
• Countdown to Durban
  Towards a Climate Policy for the Most Vulnerable
  10 November 2011, Berlin, Germany
  For a large majority of people living in poverty and hunger in Africa, Latin America and Asia, containing the consequences of climate change and adapting to the changed climatic conditions are existential issues. This is why the most vulnerable people must stay in the focus of UN climate negotiations. Last year in Cancún, the aim of limiting the global increase in temperature to less than two degrees Celsius in comparison to the pre-industrial level was adopted internationally for the first time. In Durban, therefore, substantial advances in the development of international legal parameters must be achieved in order to increase the dynamics of climate protection and the adaptation to climate change. The conference will focus on the following issues:
  • Which advances must be achieved by the negotiations, especially in the field of adaptation?
  • How can the interests of the most vulnerable countries and their inhabitants be supported more efficiently?
  • How can climate negotiations be made more dynamic?
  • How can the funding of climate protection be promoted, especially in the field of adaptation?
  • How can ambitious climate goals be achieved and what are the consequences for the poorest countries?
• Climate Change and Migration in the Asia-Pacific
  Legal and Policy Responses
  10 - 11 November 2011, Sydney , Australia
  The aim of this conference is to present research by leading international academics and officials from affected countries on climate change and migration/displacement to an Australian audience, with a particular focus on the impacts of climate change in the Pacific region. It will cover themes such as: Conceptualizing climate change-related movement; The nature of movement – what does the evidence tell us?; Legal protection frameworks; ‘Migration with dignity’; Relocation and land tenure; Statehood; and Institutional responses.
• 1st International Conference Energy and Meteorology (ICEM) 2011
  8 - 11 November 2011, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
  As the international community struggles to develop policies and frameworks to effectively tackle climate change, a much stronger connection between Energy & Meteorology will allow the development of forward-looking, cost-effective and sustainable weather and climate risk management strategies for the Energy industry.
• CLIMATE 2011 / KLIMA 2011
  Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management
  The World´s CO2-friendly Scientific On-line Climate Conference
  7 - 12 November 2011
  Delegates will find in the e-conference a unique opportunity to look at climate change issues not only under a scientific perspective but also in connection with disaster management in a way not yet seen elsewhere – interactive, across disciplines and 100 % virtual. To allow users from all over the world to access this extraordinary knowledge pool and avoiding travel costs and CO2 emissions – often a major barrier for participants from the developing world –, participation is free of charge.
• 4. KlimaMORO-Konferenz
  7 - 8 November 2011, Berlin, Germany
• 2011 GreenGov Symposium
  31 October - 2 November 2011, Washington, DC, USA
  The 2011 GreenGov Symposium represents the second time the White House Council on Environmental Quality will bring together leaders from Federal, state, local and tribal governments, nonprofit and academic communities and the private sector to identify opportunities around greening the Federal Government. During the 3-day educational event, participants will share challenges and best practices, and discuss cutting-edge approaches for the future.
• Second Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum
  Mainstreaming Adaptation into Development: Adaptation in Action
  27 - 28 October 2011, Bangkok, Thailand
  The Adaptation Forum 2011 will provide a unique opportunity to share frontline findings and innovations, opportunities and challenges in mainstreaming Climate Change adaptation into development. Building on from Adaptation Forum 2010, the Forum this year aims to focus on “Adaptation in Action” signifying a shift from deliberations to decisions, plans to policies and policies to practices. The interactive Adaptation Forum 2011 will gather adaptation practitioners at global, regional, national, and sub-national levels.
• Second International Workshop on Biomass & Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
  25 - 26 October 2011, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Bio-CCS - i.e. the combination of biomass and CO2 capture and storage (CCS) - is one of the most promising technology options that have the potential to deliver such solutions, but many questions remain unanswered concerning e.g. technological, socio-economic and resource-related barriers. This international workshop at the University of Cardiff aims to bring together researchers and other relevant stakeholders to bring light to these questions
• Climate and Constructions
  24 - 25 October 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany
  The challenge is to identify which component is most vulnerable to changes in climate and how to respond to these changes. Many challenging questions are raised by sciencists, policy makers, industry etc. For example, what do we know about climate change and its impacts on the construction sector? Which technologies are needed to respond to future climate conditions without neglecting ecological, social, and economical aspects? The conference establishes a platform to discuss scientific results in combination with practical examples, and therefore, contributes to an increased understanding of the two-way interaction between climate change and the construction sector.
• 23rd Ph.D. Workshop on International Climate Policy
  20 - 21 October 2011 Valletta, Malta
  The 23rd Ph.D. Workshop on International Climate Policy is organised twice every year under the auspices of the European Ph.D. Network on International Climate Policy. It has the aim to offer Ph.D. candidates the opportunity to present their research ideas and results, receive feedback, exchange information and network with fellow colleagues, all in an informal and stimulating environment. Ph.D. students from all disciplines working on topics relevant to climate policy are encouraged to submit applications.
• UNEP FI 2011 Global Roundtable
  The Tipping Point: Sustained stability in the next economy
  19 - 20 October 2011, Washington, DC, USA
  The potential impact of financial sector in mitigating and adapting to climate change will be discussed at the Climate Change Work Stream parallel sessions, designed to invoke the most prominent themes relevant to the each sector of the financial industry; banking, industry, and insurance. An overarching session on climate change policy and competitiveness of the financial industry will provide the incentives and a roadmap ahead for the next step.
• International Conclave on Climate Change (ICCC-1)
  Clean Energy & Energy Security
  12 - 14 October 2011, Hyderabad, India
  Objectives:
  • Providing national information about climate change, its natural and human causes, and consequences.
  • Climate change impacts on livelihoods and poverty: a challenge for adaptation
  • Describing international mechanisms that address the challenge of climate change
  • Climate change Impacts at the local/ regional level
  • Enhancing linkages between mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development
  • Focus on Role, limitation and challenges for monitoring in mitigation and adaptation
  • To provide inputs to national decision makers for effective implementation of national & international policies
  • To provide inputs in role of engineers in innovation & implementation of clean technologies
  • Promoting dissemination of clean technologies and renewable energy technologies/ measures
  • Bringing Policy Makers, Policy Implementers, Scientists, Engineers, Managers & Stakeholders & NGOs at one platform
• acqua alta 2011
  Exhibition and International Conference on Climate Impact, Flood Protection and Hydraulic Engineering
  11 - 13 October 2011, Hamburg, Germany
  acqua alta 2011 is a key exhibition and conference event dedicated to expert exchanges in matters of the impact of climate change on flood protection, disaster management and hydraulic engineering. It provides a forum for politicians, industry experts and academics to discuss the latest developments and strategies.
• Green Economy and Sustainable Development
  Bringing Back the Social Dimension
  10 - 11 October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
  The conference will critically examine a range of issues and questions related to social impacts and distributional consequences of policies and processes associated with green economy; the potential and limits of structural and institutional change; and agency and social mobilization for institutional and policy change.
• The 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Future for Human Security
  8 - 9 October 2011, Kyoto, Japan
  To create breakthroughs for ensuring the prosperous future of the Asian people, deep understanding of problems and the dynamics shaping them is at paramount importance. Thus, students and scholars are at the forefront of this process. Learning from the advanced West is important. However, it is clear that “one size fits all” is not always applicable. Asia, with its unique and vibrant culture, history, and socio-political contexts, offers various different kinds of wisdom and solutions. It depends on us to answer this intellectual challenge. Thus, we believe that building a network of students and scholars working on various aspects and levels of challenges for the future of Asia with various academic background is an important step to find creative and fresh answers.
• GreenNets 2011
  First ICST International Conference on Green Communications and Networking
  5 - 7 October 2011, Colmar, France
  Transportation, power, buildings, industry, agriculture and forestry, and land use, have been identified as major contributors to the rise of global carbon dioxide (CO2). The mobile industry is seen as a potential enabler to reduce greenhouse gases contributed by these six sources provided that appropriate measures are implemented. On the other hand, the mobile industry itself will also contribute to CO2 emission through network operations, mobile equipments, etc. To meet the requirement of low-carbon economy development, it is necessary to reduce the operation expenditure or energy consumption of mobile networks, while maintaining acceptable quality of service. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of designing, building, and deploying GreenNets. In this regard, the conference aims to establish a forum to bring together research professionals from diverse fields including green mobile networks, system architectures, networking & communication protocols, applications, test-bed and prototype, traffic balance and energy-efficient cooperation transmission, system and application issues related to GreenNets.
• Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A Challenge for Global Ports
  29 - 30 September 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
  The two-day meeting aims to provide a platform for expert discussions on how best to improve the understanding of climate change impacts on ports and develop effective and appropriate adaptation response measures. The meeting aims to bring together a wide range of interested parties from the public and private sectors, including policy makers and planning authorities, port industry representatives and operators, port users, relevant international organizations, as well as scientists and engineers, to share their insights and discuss relevant issues with a view to identifying (i) vulnerabilities and risks; (ii) associated adaptation requirements; (iii) existing best practices, information and data sources; (iv) issues requiring further study, including data requirements; and (v) partners and mechanisms for effective collaboration
• John Tyndall Conference 2011
  28 - 30 September 2011, Dublin, Ireland
  This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication by John Tyndall of his paper which identified the roles of atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapour in determining the global temperature. To celebrate this milestone of climate science, the Royal Irish Academy and the Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland, are holding a scientific conference on John Tyndall and his scientific legacy. As well as examining the Tyndall climate legacy the conference will also explore current science on (1) Global warming potentials and common metrics for radiative forcing of climate and (2) Key climate feedback issues
• VII Latin American Carbon Forum
  27 - 29 September 2011, San Jose, Costa Rica
  This year's Forum occurs at a crucial moment for the global carbon markets, characterized by uncertainty; increasing fragmentation of the market and several emerging mechanisms and sources of climate finance. The organizers and the government of Costa Rica believe that the momentum is worth to continue promoting and facilitating discussions and exchange of experiences among carbon market stakeholders; building on growing interest and expectations on the current status and the future of the CDM and new carbon finance schemes and come up with new ideas and increased knowledge for GHG emission reductions and carbon investments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• CarboForest
  21 - 23 September 2011, Sekocin Stary, Poland
  The CarboForest conference intends to provide a multi-disciplinary forum to discuss recent innovations and challenges related to all aspects of carbon storage and management in forest ecosystems. This meeting will bring together scientists, politicians and environmentalists from different disciplines to confer and communicate their most recent findings relevant to the global carbon cycle, with an emphasis on the role of forest ecosystems and will promote the cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and concepts in research, policy and practice.
• SEA Implementation and Practice
  Making an Impact?
  21 - 23 September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
  Organized by the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), this event will review key trends, issues, and lessons of progress in implementing strategic environmental assessments (SEA) in Europe and internationally as well as a special session to celebrate the SEA Directive's 10th anniversary. Other sessions will examine SEA applications in sectors, linkages between SEA and other planning and assesment tools, addressing climate change in SEA, using SEA as a sustainability tool, SEA in donor cooperation, SEA in policy-making and many other issues addressed in the conference agenda.
• Carbon capture and storage: addressing the remaining knowledge gaps
  20 - 21 September 2011, Washington DC, United States
  This IPIECA workshop will consider the remaining gaps in knowledge and barriers to CCS, which will help to inform where future demonstration projects might concentrate their efforts.
• Energy and People: Futures, complexity and challenges
  20 - 21 September 2011, Oxford, UK
  The Lower Carbon Futures research team at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University and the UK Energy Research Centre’s Meeting Place will host an international, interdisciplinary conference focusing on the relationship between society and energy use, particularly in the context of the major transition to a low carbon energy system.
• Quantifying and managing land use impacts of bioenergy
  19 - 21 September 2011, Campinas, Brazil
  This workshop aims to bring together state-of-the-art research assessing the impacts of the increasing allocation of land use to dedicated energy crops (e.g. land-use related GHG emissions, and impacts on biodiversity and environment), and providing strategies to mitigate them.
• International Symposium on Costs and benefits of REDD plus
  What, Who, How and When?
  19 - 20 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  Objectives of the symposium are (1) to take stock of current knowledge and information on costs and benefits of REDD, and (2) to provide an opportunity to deliberate on funding systems to support REDD plus activities that protect the ecosystem services and secure the socio-economic well-being of local communities.
• Hamburg International Environmental Law Conference 2011
  15 - 16 September 2011, Hamburg, Germany
  In 2011 Hamburg will be presenting itself as European Green Capital. The European Commission chose Hamburg over many others as environmentally friendly city, to bear the label Green Capital 2011. This award was the reason for some lawyers in Hamburg, interested in the environment and international environmental law, to found a new Association with the aim to bundle and promote the scientific discourse in the area of the environmental law on an international level. On 4 February 2010, this Association the Internationaler Umweltrechtstag Hamburg e.V. was created and in September 2011 the International Conference on Environmental Law will take place in the city of Hamburg for the first time.
• Knowledge, Youth and Global Commons
  Orienting Knowledge Systems and Inter-Generational Relations towards
  Sustainable Development and Rio+20
  15 - 16 September 2011, Klagenfurt, Austria
  At the ‘Knowledge, Youth and Global Commons’ conference youth from around the world will have a voice to contribute to the process of UNCSD preparation. A special focus of the conference will be on ‘knowledge’ as the key global sustainable development governance coordination element. Another specific focus of the conference will be the IAAI proposal to frame all those resources that are needed by present and future generations for sustainable development as ‘global commons’ and to launch in the context of Rio 2012 a multi-stakeholder partnership (and a related documentation and assessment system) for global commons growth based on a shared social responsibility for such global commons. This would provide a new institutional framework for civic engagement and multilevel governance and help strengthen the knowledge base for global governance.
• International Conference on Chemistry, Environment and Climate Change 2011
  Focus on the Pacific
  14 - 16 September 2011, Suva, Fidji
  The ultimate goal of this conference which is organized by the Chemical Society of the South Pacific together with The University of the South Pacific is to provide a much needed forum for scientists to promote and exchange recent advances in all disciplines of chemistry and how the ongoing deterioration of atmospheric chemical composition has affected our environment and what preventive measures need to be taken to find sustainable solutions to protect and safeguard the threat to survival of the mankind.
• International CLAMER Conference
  Living with a warming ocean:
  European Research and Public Perception of Climate Change Impacts in the Marine Environment
  14 - 15 September 2011, Brussels, Belgium
  This one day conference will present key findings of the CLAMER project, including:
  • Results of the pan-European public poll, conducted to investigate public views and understanding about climate change and the marine environment
  • Main messages from a state-of-the-art overview of EU research results on marine climate change, which summarizes all existing scientific outputs
  Leading experts in climate change science and related mitigation and adaptation strategies will be given the floo.r
• International seminar on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
  REDD+ expectations and experience
  14 September 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark
  To mark the International Year of the Forest a one day seminar “REDD+ expectations and experiences” will be held. The aim of the seminar is to examine critical issues that have arisen in the international effort to design and implement mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Initially put forward as a relatively simple means of mitigating climate change by avoiding deforestation, the expectations associated with REDD+ have steadily increased. At the same time, it has become increasingly apparent that building a national and international REDD+ mechanism is a lengthy and complex process. The seminar will bring together researchers and practitioners to compare expectations associated with REDD+ with experiences gained from pilot forest carbon initiatives.
• Adapting to Coastal Change
  Local perspectives
  13 - 15 September 2011, The Hague, Netherlands
  The meeting aims to address the issues of adapting to coastal change with a focus on local level challenges and approaches and is aimed at both practitioners and researchers. It will highlight how transnational working, as underpinned by the EU INTERREG 4B programme, can be employed to meet future challenges and therefore realise the full potential of the coastal resources across Europe. The conference will be global in its geographical scope and will include a number of keynote speakers with an international profile in coastal change adaptation.
• 11th EMS Annual Meeting
  10th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM)
  12 - 16 September 2011, Berlin, Germany
  • Session: Climate
• ICLEI European Convention 2011
  Cities in Europe 2020 - Enhance sustainability now!
  12 - 14 September 2011, Brussels, Belgium
  The ICLEI European Convention 2011 "Cities in Europe 2020 - Enhance sustainability now!" will act as a forum to discuss the implementation of Europe-wide sustainability measures in cities focusing on the EU 2020 Strategy and its seven flagship initiatives. The three-day programme promises to feature a preliminary review of European local sustainability achievements and the key next steps needed to move Europe and its cities forward in light of the UN Rio + 20 Conference in 2012.
• Methane in Lakes and Wetlands
  Microbiological Production, Ecosystem Uptake, Climatological Significance
  12 September 2011, Bern, Switzerland
  Within a one-day symposium, invited contributions will address aspects as different as the microbial production of methane in lakes and other wetlands, the uptake of methane within lake and stream food webs, the biotic and abiotic controls of methane fluxes in these ecosystems and the role of methane from lakes and wetlands as drivers of past and future climate change.
• Legal Preparedness for Climate Change
  Promoting Carbon Markets and Sustainable Adaptation in Mexico and Latin America
  8 - 10 September 2011 Mexico City, Mexico
  This Legal Symposium will be a forum that encourages meeting, learning, dialogue and reflection among key decision makers, representatives of states, national and international experts, members of the business community, academics and students. The goal of the Symposium is to generate practical legal analysis, increased legal capacity and realistic recommendations that will position Mexico and Latin America as examples of green development and share legal models for proposing and implementing solutions to climate change.
• Global Sustainable Finance Conference
  8 - 9 September 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany
  The conference provides a major opportunity to discuss financial innovation and the business case for financial institutions to green their operations and the products and services. It is a distinctive forum to deliberate on developing specialized financial solutions to capitalise on opportunities emerging in numerous sectors, such as in the fields of sustainable infrastructure, energy efficient real estate, clean energy production, green mobility, and in businesses and projects that protect investors, green and enhance financial institutions´ profits and boost their image in the market.
• The fifth annual India Carbon Market Conclave
  7 - 8 September 2011, New Delhi, India
  The Conclave is India's flagship event in the carbon market space, organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in partnership with the World Bank, the Ministry of Environment of Forests, Government of India, and International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). India Carbon Market Conclave provides an all-inclusive forum for global carbon market stakeholders to engage with Indian project developers, and for Indian carbon market stakeholders to interface with the global mainstream. It is a platform for sharing knowledge on current trends and emerging scenarios of the global and Indian carbon markets, and a forum for deliberations on domestic and international policy dialogue on climate change and the carbon market.
• Tenth RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change
  Common approaches to dealing with the challenges of food security and climate change
  7 - 8 September 2011, The Hague, Netherlands
  The meeting will identify common approaches to dealing with the interconnected global challenges of responding to the food crisis, forest loss and degradation, the recent rise in global “landgrabbing”, the need to drive additional investment into agriculture, and adaptation to climate change. The meeting will bring more focused attention to the interconnection between forests, agriculture, the rights of producers and affected populations, and the growing global demand for agricultural land and products.
• International Conference on Green Economy and Sustainable Mountain Development
  5 - 7 September 2011, Kathmandu, Nepal
  The conference brings together international, regional, and national experts and policy makers to discuss the relevance and scope of the green economy in the context of sustainable mountain development. It will seek strategies, approaches, and options for enhancing the role and prominence of mountain systems in regional and international debates and discussions. The outputs will feed into the forthcoming Rio+20 conference.
• 64th Annual United Nations Conference for Non-Governmental Organizations
  Sustainable Societies; Responsive Citizens
  3 - 5 September 2011, Bonn, Germany
  • German & European Focal Group Webpage
• Innovation and Sustainability Conference & Expo 2011
  24 - 27 August 2011, Kampala, Uganda
  This event will bring together key leading global innovators, sustainability experts, and scientists from the Private sector, Renewable energy companies, Governments, Industry, Consultants, Non-profit, Funding agencies, Research & Development, Oil and Gas, and Academia to discuss, showcase, network and identify leading edge green businesses, technologies and development opportunities from around the globe. The conference will run alongside an expo featuring an international market place of vendors, development partners, manufacturers and consumers.
• Ecocity World Summit
  People. Ecology. Urbanity. Moving Towards Ecocities.
  22 - 26 August 2011, Montréal, Canada
  The distinctive conference program will build on work of past Ecocity World Summits while adding new conference themes, participatory methods, and projects that will last beyond the life of the conference. Detailed conference content and design will be developed in collaboration with local and international partners, making sure that the particular urban ecological expertise of Montréal is highlighted.
• World Water Week
  Responding to Global Changes - Water in an Urbanising World
  21 - 27 August 2011, Stockholm, Sweden
  World Water Week provides a unique forum for the exchange of views, experiences and practices between the scientific, business, policy and civic communities. It focuses on new thinking and positive action toward water-related challenges and their impact on the world’s environment, health, climate, economic and poverty reduction agendas.
• The 8th IALE World Congress
  Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture
  18 - 23 August 2011, Beijing, China
  Over the past three decades, China has experienced a dramatic change in economical development which has resulted in accelerating rates of landscape change and the inevitable conflicts between man and environment. China now faces the challenge of developing landscape practices that will provide a basis for economic growth as well as environmental security. By organizing the IALE Congress, we wish to bring these issues to the attention of international scientists and to establish a platform for them to start cooperative research projects in China.
• 2011 International Energy Workshop
  6 - 8 July 2011, Stanford , USA
  The International Energy Workshop (IEW), is an informal network of analysts actively working on international energy issues. The IEW provides a venue for scholars and researchers to compare quantitative energy projections and to analyse the interrelationship between climate change and energy. A particular emphasis will be given to the following main topics:
  • Climate change – mitigation and adaptation
  • Economics of low-carbon technologies
  • Energy and transport sector modelling
  • Energy and economic growth in Asia
• Africa Carbon Forum
  4 - 6 July 2011, Marrakesh, Morocco
  The African Carbon Forum is a trade fair and knowledge sharing platform for carbon investments in Africa. It is a place to discuss latest development on the carbon market and how the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) can be successful in Africa.
• 18th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
  EAERE 2011
  29 June - 2 July 2011, Rome, Italy
  The conference programme will cover all areas of environmental and resource economics, ranging from topics prevailing in the general debate, such as climate change, Kyoto protocol, energy sources, ETS, to less publicized and very specialized subjects such as biodiversity loss, waste accumulation, toxic waste disposal, packaging reduction, adaptation to climate change. We expect around 700 participants from all over the world, engaged in environment related activities in various capacities - researchers, teachers, students, professionals, policymakers, managers. Special emphasis will be given to the interaction between the growing scientific knowledge on environmental issues and the economics and politics of sustainable human development.
• 8th SEE Forum
  Clean Technology and Energy Conference
  27 - 29 June 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  Renewable energy is crucial not only to protection of the environment, but also to development of rural and remote areas. Green-energy technology saves the environment by substituting for conventional energy sources. Its optimal use will comfortably fulfill energy requirements of households and industries, and create new opportunities in untapped territories.
• Cultural Legitimacy and the International Law and Policy on Climate Change
  International Interdisciplinary Seminar
  21 June 2011, Guildford, UK
  The Surrey International Law Centre (SILC) is pleased to announce a call for papers for an international interdisciplinary seminar on cultural legitimacy and the international law and policy on climate change that will take place at the School of Law , University of Surrey.
• Second International Conference on Energy Process Engineering
  Efficient Carbon Capture for Coal Power Plants
  20 - 22 June 2011, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
  The conference will provide delegates from research, the private sector and politics with unique focused information on CO2 capture options and their efficiencies. It is designed to cover all technically relevant routes in scientific and technological depth.
• 2nd International Exergy, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Workshop & Symposium (ELCAS-2)
  19 - 21 June, 2011, Nisyros, Greece
  The 2nd International Exergy, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Workshop & Symposium (ELCAS) will provide a multidisciplinary international forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners from all over the world to exchange information, to present high-quality research results and new developments in the wide domain covered by exergy, life cycle assessment, the environment, and sustainability issues. The workshop will provide a window towards the developments in the areas of exergy and life cycle assessment.
• 14th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis
  Governing Global Challenges
  16 -18 June 2011, Venice, Italy
  The goal of the Conference is to promote the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative analysis of global economic issues. Particular emphasis will be placed on applied general equilibrium methods, data, and application.
• Climate Economics and Law Conference
  16 - 17 June 2011, Bern, Switzerland
  Key issues covered by the conference are:
  • Mitigation, adaptation and technological change
  • Trade regulations and unilateral climate policies
• Water Governance: Meeting the Challenges of Global Change
  ESF Conference in Partnership with LFUI
  5 - 10 June 2011, Obergurgl, Austria
  The conference will make a major contribution to establishing the state of the art, to identify major future challenges and support the establishment of a scholary community in the emerging field of water governance.
• Equinox Summit: Energy 2030
  5 - 9 June 2011, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  The Equinox Summit will bring together leading top scientists in low-carbon technologies with a panel of industry and policy experts and the next generation of world leaders to pool their expertise and create a realistic roadmap from the energy challenges of today to a sustainable future by 2030.
• MedCLIVAR Final Conference
  Mediterranean Climate: From Past to Future
  6 - 9 June 2011, Lecce, Italy
  The main goals of MedCLIVAR include reconstruction of Mediterranean climate past evolution, description of patterns and mechanisms characterizing its space-time variability, understanding of regional climate dynamics and identification of the forcing responsible for observed and future changes. The networking activities of MedCLIVAR put together expertise in different research sectors and create a forum where to interchange the results and facilitate synergy.
• Resilient Cities 2011
  2nd World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change
  3 - 5 June 2011, Bonn, Germany
  Adaptation breakthroughs are constantly being achieved in urban areas worldwide to counter the implications of climate change. The innovative strategies, approaches and policy-making behind these breakthroughs are ready to be shared at the Resilient Cities 2011. Climate adaptation planning as well as investment at the local level will be some of the pivotal themes during the 2011 conference. Resilient Cities 2011 will draw on the strong network of adaptation experts who came together for the 2010 congress to offer the best possible networking opportunities for all participants.
• Sustainable Remediation 2011
  State of the Practice
  1 - 3 June 2011, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
  The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners from around the globe to address the state of the practice and future needs in sustainable remediation across the themes of green chemistry, human health, and environmental response.
• Remote sensing regional climate change
  Potentials and options to adapt
  26 - 27 May 2011, Vienna, Austria
  Remote sensing from space might possibly allow to collect the necessary geo-information for efficient and timely reaction directed towards strengthening the capabilities of societies to make use of - or adapt to - the regional effects of climate change. It will be discussed if and to which extent modern space technology may contribute to this aim and which institutional setting is therefore needed. The conference is organised by the Europäische Akademie Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH together with European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) and brings together experts representing the science of climate change, philosophy, remote sensing technology, and space policy in order to discuss how modern satellite technology may support prudent climate policies considering the different climate effects on regional scales.
• 3rd UK Biochar Conference 2011
  25 - 26 May 2011, Edinburgh. UK
  Topics:
  • Biochar production and characterisation
  • Biochar function in soil
  • Design and planning of experiments
  • Life Cycle Assessment, economics and systems
  • Biochar social science
  • Utilisation of biochar production co-products
• Green Week Conference 2011
  Resource efficiency - Using less, living better
  24 - 27 May 2011, Brussels
  Over some 40 sessions, the conference will address the problem of resource depletion and scarcity, and the challenges and opportunities presented by constraints on resources. The conference will also showcase public and private strategies that are promoting a shift towards lower carbon use and a more efficient use of resources.
• Threatened Island Nations
  Legal Implications of Rising Seas and a Changing Climate
  23 - 25 May 2011, New York, NY, USA
  The meeting will discuss such issues as continuing statehood and maintenance of maritime zones for states facing inundation from sea level rise; resettlement rights and practicalities of population displacement; liability for climatic harm in judicial forums; the utility of responsibility regimes under current law; and the role for a new convention on climate displacement.
• Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance
  Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges
  17 - 20 May 2011, Colorado State University
  This conference is part of a global series organized by the Earth System Governance Project, a ten-year research program under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). The first Earth System Governance conference was held in Amsterdam in December 2009. The Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance is hosted jointly by the Environmental Governance Working Group and the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University along with the IHDP Earth System Governance Project.
• Sixteenth World Meteorological Congress
  16 May - 3 June 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
• Responses to Environmental and Societal Challenges for Unstable Earth (RESCUE)
  RESCUE Stakeholders Conference
  16 - 17 May 2011, Brussels, Belgium
  The RESCUE Stakeholders Conference will conclude the main RESCUE work plan and will present and discuss the key RESCUE findings with a range of actors and stakeholders in Europe and beyond (e.g., science funding agencies, science policy makers, researchers, research managers representing key science communities and initiatives, representatives from universities and NGOs).
• 2nd International BaltCICA Conference
  11 - 12 May 2011, Bergen, Norway
• World Renewable Energy Congress 2011
  8 - 13 May 2011, Linköping, Sweden
  Based on the theme "Future Trends and Applications in Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Development", WREC 2011 will cover a wide range of topics related to renewable energy technology, energy efficiency, climate change and sustainable energy systems.
• Eleventh Session of IPCC Working Group III and Thirty-third Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  5 - 8 and 10 - 13 May 2011, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
  • IPCC-Site
  • IISD-Site
• Nineteenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-19)
  2 - 13 May 2011, New York, USA
  • UNDSD-Site
  • IISD-Site
• Renewable Heating and Cooling
  2nd Annual Conference of the RHC-Platform
  5 - 6 May 2011, Budapest, Hungary
  Building upon the success of its first edition, the RHC-Platform is organising its second Annual Conference on 5th and 6th May 2011 in Budapest, Hungary. The event will provide the opportunity for industry executives and leading scientists to engage in an effective dialogue with the participation of high-level officers from the EU, national and local administrations. A first class panel of speakers presenting the very latest trends and developments for renewable heating and cooling technologies, will tackle a broad range of topics including EU funding priorities for research, development and innovation, market outlook, large scale integration of renewable heating and cooling in the European Smart Cities initiative.
• Micro Perspectives for Decentralized Energy Supply
  7 - 8 April 2011, Berlin, Germany
  For a long time decentralised energy systems have been regarded as transitional solutions towards a centralised energy supply in developing or as a negligible niche market in developed countries. In the context of the required global transition from fossil-fuel-based towards renewable energy systems, new perspectives on centralized and decentralised approaches are emerging.
• 4th Workshop on Adaptation Research in Social Sciences
  Implementer, Networker, Governance Facilitator? - Challenges and conceptual approaches of social sciences in interdisciplinary climate adaptation research
  6 April 2011, Hamburg, Germany
  Social science based research on climate change adaptation is frequently conducted in diverse interdisciplinary research consortiums that include natural, engineering and social sciences. Frequently these research frameworks involve actors from political, administrative and planning institutions as well as private companies, and both non- governmental and citizen organizations. Within these joint projects, social scientists are confronted with a variety of methods, practices and professions. While social scientists track their own research agenda, they also fulfil specific functions in these interdiscip- linary settings. More often than not both are linked to implementation (e.g. successful enforcement of adaptation measures), networking (e.g. bringing together involved stakeholders) and governance (e.g. formal and informal arrangements contributing to the steering and regulation of climate adaptation).
• GREENHOUSE 2011: The science of climate change
  4 - 8 April 2011, Queensland, Australia
  Scientists and representatives from industry and all levels of government will have the opportunity to share information and hear about the latest in climate change science from leading researchers from Australia and around the world.
• PhD Conference
  Sustainable Futures: Where we want to be and how we get there
  30 - 31 March 2011, Manchester, UK
  The conference is aimed at PhD researchers and seeks to build capacities and networks of early stage researchers in areas related to sustainable development pathways. The event will include keynote lectures, presentations, workshops, and opportunities for discussion, networking and sharing ideas.
• ARPEL 2011 Regional Conference - Sustainable Energy Development
  Ideas o Solutions o Actions - Towards a greater regional synergy
  23 - 31 March 2011, Punta del Este, Uruguay
  The ARPEL Conference is the only oil, gas and biofuels sector networking, engaging and dialogue forum of a truly regional dimension in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has a primary emphasis on the sector´s common issues and challenges for meeting sustainable energy development needs in the region. The conference program has three main focus areas: 1. the analysis of regional challenges and opportunities for growth in the oil, gas and biofuels sector within the current business context, 2. the assessment of regional social and environmental sustainability challenges and solutions, and the sector performance progress, and 3. the communication of best practices and solutions in upstream and downstream operations and cross-cutting management aspects.
• Third Lagos State Summit on Climate Change
  15 - 17 March 2011, Victoria Island, Lagos
  The theme for the workshop is "Towards an appropriate and effective Institutional Framework and capacity building for combating climate change". This summit will be the third in the series of the highly successful and widely applauded Lagos State Climate Change Summit.
• IETA Carbon Forum North America
  14 - 15 March 2011, Washington, DC, USA
  Carbon Forum North America is the cornerstone carbon event for those interested in North American government policies impacting carbon markets and carbon compliance.
• Ecobuild
  1 - 3 March 2011, London, UK
  The Ecobuild conference in 2011 comprises three streams and examines the key issues surrounding sustainability, construction and the built environment, from big picture debates, such as international political co-operation, global economic models, behaviour and psychology of climate change, and the role of science, through to more domestic challenges such as the how the UK construction sector needs to change, how to refurbish the existing stock, decarbonising electricity generation, the impact of localism and the big society on planning (and in particular the housing sector).
• Carbon Market Insights 2011
  1 - 3 March 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Even as international climate policy is sluggish, weighed down by gloomy economies in many countries, business opportunities in the climate change area are proliferating. Several new emissions trading schemes are on the drawing board - massively scaled up financing is starting to reach developing economies – low carbon investments in energy sectors are gearing up and new offset mechanisms are taking shape.
• Nordic Conference on Sustainable Development in the Baltic Sea Region
  31 January - 2 February 2011, Turku, Finland
  Nordic Conference on Sustainable Development in the Baltic Sea Region introduces sustainable practical solutions and inspires participants to use local solutions together with other stakeholders. It enables the use of solutions in practice.
• Communities, Commodities, and Carbon
  Innovations in Tropical Forest Management
  27 - 29 January 2011, New Haven, CT, USA
  Despite sustained efforts to combat global deforestation, tropical forest management that provides for human livelihoods and conservation remains an elusive goal. Creative problem solving and knowledge-sharing are key to finding lasting solutions to this intractable problem. Recent innovations are providing new approaches in community engagement, market-based strategies for reducing agricultural encroachment, and carbon-based climate change mitigation schemes. On January 27-29, the Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters will bring together practitioners and researchers from government, academia, and environmental and development organizations to explore innovations in tropical forest conservation and management.
• Arctic Tipping Points
  23 - 28 January 2011, Tromsø, Norway
  The Arctic Frontiers conference is a central arena for the discussion of arctic issues. The 5th annual conference explores the concept of Tipping Points as it applies to social, economic and ecological systems. Additional focus is on how research can support and guide sustain- able development and resource management in the High North.
• World Future Energy Summit
  17 - 20 January 2011, Abu Dhabi
  Since its inception in 2008, World Future Energy Summit “WFES” has evolved as the world’s foremost and must-attend annual meeting for the renewable energy and environment industry.
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• Climate & River Basin Management Symposium 2011
  17 - 20 January 2011, Oulu, Finland
  The symposium aims to be a forum in the context of which exchanges between policy-makers, stakeholders, and scientists will take place, on issues associated with climate change and river basin management. In particular, it will look at the implementation of EU water policies. Moreover, a particular emphasis is on the impacts of climate change within the context of other multiple stressors such as agriculture and eutrophication.
• Innovation and Sustainability Transitions in Asia
  9 - 11 January 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  Sustainable development is an objective for societies world-wide. But transitions to sustainable production and consumption have been studied primarily in rich, developed countries. However, the transformative changes now occurring in the rapidly urbanising and industrialising Asian economies and societies suggest a new focus. Transitions towards more sustainable development pathways are also fundamental challenges in Asia.
• ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference
  Extreme Environmental Events
  13 - 17 December 2010, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  Understanding the frequency and magnitude of extreme environmental events and their impacts is a critical aspect of climate prediction. This conference aims to bring together an inter-disciplinary group including statisticians, climate modellers, meteorologists, and other environmental scientists to focus on extreme events and the uncertainties inherent in their understanding.
• Nexus for ICTs, Climate Change and Development
  London Workshop 2010
  13 December 2010, London, UK
  The workshop is part of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and development (ICTD2010). Its objective is to foster discussion about key ICT- and-climate-change topics, including the role of current and emerging digital technologies in adaptation, mitigation, disaster management and strategy formulation in developing countries.
• 2nd International Conference on Climate Change & Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
  5 - 7 December 2010, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
  The Conference will examine evidences and causes of climate change (natural & anthropogenic), impact of climate change on humans and ecosystems, mitigation of climate change through technological, social, ethical and political responses, and strategies for adaptation to climate change
• World Climate Solutions 2010
  29 - 30 September 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
  This fourth consecutive Climate Solutions conference and exposition brings together the most important stakeholders on clean energy, green business and sustainable city development in Northern Europe to meet with experts, buyers and innovators from key markets around the world.
• Equality, Growth and Sustainability – Do they mix?
  25 - 26 November 2010, Linköping, Sweden
  5 years after the Beijing Platform for Action this conference will provide academics, policy makers and practitioners with an international and interdisciplinary forum for exchange. The purpose is to explore and disseminate knowledge and experiences on gender equality, gender mainstreaming, diversity management, growth and sustainability, inclusion and equal opportunities.
• Energy Delta Convention
  22 - 24 November 2010, Groningen, The Netherlands
  The Energy Delta Convention (EDC) is a high-level energy platform with a unique interdisciplinary platform for senior business, science and government experts. The 2009 edition was a great success and has been attended by 950 international energy experts in the field of energy transition.
• Sustainable Development Evaluations in Europe
  From a Decade of Practices, Politics and Science to Emerging Demands
  EASY-ECO Brussels Conference
  17 - 19 November 2010, Brussels, Belgium
  The forthcoming 2010 EASY-ECO conference in Brussels will focus on the European perspective of evaluation of sustainable development, taking stock of almost a decade of integrated evaluation practice at EU and national levels in order to identify the challenges ahead.
• International Graduate Conference on Climate Change and People
  (With a Focus on Greater South Asia from Kyrgyzstan to Bangladesh)
  15 - 19 November 2010, Kathmandu, Nepal
  The Conference is mainly focused on the multidisciplinary capacity building of graduate students of various disciplines through the sharing of knowledge and experience by experts and participants on Climate Affairs, from climate-related science to impacts to policy & economics to ethics & equity. Climate Affairs is a concept which aims to enhance the “eco-generation” of climate leaders and climate agents in their respective academic and practical areas of concern.
• Climate Change and Impact Assessment
  15 - 16 November 2010, Washington, D.C., USA
  The symposium will emphasize practical examples and guidance useful for project design and operational management of hydroelectric and other energy facilities, irrigation projects, water supply and waste water treatment projects, roads and other transport, coastal projects, tourism facilities and other infrastructure likely to be aff ected by changes in water availability or extreme weather events as a result of climate change. The symposium will also explore the application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and cumulative effects assessment (CEA).
• International Graduate Conference on Climate Change and People
  (With a Focus on Greater South Asia from Kyrgyzstan to Bangladesh)
  15 - 19 November 2010, Kathmandu, Nepal
  The Conference is mainly focused on the multidisciplinary capacity building of graduate students of various disciplines through the sharing of knowledge and experience by experts and participants on Climate Affairs, from climate-related science to impacts to policy & economics to ethics & equity. Climate Affairs is a concept which aims to enhance the “eco-generation” of climate leaders and climate agents in their respective academic and practical areas of concern.
• Climate Change and Impact Assessment
  15 - 16 November 2010, Washington, D.C., USA
  The symposium will emphasize practical examples and guidance useful for project design and operational management of hydroelectric and other energy facilities, irrigation projects, water supply and waste water treatment projects, roads and other transport, coastal projects, tourism facilities and other infrastructure likely to be aff ected by changes in water availability or extreme weather events as a result of climate change. The symposium will also explore the application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and cumulative effects assessment (CEA).
• 5th National Conference & Expo on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration
  Preparing for Climate Change: Science, Practice, and Policy
  13 - 17 November 2010, Galveston, Texas, USA
  Our 2010 conference focus, Preparing for Climate Change, while a concern for all coastal regions, has particular resonance for coastal Texas and Galveston, still recovering from the damage inflicted by Hurricane Ike in 2008. The National Conference and Expo has taken on new importance due to the tragic events continuing to unfold in the Gulf of Mexico. Stopping the leak and preventing oil from reaching the coast are only the first steps in a process that will take years-and likely decades-to resolve. RAE has responded to this environmental, economic, and human disaster by adding high-level sessions and roundtables to the Conference program devoted to the science, policy, and technologies dealing with oil remediation and coastal restoration.
• International Conference and Fair on Education, Research & Employment in the Renewable Energy Sector- ICERE (2) 2010
  11 - 12 November 2010, Santiago, Chile
  The Joint Latin-American Universities renewable Energy Project (Jelare) is a cooperation scheme involving universities from Germany, Latvia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Guatemala with the aim of fostering innovative labour market-oriented educational and research approaches in the field of renewable energies at Latin American and European institutes of higher education.
• The First International Workshop on Engineering Low-Carbon Business (ELCB'10)
  (in conjunction with ICEBE 2010 and CEC 2010)
  10 - 12 November 2010, Shanghai, China
  The international workshop on Engineering Low-Carbon Business (ELCB) is to provide a prestigious forum of disseminating innovative findings of e-business relevant issues related to the design, commercialization and use of services, processes and products that are feasible, economical, and environmentally friendly. The workshop will cover the theories, engineering and technological progressions in low carbon research and practices in facilitating relevant technology and practice adoption to enhance competitiveness towards enabling efficient and sustainable economy.
• Scaling and Governance Conference 2010
  Towards a New Knowledge for Scale Sensitive Governance of Complex Systems
  10 - 12 November 2010, Wageningen, The Netherlands
  The aim of conference is to discuss different perspectives on scaling and governance issues. The starting point is that scaling and governance deserve more attention as a combination, not just in separate studies. We look at this integration as a major challenge for both the social, economic and the natural sciences. In order to get to transdisciplinarity, that is to say, cooperation between scientists from different disciplines as well as policy makers and citizens, vigorous communication between scientists from the natural science and the humanities is needed.
• Climate Finance 2010
  Including the 10th Annual Carbon Finance conference
  9 - 10 November 2010, London, UK
  This event gives insight into the innovative tools being developed to boost funding for low-carbon development. Carbon markets play a valuable but limited role, and it is now widely acknowledged that other approaches will be needed to deliver public and private sector finance on the scale required.
• Climate Adaptation in the Nordic Countries
  Science, Practice, Policy
  8 - 10 November 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
  The purpose of the conference is to explore the links between adaptation science, practice, and policy. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective and involving stakeholders, the aim of the conference is to deliver insights for a socially relevant research agenda that advances the emerging science of adaptation and meets the needs of practitioners and policymakers.
• Geoengineering - taking control of our planet's climate
  8 - 9 November 2010, London, UK
  Society seems unable or unwilling to make the drastic reductions in CO2 emissions necessary to avoid 'dangerous' (unacceptable) climate change. A new science 'Geoengineering' that until recently would have seemed pure science fiction, promises an alternative way of temporarily regaining control of climate. This meeting of the Royal Society considers the state of this new science, and its implications to society.
• CLIMATE 2010 / KLIMA 2010
  "Climate Change and the Sustainable Management of Water Resources"
  The World´s CO2-friendly Scientific On-line Climate Conference
  1 - 7 November 2010
  Let the conference introduce you to the latest scientific findings on the social, economic and political aspects of climate change. Enter this platform on 1-7 November 2010 and read about new projects and innovative initiatives being undertaken in both industrialised and developing countries by universities and scientific institutions, government bodies, NGOs and other stakeholders.
• Wie bereiten sich Regionen auf den Klimawandel vor?
  Urbane, regionale, nationale und transnationale Ansätze
  26 October 2010, Leipzig, Germany
• ERSCP-EMSU 2010 conference
  Knowledge Collaboration & Learning for Sustainable Innovation
  25 - 29 October 2010, Delft, the Netherlands
• Climate Change and Impact Assessment
  25 - 26 October 2010, Aalborg, Denmark
  The European Special Symposium on Climate Change and Impact Assessment will deal with solutions and actions to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change. It will involve important actors and stakeholders from all levels and sectors to help foster a fruitful dialogue and bridge gaps among climate change and impact assessment communities.
• Local Renewables Conference Freiburg 2010
  Changing fuels or changing patterns?
  The role of renewables in sustainable urban mobility
  14 - 15 October 2010, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
  Urban transport and mobility planning go beyond looking at fuels and engines. It has a lot to do with people’s behavior and available options or restrictions. Reducing mobility demand, preferring non-motorised modes of transport, and reinforcing public transport are vital building blocks of many sustainable urban mobility plans today. Nevertheless, expectations and perspectives regarding “clean” fuels are likely to impact the further development of such strategies – whether positive or negative remains to be seen.
• Climate Change and Water: a common challenge
  Eureau -Fall Conference
  14 October 2010, Brussels, Belgium
  EUREAU is organizing under the Belgian Presidency of the EU, and with the help of BELGAQUA (EUREAU Member) a Euro­pean Conference dedicated to Climate Change and Water. The impacts of climate change will be felt first and foremost through the medium of water: it is clear that we can expect to see flooding and droughts becoming more frequent and more severe. Recent events across Europe have highlighted the threat to critical infrastruc­ture and key services such as water and wastewater.
• Fifth Latin American Carbon Forum (LACF)
  13 - 15 October 2010, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  The Latin American Carbon Forum (LACF) is a regional platform established to promote knowledge and information sharing while facilitating business- opportunity environments among main carbon market stakeholders. The LACF is organized in a yearly basis by a partnership among the WB, IETA, OLADE and the UNEP Risø Centre. The core objective of the LACF is to bring together main actors of the carbon market (owners and project developers, national Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) offices; Investment Promotion Agencies, Designated National Authorities (DNAs), service providers and intermediary companies) in order to share experiences on the integral process of CDM projects, learn about the latest developments of emission trading schemes and the future of the CDM.
• Thirty-Second Session of the IPCC
  11 - 14 October 2010, Busan, Republic of Korea
• UNECE Timber Committee Market Discussions and Policy Forum
  Innovative Wood Products are the future
  11 - 14 October 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
  Innovation will be a key theme of the annual UNECE Timber Committee Market Discussions (11-12 October), thanks to a first ever joint session with the international Society of Wood Science and Technology entitled "Forest sector rebounds in the UNECE region: Innovative wood products lead the way ". The Policy Forum on "Building Codes and Standards" will address the following topics: The role of wood products in mitigating climate change; Codes and standards: State of the art and prospects; The role of life cycle analysis in developing building codes and standards; Users' demands: Their impact on the forest sector.
• 3rd International Scientific Conference on "Energy and Climate Change"
  7 - 8 October 2010, Athens, Greece
  The PROMITHEAS Conference started as an activity of the FP6 funded project titled "PROMITHEAS-2" and has become a traditional annual meeting for scientists and researchers working in energy and climate change policy issues. The events are organized by the Energy Policy and Development Centre (KEPA) of the NKUA, coordinator of the PROMITHEAS Network, and were set under the auspices of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Organization. All events were hosted by the oldest university of Greece, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
• Future of Cities
  ICLEI's 20th anniversary congress
  5 - 7 October 2010, Incheon, Korea
  The Future of Cities congress will focus on four key themes that the cities of the future need to address:
  • Eco-efficiency: More with less
  • Resilience: Stability through flexibility
  • Green economy: Prosperity through change
  • Happiness: Well-being as wealth
• Ethische Aspekte des Geoengineering
  The ethical perspective on climateengineering
  30 September - 2 October 2010, Greifswald, Germany
  (in German)
• Deltas in Times of Climate Change
  29 September - 1 October 2010, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Deltas have a lot to offer. They are close to the sea and inland waterways. Their soils are fertile. They are therefore the base of many large and fast growing cities. But as populations grow, deltas and their cities are becoming more vulnerable. Floods, land subsidence, traffic congestion, air pollution and salt intrusion loom up as common threats. Climate change aggravates these problems. But when delta societies actively adapt to climate change by investing in new technologies and creating better physical, societal and governance systems.
• World Climate Solutions 2010
  Good Business, Green Growth, Great Cities
  29 - 30 September 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Science, business, policy makers and thought leaders meet to discuss and explore best practice models for creating economic growth and at the same time lower emissions.
• Metrics and Methodologies of Estimation of Extreme Climate Events
  27 - 29 September 2010, Paris, France
  The WCRP Workshop focus is on phenomenology and methodological aspects of the quantitative estimation of different climate extremes under observed and future climate conditions using observational and model data.
• 10th Annual Conference of the German Council for Sustainable Development
  Resetting the clocks: 2050
  27 September 2010, Berlin, Germany
  Sustainability has to become more effective. Sustainability goals have to go beyond the year 2010. Our Annual Conference offers politically responsible players a platform to share and explain their ideas. They will, for instance, have their first chance in the run-up to the conference to participate in determining the topic, and in planning one of the six topical forums. The 10th Annual Conference is somewhat special: (a) The composition of the German Council for Sustainable Development will change in June and the new Council members will be introduced. (b) The Annual Conference represents the kick-off for the German contribution to the Rio plus 20 UN Conference announced for 2012.
• Global Change and the World's Mountains
  Perth II - Five Years Later
  26 - 30 September 2010 Perth, Scotland, UK
  The overall conference theme of global change and the world's mountains includes a wide range of themes addressed by scientists from diverse natural and social science disciplines. Following the successful model of the 2005 conference, the 2010 conference will include: Keynote presentations, which will particularly emphasise progress since 2005; thematic sessions convened by global leaders in their field (see below); working sessions to review and further develop activities within focussed research programmes; poster sessions, linked to the thematic and working sessions; public events to facilitate knowledge exchange.
• 3rd International Workshop on Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories
  22 – 24 September 2010, Lviv, Ukraine
  The issues of concern at the International Workshops on Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories are rooted in the level of confidence with which national emission assessments can be performed, as well as the management of uncertainty and its role in developing informed policy. The Workshops cover state-of-the-art research and developments in accounting, verifying and trading GHG emissions and provide a multidisciplinary forum for international experts to address the methodological uncertainties underlying these activities. The topics of interest center around national GHG emission inventories, bottom-up versus top-down emission analyses, signal processing and detection, verification and compliance, and emission trading schemes.
• European Forestry - Fit for Climate Change?
  ForeStClim Mid-term Conference
  21 - 22 September 2010, Nancy, France
  ForeStClim (2008-2012) is a European INTERREG IVB project concerned with forests and climate change. The overall focus of the event is to have a results-driven meeting. For ForeStClim partner organisations it provides the grounds to show their progress made and milestones reached, but also the chance to discuss open and newly arisen questions with a wider audience.
• 10th Annual Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading
  20 - 21 September 2010, Paris, France
  The 10th Annual Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading, hosted by IEA, was organised in partnership with the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The 2010 workshop covered topics relevant to the future of global carbon markets post-COP 15, including scaled-up and new market mechanisms, regional linkages, carbon market oversight, and accounting and verification. As in previous years, the workshop invited government and business to discuss advances in various national GHG markets, as well as carbon market developments over the past year. A high-level panel was invited to discuss the future of carbon markets in a Copenhagen Accord world.
• 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Research Network for Low-Carbon Societies (LCS-RNet)
  Multi Level Policy for a Green Society
  20 - 21 September 2010, Berlin, Germany
  
• IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition
  19 - 24 September 2010, Montréal, Canada
  The IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition is a high-profile biennial event. The key topics to be discussed at this event are:
  • the science and application of water management
  • water, climate and energy
  • cities of the future
  • managing utilities and their assets
  • securing new and traditional water resources for the future
  • water, ecosystems and catchments
  • water and health.
• 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT10)
  19 - 23 September 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  GHGT-10 is intended to provide a platform for fruitful discussions on ways to overcome the barriers to - and to find opportunities for – implementing greenhouse gas mitigation technologies. Discussions about technological and other policy-related developments will play a prominent role in the conference.
• 2nd UNITAR-Yale Global Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy
  Strengthening Institutions to Address Climate Change and Advance a Green Economy
  17 - 19 September 2010, Yale University, New Haven, USA
  Focusing on the theme of Strengthening Institutions to Address Climate Change and Advance a Green Economy, the event will take stock of and examine the role of institutional structures and decision-making procedures in fostering (or impeding) low carbon and climate resilient development. Papers and discussions will cover various levels of governance (i.e. global, regional, transnational, national, sub-national, and local) as well as specialized governance topics, including governance of climate change science, financing and forestry. Anticipated outcomes of the conference include a research agenda and enhanced knowledge sharing to better understand the openness, transparency, accountability and effectiveness of institutions engaged in action to address climate change.
• Climate Engineering: Challenges for Research, Assessment and Governance
  17 September 2010 Kiel, Germany
  An interdisciplinary group of researchers is planning to apply for a Priority Programme of the German Research Foundation to investigate under what conditions Climate Engineering could be feasible, beneficial and justifiable. The focus of this meeting is to present the current state of the proposal and to open the discussion for suggestions and participation of other researchers.
• LCA of GHG emissions for transport fuels
  Issues and implications for unconventional fuel sources
  14 September 2010, Calgary, Canada
  Transportation fuel systems result in the emissions of greenhouse gases at different stages of their production and use that can be estimated using life cycle analysis (LCA). The effectiveness and efficiency of regulatory and other policy approaches intended to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels can, moreover, hinge on transportation fuel LCA. This workshop focuses on the LCA for transportation fuels from unconventional hydrocarbon sources and associated regulatory issues and implications, and examines these in the context of experience gained in the study of conventional hydrocarbon sources, biofuels, electric vehicles, and other alternatives.
• Storm Surges Congress
  Risk and Management of Current and Future Storm Surges
  13 - 17 September 2010, Hamburg, Germany
  The objective of this congress is to work towards a common perception of key concerns including options of mitigation and adaptation. Practitioners and researchers are invited to delineate future challenges for science, and dialogue across science-policy-practice interfaces
• WEC Montreal 2010
  21st World Energy Congress
  12 - 16 September 2010, Montreal, Canada
  The World Energy Council is more than ever committed to working toward responsible growth that reconciles economic development, environmental protection, and the reduction of global inequalities. The point in time is crucial. September 2010 falls 9 months after COP15* and just a few months away from G8 Summit in Canada. The energy industry urgently seeks solutions to “respond now to global challenges,” as the situation requires an unprecedented level of cooperation between the energy industry & government, allowance for the realities of emerging economies, and an understanding of the diversity and complexity of the challenges and the evolving needs of the human community.
• 3rd International Biochar Conference (IBI 2010)
  12 – 15 September 2010, Rio de Janeiro
  The IBI 2010 conference will feature internationally-renowned speakers—covering all aspects of biochar including production and utilization systems, field trials, commercial and user experience, policy, education, new research, Terra Preta, and future trends. Conference delegates will include the leading visionaries in the biochar world, policy makers, producers, farmers and gardeners, academics, investors, development agents, and many others.
• SGIR 7th Pan-European International Relations Conference
  9 - 11 September 2010, Stockhom, Sweden
  Topic The "Other" Crisis: The Political Economy of the Environment and Our Relationship to It
  Moving towards an improved understanding of the dynamics and power relations within ecological restructuring nine months after the Copenhagen negotiations will be at the core of this section's objectives. In particular, this section seeks especially critical theoretical and empirical political economic contributions focusing on the following key areas:
  • Climate Change I: Climate Regime Post-Copenhagen: Matching Emission Reductions and Financial Flows
  • Climate Change II: Clean Technologies, Business and the State
  • Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights: The Search for Complementarities in a Sea of Contradictions
  • Bioenergy: The Political Economy of a Questionable Technology
  • Water and Land Use Conflicts: The Next Crisis?
• World Water Week
  The Water Quality Challenge
  5 - 11 September 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
  The World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual meeting place for the planet's most urgent water-related issues. Organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), it brings together 2500 experts, practitioners, decision makers and leaders from around the globe to exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions.
• ISEE Conference 2010
  Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis
  22 – 25 August 2010, Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany
  
• 6th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change & Business Conference
  10 - 12 August 2010, Sydney, Australia
  The 6th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business is the pre-eminent climate change conference for business in this region, designed by business for business. The conference serves as the major gathering point for business leaders and chief policy makers and allows exchange of information across the Tasman.
• Geneva Roundtable Series on Climate Change, Trade, and Development
  Climate Change, Technology Transfer and IPRs:
  Issues, Options and Challenges on the way to Cancun
  13 July Geneva, Switzerland
  While the current negotiating text in the UNFCCC discussions includes provisions dealing with intellectual property rights (IPRs), all such provisions remain bracketed, reflecting the polarisation that has characterised the debate on intellectual property and climate change, particularly since the Bali meeting in 2007. In this context, the roundtable will provide an overview of the range of issues and options in relation to climate change, technology transfer and IPRs which have been discussed in the climate change negotiations, as well as implications for the future Technology Mechanism.
• 18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference
  28 June - 2 July 2010, Edinburgh, UK
  The Conference showcased inspiring examples of how it is possible to put back some of the forests and their services that have been lost, and demonstrated how forest restoration can provide real, tangible and deliverable solutions for the world.
• A&WMA’S 103rd Annual Conference & Exhibition
  22 - 25 June 2010, Calgary, Canada
  Building on the conference theme of “Energy and Environment,” the technical program will explore a range of related issues, including the future of fossil fuels, alternative energy solutions, and greenhouse gas emissions management, innovation, and technology.
• 10th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference (SGEM)
  20 - 25 June 2010, Albena Resort, Bulgaria
  The Multidisciplinary GeoConference will bring together researchers, educators, and practitioners representing research and educational institutions, companies, government agencies and consulting organizations from all over the world to exchange of ideas, to define the research priorities and to propose potential solutions of problems related to the global changes.
• Urban Environmental Pollution (UEP 2010)
  20 – 23 June 2010, Boston, USA
  UEP 2010 will provide a forum for knowledge exchange and discussion regarding the latest information about the unique nature of urban environments, assessment of urban environmental pollutants and their effects, and measures that can be taken to overcome obstacles to sustainability, ecological integrity and life quality.
• Climate Governance Conference
  Addressing Climate Governance Risks in a new Climate Regime
  Knowledge, Economy and Equity Paradigms
  15 June 2010 Berlin, Germany
  The purpose of this conference is to provide an international forum for leading experts, opinion-leaders and decision-makers of the development and climate community as well as for interested members of the public to contribute their perspectives to the discussion on climate governance. This serves as extremely timely input following the June UNFCCC climate meetings and in anticipating outcomes of further discussions leading up to the COP 16.
• WCRP Workshop on Regional Climate
  Facilitating the Production of Climate Information and its Use in Impact and Adaptation Work
  14 - 16 June 2010, in Lille, France
  The workshop focused on research priorities for facilitating the production and use of regional to local climate information in support of impact assessment, adaptation and risk management.
• The 3rd International Conference on Eco-Efficiency
  Modelling and Evaluation for Sustainability: Guiding Eco-Innovation and Consumption
  9 - 11 June 2010, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
  Increasing affluence and population growth will destroy the environment, will hit the poor, and will hit next generations, unless extreme, unprecedented improvements in eco-efficiency are realised, leading to decoupling of economic growth from environmental impact. De-growth, for the richest, will be an essential ingredient. The time frames involved start now. Fundamentally new technologies in production and consumption will however require decades for their full scale introduction, and we don’t know them yet. How can we guide the right developments, based on best current knowledge, and how can we create the incentives for this key issue in long term sustainability? The conference will set the stage on day one, with keynote speakers from all continents covering targets and strategies. On day two we will look into specific options for eco-efficiency improvements in core domains of sustainable development. On day three we will go into the intricacies of analysis and the schools involved.
• Conference On Forest Ecosystem Genomics And Adaptation
  9 - 11 June 2010, San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid), Spain
  Main scientific topics:
  • Phenomics under climate change
  • Population genomics of adaptive traits
  • Evolutionary responses to environmental change
  • Community responses to environmental change
  • Migration under climate change
  • Eco-regional trends in adaptation
  • New technologies in ecosystem genomics
  • Climate change mitigation options
• Oslo Science Conference
  Polar Science - Global Impact
  8 – 12 June 2010, Oslo, Norway
  The IPY Oslo Science Conference will emphasize the breadth and global impact of polar research during IPY (International Polar Year). It will highlight the extraordinary interdisciplinary and multinational efforts in research and in communication of research to the public.
• International Energy Program Evaluation Conference
  Counting on Energy Programs - It's Why Evaluation Matters
  8 - 10 June 2010, Paris, France
• Urbane Strategien zum Klimawandel
  Austausch von Praxis und Wissenschaft
  7 - 8 June 2010, Berlin, Germany
• Resilient Cities 2010
  1st World congress on Cities and Adaption to Climate Change
  28 - 30 May 2010 in Bonn, Germany
  ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the City of Bonn and the World Mayors Council on Climate Change will jointly host Resilient Cities 2010, the first edition of the annual global forum on urban resiliency and adaptation to climate change. Resilient Cities 2010 will be a prime opportunity to share the latest scientific findings, state-of-the-art approaches and effective programs on climate change adaptation and resilience-building in cities and urbanized areas. ICLEI is the first Local Government network to support the UNFCCC Nairobi Work Programme on Adaptation. The Resilient Cities Congress series represents ICLEI Action Pledge towards the objectives and expected outcomes of the Nairobi Work Programme.
• Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate Change and Security
  CAPSTONE CONFERENCE
  The Global Security Implications of Climate Change
  28 May 2010, Brussels, Belgium
  This Conference is a summation of the IISS' year-long Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate Change and Security, a programme funded by the European Commission, which promotes an exchange of ideas among environmental, security, and foreign policy professionals in both Europe and the US about the security effects of climate change. The dialogue has focused on how a warming climate will harm security in three important areas: water, food, and energy. This conference will seek solutions in these critical topics that can help to prevent conflict and promote global engagement.
• International Conference on Developing Human Capital for Sustainable Economies
  27 - 28 May 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany
  This two-day International Conference on Human Capital for Sustainable Economies will help address many of the critical questions and is dedicated to examine human capital development and management in the context of climate change.
• CARBON EXPO 2010
  Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference
  26 - 28 May 2010, Cologne, Germany
  CARBON EXPO is the global platform to explore the detailed development of carbon markets worldwide and interrelated policies and measures that will shape the international climate regime of the future.
• ICAO Colloquium on Aviation and Climate Change
  11 - 14 May 2010, Montreal, Canada
  The Colloquium provides an opportunity for stakeholders to share information on aviation and climate change with a focus on strategies and programmes of ICAO, industry, academic/research institutions and international organizations to harness technological, scientific and economic solutions in addressing climate change.
• UNCTAD Public Symposium 2010
  10 - 11 May 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
  Symposium Themes:
  • Responding to Global Crises: New Development Paths
  • Rethinking Global Economic Governance: Towards Trade and Financial Reforms to Support Development
  • Alternative Development Strategies: Towards More Inclusive and Sustainable Development Paths
• Earth System Science 2010: Climate, Global Change and People
  10 - 13 May 2010, Edinburgh, UK
  This event is the First Open Science Conference of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme's project 'Analysis, Integration and Modelling of the Earth System' (AIMES), run in cooperation with QUEST, the UK Natural Environment Research Council's directed programme for Earth system science. The conference will showcase recent advances in the understanding of Earth system dynamics and highlight new directions for the analysis of the interactions between humans and our environment. The aim is to help in the building of much-needed bridges between the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, and between policy, assessment and research.
• Fifth Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands (GOC5)
  3 - 7 May 2010, Paris, France
  The Global Oceans Conferences provide the major opportunity for all sectors of the global oceans community-- governments, international agencies, nongovernmental organizations, industry, and scientific groups-- to address the major policy issues affecting the oceans at global, regional, and national levels and to make progress in advancing the global oceans agenda.
• Petersberg Climate Dialogue
  2 - 4 May 2010, Königswinter, Germany
  Germany and Mexico are jointly hosting the Petersberg Climate Dialogue on the Petersberg near Bonn. The Petersberg conference aims to establish a political position for the further UN process in time for the next round of formal negotiations of the UN Climate Secretariat (UNFCCC) after Copenhagen, which will also take place in Bonn from 31 May to 11 June 2010. In an informal framework the participating environment and climate ministers will discuss what concrete steps should be taken in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference at the end of this year in Cancún (Mexico). The goal is to reach an ambitious outcome in Cancún which defines and implements the decisions of Copenhagen. Therefore, the talks will focus on how progress can be made on important negotiating issues and on the role of the Copenhagen Accord in achieving this.
• International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE)
  21 - 23 April 2010, Singapore
  The International Conference on Applied Energy is a truly integrated forum on research, development and application of energy technology and policy. ICAE aims to facilitate debate on topics ranging from energy R&D and energy resource optimization to urban energy efficiency standards and climate change policy. Based on the theme of "Energy Solutions for a Sustainable World", ICAE2010 offers a wide range of topics covering clean energy and renewables, advanced energy systems, energy and the environment, energy in buildings, and energy policy. We invite specialists from all over the world to share experiences and contribute towards building the framework for sustainable economies in the 21st century.
• I-SUP2010 - 2nd International Conference on Innovation for Sustainable Production 2010
  18 - 21 April 2010, Bruges, Belgium
  i-SUP2010 will cover 6 separate international congresses at the same time and at the same location, each aimed at a specific target audience of industry leaders, universities, research institutes and decision makers, covering such wide fields as:
  • Sustainable Production
  • Sustainable Chemistry
  • Sustainable Energy
  • Materials for Sustainable Production
  • Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
  • In vitro methods replacing animal testing (CARDAM)
• Integrating Climate Change and Development Ethics
  15 - 16 April 2010, Penn State, PA, USA
  Up until recently climate change ethics and development ethics have developed independently of each other for the most part. Because climate change can adversely affect the ability of human development prospects and climate change policies should take into account human development needs, there is a need to integrate climate change and human development ethics. There is also a significant opportunity for climate change and human development ethicists to learn from each other about the ethical issues that should be understood if climate change and human development ethics were integrated. This conference will explore the linkages between climate change ethics and human development ethics.
• International Symposium on Coastal Zone and Climate Change
  Assessing the Impact and Developing Adaptation Strategies
  12 – 13 April 2010, Victoria, Australia
  This two-day international symposium, sponsored by Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), will provide a forum for decision makers, practicing professionals, academics, researches and students to share their knowledge and expertise in diverse areas. The symposium will focus on the following:
  • the assessment of impacts of climate change in coastal zones,
  • existing and new adaptation strategies and policies, and
  • the engagement of relevant stakeholders in planning for the consequences of climate change impacts in coastal areas.
• 2nd international conference on economic degrowth for ecological sustainability and social equity
  26 - 29 March 2010, Barcelona, Spain
  This is a call for a second conference on socially sustainable economic degrowth, linking economic, environmental and social perspectives with emphasis on practical policies & concrete proposals.
• 2010 State of the Arctic Conference
  16 - 19 March 2010, Miami, USA
  The State of the Arctic Conference will review our understanding of the arctic system in a time of human-induced, rapid environmental change. It will provide an open international forum to discuss future research directions towards a better understanding of the arctic system and its trajectory. It will address topics ranging from basic understanding of the Arctic and system-wide change, to developing response strategies for better adaptation to, and mitigation of, the impacts of change.
• DISCCRS V
  Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium
  13 - 20 March 2010, Saguaro Lake Ranch, AZ, USA
  DISCCRS symposia are designed to catalyze formation of interdisciplinary collegial networks extending across the natural and social sciences, to discuss topics of scientific and societal interest, and to foster early career development in an interdisciplinary context.
• Transforming the energy system to achieve the 2°C target
  Investment risks and policy challenges
  11 - 12 March 2010, Potsdam, Germany
  The symposium is organized as part of the research project "Agents' Long-term Investments in the context of Climate and Energy" (ALICE), conducted at the University of Oldenburg, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
• Greenhouse gas emissions from bioenergy systems
  Impacts of timing, issues of responsibility
  2010 Annual Conference of IEA Bioenergy Task 38
  8 - 10 March 2010, Brussels, Belgium
  The conference will present research on following subjects: Who should take responsibility for emissions due to land use change associated with bioenergy? How does the timing of emissions from land use change, emission reductions, and sequestration associated with bioenergy systems influence the mitigation benefit of bioenergy? How can policy be devised to recognize impacts of timing, and issues of responsibility?
• Energy transitions in an interdependent world
  What and where are the future social science research agendas?
  25 - 26 February 2010, Brighton, UK
  The conference will be held at the University of Sussex, near Brighton and is open to academics, policy makers, industry and non-governmental organisations working in the field of energy transitions. There will be contributions to the following themes:
  • low carbon energy innovation;
  • secure and resilient energy systems;
  • the politics of sustainable energy transitions.
• 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting
  22 - 26 February 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA
  Stewardship of marine resources in the 21st Century demands the development of predictive tools based on models and field observations. The challenge of developing these tools forms the theme of the 2010 Ocean Sciences meeting.
  This overarching theme emphasizes efforts to link observations and models to form superior predictions across multiple space and time scales. It encompasses research focusing on some aspect of observations, models, and also field or laboratory experiments that ultimately seek to enhance our predictive ability, as well as efforts focusing on education, outreach, and marine policy.
• Greenhouse Gases in the Earth System
  Setting the Agenda in 2030
  22 – 23 February 2010, London, UK
  2010 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Keeling's first publication of atmospheric CO2 measurements. This meeting discusses the use of long-term monitoring to understand greenhouse gases in the Earth System. New scientific advances promise regional audit of emissions, assessment of uptakes, and better understanding of controlling and feedback processes. The meeting will assess these, shaping the agenda for the next 20 years.
• 11th Symposium Energy Innovation
  Old Objectives - New Approaches
  10 - 12 February 2010, Graz, Austria
  The climate change is largely affected by an anthropogenic factor. To hold the global impacts as small as possible, the increase in temperature (temperature drift) shouldn’t exceed a defined level. The taken measures of the next few years will have a crucial impact on the further development. The economic crisis, caused by the financial crises, hampered the solution of the big challenges mentioned above. On the other hand, the up growing effects of the energy sector could be a chance to overcome the tough economically situation. Therefore it would be necessary to reconsider the generally accepted solutions and to adapt them to the new basic conditions. The solution statements must apply among the European economy order including the regulative issues also the energy production/generation (rene-wable energy sources, energy innovation), the energy distribution and transmission systems and also the measures on the demand side.
• Implementing Climate Change Policy
  Looking Forward To The Hard Part
  5 - 6 February 2010, Washington, D.C., USA
  The United States Congress is debating comprehensive climate change legislation. It will likely be one of the longest and most complex federal statutes passed in decades, and will affect almost every corner of the economy. Until then, EPA and other agencies are adopting far-reaching climate regulations. Implementing the new regulatory scheme will be a massive and difficult undertaking. This one- and one-half day conference will bring together leading government officials, academics, NGOs and private practitioners to explore these issues:
  • The dozens of rulemakings required of EPA, DOE, and other agencies
  • Creating the machinery for markets and offsets
  • Managing the transition for key sectors (fossil and renewable energy, agriculture, forestry)
  • Linkages to the international climate and trade systems
  • State and local roles
  • Affecting individual and corporate behavior
  • Equity and environmental justice issues
• Climate Justice as Business Case
  28 January 2010, Mainz, Germany
  The European Business Council for Sustainable Energy (e5) organised in Germany in 2009 a workshop series at which more than 100 experts from clean energy business, finance, development cooperation and climate policy discussed how to create win-win-situation between business and poor societies in need of carbon efficient technologies. The final conference on the 28 January 2010 will give fresh impetus to harness the potential benefits of transfers of climate-friendly technologies for all concerned by creative entrepreneurship. Reflecting the Copenhagen summit, key speakers will offer new insights on the debate over the future of the multilateral climate regime and the linkages between eco-innovation and tech transfers.
• 3rd Dialogue on Forests, Governance & Climate Change
  22 January 2010, London, UK
  The third in this series of dialogues will provide a key opportunity to discuss the implications of what has - or has not - been agreed to at COP15 in Copenhagen.
• 2009 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  2 - 4 December 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  This conference will be the ninth event in the series of annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, begun in Berlin in 2001. This year's conference will also be the global launch event of the Earth System Governance Project, a new ten-year research programme under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).
• 3rd Conference on adaptation to climate change in developing countries
  26 November 2009, The Hague, The Netherlands
  The last two years several Dutch humanitarian and development NGOs organised a conference on adaptation to climate change in developing countries. Goal of the conferences was to share experiences on adaptation of NGO practitioners, scientists, government officials and companies and to forward thinking on adaptation practice. By workshops focussing on themes (e.g. water, health, disasters) and regions (e.g. Africa, South-East Asia) we explored the impacts and consequences of climate change for developing countries. This year, with Copenhagen just one and a half week away, we'll be focussing on both political issues as on the practice of adaptation in developing countries.
• International Symposium on Sustainable & Environmental Protection
  23 – 26 November 2009, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  Topics in this symposium are categorized in the following areas:
  • Clean fossil energy
  • Waste treatment and environmental protection
  • Rural energy
  • New and renewable energy
  • Energy and catalysis
  • Efficient and environmental friendly energy conversion process
  • Material preparation and characterization
• Second Workshop on Energy Efficiency in Housing
  Towards an Action Plan for Energy Efficient Housing in the UNECE region
  23 - 25 November 2009, Vienna, Austria
  The Vienna Workshop will focus on institutional, legal, policy, technological, public awareness, financial and other measures and solutions to enhance energy efficiency in housing. The results of the workshop and the related measures presented, will feed into and contribute to the development of the Action Plan for Energy Efficient Housing to be developed under the UNECE.
• ESF-FWF Conference in Partnership with LFUI
  CO2 Geological Storage: Latest Progress
  22 - 27 November 2009, Obergurgl, Austria
  Since the 90’s, a huge research effort on CO2 geological storage, especially in Europe, has led to significant outcomes and the technology has now reached a transition stage between research and worldwide deployment. There is now a need to assess the progress made, to bridge gaps between industry and research, to spread the results to a larger community of scientists and to train young engineers and researchers. The aim of this conference is therefore to draw conclusions from the last decades of research and to outline the future challenges to be faced along the road to industrial implementation.
• 2009 World Appreciative Inquiry Conference
  Creating a Positive Revolution for Sustainable Change
  16 - 19 November 2009, Kathmandu, Nepal
  This world-class conference builds on and extends the recent advances in the science and practice of Appreciative Inquiry and other strength-based approaches to organizational change. While past AI conferences have had representation from around the world, the goal of this conference is to truly lift up the stories and lessons from projects all across the globe and to reflect the international face of the strength-based movement. With voices from the field representing every organizational sector and every corner of the globe, there will be no denying that he strengths revolution is here! Powerful cases form Nepal, Africa, the US, and countries around the world will illustrate the transcending application of AI to any change project. The conference aims at generating dialogue across people and institutions and engendering fresh thinking on the advancement in the application of appreciative science.
• International Symposium on Cities and Carbon Management
  Towards enhancing science-policy linkages
  16 November 2009, Tokyo, Japan
  This event is aimed to serve as a forum to discuss science-policy linkages and how such linkages can be enhanced. It brings together the well-established scientists/researchers, the city decision makers that are actively pursuing carbon management and the facilitators that are helping for science-policy bridging. The ultimate aim of the symposium is to promote a better science policy dialogue that all three communities can benefit from.
• Northeast Biochar Symposium 2009
  13 November 2009, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
  This Symposium will highlight current biochar research and technological advances and provide vital information to public officials, researchers, and sustainable energy and agriculture professionals. Biochar is considered a significant strategy for removing net carbon from the atmosphere for safe storage in soil, enhancing soil resources, and creating clean energy from agricultural stover and forest biomass. Panels will include discussion of the use of biochar for carbon sequestration and the role of biochar in the UNFCCC climate talks.
• World Carbon Conference 2009
  10 - 13 November 2009, Bejing, China
• The 4th International Conference of SCU & ESES
  Impacts of Climate change on Natural Resources
  10 - 11 November 2009, Ismailia, Egypt
• Climate Change – Measuring and Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in a Changing Regulatory Environment
  9 - 10 November 2009, Toronto, Canada
  The Canadian Standards Association, a not-for-profit membership-based association, is presenting a forum in downtown Toronto, Canada for organizations who are interested in learning about the new trends in standards, legislation, policies, regulation and emissions reporting of Greenhouse Gases in Canada and the U.S.
• Second German Environmental Sociology Summit
  Reshaping Nature: Old Limits, New Possibilities
  5 - 7 November 2009, Leipzig, Germany
  The organizers of the Second German Environmental Sociology Summit invite papers that focus on the following subjects: new governance and policy prospects for adapting to climate change; the limits and possibilities of sustainably restoring and revitalizing industrially altered landscapes; new forms of sustainability, be it on the local, regional (e.g., consumption), or on the global (e.g., emissions trading) level; and education and learning to meet the challenges of sustainable development. Presentations that focus on the viability (incl. economic, aesthetic, or practical facets) of adaptive technologies involving alternate energy sources (wind, waves, solar power, and alternate fuels) are also especially welcome.
• CO2 Capture and Geological Storage
  3rd International Symposium
  5 - 6 November 2009, Paris, France
  To build on the growing success of the first two international symposia on emission reduction and CO2 capture and geological storage, held in Paris in 2005 and again in 2007, IFP, ADEME and BRGM are organising a third event on the same topic in November 2009. This time, the focus will be on the urgency of industrial deployment.
• Implementing Copenhagen: business and regional government in a new low carbon world
  4 November 2009, Barcelona, Spain
  This conference is being held during the final UN preparatory meeting for the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December and will focus on the implementation of a new global climate deal. Presentations and discussions will address how business and different levels of government can work together to scale up the deployment of low carbon technologies, develop innovative new financing mechanisms and drive global emissions reductions. The meeting aims to produce a clear and targeted message for EU policymakers and negotiators in advance of Copenhagen and support a strong public-private dialogue that will help create effective policies as we move forward into 2010, in particular during the Spanish presidency of the EU.
• Climate 2009 / Klima 2009
  The world's climate neutral Scientific Climate Conference
  2 - 6 November 2009, online
  "Climate 2009 / Klima 2009" will encourage more networking and information exchange among participants and hopefully catalyse new cooperation initiatives and possibly new joint projects. Besides the refereed scientific papers, we will offer you a chance to discuss the problems, barriers, challenges and chances and potentials related to climate and sustainability research. Special discussion fora and chat rooms will cater for direct interaction with the participant scientists.
• Carbon Market Insights Americas
  2 - 4 November 2009, New York City, USA
  This conference will capture the latest insights in the evolving carbon market space, with special focus on both international negotiations vs. domestic legislation, and what the United States’ negotiation stance will be in Copenhagen. This year’s program will feature streams focused on the trading and market dynamics of carbon as an emerging commodity.
• Thirty-First Session of the IPCC
  26 - 29 October 2009, Bali, Indonesia
  • IPCC-Website
  • IISD-Website
• Carbon Storage - Challenges for Energy Companies and Public Authorities
  26 - 28 October 2009, Berlin, Germany
  This conference provides insight information about legal requirements for storage technologies and exploration. Gaining public acceptance and integrating public interests are further details that will be touched upon by experienced speakers from the public and private sector. Furthermore, our event presents a special feature as participants are offered the opportunity to visit a CCS testing site which is located close to Berlin.
• 2009 Energy Justice Conference
  23 - 24 October 2009, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  This conference will focus on the “other” third of the world—the energy oppressed poor (EOP)- afflicted by energy access problems. Two thirds of the world, located in developed and advanced developing countries, are high energy users while the other one third of the world, located primarily in the developing world, are low energy users. While the use of hydrocarbons by the high energy world is responsible for global warming and has led to the peaking of oil, the biomass-based fire of the other one third presents cognate energy problems. Black soot emitted by imperfect combustion of biomass creates indoor pollution causing the annual death of a million and half persons, primarily women and children. In addition, black soot in the atmosphere has recently been identified as a significant source of global warming. In addition to causing radiative forcing, black soot also interferes with the albedo effect in the ice clad regions of the world.
• Environmental Markets Place
  20 - 23 October 2009, Houston, TX, USA
  This Conference will include the following sessions:
  • Legislative Update: Paving the Rules on the Road to Cap and Trade
  • Carbon Market Oversight: Designing a System that Works
  • CAIR Revisited: What's Next in Multi-Pollutant Control Strategies?
  • Status of the US Carbon Markets: There is a Market Out There!
  • Market Updates: What's Going on in SO2, NOx, RECs, and RGGI
  • Climate Bill Impacts on Oil and Gas Companies
  • State of International Carbon Markets
  • The Cap and Trade Debate: What's Being Said v. What's Being Heard
  • Billions and Billions of Offsets?? How to develop enough capacity to meet the projected demand
• XIII World Forestry Congress (WFC 2009)
  18 - 23 October 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Official Website
  • IISD-Site
• Climate Change in South-Eastern European Countries IV
  Adaptation Strategies for Economy and Society
  19 - 20 October 2009, Zagreb, Croatia
  The vulnerability of society and the economy to the impacts of climate change requires research on the magnitude of the impacts and innovative approaches to adapt to these changes. Due to the great potential and demand for research on these climate change issues in South-Eastern European (SEE) countries, there is an essential need to discuss these topics with policy and decision makers as well as to coordinate and to bundle research activities within these topics. The coming workshop is designed to facilitate the exchange of latest findings and innovative ideas with representatives of science, business and public authorities.
• 19th Ph.D. Workshop on International Climate Policy
  8 - 9 October 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland
  The workshop is organized by the European Ph.D. network on International Climate Policy. This independent scientific community is open to PhD students and researchers from all disciplines working on aspects of International Climate Policy. As a vital part of the network, the PhD candidates meet twice a year for a workshop which gives them the opportunity to present their theses and discuss them with other PhD students and scientists working in the area of climate policy.
• Global Renewable Energy Forum 2009
  Scaling up Renewable Energy
  7 - 9 October 2009, León, Mexico
  The Global Forum will consist of a series of plenary and parallel sessions featuring high-level speakers. The topics to be discussed include: Energy Poverty, Economic and Financial Crisis, and Climate Change; Energy Transition; Renewable Energy Potential; Renewable Energy and the Access Agenda; Biofuels; Investments in Renewables; New Technologies; Industrial Applications; Energy Efficiency; and Innovative Policy and Institutional Framework. Also, a business and technology exhibition will take place simultaneously.
• ESF-VR-FORMAS Conference on Global Change Research
  Global Change Challenges: Transforming Energy Systems
  3 - 7 October 2009, Nynäshamn, Sweden
  The purpose of this conference is to provide the research basis for long-term transformation of energy systems that will allow us to achieve a sustainable production of energy for future generations. The conference will begin by mapping out the current landscape for energy production, and envisioning the goal for future sustainable energy systems. We will then explore the transformations necessary to realise this goal, and define the kinds of systemic-level analyses that will be necessary to support reaching this goal.
• 4 Degrees and Beyond
  International Clamate Conference
  28 - 30 September 2009, Oxford, UK
  Since 2000 the rates of annual emissions growth have increased at rates at the upper end of the IPCC scenarios, presenting the global community with a stark challenge: either instigate an immediate and radical reversal in existing emission trends or accept global temperature rises well beyond 4°. The aim of this conference is therefore to: (i) assess the consequences of a change in global temperature above 4°C for a range of systems and sectors, and (ii) explore the options that are open for avoiding climate changes of this magnitude.
• Planet under pressure: global changes, regional challenges
  24 September 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
  The symposium will highlight recent advances in global environmental change research, focusing on regional challenges at the science-policy interface. Themes on the Arctic, land-atmosphere-ocean interactions, and planetary boundaries will showcase some IGBP-led research and demonstrate how this research helps formulate policy. This symposium aims to strengthen IGBP and the Academy’s role in global change research in Sweden, and to improve links with policymakers. The afternoon will include a panel debate on communicating risk and uncertainty, involving decision makers, industry and media representatives.
• 10th Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation
  23 - 25 September 2009, Lisbon, Portugal
  Focusing on two topics, Water Management and Climate Change, the conference will cover a broad spectrum of environmental tax policy issues with regard to water management and climate change law and foster cross-disciplinary links among economics, law and political science. Each topic includes a keynote plenary session and several parallel panels. Contributions from the following fields are especially welcome:
  • Water management policies and institutional frameworks
  • Tax instruments for climate change prevention and mitigation
  • Coordination of environmental taxes with other environmental economic instruments
  • Benchmarking of energy tax systems
  • International competitiveness in the presence of climate policies with tax instruments
  • New tax-related financial mechanisms for climate and coastal protection in developing countries and small island states
• Climate Neutral Cities
  Seventieth session of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management
  23 September 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
  Guest speakers will examine the multidimensional approach of "Climate Neutral Cities". These will include policymakers and authorities from various cities, who will present relevant policies as well as the challenges to governance posed by this concept. Experts from the public and private sectors will address the technical hurdles and provide practical solutions for reducing urban GHG emissions through land-use and transport planning, infrastructure, energy efficiency and overall building performance.
• Politik im Klimawandel. Keine Macht für gerechte Lösungen?
  21 - 25 September 2009, Kiel, Germany
• 8th International Carbon Dioxide Conference(ICDC8)
  13 - 19 September 2009, Jena, Germany
  Since 1981 the worldwide scientific community meets every four years at an international conference for an exchange of the latest knowledge and to gain a better understanding on the multitude of interdisciplinary aspects of the global carbon cycle.
• 1st Oxyfuel Combustion Conference
  8 -11 September 2009, Cottbus, Germany
  This event will provide a forum to continue to discuss the remaining issues relevant to the development of oxyfuel combustion technologies and share what we have learnt from the experience of operating the 1st oxyfuel combustion boiler.
• Megacities: Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Development
  7 - 9 September 2009, Leipzig, Germany
  The conference invites interdisciplinary contributions of worldwide regions from all fields of urban research such as: land use, social polarization, security, energy, water and sanitation, waste, mobility and transportation, air quality, health, food supply, economic productivity, climate, ecology. Proposed work is expected to examine these fields by means of modeling, monitoring, quantitative and qualitative social/political science research and sce-nario techniques. Interdisciplinary contributions are expected to present re-search that connects to any of the three main themes Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable development.
• World Climate Conference-3
  Climate prediction and information for decision-making
  31 August – 4 September 2009 Geneva, Switzerland
  WCC-3 will build on the achievements of the First and Second World Climate Conferences and focus on how humankind can benefit from the huge advances in climate prediction and knowledge. High-value information is now available to establish services that will enable decision-makers to better manage the risks and opportunities related to climate variability and ongoing climate change. By laying down an international framework to develop climate services which meet local needs, WCC-3 will contribute to the outcomes of the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 2009. Such climate services will bridge the gap between the IPCC assessment reports and the actions required to adapt to climate variability and change.
  • IISD Summary
• Harmonizing Greenhouse Gas Assessment and Reporting Processes
  1 - 2 September 2009, Baltimore, MD, USA
  The reporting of accurate and consistent data is key to determining the success of climate action plans and mitigation measures. Join the Air & Waste Management Association and industry experts for Harmonizing Greenhouse Gas Assessment and Reporting Processes to discuss advances in greenhouse gas (GHG) emission estimation methods, emission inventories, and reporting.
• 5th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change & Business Conference
  24 - 26 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia
  The 2009 conference will closely examine three themes: world policy developments in the lead-up to Copenhagen; prospering in the low carbon economy; and financing the transition to reduced emissions including insights into the carbon markets. Across each of these, the impacts of the global recession on evolving climate change responses will be addressed. For the first time, the 2009 event will hold an International Expo, enabling players in the carbon market and climate change service providers to showcase how they can assist companies to respond to the greenhouse challenge.
• 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry
  23 - 28 August 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
  The 2nd World Congress on Agroforestry will assess opportunities to leverage scientific agroforestry in promoting sustainable land use worldwide.
• World Water Week
  16 - 22 August 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
  The World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual meeting place for the planet’s most urgent water-related issues. Organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute, it brings together experts, practitioners, decision makers and leaders from around the globe to exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions. Our theme for 2009 is Responding to Global Changes: Accessing Water for the Common Good.
  • Water & Climate Days
• North American Biochar Conference 2009
  9 - 12 August 2009, Boulder, USA
  The 2009 North American Biochar Conference will be the first major biochar conference held in the United States. The conference is designed to advance our understanding of the policy, business, scientific, and technical opportunities and issues implicated by the large-scale usage of biochar as both a sequestration agent and soil amendment.
• Global Conference on Global Warming 2009
  5 - 9 July 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
  The primary themes of the conference are global warming and climate change, not only in engineering and science but also in all other disciplines (e.g. ecology, education, social sciences, economics, management, political sciences, and information technology). It covers a broad range of topics on energy and environment policies, energy resources, energy conversion technologies, energy management and conservation, energy security, renewables, green technologies, emission reduction and abatement, carbon tax, sustainable development, pollution control and measures, policy development, etc.
• Cities and Climate Change
  Responding to an Urgent Agenda
  28 - 30 June 2009, Marseille, France
  The topic for the 5th Urban Research Symposium is Cities and Climate Change: Responding to the Urgent Agenda. At a time when climate change is a major priority for the international community, this Symposium aims at pushing forward the research agenda on climate change from a city’s perspective. Specifically, the main questions will be structured around the impacts of city and urban growth on climate change; measuring and anticipating the consequences of climate change on urban quality of life, city assets, and local and national economies; and assessing alternatives to increase the resilience of cities and related costs and incentives required for successful implementation.
• 17th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
  24 - 27 June 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  The programme of the conference will cover all areas of environmental and natural resource economics and we expect around 600 participants from all over the world, international researchers, scholars, economists and students. It is an invaluable opportunity for meeting, exchanging, and debating current topics in environmental and resource economics.
• GECHS Synthesis Conference
  Human Security in an Era of Global Change
  22 - 24 June 2009, Oslo, Norway
  The Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) Project is organising this conference which represents an opportunity to synthesise the results of 10 years of research on the relationship between global environmental change and human security and to gather researchers, policy makers and stakeholders from different fields to discuss the interactions between various processes of change and what they mean for human security.
• International Energy Conference 2009
  Towards an Integrated Energy Agenda Beyond 2020: Securing Sustainable Policies and Investments
  22 - 24 June 2009, Vienna, Austria
  The International Energy Conference 2009 will provide a platform for policymakers, private sector and civil society representatives from developing and industrialized countries to discuss energy issues in the context of the current global financial and economic crisis, stressing the need for increased international cooperation and highlighting the role which the United Nations system and the development partners can play in the field of energy.
• China and Global Climate Change
  Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons
  18 - 19 June 2009, Hong Kong, China
  The Centre for Asian Pacific Studies (CAPS) and the Environmental Studies Programme (ESP) at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, are jointly organizing a conference on "China and Global Climate Change." The conference will address the problem of how to reconcile China's growing greenhouse gas emissions with the Chinese government's unwillingness to join binding international commitments to reduce those emissions.
• International Energy Workshop (IEW)
  17 - 19 June 2009, Venice, Italy
  The International Energy Workshop (IEW) is a network of global energy experts who meet annually to discuss a wide range of topics, with particular emphasis on global as well as regional energy issues. The annual IEW meetings focus on energy assessments and try to understand the reasons for diverging views of development in the energy sector.
• The 5th Trondheim Conference on CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage
  16 - 17 June 2009, Trondheim, Norway
  The 5th TCCS will be focused on research and development regarding CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage (CCS). The target of this conference is to bring forward, present and discuss the work being performed within the R&D institutions, universities and industries. Papers are invited to cover the whole chain of CCS technology development.
• 2nd Berlin Climate Law Conference
  On the Road to Copenhagen: Legal Aspects of the Post-2012 Debate
  15 June 2009, Berlin, Germany
  With its second annual installment, the Berlin Climate Law Conference 2009 will again bring together experts from the legal discipline and other stakeholders to engage in a discussion on the legal dimensions of climate change. It responds to the growing significance of law as a framework to operationalise climate policies and create predictability and stability in the rapidly growing carbon market. In 2009, the conference will focus on the future of the international climate regime.
• The Great Transformation
  Climate Change As Cultural Change
  8 - 10 June 2009 in Essen, Germany
  The themes of this conference outline the depth and scope of the political and cultural change currently taking place in the global community, which can justly be termed a new "Great Transformation": at its heart are the major issues of new market organizations, new forms of global governance, a profound shift in attitudes and a new culture of participation.
• 1st International Exergy, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Workshop & Symposium (ELCAS)
  4 - 6 June, 2009, Nisyros, Greece
  The 1st International Exergy, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Workshop & Symposium (ELCAS) will provide a multidisciplinary international forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners from all over the world to exchange information, to present high-quality research results and new developments in the wide domain covered by exergy, life cycle assessment, the environment, and sustainability issues. The workshop will provide a window towards the developments in the areas of exergy and life cycle assessment. All participants will have a chance to discuss the future direction and priorities in the fields.
• IMPETUS Africa Conference
  Global Change in Africa - Projections, Mitigation and Adaptation
  2 - 5 June 2009, Cologne, Germany
  To break the disastrous spiral of ever decaying social, economic, and natural conditions, unprecedented efforts are needed based on insights in natural, social, economic, political, and health sciences. The support of decision making processes based on a thorough understanding of all related processes is mandatory to overcome the pressing problems .
• 2nd Annual Biomass Conference
  Energy from Biomass in Ontario: Getting Beyond the Promise
  31 May - 1 June 2009, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  Building on the success of last year's conference, over 200 decision-makers from industry government and academia will participate in the discussion surrounding four key questions:
  1. How much biomass is out there?
  2. How much will biomass cost?
  3. How far can bioenergy take us?
  4. How will bioenergy be developed?
• International Workshop on Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change
  Guidance and Tools
  28 - 30 May 2009, Berlin, Germany
• Carbon Expo 2009
  Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference
  27 - 29 May 2009. Barcelona, Spain
• The 8th Meeting of the Asia Forest Partnership & AFP Dialogue
  27 - 28 May 2009, Melia Nusa Dua Bali, Indonesia
  The Asia Forest Partnership (AFP) Dialogue will examine links between mechanisms to compensate countries for reducing deforestation and forest degradation, and efforts to combat illegal logging and the associated timber trade. The two-day event will provide an opportunity for the many stakeholders in tropical forests to share information, to establish partnerships and to propose recommendations to policymakers.
• Sustainable Development: A Challenge for European Research
  26 - 28 May, Brussels, Belgium
  This conference – organised in cooperation with the Czech Presidency of the EU – will initiate a structured dialogue on how to reform European research to best respond to sustainable development challenges, many of which are of international scope. It will also investigate ways for improving the science-policy link and the relationship between science and society.
• The European position towards Copenhagen
  A global outlook
  20 May 2009, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  Maastricht University, together with the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, is organizing this high-level environmental law expert meeting. A global team of environmental law professors, representing every continent of the world, will discuss the proposals set out by the European Commission in its Communication of 28 January 2009, "Towards a comprehensive climate change agreement in Copenhagen", and the subsequent decisions of the European Parliament and the Council. The experts will present their views on the possible further design of the international climate change framework, particularly from the perspective of the specific situation of their region, and will examine from those perspectives the feasibility of the position set out by the European institutions.
• Climate Finance - The Mechanics of Public Private Cooperation
  20 May 2009, Berlin, Germany
  The symposium organized by the KfW Entwicklungsbank will focus on the respective roles and relations of public and private financial resources in combating climate change. It will provide a forum for policy and business professionals as well as scientists dealing with this topical issue. Speakers and participants are encouraged to exchange their views on climate finance and how the required financial flow from industrialized to developing countries and the engagement of the private sector may be organized in order to deal with the challenges lying ahead.
• Fourth International Conference on Clean Coal Technologies for our Future (CCT2009)
  18 - 20 May 2009, Dresden, Germany
  The fourth in this series of topical conferences on clean coal technologies will be held in conjunction with the Third International Freiberg Conference on IGCC and XtL Technologies. The conference is being organised by IEA Clean Coal Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the IEC - Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering at TU Bergakademie Freiberg
• C40 Large Cities Climate Summit 2009
  18 - 21 May 2009, Seoul, South Korea
  80 leading cities around the world will meet in Seoul to discuss climate concerns under the theme of 'Cities' Achievements and Challenges in the Fight against Climate Change. This third summit of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, will provide a key opportunity to review progress that cities have made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and assess future challenges.
• 10th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization (ICCDU-X)
  17 - 23 May 2009, Tianjin, China
  The ICCDU conferences, held every other year (alternating between Asia, Europe and North America), aim to promote the research and development of utilization of carbon dioxide.
• 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
  12 - 15 May 2009, Hamilton, Canada
  CCTC 2009 is a Canadian / international forum for engineers, scientists, policy advisors, industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange new information and ideas for dealing with climate change and global warming. It also provides an opportunity for participants to keep abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change.
• World Ocean Conference 2009
  11 - 15 May 2009, Manado, Indonesia
  • Official Conference Site
  • IISD-Site
• Seventeenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 17)
  3rd Implementation Cycle: Policy Session
  4 - 15 May 2009, New York, USA
  This session in the CSD's two-year implementation cycle will focus on identifying policy options to advance implementation in relation to the thematic cluster issues of agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa.
  • UN Division for Sustainable Development Site
  • IISD-Site
• Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Carbon Forum
  6 - 7 May 2009, Cairo, Egypt
  The main objective of this Forum is to bring on a unique regional platform, various stakeholders that are active in the carbon market: project owners and developers, CDM governance bodies, financial institutions as well as carbon market buyers and intermediaries and service providers to discuss the latest developments related to carbon market and create ample opportunities for networking and business development.
• Defining Global Security in the 21st Century
  A Conference on the Global Security Implications of Climate Change
  5 May 2009, Washington DC, USA
  Agenda:
  • Can we have both Energy Security and Climate Security? Are long term security from climate change and short-term energy security compatible?
  • Managing Climate-Induced State-Threatening Crises: How should militaries plan for massive humanitarian interventions into states stressed by climate-induced crises?
  • The Strategic Consequences of the Copenhagen Meeting: How do we define 'security' in a world of climate instability? Is a global emissions-reduction treaty necessary for long-term global security?
• 8th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration
  4 - 7 May 2009, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  Determining the Technologies & System Components for Commercially Viable CCS
• Thinking Outside the Box: Borderless Strategies to Combat Climate Change
  30 April 2009, London, UK
  Organised by UNA UK (London and South East Region) and hosted by the International Maritime Organisation in London, the aim of the conference is to hear ideas from both leading experts and the general public on how to achieve a real reversal of greenhouse gas emissions.
• UNCTAD Expert Meeting on Trade,Investment Opportunities and Challenges under the Clean Development Mechanism
  27 – 29 April 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
  The meeting will address trade and investment opportunities and challenges under the Clean Development Mechanismis (CDM), how this mechanism functions and how its contribution to sustainable development in developing countries might be enhanced
• Local Renewables 2009 Conference
  27 - 29 April, Freiburg, Germany
  Local Renewables is the international conference presenting flagship examples, proven successes and state-of-the-art technologies and approaches in the transition towards renewable energy at the community level. Multiple study tours on innovate sustainable energy solutions are offered.
• 2009 Energy Efficiency Global Forum and Exposition (EE Global)
  27 - 29 April 2009, Paris, France
  This year's EE Global, organised by the Alliance to Save Energy, will offer an unparalleled lineup of more than 100 global public and private sector energy and energy efficiency leaders and experts and will feature 24 90-minute Executive Dialogue sessions. Each session is designed to fit one of four end-user "tracks" - buildings, industry and utilities, transportation and urban planning, and consumer. Within these tracks, each session will focus on one of four key cross-cutting issues - finance, policy, technology, or market transformation.
• 7th Open Meeting of the International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  Social Challenges of Global Change
  26 - 30 April 2009, Bonn, Germany
  The theme of the 7th Open Meeting responds to important changes in the perspective of the scientific community on the challenges that we are currently facing and outlines the new research agenda for IHDP’s second decade.
• Environmental Markets Association's Spring 2009 Conference
  and Introduction to Emissions Trading Workshop
  26 - 29 April 2009, Washington, Dc, USA
  Sessions will include prospects for greenhouse gas policy in the US as well as highlighting changes and issues with current emissions markets in the US and abroad.
• STRACO2 - CCS Regulation Workshop
  24 April 2009, Brussels, Belgium
  The workshop will discuss the opportunities and challenges to CCS Regulation in the European Union and possibilities of future cooperation between the EU and China on this issue.
• G8 Environment Meeting
  22 - 24 April 2009, Syracuse, Italy
• Energy & Climate change in cold regions
  The challenge of development in energy-related projects and climate change adaptation strategies in the cold regions of Asia
  21 - 24 April 2009, Leh, India
  Populations of high altitude mountains and cold desert areas of Asia face very harsh living conditions and are among the most vulnerable in the world. Physically isolated, marginalised, with limited access to natural resources, an important number of people still rely on traditional energy resources -mainly biomass- that sometimes lead to the deterioration of this fragile environment. GERES (Groupe Energies Renouvelables, Environnement et Solidarités), a recognised international French NGO, is organising in partnership with the European Union, GTZ (German Technical Cooperation), ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency), and Fondation Ensemble, a regional seminar to
  • share our strategies, expertise and field experience on energy and climate change issues;
  • formulate a series of concrete recommendations in terms of policy and methodology;
  • initiate a community of practice among the key players of the Region.
• 30th Session of the IPCC
  21 - 23 April 2009, Antalya, Turkey
• Workshop on energy efficiency in housing
  21-22 April 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria
  The first UNECE Workshop on energy efficiency in housing will discuss specific challenges and opportunities for the UNECE region. The aim of the workshop will be to provide UNECE member States with policy guidance and suggestions on how to increase energy efficiency in the housing sector. The workshop will review the economic, social and environmental impacts; consider current policies, solutions and barriers to effective policies; and discuss the priorities that need to be addressed by Governments.
• Monitoring climate change impacts
  Establishing a Southern Ocean Sentinel program
  20 - 24 April 2009, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  Workshop Supported by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), WWF, and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-operative Research Centre (ACE CRC). A timely interdisciplinary workshop to address important issues in measuring, assessing and providing early-warning detection of climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and biodiversity, by measuring change in the Southern Ocean. A key focus will be to promote national and international collaboration.
• European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009
  19 – 24 April 2009, Vienna, Austria
  The EGU General Assembly 2009 will bring together geoscientists from all over Europe and the rest of the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Especially for young scientists the EGU appeals to provide a forum to present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences.
• 18th Ph.D. Workshop on International Climate Policy
  17 - 18 April 2009, New York City, USA
  The workshop is open to Ph.D. students and researchers from all disciplines working on any aspect of climate policy. The workshop meets twice a year and provides Ph.D. students with an opportunity to present and discuss their work in an informal setting.
• The Ceres Conference 2009
  Achieving a Sustainable Global Economy
  15 - 16 April 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA
• 2009 EIA Energy Conference
  A New Climate for Energy
  7 - 8 April 2009, Washington, DC, USA
• Financial Crisis and Climate Policy
  A Science-Policy Debate
  4 April 2009, Venice, Italy
  Four distinguished panelists will look at the problem from four different perspectives: climate research, economic research, business, and the study of complex systems. Before that background, researchers and stakeholders from a variety of fields are invited to engage in an open discussion. Main findings of the debate will be fed into the EU conference “Sustainable Development: A Challenge for European Research” that will take place on May 26-28 in Brussels.
• UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development
  Moving into the Second Half of the UN Decade
  31 March - 2 April 2009, Bonn, Germany
  Five years into the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, for which UNESCO is the lead agency, the conference aims to highlight the relevance of ESD to all of education; promote international exchange on ESD, especially between countries of the North and the South; carry out a stock-taking of the implementation of the UN Decade, and develop strategies for the way ahead.
• Land Use Change due to Bioenergy
  Quantifying and Managing Greenhouse Gas and other Environmental Impacts
  30 March - 1 April 2009, Helsinki, Finland
  The conference consists of two days of presentation and discussion on the following themes:
  1. Direct Land Use Change (DLUC) - magnitude and methodologies for assessment; and
  2. Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) - drivers of ILUC and mechanisms to manage ILUC; magnitude and methodologies for assessment
  The audience for the workshop will include policy makers and researchers in the area of bioenergy, land use change and LCA.
• Annual NETL CO2 Capture Technology for Existing Plants R&D Meeting
  24 - 26 March 2009, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  The U.S. Department of Energy and its National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is organizing this meeting. It will provide a showcase for the CO2 capture related projects currently funded by the DOE/NETL Existing Plants program. This meeting will include project updates for ongoing research efforts along with overviews of recently awarded projects.
• APEC Workshop on Policies to Promote Energy Efficiency in Transport (WPPEET)
  24 - 25 March 2009, Singapore
  The workshop will bring together APEC economy policymakers and international experts to discuss best practices and lessons learned in all APEC economies, with the aim of informing future policy for promoting energy-efficient and sustainable transport throughout the APEC region. The intended outcomes of the workshop include an expansion of a 2008 survey of APEC transportation policies to incorporate the best practices and case studies discussed during the workshop, and a draft action plan for APEC economies.
• Sustainability Issues and Challenges for Spatial Planning in 21st Century Cities and Regions
  International Urban Planning and Environment Association Symposium 8
  23 - 26 March 2009, Kaiserslautern, Germany
  The 8th International Symposium (UPE 8) of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association aims to be a forum for discussing urban and environmental issues. Previous UPE conferences have been international events that have attracted hundreds of professionals, academics and policy makers from all over the world to discuss relevant and timely issues.
• Wittenberg Workshop 2009
  Sixth International Research Workshop "Post Kyoto-Regime and Emissions Trading"
  20 - 21 March 2009, Wittenberg, Germany
• Fifth World Water Forum
  16 - 22 March 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
  The World Water Forum is the main water-related event in the world, aimed at putting water firmly on the international agenda. A stepping stone towards global collaboration on water problems, the Forum offers the water community and policy-and-decision-makers from all over the world the unique opportunity to come together to create links, debate and attempts to find solutions to achieve water security.
  • Official Site
  • IISD Site
• Carbon Market Insights 2009
  17 - 19 March 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Carbon Market Insights 2009 will discuss the way forward for international climate policy in the very same venue as the Copenhagen negotiations will determine the future carbon market later in the year. The event will also look at the impacts of the financial crisis on carbon markets and discuss whether the economic downturn could reduce the chances of reaching a new climate agreement.
• International Standards to Promote Energy Efficiency and Reduce Carbon Emissions
  16 - 17 March 2009, Paris, France
  This workshop jointly organized by the IEA, ISO and IEC brings together key actors in standardization, the private sector and public policy to map out the most important standardization areas that will be required to support energy efficiency and carbon reduction objectives and to draw attention to the urgent need to strengthen standardization efforts if the potential of energy efficiency gains are to be realised. It explores the key technical, policy and administrative themes pertaining to energy efficiency standardization in all energy usage sectors and aims to animate discussion and draw conclusions that can be fed into relevant high-level international processes.
• Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions
  10 - 12 March 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
  The Danish Government as host of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP15) to be held in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 supports this Congress organised by IARU as part of the run-up to the COP 15. The purpose of the conference is to try and capture some of the enormous research energy currently being devoted to the elucidation, mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
• Second Intersessional Meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Working Group on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions from Ships
  9 - 13 March 2009, London, UK
  More than 200 delegates, comprising experts from all over the world, are registered for attendance. The week-long session is tasked with further developing and finalizing the Energy Efficiency Design Index for new ships and the revised Interim Guidelines on the Energy Efficiency Operational Index. A report of the group’s discussions will be forwarded to the 59th session of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 59) in July 2009 which will report on the measures agreed to reduce GHG from ships to the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, in December 2009, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  
  • Background Information
• Environmental Disasters and Law
  Failures of Law, Calls for Law
  11 - 13 March 2009, Limoges, France
  The colloquium will feature a presentation of a "Draft Convention on an international status of environmentally displaced persons" which was written by an expert group from the Faculty of Law of University of Limoges.
• First International Conference On Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones & Climate Change
  International Conference Co-Sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization
  8 - 11 March 2009, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
  The Conference will will bring together leading experts, from both research and operational meteorological environments. It is intended that the Conference will be a first step towards an ongoing international focus on potential impact of climate change in the Indian Ocean. Members of the World Weather Research Programme Expert Team will present papers on various aspects of the topic “Climate change impacts on tropical cyclones papers”. WMO will also sponsor the participation of representatives from the National Meteorological Services of Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand, as well as representatives from the other Tropical Cyclone Warning Centres (Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres) around the globe. It is anticipated that these scientists will make presentations on the availability and quality of best track data from their region, including historical data and landfall events.
• Beyond Kyoto: Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change
  Science meets Industry, Policy and Public
  5 - 7 March 2009, Aarhus, Denmark
  The following six themes are to be discussed during the event: Climate policy - the role of law and economics, biodiversity and ecosystems, agricultural production, nanotechnology solutions for a sustainable future, citizens and society and the Arctic case.
• Risk and Planet Earth
  Vulnerability, Natural Hazards, Integrated Adaptation Strategies
  Conference on the occasion of the International year of Planet Earth and the 600th anniversary of the University of Leipzig
  2 - 4 March 2009, Leipzig, Germany
  The three-day conference will bring together experts from natural and social sciences to discuss aspects of resilience and strategies for the prevention of catastrophic losses caused by extreme weather events. It further connects multiple perspectives from three different continents: north America, Africa and Europe. The main focus of the conference is on adaptation; that is, adaptation to given parameters, as well as to expected changes.
• 3rd Annual Carbon Capture and Storage conference
  26 - 27 February 2009, Brussels, Belgium
  Platts 3rd Annual European Carbon Capture and Storage conference will once again assemble the CCS community to debate the structural challenges faced, discuss and review CCS projects in their various stages and look to uncover opportunities in what will become a changed regulatory environment to ensure CCS lives up to its potential.
• Third International Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA)
  22 - 26 February 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  Thematic areas are:
  • Evidences of Change:
    Impacts at local to global level, understanding adaptation planning and practices to climate change;
  • CBA in Practice in Sectors and Regions:
    water, agriculture, biodiversity, human health, infrastructure, coastal zone, dry land, drought, mountain, floodplain;
  • Knowledge, Education and Awareness on Climate Change:
    Challenges and oppor t u n i t i e s of mainstreaming adaptation;
  • Partnerships in Adaptation:
    Global, Regional, National and Local Level.
• STRACO2 Conference on CCS Regulation for the EU and China
  18 - 19 February 2009, Brussels, Belgium
  The conference will discuss the opportunities and challenges to CCS regulation in the European Union and possibilities of future cooperation between the EU and China on this issue.
• Multi-year expert meeting on transport and trade facilitation
  Maritime transport and the climate change challenge
  16 – 18 February 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
  The three-day UNCTAD expert meeting, will cover the scientific background and effects of climate change, mitigation options for shipping and ports, climate change impacts, in particular in relation to coastal/port infrastructure and implications for navigation routes, as well as associated adaptation requirements. Highly important cross-cutting issues, such as finance, technology and energy will also be considered.
• Realizing Low Carbon Cities
  Bridging Science and Policy
  Understanding and Analyzing Urban Energy and Carbon
  16 - 18 February 2009, Nagoya, Japan
  Global Carbon Project's Urban and Regional Carbon Management Initiative (GCP/URCM), Nagoya University's Initiative for Low Carbon Cities (NU/LCS), and the Centre for Global Environmental Research of National Institute for Environmental Studies Japan (NIES/CGER), are jointly organizing two events dedicated to Low Carbon Cities related research and policies with considerable focus on urban energy uses. The aims of these events are to link scholarly endeavors to policies and to bridge research and policies , to strengthen and develop networks in the area linking urban energy use, urban development and urban carbon management in the climate change mitigation context, to share research results, modeling and analyses challenges, and to discuss ways to overcoming them, to explore ideas for developing joint activities such as syntheses, harmonized cross-comparative studies, and policy analyses
• Second Session of the WMO Executive Council Working Group on Climate and Related Weather, Water and Environmental Matters
  11 - 13 February 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
  The session of the Working Group will review recent major weather, climate and water related events and their outcomes. Participants will also discuss future directions for WMO’s involvement in the new UN system-wide coordination mechanism on climate change activities. Other issues on the meeting’s agenda include an update on preparations for the World Climate Conference-3.
• Workshop on Aviation and Alternative Fuels
  10 - 12 February 2009, Montreal, Canada
  This upcoming and timely event will provide a forum to explore potential options, challenges to development and deployment of alternative fuels, as well as initiatives to promote cooperation in this endeavour. This workshop is designed as a preparatory event to a major conference in November 2009 that will showcase progress and establish a road map for the implementation of alternative fuels for aviation. Representatives from ICAO's Contracting States, key stakeholders from the aviation community and the environmental sector will convene to discuss these critical aviation alternative fuel issues and the specific challenges they pose.
• European Conference on CCS Research, Development and Demonstration
  10 - 11 February 2009, Oslo, Norway
  The conference will focus on research and technological development on CO2 capture and storage within relevant on-going projects under EU’s framework programmes. The conference will give an overview of the different projects, their objectives and main results. More in-depth technological presentations will be given in thematic sessions on Post-combustion, Pre-combustion, Oxy-fuel combustion and Transport and Storage.
• Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2009
  Towards Copenhagen: An Equitable and Ethical Approach
  4 - 7 February 2009, New Delhi, India
  The summit in 2009 would seek to reinforce the climate change agenda of the previous year. It would sharpen the focus on the theme "Towards Copenhagen: an equitable and ethical approach", to arrive at a global consensus on climate change beyond 2012. Industry leaders, opinion makers, and climate change experts will gather to create a uniform level of understanding among all stakeholders and formulate meaningful policy options for constructive dialogue on climate change and try to arrive at an agreement.
• Energy and Climate Summit 2009: Meeting New Challenges
  3 - 4 February 2009, New Delhi, India
  IRADe, a Research and Action Institute in New Delhi, India is organizing an event on collaboration with other organizations in India. Our intention is to discuss how climate change impacts energy sector (adaptation) and how energy sector can come forward to mitigate emissions.
• World Social Forum 2009
  27 January - 1 February 2009, Belem, Brasil
  The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action. Since the first world encounter in 2001, it has taken the form of a permanent world process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies.
• World Economic Forum
  Annual Meeting 2009: "Shaping the Post-Crisis World"
  28 January - 1 February 2009, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland
• Future Climate Change Response Research
  Learning from IPCC’s Fourth Assessment
  21 - 23 January 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  IPCC/ESSP co-sponsored Workshop at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 5th Austrian JI/CDM Workshop
  21 - 23 January 2009, Vienna, Austria
  This well established workshop is a get together of project developers, investors, validators and governmental authorities and aims to provide participants with an update about recent developments and future perspectives right after the COP/MOP in Poznan. This is a workshop for companies and institutions and it is a perfect setting to exchange hands on experience and professional know-how from practitioners about technologies, methodologies and country specifics in the JI/CDM market.
• Conference on the International Dimensions of Climate Policies
  21 - 23 January 2009, Bern, Switzerland The conference will cover a broad spectrum of climate economic research issues and foster cross-disciplinary links. Contributions from the following fields are welcome:
  • Trade theoretical foundations of integrated assessment models
  • Trade implications of promoting adaptation
  • Effect of technological transfers and spillovers in the context of global climate policies
  • International competitiveness in the presence of climate policies
• 13th Annual State of the World Symposium
  15 January 2009, Washington, DC, USA
• The Greening Irish Agriculture: Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change
  9 January 2009, Dublin, Ireland
  The EU will likely set an onerous target of a -20 to 30% emissions reduction for Ireland's "domestic" sector at the upcoming European Council of December 11. 40% of domestic sector emissions come from agriculture, for times the EU average and almost unique among developed economies internationally. This means that the Irish agricultural sector is posed with a unique challenge and perhaps a unique opportunity for transformation. The Institute of International and European Affairs has organised an international conference in Dublin castle to further explore the challenges and opportunities facing the sector.
• 1st International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE'09)
  a conference for a future sustainable development
  5 - 7 January 2009, Hong Kong
  CAE'09 will provide an unique platform for worldwide scientists, industrialists and the governmental decision-makers to discuss the advances of the science and technology in applied energy as well as the energy-related policies. The main objectives of the conference are as follows: To gather experts in applied energy technology from academia and industries around the world, especially in the Asia-Pacific region; To form network of energy technology scientists to facilitate interdisciplinary research and collaboration among researchers in engineering, chemistry, physics and materials science; To strengthen connection between academia and industry to facilitate application of advanced energy technologies; To seek policy support from the government to develop and promote energy technologies.
• Climate Change and Energy Security
  Major Challenges of European Energy Policy
  15 - 16 December 2008, Brussels, Belgium
  The Institute of European Studies and the Law Faculty of the University of Leuven in cooperation with the Energy Law Research Forum organize a two days event focusing on the analysis of the geopolitical and legal aspects of climate change and energy security.
• Socio-Economic Drivers of Climate Change
  11 - 12 December 2008, Venice, Italy
  Understanding climate change means understanding the complex societal and economic dynamics, determining the amount of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Applied economics provides a number of modelling tools and analytical approaches, which could be fruitfully employed to generate and to assess economic scenarios, as well as to study the impacts of climate change on economic growth, trade flows, relative competitiveness of regions and industries, wealth and income distribution. The Workshop aims to provide an overall introduction on economic models and tools, useful in the context of climate change analysis, and to present some recent findings obtained in the ENSEMBLES-based Predictions of Climate Change and their Impacts project.
• Gender Justice in Times of a Changing Climate
  5 December 2008, Poznan, Poland
  
• The 2nd Annual European Carbon Capture & Storage Summit
  2 - 3 December 2008, London, UK
  This summit brings together a speaker panel of exceptional quality to examine, in the round, the prospects for the development of CCS on a commercial scale. It includes sessions on the policy context, the economics of commercial scale CCS, the maturity of CCS technologies, developments in Europe, CCS throughout the world and establishing a regulatory framework for CCS.
• Climate Change and Development
  How to Mobilize, Transfer and Use Innovative Funding
  1 December 2008, Doha, Qatar
  Efforts to increase climate resilience, to move to a low-carbon development path and to maintain progress towards the MDGs will require new and additional financing from various sources. Several options are currently under consideration or are already being implemented.
• Analysing Innovation Networks for Sustainable Energy Technologies
  26 - 27 November 2008, Graz, Austria
  The workshop will bring together researchers involved in the analysis of innovation networks both from the perspective of innovation systems analysis and from Social Network Analysis. A particular emphasis will be on innovation networks in the area of sustainable energy technologies.
• Climate change in the Maghreb: thresholds and limits to adaptation
  25 - 26 of November 2008, Marrakech, Morocco
  The overall objective of this conference is to consider strategies for adapting to climate change, in particular to explore the potential barriers to adaptation that may limit the ability of societies in the Maghreb countries to adapt to climate change and to identify opportunities for overcoming these barriers.
• Nordic Climate Solutions
  Scandinavia´s annual marketplace for low carbon economy leaders
  25 - 26 November 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark
  The event is jointly organized with the Nordic Council of Ministers and a series of industry leaders from the Nordic Region. Nordic Climate Solutions takes form as a combined conference and trade show. While the conference identifies current challenges and opportunities, the tradeshow presents state of the art solutions for achieving a low carbon economy.
• 2nd Conference on adaptation to climate change in developing countries
  25 November 2008, Hague, Netherlands
  The event aims to bring together NGO practitioners, government officials, scientist and representatives from business. This year operationalising adaptation to climate change in developing countries is the main theme. We know the possible threats that climate change can pose, but how do we translate this into our actions here and now? How to translate the general and long term climate scenario's in information for decision-making at community level? How can climate change adaptation strengthen the MDGs? How can climate change adaptation improve existing disaster risk management structures and their connection with sustainable development strategies.
• Coastal Cities Summit 2008
  17 - 20 November 2008, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
  The conference will focus on three themes: Climate Change, Risk and Vulnerability, and Sustainable Development. It will address the complex challenges that coastal city leaders face as populations increase, resources are depleted, and the impacts of climate change are felt. The Coastal Cities Summit intends to bring together coastal city leaders, managers and academics to discuss environmental, social, economic, and public policy challenges and viable solutions.
• Energy Delta Convention 2008
  17 - 19 November 2008, Groningen, The Netherlands
  The Energy Delta Convention has the following goals:
  • Creates a unique international, interdisciplinary platform (business, science, government) on challenges in the field of future energy supply.
  • Covers in depth scientific energy/sustainability research questions.
  • Demonstrates good examples of transition on the level of cities, regions and countries
  • Enhances the international visibility of Groningen as hot spot for development of energy related activities.
• 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies(GHGT-9)
  16 - 20 November 2008, Washington DC, USA
  The Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT) conference series was formed in 1997 following the merger of the earlier series of ICCDR and the Greenhouse Gas Mitigation options conference. The IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEA GHG) is the guardian of the conference series. The GHGT conferences are held every two years in IEA GHG's member countries. The conference series rotates between, North America, Europe and Asia.
• Global Energy Basel (GEB)
  Unique Marketplace and Partnering Platform
  12 - 14 November 2008, Basel, Switzerland
  Global Energy Basel is a new marketplace and partnering platform for the world's most important exponents of sustainable energy solutions. Representatives from industry, government, administration, science and NGO's present exemplary solutions for secure and sustainable energy supply in the context of large infrastructure and urban development projects. Centrally addressed are the critical factors for successfully establishing the strategic partnerships necessary for implementing such projects.
• Better Air Quality 2008
  12 - 14 November 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
  BAQ 2008 is expected to be the largest international workshop on air quality management (AQM) in Asia with an expected participation from 1,000 decision makers and stakeholders from more than 35 countries worldwide. The BAQ 2008 theme is "Air Quality and Climate Change: Scaling up win-win solutions in Asia." This theme is directly related to the recommendation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to integrate air quality management (AQM) and climate change mitigation strategies.
• A Global Contract Based on Climate Justice - The Need for a New Approach Concerning International Relations
  11 November 2008, Brussels, Belgium
  The goal of the conference is to create a stimulating environment for dialogue in order to inform Members of the European Parliament and other stakeholders such as civil society, public institutions and the business and financial sector of the necessity for a Global Contract based on Climate Justice. We furthermore wish to foster their involvement in shaping future international climate policy architecture.
• The European Forest-Based Sector: Bio-Responses to Address New Climate and Energy Challenges?
  6 - 8 November 2008, Nancy, France
  During its presidency of the European Union, France wishes to contribute to the debate on the roles of forests and their products in a post-2012 climate regime. The roles of the forest-based sector and perspectives for the future will be discussed under three main headings:
  • forests as carbon sinks
  • wood-based products: carbon pools and energy conservation
  • the forest-based sector: source of renewable energy.
• Climate Change as a Security Threat
  Strategies for Policy-Makers, Science and Business
  6 - 7 November 2008, Freiburg, Germany
  The event will focus on potential conflict constellations caused by climate change and the impacts these conflicts may have on peace and security. Moreover the conference will bring these issues to the attention of a broader public and further support opportunities for dialogue.
• Adaptation to climate change: the role of ecosystem services
  SIAASE2008 workshop
  3 - 5 November 2008, Turrialba, Costa Rica
  The main objectives of the workshop are: i) to have a view of the state the art in the different aspects involved in the design of adaptation strategies to climate change, ii) to share experiences from the Latin American region and iii) to build up the basis for a research network on the role of ecosystem services for adaptation to climate change. The workshop is organized in different lectures plus general seminars by invited speakers, and it will set grounds for a book publication focused on Latin America
• The Importance of Military Organizations in Protecting the Climate: 2008
  3 - 5 November 2008, Paris, France
  Please join us in Paris this November to learn how militaries worldwide are responding to threats of climate change and acting now reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This workshop is scheduled to complement the EU Member States DEFence Environmental Network (DEFNET) meeting, which will be held on the 6 and 7 November.
• Carbon Expo Australasia 2008
  30 - 31 October 2008, Gold Coast, Australia
  Carbon Expo Australasia 2008 will be the first significant Carbon Trade Fair and Conference organised by leading industry associations for Australian businesses to showcase their range of carbon market products and services. Recognising that the climate change agenda has substantially progressed beyond just science and policy, to now actively engage an increasing number of businesses, the event is intended to provide an opportunity for private sector businesses to showcase their activities, services and products in the emerging carbon market.
• Montreal Protocol and climate negotiations - lessons for technology and finance
  28 October 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 38th Asser Colloquium on EU Law
  Integrating Climate and Energy Law and Policy
  23 - 24 October 2008, The Hague, The Netherlands
  The 38th Asser Colloquium on European Law is dedicated to the different legal and policy questions arising in European law and international law in respect of the implementation of climate and energy policy and law.
• Understanding and managing CDM project risk
  16 October 2008, Zurich, Switzerland
  The workshop is designed for carbon buyers and investors from financial institutions and governments, CDM project developers, and for everybody else who needs a thorough understanding of CDM project risks. Basic understanding of the principle of the CDM is helpful to fully benefit from the workshop.
• 4th IUCN World Conservation Congress
  5 - 14 October 2008, Barcelona, Spain
  The World Conservation Congress is the world’s largest and most diverse conservation event. Held every four years, the Congress aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development.
• Climate Change and Energy: To 2020 Onwards
  1 - 2 October 2008, London, UK
  Over the coming decades, energy demand will grow significantly, requiring large investments in energy and strong improvement in energy efficiency all while managing risks associated with greenhouse gas mitigation and changes in climate and associated adaptation. Policies that aim at significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 would imply drastic changes in the supply and use of energy - with different changes in different regions - and raise critical questions for industry. This workshop will consider the outlook for greenhouse gas emissions and climate over the coming decades, policies being developed and implemented over this timeframe, and explore strategies and best practice for managing risks.
• Weather/Climate Risk Management for the Energy Sector
  6 - 10 October 2008, S. Maria di Leuca (Lecce), Italy
  The objectives of the workshop are
  1. To identify vulnerabilities of energy sector to extreme weather events in the context of climate change adaptation;
  2. To identify impediments to the use of weather/climate information for the energy sector in the context of climate change adaptation;
  3. To suggest ways to improve and/or facilitate the transfer of knowledge between weather/climate scientists and the energy experts to allow an optimal use of climate risk management;
  4. To outline proposals to improve the way in which weather/climate information is used for modelling demand and to provide warnings for potential disruptions on energy operations and infrastructure;
  5. To discuss possible contributions of the weather/climate scientists and the energy experts to climate change adaptation policies for energy security.
• Breaking the Climate Deadlock
  4th webinar: Climate Science and the Macroeconomics
  October 2008
  The webinars consist of focused presentations from the briefing paper authors on the key elements of their papers, followed by a Q & A. Each webinar includes three presentations and is approximately 60 to 75 minutes in length.
• European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC)
  29 September – 03 October 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  The European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC) will be held together with the Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS). The theme of the conference is understanding of and adaptation to current and future climate. The rationale of this conference was the launch of the green paper of the EU (June 2007) wherein it was stated: "Climate change poses a double challenge: Europe must not only make deep cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions but also take measures to adapt to current and future climate change in order to lessen the adverse impacts of global warming on people, the economy and the environment" ECAC will serve as a platform where experts and scientist on climate will communicate with policy makers that are responsible for the implementation of adaptation strategies.
• Climate Law in Developing Countries Post-2012
  North and South Perspectives
  26 - 29 September 2008, Ottawa, Canada
  This conference will examine the legal and policy challenges that developing countries face in mitigating and adapting to climate change while meeting their social and economic needs.
• Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society
  First International Summit on Policy, Technology and Investment
  22 – 24 September 2008, Cambridge, UK
  'Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society' is designed to bring together cutting-edge energy research and innovative businesses to move the highly multidisciplinary clean energy innovation community forward on the scale required for a carbon free future. Relevant fields also include environmental tax reform and commercialization of low-carbon technologies. Pioneering technologies will be showcased by industrial participants as well as the latest student research in these areas.
• 8th Annual Workshop on GHG Emissions Trading
  22 – 23 September 2008, Paris, France
  For the 8th consecutive year, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) hosted an international emissions trading workshop in Paris, on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 September 2008. The workshop provided an opportunity for government, business and NGO stakeholders to discuss some of the key issues relating to international climate policy.
• 14th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference
  21 - 23 September 2008, New Delhi, India
  The International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) announces its 14th annual conference. The topics discussed and research themes addressed will cover the diversity of aspects and approaches in sustainable development research. A novel feature of this year's conference is an emphasis on interaction between participants from developed and developing countries for the challenge of global unsustainable development. Sustainability researchers will be able to learn from each other's experience and jointly create solutions for making progress in sustainable development.
• Climate Change in South-Eastern European Countries III
  Causes, Impacts, Solutions
  18 - 19 September 2008, Graz, Austria
  The objectives of the workshop are specifically to strengthen and improve the multidisciplinary approach to climate change related issues, to generate ideas for joint research projects, and to meet potential research partners
• 3rd meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board
  15 - 18 September 2008, Bonn, Germany
  The Adaptation Fund (AF) has been established by the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries that are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. The Fund will be financed with 2% of the Certified Emission Reduction (CERs) issued for projects of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and with funds from other sources.
  
  • Documents
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• Harvested Wood Products in the Context of Climate Change Policies
  9 - 10 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
  The workshop will focus on providing high-level information for policy makers and other stakeholders on the role of wood products in fighting climate change.
• Climate Change: Preparing for the New Security Environment
  3 September 2008, London, UK
  The RUSI climate change and security conference will provide a forum to discuss the current state of research on the linkages between climate change and security, with a special focus on responses and solutions for planners and policymakers.
• 13th World Water Congress
  1 - 4 September 2008, Montpellier, France
  The objective of the XIIIth World Water Congress is to enhance the world’s knowledge and raise global consciousness of the impact of global changes on water resources. The Congress contributes to the study of our planet’s water resources by bringing together wide-interest participation, conferences and communications. This Congress is an important occasion on a global scale for open dialogue between public and private partners, between users and decision makers and between developing, emerging and developed countries. To achieve these objectives, the Congress will organize numerous debates, presentations and exhibitions among key water stakeholders.
• Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health
  A Review of Science, Policies, and Practices
  25 - 28 August 2008, Umeå, Sweden
  The conference will focus on the current state of knowledge of ongoing changes in climatic conditions in different regions of the world, and the implications of these changes for forest management and conservation. Presentations and discussions will emphasise research, policies and practices that are needed to enable us to plan for and manage healthy, productive forests to meet future societal needs for forest products and the full range of forest goods and services.
• 2nd International Sustainability Conference
  Creating Values for Sustainable Development
  21 - 22 August 2008, Basel, Switzerland
  Following the outstanding success of the 1st International Sustainability Conference ISC 2005 in Basel, the organisers – the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and the University of Basel – are organising a follow-up conference. The theme of this 2nd International Sustainability Conference is "Creating Values for Sustainable Development". From a socio-economic perspective we take this to be one of the major tasks and challenges with regard to the expected societal transformation processes toward sustainability.
• 4th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change & Business Conference
  18 - 20 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand
  The 4th Australia- New Zealand Climate Change & Business Conference will again look at the risks and opportunities facing business as a result of climate change with a focus this year on emissions trading, both compliance and voluntary, and complementary measures to address climate change.
• Financing for Climate Change - Challenges and Way Forward
  15 -17 August 2008, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Integrating Climate Change and Energy Security Concerns of Asia in the Post-2012 Climate Regime
  The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Policy Forum
  7 August 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
• Symposium on Post-2012 Burden Sharing
  29 July, Wellington, New Zealand
  The Institute of Policy Studies (Victoria University of Wellington), in collaboration with the NZ European Union Centres Network, is hosting this symposium which will focus on how the costs of mitigating and adapting to climate change should be shared by the international community.
• Berlin Climate Law Conference 2008
  Legal Aspects Of The New European Climate Regime
  25 July 2008, Berlin, Germany
  The Berlin Climate Law Conference 2008 will bring together experts from the legal discipline and other stakeholders for a discussion on the legal dimensions of climate change. It responds to the growing significance of law as a necessary framework to operationalise climate policies and create predictability and stability in the rapidly growing carbon market. In 2008, the conference will focus on the future of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). On 23 January 2008, the European Commission published its long-expected climate package, proposing a range of legislative measures to facilitate the achievement of ambitious long-term mitigation objectives.
• The 24th EGOS Colloquium 2008
  European Group for Organizational Studies
  10 – 12 July 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Sub-theme 19: Climate Change: Challenging Business, Transforming Politics
• G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit 2008
  7 - 9 July 2008, Toyako, Japan
• EU Emissions Trading 2008
  7 - 9 July 2008, Brussels, Belgium
  Leading industry and government specialists review the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in depth - in particular how Phase II is working in practice.
• The International Energy Workshop (IEW) 2008
  30 June - 2 July 2008, Paris, France
  The International Energy Workshop (IEW) is a network of global energy experts who meet annually to discuss a wide range of topics, with particular emphasis on global as well as regional energy issues. The annual IEW meetings focus on energy assessments and try to understand the reasons for diverging views of development in the energy sector.
• 16th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
  25-28 June 2007, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Groundwater & Climate in Africa
  24 - 28 June 2008, Kampala, Uganda
  Current monitoring and assessments of the impacts of climate variability and change on water resources commonly exclude groundwater. This omission is of particular concern in Africa where current usage and future adaptations in response to climate change and rapid population growth, place considerable reliance upon groundwater to meet domestic, agricultural, and industrial water demands.
• Climate change and the challenges for public health: engaging the regions
  24 June 2008, Brussels, Belgium
  The objective of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion on the health implications of the proposed "Climate Action and Renewable Energy Package", and raise awareness of regional climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives.
• Portugal in a Changing Climate
  International conference on adaptation to climate change
  23 June 2008, Estoril, Portugal
  The main goal of this conference is to start a society-wide debate on adaptation to climate change. Therefore, it is our wish to raise the awareness and contribute to inform a wide range of public and private actors on the impacts of climate change in their respective sectors and to alert to the need and urgency of mainstreaming adaptation in the planning and decision making processes.
• 31st IAEE International Conference
  Bridging Energy Supply and Demand: Logistics, Competition and Environment
  18 - 20 June 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
  Turkey’s geopolitical location provides a natural energy corridor bridging East and West, while at the same time linking Northern and Eastern Europe with the Mediterranean. It will serve as an appropriate backdrop for the conference’s exploration of the most sensitive, controversial and strategic issues facing the global energy sector in the opening quarter of the 21st century. Among them: oil and gas economics, geopolitical dimensions of maintaining reliable supplies, and alternative supply sources and transportation routes. The Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period starts in 2008, and the conference will discuss emission certificate trading, pricing and post-Kyoto conditions.
• Aviation and Carbon Markets
  ICAO Workshop
  18 - 19 June 2008, Montreal, Canada
  The event will familiarize participants with key issues related to aviation emissions and carbon markets. A variety of approaches including emissions trading and carbon offset programmes will be addressed.
• A New Global Climate Deal? Achieving real collaboration for a low carbon future
  16 - 17 June 2008, London, UK
  This event takes stock of current climate change action and adopt a real-world approach to international collaboration on key issues. Supported by Chevron and DEFRA (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs) and in association with the IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development)
• Global Katoomba Meeting XII
  9 - 10 June 2008, Washington DC, USA
  This leading forum on ecosystem markets brings together leading policy makers, major financial institutions, business leaders, the environmental community and local indigenous groups to discuss the current scope and potential of ecosystem markets - carbon, water, biodiversity - to address environmental problems. Climate change, water pollution, and biodiversity loss threatens the natural infrastructure of our planet and human well-being, but the time is ripe for a major event to drive action and bring together these different sectors to develop strategies that will match the scale and urgency of the environmental issues we face today.
• Carbon Finance North America 2008
  4-6 June 2008, New York, USA
  Environmental Finance Conferences has gathered a leading panel of carbon market experts to provide an update on emissions trading and the carbon investment markets in North America. They will analyze not only policy issues but also the financial mechanisms and strategies surrounding carbon markets and carbon trading.
• Workshop on CDM and effort sharing
  3 June 2008, Brussels, Belgium
  The workshop will explore the use of Clean Development Mechanism projects as proposed in the European Commission's Climate Package. A panel of prominent experts will provide perspectives on the proposed rules on the use of CDM after 2012 and what CDM means for effort sharing in and outside the EU. The role of CDM in climate negotiations and the issue of project quality will also be addressed. Views of key stakeholders will be presented, and there will be ample opportunity for discussion.
• International Development in the Face of Climate Change: Beyond Mainstreaming?
  DFID-DSA policy forum
  2 June 2008, London, UK
  This policy-focussed forum will promote discussion between policy-makers and researchers, in order to generate new thinking about how international development could be re-oriented and restructured, seeking synergies of understanding and constructive elaboration of differences.
• From Production to Consumption
  Legal and Policy Challenges for a New Approach to Climate Change
  30 May 2008, Guildford, UK
  Sustainable consumption has become not just an option, but an imperative for a successful climate strategy. Production focused policies are not enough and they must be complemented by approaches that take into account the role of consumption in climate change. A consumption based approach implies a move towards allocating national responsibility for emissions and emissions reduction based on the supply chains of goods consumed within a country, rather than the emissions occurring within that country’s own borders. This workshop will explore possible legal and policy challenges moving towards consumption as the basis for responsibility for emissions and their reduction.
• Two workshops on climate policy
  28 - 29 May 2008, Lund, Sweden
  CDM Post-2012: Practices, Possibilities, Politics (28 May)
  Climate Governance Beyond Rhetoric: Deliberation and Rule Making Along the Public-Private Frontier (29 May)
• Reality Check on EU Bioenergy Targets
  19 - 20 May 2008, Brussels, Belgium
  In the light of the recent developments on bioenergy related policies, the conference will provide a forum to discuss the future of Europe's bioenergy production and use from a socio-economic and policy perspective with experts and stakeholders from science, EU and national administrative bodies, business and NGOs.
• Navigating the Carbon World
  California Registry's 6th Conference
  15 - 16 May 2008, San Diego, Ca, USA
  The two day event provides looks into climate programs across the globe and focuses on helping organizations successfully navigate their company's carbon-friendly course into the future.
• Hearing on 'The Future of the EU ETS'
  15 May 2008, Brussels, Belgium
  The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) is organising this hearing on behalf of the European Parliament. Following a keynote address by Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas (invited) and an overview of the Commission’s proposal by Deputy Director General for the Environment Jos Delbeke (invited), the workshop will be organised around four thematic sessions: allocation, competitiveness, scope and operation, and the international dimension.
• World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2008
  12 - 16 May 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii
  This Congress has become an important annual opportunity for the best minds at work in water and environmental fields to convene and focus on key topics of today. In this time of climate changes and shifting resources, it is vital that those working at the forefront of our professions share their ideas and insights from research and experiences in the field, to generate the best practices for the future.
• Evaluating Climate Change and Development
  International Workshop organized by the GEF Evaluation Office
  10 - 13 May, 2008, Alexandria, Egypt
  The workshop will address both mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. Within international assistance, most climate change interventions have aimed to ensure sustainable development through efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, countries need to adapt to upcoming changes in temperature, rainfall, sea levels and weather patterns.
• Carbon Expo Cologne
  Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference
  7 - 9 May 2008, Cologne, Germany
• China-EU CDM Business Conference
  6 May 2008, Cologne, Germany
  The China-EU CDM Business Conference is the unique one-day event in Europe bringing together Chinese senior CDM officials and project development entities with European project investors, developers, Carbon Emission Reduction (CER) buyers and technology providers to exchange information and promote direct business cooperation. The Conference is supported by the central government of China and the European Commission.
• Sixteenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16)
  5 - 16 May 2008, New York, USA
  • IISD-Site
  • CSD-Site
• The Athens Summit on Climate Change and Energy Security
  The Callenge of Change
  5 - 7 May 2008, Athens, Greece
  Amidst increasing concerns over climate change, environmental safety and the security of energy supply/demand, the Mediterranean region is in a privileged position to act as a host to a wide variety of viewpoints regarding the resolution of our global sustainable development issue. The summit will culminate in the signing of an inter-governmental declaration, which aspires to set bold but achievable sustainability targets for the Euro-Mediterranean region.
• 7th Annual Carbon Capture & Sequestration Conference
  5 - 9 May 2008, Pittsburgh PA, USA
• 16th PhD Workshop on International Climate Policy
  1 - 2 May 2008, Mannheim, Germany
  The workshop is organized by the European Ph.D. network on International Climate Policy. This independent scientific community is open to Ph.D. students and researchers from all disciplines working on aspects of International Climate Policy. As a vital part of the network, the Ph.D. candidates meet twice a year for a workshop which gives them the opportunity to present their theses and discuss them with other Ph.D. students and scientists working in the area of climate policy.
• Transatlantic Civil Society Conference on Climate Change
  24 - 25 April 2008, Washington DC, USA
  The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) will be hosting a civil society conference in Washington DC to debate the scale and effectiveness of action to tackle climate change on both sides of the Atlantic. This conference is a culmination of a year of discussions between EU and US civil society actors which aimed to increase understanding of some of the key areas of concern on both sides of the Atlantic.
• OECD-UNEP Conference on Resource Efficiency
  23 - 25 April 2008, Paris, France
  This multi-stakeholder conference brings together governments, businesses, international organisations and civil society to review how improved resource efficiency can reduce the negative environmental impacts of natural resource extraction, materials processing, use and disposal, while securing adequate supplies of materials to sustain economic activity. The Conference takes place just before the meeting of OECD Environment Ministers
• First International Scientific and Business Congress on Protecting the Climate
  A World Joint Strategy
  22 - 23 April 2008, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  The practical Goal of the Congress is to develop a World Joint Climate Protection Strategy with subsequent recommendations:
  • to officially recognize environmental business as a priority for the economies worldwide
  • to suggest legislative regulations that attract investors' expectations in favour of low-carbon technologies
  • to support the further development of clean technologies and the Clean Development Mechanism in the context of global markets and national comparative advantage
  • to encourage the foundation of new business, technologies and science niches in protecting the climate worldwide.
• First Meeting of the Task Force on Extreme Weather Events under the Protocol on Water and Health to the UNECE Water Convention
  21 - 22 April 2008, Rome, Italy
  The Task Force will consider implementation of its mandate related to preparation of guidelines on the safe operation of water supply and sanitation facilities in urban and rural areas in case of short term critical situations, and to preparation of a strategy paper on how to cope with the potential impact of climate change, and on adaptation and mitigation programmes for water supply and sanitation.
• Global Marine Renewable Energy Conference
  Achieving renewable goals with ocean energy resources
  17 - 18 April 2008, New York, New York, USA
  The Global Marine Renewable Energy Conference will convene international and U.S.-based leaders and innovators to exchange the latest information on marine renewable energy.
• International Conference on Renewable Energy in Africa
  Making Renewable Energy Markets Work for Africa
  Policies, Industries and Finance for Scaling-Up
  16 - 18 April 2008, Dakar, Senegal
  • NGO position paper
• Energy and Climate. New Priorities
  International Conference
  16 - 18 April 2008, Varna, Bulgaria
• European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008
  13 - 18 April 2008, Vienna, Austria
  The EGU General Assembly will bring together geoscientists from all over Europe and the rest of the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences.
• 4th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands
  Advancing Ecosystem Management and Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management in the Context of Climate Change
  7 - 11 April 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam
• 5th Conference on Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings (IEECB'08)
  10 - 11 April 2008, Frankfurt, Germany
  The commercial buildings sector is one of the fastest growing energy consuming sectors. Greenhouse gas reduction is a common denominator of many countries' environmental policies and programmes. Commercial buildings are a key area where the CO2 reduction can, and must be realised, since it makes economic sense for the building owners and occupiers.
• IPCC Outreach Event
  Climate Change 2007: Implications For Hungary
  Key Insights From The IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report
  10 - 11 April 2008, Budapest, Hungaria
  The aim of this IPCC Outreach event in Budapest is to disseminate the key findings and messages of the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the IPCC, among policy- and decision-makers, academia, businesses, representatives of non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders in Hungary. It provides a platform for analysis and discussion of the implications of these findings for Hungary: the evidence of climate change as well as adaptation and mitigation capacity and opportunities.
• TransAtlantic Climate Conference (TACC|08)
  7 - 8 April 2008, Faroe Islands
  This conference is a new initiative focusing on climate changes in the Atlantic Ocean and climate challenges related to the ocean. The conference aims particularly at researchers, business people, civil society representatives and politicians in the North Atlantic region and the Nordic countries. An outcome of the conference will be a roadmap for establishment of Trans Atlantic Climate Institute (TACIT) for the coordination and facilitation of applied research and innovative projects regarding marine science and technology.
• EIA 2008 Energy Conference
  30 Years of Energy Information and Analysis
  7 - 8 April 2008, Washington, DC, USA
• 4th international Congress for South Eastern Europe
  Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Sources
  7 - 8 April 2008, Sofia, Bulgaria
• World Coal-To-Liquids Conference
  3 - 4 April 2008, Paris, France
• Workshop on Numerical Models for Carbon Dioxide Storage in Geological Formations
  2 - 4 April, 2008, Stuttgart, Germany
  The aim of the workshop is to discuss the current capabilities of existing mathematical and numerical models for CO2 storage in geological formations. A key issue will be to focus model development on open questions and challenges which CO2 geosequestration faces. Researchers and engineers will be invited to present their work and point out next steps necessary in model development.
• Climate Protection and Renewable Energy: Medium and Small Communities facing the Challenge
  2 - 4 April 2008, Rovigo, Italy
  This will be a unique capacity-building event aimed at guiding local governments, and clusters of local and provincial governments, in their climate protection actions.
• Urban Planning and Regeneration: Key to Tackling Climate Change
  A CIFAL Findhorn seminar
  17 - 18 March 2008, Dundee, Scotland
  The Seminar will present successful case studies, carried out by urban practitioners with first hand experience. The seminar will address the challenges of sustainable urban planning, within the carrying capacity of our planet's resources, and in the context of the growing certainty of climate change.
• GLOBE 2008
  12 - 14 March 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  For our 10th event, GLOBE 2008 offers a conference program in response to unprecedented developments in global environmental business policy and practice. Climate change issues, energy policies, carbon trading regimes, clean technologies and capital markets are all influencing and rapidly changing the sustainability agenda.
• Washington Renewable Energy Conference 2008 (WIREC 2008) 4 - 6 March 2008, Washington DC, USA
  • IISD Reporting Service
  WIREC 2008 addresses many forms of renewable energy, including biofuels, solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal energy. WIREC 2008 will focus on three central themes to advance renewable energy:
  • Agriculture and Rural Development
  • Technology, Research and Development
  • Market Adoption and Finance
• A Way Forward:
  Canadian and International Perspectives on Post-2012 Climate Policy
  3 - 4 March 2008, Ottawa,Canada
  The purpose of the conference is to examine the scope and implications of the Bali Action Plan. The conference will be a first step to feed into the international post-Bali process, and will look at what can be expected to take place over the next two years. The conference will aim to increase international understanding of key Canadian sensitivities and concerns, and Canadian understanding of international perspectives in regard to the emerging climate change regime.
• Workshop on modelling bio-energy in agricultural – economic models
  27 – 28 February 2008, Bonn, Germany
  The aim of the workshop is to bring together people active in modelling bio-energy with the help of agricultural-economic models to allow for an exchange of ideas and to support and advise the NaRoLa project team in setting up the integrated modelling system. The objective of the NaRoLa project funded by the BMBF is the development of an integrated modelling system that connects the interdependencies on global energy markets with the potential for biomass production in Germany. This modelling system will allow an analysis of the contribution of biomass to a sustainable energy supply and the assessment of its economic, environmental and social consequences.
• WARNSIGNAL KLIMA Gesundheitsrisiken
  Gefahren für Menschen, Tiere und Pflanzen
  26 - 28 February 2008, Hamburg, Germany
• 8th Workshop of the Advanced Power Technology Forum (APGTF)
  Carbon Abatement Technologies: Development and Implementation of Future UK Strategy
  27 February 2008, London, UK
  Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is seeing increasing funding in the UK going into research, development and demonstration (RD&D) together with an increasing number of proposals for full scale demonstrations of CCS or of advanced ‘capture ready plant’. Early rapid deployment of CCS technologies is now recognised as an important issue in meeting the climate change mitigation targets agreed across Europe and providing a serious option worldwide. As a result there has been a significant expansion in the engagement of the stakeholder community including industry, researchers, NGOs and government departments.
• Carbon Forum America (CFA) 2008
  26 – 27 February 2008, San Francisco, California, USA
• CEPS 4th Annual Brussels Climate Change Conference 2008
  EU Climate Change Policy after Bali
  26 - 27 February 2008, Brussels, Belgium
  After a series of high profile events related to climate change throughout 2007 such as the G8 summit or the major economies meeting, the climate change negotiations during the COP13 in Bali are expected to agree on a roadmap for the negotiations for a post-2012 climate change agreement. After taking stock of the state of negotiations, this joint CEPS/Epsilon conference will explore the key issues for the post-2012 agreement.
• Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Ecological Change
  2008 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  International Conference of the Social-Ecological Research Programme
  22 - 23 February 2008, Berlin, Germany
• 6th European Business Summit
  Greening the Economy: new Energy for Business
  21 - 22 February 2008, Brussels, Belgium
  With the theme Greening the Economy: new Energy for Business, we want to focus on how Europe can turn the “carbon challenge” into a business opportunity, giving new energy to growth and jobs.
• Towards a seamless system: bridging the gap between weather, climate and the development community
  An UK Royal Meteorological Society open meeting
  20 February 2008, London, UK
  In the weather/climate community the concept of seamless systems is becoming more and more in vogue. However, consensus on what "seamless systems" really means has not been reached yet. This meeting is therefore meant to provide an opportunity to discuss various aspects of what should constitute a seamless system in order to move towards an agreed definition.
• Bioenergy Europe 2008
  18 - 19 February 2008, London, UK
  At Bioenergy Europe 2008 you will be brought right up-to-date on the latest EU legislation and incentive schemes that aim to produce a dramatic increase in the use of biomass and biofuels across the 25 member states. You will benefit from insights and analysis from top-level specialists from a broad range of organisation.
• 10. Symposium Energieinnovation
  Energiewende
  13. - 15. February 2008, Graz, Austria
• Living with climate change: are there limits to adaptation?
  7 - 8 February 2008, London, UK
  The overall objective of this conference is to consider strategies for adapting to climate change, in particular to explore the potential barriers to adaptation that may limit the ability of societies to adapt to climate change and to identify opportunities for overcoming these barriers. The conference is aimed at researchers and practitioners with an interest in understanding how societies adapt to climate change.
• Climate Change Diplomacy
  7 - 8 February 2008, Malta
  The Conference will reflect on negotiations and diplomatic aspects of climate change process. The particular emphasis will be on the ways and means for the active participation of business sector, civil society and academia in the global climate change activities.
• 4th Austrian JI/CDM Workshop
  24 - 25 January 2008, Vienna, Austria
  This well established workshop, is a get together of project developers, investors, validators and governmental authorities. It aims to provide participants with an update about recent developments and future perspectives right after the COP/MOP in Bali.
• World Future Energy Summit
  21 - 23 January 2008, Abu Dhabi, UAE
  The conference will cover a wide range of issues looking at World Future Energy Policies and Strategies, Making It Happen – projects, technologies and commercial realities as well as Pushing the Boundaries – energy on the horizon to 2028 and beyond. Plus a number of streams focusing on carbon management, waste to energy, solar, wind, biofuels, clean transport, green property and sustainable architecture.
• Emerging Opportunities in Carbon Markets
  Turning carbon emissions liabilities into financial assets
  17 - 18 January 2008, Miami, USA
  Emerging Opportunities in Carbon Markets will address the ways in which current emissions trading systems are creating business opportunities, fostering technology development and innovation, and influencing global finance. It will have a particular focus on the regional emissions trading regimes taking shape in the US and the impact of the Clean Development Mechanism in Latin America.
• AGU Fall Meeting
  10 - 14 December 2007, San Francisco, CA, USA
  The Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 15,000 geophysicists from around the world. The Fall Meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to present and review the latest issues affecting the Earth, the planets, and their environments in space. This meeting will cover topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences.
• Greenhouse Gas and Animal Agriculture Conference 2007
  Developing livestock systems for greenhouse and productivity benefits
  26 - 29 November 2007, Christchurch, New Zealand
• 4th International Conference on Environmental Education
  26 - 28 November 2007, Ahmedabad, India
  The Conference will be a forum to show that Education works, to make it a part of decision-making, and scale it up. It will be a platform for sharing of practices and learnings; exchange of ideas and information on ongoing and planned initiatives in the field of Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) the world over. The Conference will highlight partnerships between the two fields, discuss the role of EE as a Champion of ESD and deliberate on partnerships with several other disciplines / organizations.
• What’s next? – Policy responses to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
  23 November 2007, Berlin, Germany
  The European Climate Forum (ECF) is pleased to convene climate experts, policy makers, NGOs and business representatives to identify the necessary steps needed to avoid dangerous climate change and to favor a sustainable transition towards a decarbonized economy. More specifically, we will discuss the implications of the synthesis report for policy approaches. Further on we aim at identifying key elements for the negotiations in Bali and the post 2012 process.
• Understanding the Operational and Financial Impacts of the Aviation Emissions Trading Scheme
  21 - 22 November 2007, London, UK
  The summit will enable delegates to understand the management of all of the practical operational issues relating to emissions trading, from calculating the costs across the entire business, setting up legal & taxation systems and collecting and measuring emissions data. Participants will also be given the opportunity to engage in focus groups dedicated to accurately detailing the specific cost breakdowns associated with every aspect of ETS implementation. The Aviation Emissions Trading Summit will also provide a superb opportunity to engage with the entire carbon management industry to compare & contrast different strategies for managing trading, auditing & verifying emissions data.
• Promoting Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Nigeria
  21 November 2007, Calabar, Nigeria
  The objectives of the conference are to create awareness on renewable energy and energy efficiency in Nigeria; and to enhance stakeholders’ capacity to advocate for renewable energy and energy efficiency. The programme will also enhance the participation of stakeholders in the on-going global climate change debate. It will facilitate the creation of a network of renewable energy and energy efficiency advocates that will pioneer the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency in Nigeria.
• Climate Change in South-Eastern European Countries II: Causes, Impacts, Solutions
  14 - 15 November 2007, Belgrade, Serbia
  Workshop topics include:
  • Economic impacts of climate change (+ Adaptation policy)
  • Monitoring and forecasting the environmental impacts of climate change, e. g. drought, natural hazards, on biodiversity (+ Adaptation policy)
  • CDM / Kyoto / renewable energy – especially biomass
  • Synergies between adaptation and mitigation, e. g. meeting the future heating and cooling energy demand; forest management
• 27th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  12 – 17 November 2007, Valencia, Spain
  • IPCC Site
  • IISD Site
• 20th World Energy Congress
  The energy future in an interdependent world
  11 - 15 November 2007, Rome, Italy
• Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference
  7 – 9 November 2007, Sacramento, California, USA
  The Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference is a national conference focused on understanding the behavior and decision-making of individuals and organizations and on using that knowledge to help accelerate our transition to an energy-efficient and low-carbon economy.
• Carbon Forum Asia 2007
  6 - 7 November 2007, Singapore
  CARBON FORUM ASIA 2007 Trade Fair and Conference is the major platform in the region for emissions trading, carbon abatement solutions and new technologies. It is jointly organized by the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and Koelnmesse.
• 26th Annual Conference of the AK Klima
  2 - 4 November 2007, Freiburg, Germany
• India Carbon Market Conclave
  1 - 2 November 2007, New Delhi, India
  The Conclave is a platform for global carbon market players to interface with the Indian project developers as well as a platform for knowledge sharing on emerging scenarios of the global carbon market. The Conclave is being organised by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, The World Bank and International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). ICF International is the Knowledge Partner for the event.
• IEEE Electrical Power Conference 2007
  Renewable and Alternative Energy Resources
  25 - 26 October 2007, Montréal, Canada
• Climate 2050: Technology and Policy Solutions
  24 - 26 October 2007, Montréal, Canada
  With current trends in emissions, greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere will continue to increase over the current century and beyond, leading to dangerous climate disruptions. Preventing such outcomes will require a 60% to 80% reduction in global emissions over the next half century to stabilise atmospheric GHG concentrations in the range of 450-550 ppm. Climate 2050 will bring together notable speakers from government, business and academia to explore the critical technology and policy challenges. In sessions focused on key sectors, the conference will highlight technology potentials and gaps, innovative action in the public and private sectors, and critical policy needs. In cross-cutting sessions, the conference also will examine the broader policies and strategies needed at the national and international levels to mobilize action across economies and the globe.
• Towards a Post-Carbon Society
  European research on economic incentives and social behaviour
  24 October 2007, Brussels, Belgium
• Biofuels, Carbon & Trade: Leadership Challenges for the Interdependent Americas
  22 - 23 October 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  This conference will give leaders in the sciences, public affairs and business an opportunity to understand the critical issues of biofuel production, carbon management and trade as part of an interlocking whole.
• Climate Information: Responding to User Needs
  Workshop
  22 - 23 October 2007, Adelphi, Maryland, USA
  This event will foster dialogue between the providers of climate information and its diverse user community to define specific measures needed to enhance the use of climate observations, data management, modeling, and predictions in support of business and policy decisions.
• CDM 2.0: what post-2012 mechanisms do we need?
  15 October 2007, Brussels, Belgium
  The conference wants to put ongoing discussions about the state of the CDM into the context of the international negotiations on a post-2012 climate treaty. Approaches to be discussed will be programmatic and policy-based, baseline and credit types as well as separately funded sustainable development policies. In conclusion these discussions will be analysed with regard to the UN summit in Bali just a few weeks later. This conference, organized by Climate Action Network Europe, The Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment and Hivos, will bring together experts from civil society, governments, industry and the financial sector - not just from Europe.
• 15th Research Workshop on International Climate Policy
  12 – 13 October 2007, Lund, Sweden
  The 15th research workshop of the European Ph.D. Network on International Climate Policy. is open to Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral researchers from all disciplines working on different aspects of international climate policy. The aim of the workshop is to give the participants the opportunity to present their theses or other current work, and to discuss these with international colleagues working within the area of climate policy.
• Carbon Finance Europe 2007
  Risks and opportunities in emissions markets
  10 - 12 October 2007, London, UK
• Climate Change Is Energy Policy
  Opportunities to Reduce Emissions and Accelerate Deployment of Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency
  Business Council for Sustainable Energy’s Fall 2007 conference
  10 - 11 October 2007, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Global Sustainability: A Nobel Cause
  8 - 10 October 2007, Potsdam, Germany
  Under the patronage and with active participation of the German Chancellor, Dr Angela Merkel, this unique symposium will assemble some of the top minds in the world to address crucial intellectual challenges. Nobel laureates from various disciplines, supported by other world-renowned experts, are invited to discuss their views of the best scientific and political strategies to achieve climate stabilization, energy security for generations to come, and equitable development on a global scale. The results, summarized in the “Potsdam Memorandum”, will be presented at the 13th UN Climate Change Conference in Bali in December this year as an impetus for converging on a promising new global deal for sustainability.
• Perspectives of Vulnerability and Hazard Assessment
  SHIFT07 Conference of the EU SSA project SCENARIO
  4 - 5 October 2007, Potsdam, Germany
  It is the aim of this conference to bring together a wide range of researchers and practitioners whose work is related to vulnerability and hazard assessment. A particular focus is set on the European region and the future evolution of hazards, mitigation and adaptation strategies and vulnerability. Thereby the presentation of theoretical concepts as well as practical implementations such as case studies may contribute to the conference.
• Deutschen Geographentag
  Umgang mit Risiken
  29 September - 5 October 2007, Bayreuth, Germany
• Copenhagen Climate Solutions 2007
  Towards a Low Carbon Future
  25 September, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Copenhagen Climate Solutions 2007 is a business conference, meeting place and knowledge platform and as such a critical networking event for anyone who is serious about the impact of climate change in their business and on society at large.
• Energy Security in Europe
  24-25 September 2007, Lund, Sweden
• The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change
  24 September 2007, New York, USA
  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced that he will convene an informal high-level event in New York on the margins of the General Assembly on 24 September to promote discussion on possible ways to move the international community toward negotiations on new global agreement on climate change at the upcoming United Nations climate change conference in Bali in December.
• The Sustainable Finance Summit 2007
  Climate change and the environment - How to maximise opportunities and mitigate risk
  18 - 19 September 2007, London, UK
  Business conference featuring sessions on: the current sustainability strategies of major banks, the perspective of other key industries, and the business case for sustainability
• Climate change: science, politics and the management of uncertainty
  17 - 23 September 2007, Oxford, UK
  Even with the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report making ever clearer the scientific consensus about humanity’s contribution to global warming, the severity of its impact remains highly uncertain – world temperatures, for example, could increase anywhere from 1.1 to 6.4 degrees Celsius, and any given rise within this range also has consequences which can only be predicted with a wide degree of variability. Also, these consequences may unfold steadily and slowly, or there may be ‘tipping points’ when change occurs in a critical or even catastrophic way. This conference will consider the difficulties of making policies to address the problems of global warming within a context of such uncertainty.
• Climate changes Spatial Planning (CcSP)
  12 - 13 September 2007, The Hague, Netherlands
  In 2004, a unique and ambitious research programme started in The Netherlands, called “Climate changes Spatial Planning”. A budget of 80 million Euro has been made available, jointly by government and stakeholders on a 50/50 basis for the programme. It includes interdisciplinary research to improve climate models and scenarios, as well as strategies for adaptation and land use related mitigation in close dialogue with stakeholders. On the first day of the conference results from the CcSP programme are presented and key note presentations on climate change and spatial planning are given by internationally well-known scientists and policy makers On the second conference day CcSP research results are presented by leading scientists from the Netherlands in dialogue with regional stakeholders and international experts.
• Third International Conference on Climate and Water
  3 - 6 September 2007, Helsinki, Finland
  Climate change is likely to affect strongly on the hydrological cycle; some changes have already been observed. Water demand may grow due to climate change and water management faces a multitude of new challenges. The objective is to provide an opportunity for hydrologists, water managers and decision makers to exchange research results, ideas and concerns on impacts, adaptation and mitigation in the water sector, facing climate change.
• 2nd Latin American Carbon Forum
  5 - 7 September 2007, Lima, Peru
  The Latin American Carbon Forum is a unique regional platform, which brings together the various stakeholders that are active in the regional carbon market - project owners and developers, National CDM Offices and Investment Promotion Agencies, CDM governance bodies, as well as carbon market intermediaries and service providers. The conference will offer participants an update on the recent developments and future trends of the carbon market in particular with respect to the Latin American and the Caribbean region.
• The Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol – cost efficient climate instrument or loophole to undermine European emission reduction targets?
  4 September 2007, Berlin Germany
  Hearing of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE in the German Bundestag on the current and future role of the CDM in (inter)national climate policy. Conference language is German. Issues to be discussed: Additionality of CDM projects; perverse incentives of HFC-23 and N2O CDM projects; contribution of CDM projects to sustainable development of host countries; role of the CDM in a post-2012 climate agreement.
• The 17th Asia-Pacific Seminar on Climate Change
  Good Governance for Climate & Development
  Co-benefits Innovation and Integrated Adaptation to Climate Change
  31 July - 3 August 2007, Bangkok, Thailand
• 3rd Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference
  30 - 31 August 2007, Brisbane, Australia
  The conference will again focus sharply on the impact of climate change on businesses, especially the risks and opportunities. The 2007 theme will be finding common ground among business and policy makers to drive action. This will be done through the presentation of new information and discussions and debates that provide tangible outcomes.
• Vienna Climate Change Talks 2007
  4th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG 4)
  4th workshop under the dialogue on long-term cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing implementation of the Convention
  27 - 31 August 2007, Vienna, Austria
  • UNFCC Secretariat's Web Site
  • IISD site
• World Water Week
  12-18 August 2007, Stockholm, Sweden
  The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programmes in water and development. Water is at the very centre of most climate-related effects, and climate issues will take centre-stage at the 2007 World Water Week.
• International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC 2007)
  14 - 16 August 2007, Chicago, USA (with pre-conference workshops on August 13)
  • Workshop: Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Verification and Certifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy-Efficiency Projects
    The focus of this workshop is on the evaluation of energy-efficiency projects that seek to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Energy efficiency should play a critical role in reducing GHG emissions, and the evaluation of energy efficiency programs will increasingly be important as states and countries address the challenge of global warming.
• CMS 5
  The Fifth International Critical Management Studies Conference
  11 - 13 July 2007, Manchester, UK
• EU Emissions Trading 2007
  Preparing for Phase II
  9-10 July 2007, Brussels, Belgium
  This topical conference, the fifth in a highly successful series, will provide you with an in-depth review of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme - lessons from Phase I and outlook for Phase II and beyond.
• Greenhouse Gases
  CHEMRAWN-XVII and ICCDU-IX Conference on GREENHOUSE GASES
  Mitigation and Utilization
  8-12 July 2007, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  The conference will focus on the policy and technology aspects of greenhouse gas mitigation and utilization. The meeting is being held 6 months before the Kyoto-protocol commitment period begins. Signatory governments are committed to meeting their targets within the 2008-2012 time period. How will this be achieved?
• International Energy Workshop 2007
  25-27 June 2007, Stanford University, Stanford, California The International Energy Workshop (IEW) is a network of global energy experts who meet annually to discuss a wide range of topics, with particular emphasis on global as well as regional energy issues. The annual IEW meetings focus on energy assessments and try to understand the reasons for diverging views of development in the energy sector.
• Integrating Analysis of Regional Climate Change and Response Options
  An Expert Meeting on Regional Impacts, Adaptation, Vulnerability, and Mitigation Sponsored by the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA), the Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) and the Pacific Center for Environment and Sustainable Development at the University of South Pacific (PACE/USP) 20-22 June 2007, Nadi, Fiji
• 3rd International Green Energy Conference
  18 - 20 June 2007, Västerås, Sweden
  The International Green Energy Conference (IGEC) is a multi–disciplinary international conference on the use of energy with no or reduced environmental impact and will provide a forum for the exchange of latest technical information, for the dissemination of the high-quality research results, for the presentation of the new developments in the area of energy and environment and for the debate and shaping of future directions and priorities in sustainable development and energy security.
• G8 Summit 2007
  6 - 8 June 2007, Heiligendamm, Germany
  • Summit Declaration (7 June 2007)
• AIMES and QUEST Third Young Scholar's Network Workshop
  Modelling Land Use-Decision Making
  2-4 June 2007, Bristol, UK
  This small workshop will focus on understanding decision making on land-use issues, in order to move towards modelling these processes in Earth System Models. We encourage interdisciplinary applicants from the natural and social sciences, economics, engineers and scholars from the humanities with research interests in the Earth system. The goal of the YSN workshop will be a manuscript reviewing the state-of-art in decision-making in land-use modelling and its impacts on biogeochemistry and climate from an Earth’s System perspective, and prioritise future research topics.
• 2007 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  Earth System Governance: Theories and Strategies for Sustainability
  24-26 May 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Russia and the Kyoto Protocol 2007
  24 – 25 May. St. Petersburg, Russia
  The conference will include presentations and discussions of up-to-date topics on Russia's share of the global carbon market, with specific focus on AAU trading and investing in JI projects in Russia.
• Risø International Energy Conference 2007
  22 - 24 May 2007, Risø, DanmarkThe conference will focus on the scientific development of new technologies, their market perspectives, and realistic contributions to achieving a low-level stabilization of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere at, for example, 500 ppm. What is required of new technologies, and what are their perspectives in a future supply system consisting of a mix of central units and a variety of local units? In addition, the conference will address the challenge of increasing the share of renewable energy in the coming decades.
• Emissions Trading 2007
  Lessons from the Past and Strategies for the Future
  15 May 2007, Prague, Czech Republic
• 15th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition
  From Research to Market Deployment - Biomass for Energy, Industry and Climate Protection
  7-11 May 2007, Berlin, Germany BERLIN
• European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition (EWEC 2007)
  7 - 10 May 2007, Milan, Italy
  EWEC2007 conference will discuss major issues of importance for European and Global wind markets, in technical and business areas, from resource assessment and innovative turbine design to market and policy developments, drawing on leading experience from all over Europe. Senior politicians and representatives from international institutions and national governments will be invited to speak at this leading international wind event.
• Sixth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration
  7 - 10 May 2007, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  The participants will focus on the deployment of technologies to capture and store or sequester carbon emissions from fossil - fueled energy facilities.
• 15th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-15)
  30 April - 11 May 2007, New York, USA
  • CSD-Site
  • IISD-Site
  • Northern Alliance for Sustainability
• 9th Session of IPCC Working Group III
  30 April - 3 May 2007, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Information for participants
  • IPCC-Site
  • Summary for policymakers
• From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: Making the Shift
  EcoRes E-Conference
  14 - 30 April 2007
  The EcoRes Forum, a new initiative undertaken by Mary Leyser, Coordinator of the Eco-Ethics International Union (EEIU), and Acad. Prof. Gennady Polikarpov, EEIU Vice-President and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Biology of Southern Seas in Sevastopol, Ukraine, announces the launch of a series of online e-conferences focusing on the ethical, political and sociocultural aspects of climate change.
• European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2007
  15 – 20 April 2007, Vienna, Austria
  The EGU General Assembly will bring together geoscientists from all over Europe and the rest of the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Especially for young scientists the EGU appeals to provide a forum to present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences.
• 18th Global Warming International Conference & Climate Change Exposition (GW18)
  Scientific research, technology, and education for global warming mitigation
  19 - 20 April 2007, Miami, USA
  This meeting represents the oldest consistently sustained conference that is dedicated to the exchange of scientific data, governmental assessments, and public policies concerning global climate change, including global warming and extreme climate events.
• International Conference on the CDM and the Carbon Market
  17-18 April 2007, New Delhi, India
  This conference will update interested participants on the latest developments of the Carbon Market, in particular of the CDM in India. Analysts will provide you with a review of key developments in 2006 and with an outlook for the upcoming years. An update on regulatory issues of the CDM will be given both by CDM regulators and project developers with experience in the Indian market.
• RSPB Chatham House workshop on reducing emissions from tropical deforestation
  16 - 17 April, London, UK
• Bioenergy North America 2007
  Markets and finance for biofuels and biomass
  16 - 17 April 2007, Chicago, USA
• Forum on Global Climate Strategies beyond 2012
  The Route Ahead
  11 - 13 April 2007, Madrid, Spain
  The Florence School of Regulation at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and the Institute for Technology Research of Comillas University (Madrid, Spain) organized a high-level meeting to identify the most promising global climate change strategies beyond 2012. This Forum was an independent initiative with the distinctive feature of bringing together -by invitation only- about one hundred people who have major roles in shaping future global climate strategies. The meeting has facilitated an informal exchange of views among key influential people on the future climate change regime and the possible ways to move forward.
• 8th Session of IPCC Working Group II
  2 - 5 April 2007, Brussels, Belgium
  • IPCC site
  • IISD site
  • WGII Summary for Policymakers
• Tackling climate change
  An appraisal of the Kyoto Protocol and options for the future
  30-31 March 2007, The Hague, Netherlands
  The Conference will focus on the legal and institutional aspects of the Kyoto Protocol implementation and the post-2012 phase, bringing together the most qualified experts worldwide on the subject.
• Partnerships for Sustainable Development
  The Oslo Conference on Good Governance and Social and Environmental Responsibility
  28 - 30 March 2007, Oslo, Norway
• QUEST Earth System Open Science Conference
  26-28 March 2007, Oxford UK
  QUEST, The UK Natural Environment Research Council’s directed programme for Earth system science, is pleased to announce our first Open Science Conference. The programme will showcase a broad cross-section of international science that contributes to the three “big questions” being pursued by QUEST:
  • How important are feedbacks for 21st century climate change?
  • How are climate and atmospheric composition regulated on time scales up to a million years?
  • (a) How much climate (change) is dangerous? (b) How much climate change can be avoided by managing the biosphere?
  Or fit into one of QUEST’s cross-cutting topics
  • Earth System Modelling
  • Earth System Observations
• Climate Change in South-Eastern European Countries
  Causes, Impacts, Solutions
  26 - 27 March 2007, Graz, Austria
  The objectives of the workshop are:
  • To strengthen and improve the multidisciplinary approach to climate change related issues
  • To generate ideas for research projects
  • To meet potential research partners
• Vienna Energy Efficiency and Climate Meetings
  19 - 22 March 2007, Vienna, Austria
  Forum on Energy Efficiency Projects in CDM and JI (19-20 March)
  Experts Group Meeting on Energy Management Standards in Industry (21-22 March)
  
  • UNIDO-Website
  • IISD-Website
• Numerical Modelling - Policy Interface Workshop (NMPI 2007)
  12 – 13 March 2007, Stuttgart, Germany
  NMPI 2007 is expected to address the current problems at the interface between policy development and numerical modelling in the water environment. NMPI 2007 seeks to analyse, define and document the gap between research results (especially but not restricted to numerical modelling) and policy/strategy implementation. The aim of the workshop is to develop an international network of multi-disciplinary scientists and practitioners to set an agenda for research to close the gap between the development of models and the uptake of their results by policy makers.
• Cairo 10th International Conference on Energy & Environment (EE10)
  11 - 15 March 2007, Luxor/Aswan, Egypt
  The conference will bring together diverse stakeholders - scientists, engineers, managers, planners, policymakers at the local, national and international levels, leaders from the business community and non-governmental organizations, educators, and concerned citizens; examine the roles of science, technology, and education in addressing environmental and energy-related challenges facing society; Explore the diversity of approaches in implementing solutions to environmental and energy related issues, while at the same time allowing participants to discover shared concerns and common ground for conducting successful projects at the local, national, and international levels.
• CO ₂ Capture and Storage
  The cornerstone of the energy–climate challenge
  8 - 9 March 2007, Le Havre, France
  The heightened economic competitiveness of coal power has induced renewed interest in coal power production, both in France and internationally. We need to develop new strategies that reconcile the revival of coal power production with modern environmental concerns, particularly when addressing climate change. These environmental concerns require the development of technological solutions to limit CO2 emissions from existing power plants, the design of new cleaner coal power stations, and the construction of power stations and industrial facilities that produce almost no CO2 emissions.
• Globale und nationale Perspektiven für CDM und JI - Bilanz und Perspektiven
  6 - 7 March 2007, Leipzig, Germany
  As in 2003 and 2005, the German Environment Ministry is hosting a CDM/JI workshop at the TerraTec environment technology fair in Leipzig which runs from 5 – 8 March 2007. Some of the main topics on the agenda will be the initial experience gained with Track 2 JI and the potential for linking the EU emissions trading system to emerging emissions trading systems in the USA. The ministry will also report on the current status regarding its CDM initiative. Further talks will cover energy efficiency in JI, the programmatic CDM and price signals on carbon markets.
• What energy policy for the EU?
  Conference organised jointly by the European Economic Social and Committee (EESC) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
  6 March 2007, Brussels, Belgium
• The science of climate change: A showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
  2 March 2007, London, UK
  • Programme
  • Presentations and linked videos
• World Sustainable Energy Days
  28 February - 2 March 2007, Wels, Austria
  The World Sustainable Energy Days, the largest annual conference in this field in Europe, offer a unique combination of events on sustainable energy production and use, covering energy efficiency and renewable energy sources for buildings, industry and transport:
  • European Pellets Conference
  • European Energy Efficiency Conference
  • Conference "Energy Future 2030"
  • Seminar "Rural Development & Sustainable Energy"
  • Energiesparmesse
• 2nd International Workshop on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
  24-28 February 2007, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  The main aim and objectives of this workshop is to share the latest developments in adaptation programs, priorities and solutions. The workshop is open to everyone including policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, research and policy institutes, academics as well as development practitioners.
• What jobs in a low carbon European economy?
  20 - 21 February 2007, Brussels, Belgium
  The European Trade Union Confederation will organise a high level conference on ‘Climate change and employment’. The conference will aim at discussing the results of the study co-sponsored by the European Commission and six European environmental ministries to assess the potential impact on European employment of climate change and EU climate change mitigation policy up to 2030.
• 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting
  Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being
  15 - 19 February, San Francisco, USA
  The theme of "Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being" brings together provocative thinkers and decision-makers for a wide range of symposia, plenary lectures, topical lectures, seminars, presidential tracks, and other sessions that address global and national issues in health, energy, the environment, economic development, education, terrorism, science frontiers, and more.
• Global Challenge, Global Climate Solidarity
  Climate Change and Vulnerability Conference
  13-14 February 2007, The Hague, Netherlands
  This conference addresses the need to build capacities for proactive local leadership to address the risks of climate warming, particularly in vulnerable island and coastal states. The goals of the conference are to:
  • Increase understandings of the risks of climate change and options for adaptation
  • Design university curricula that build climate leadership and foster local adaptation
  • Develop partnerships among education, research and training institutions
• Time to Adapt
  Climate Change and the European Water Dimension
  Vulnerability - Impacts – Adaptation
  12 - 14 February 2007, Berlin, Germany
  The Symposium aims to provide a platform for representatives from governments, science and research, stakeholder groups and non-governmental organisations to discuss the likely impacts of climate change on water management and water dependent sectors such as agriculture, energy, inland navigation and tourism, as well as options for adaptation, and to strengthen the political profile of these issues. The results of the Symposium will be summarised in a set of conclusions and recommendations which will be brought to the attention of responsible Ministers during the German EU-Presidency in the first half of the year 2007.
• 10th session of IPCC Working Group I
  29 January -1 February 2007, Paris
  • IPCC site
  • IPCC Working Group I Fourth Assessment Report
  • IISD site
• Austrian JI/CDM Workshop
  25-26 January 2007, Vienna, Austria
  Due to the success and positive feedback to our previous workshops, the Austrian JI/CDM Programme is continuing its series of its annual get together. This well established workshop, is a get together of project developers, investors, validators and governmental authorities and aims to provide participants with an update about recent developments and future perspectives right after the COP/MOP in Nairobi. This Workshop for companies and institutions is a perfect setting to exchange hands on experience and professional know-how from practitioners about technologies, methodologies and country specifics in the JI/CDM market. The workshop will update and inform about new trends in JI and CDM, project opportunities in various host countries, as well as being a platform for sharing information between institutions and project developers.
• World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007
  The Shifting Power Equation
  24-28 January 2007, Davos, Switzerland
  With 17 sessions on climate change at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting this will be one of the "greenest" ever at Davos.
  • official Website
  • Davos Climate Alliance
• DSDS 2007
  World Sustainable Development Forum
  22 - 24 January 2007, New Delhi, India
  Since its commencement in 2001, the DSDS has emerged as an important annual event, inspiring leaders and mobilizing public opinion on the objectives of the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals). In the opening session of DSDS 2007, speakers noted that policy formulations are already beginning to stress the tenuous links between environmental concerns, economic development, and social justice. Since climate change is an ongoing process and there are multi-dimensional impacts associated with it, there is need to develop adequate and appropriate coping strategies. This, it was felt, will help civilizations adapt better to climate change.
• WSF Nairobi 2007
  World Social Forum
  20 - 25 January 2007, Nairobi, Kenya
  The 7th edition of the World Social Forum brings the world to Africa as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and other progressive forces from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, Europe and all corners of the African continent converge in Nairobi, Kenya for five days of cultural resistance and celebration.
• Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimation & Inventories
  An International Workshop Addressing Uncertainty & Accuracy
  16 January 2007, Brussels, Belgium
  The assessment of greenhouse gas (GHG) balances is high on both political and scientific agendas in many countries. The global oil & gas industry is contributing to the development of guidance for accounting and reporting of GHG emissions and compiling methodologies that are appropriate for estimating GHG emissions from industry operations. The uncertainties inherent in the data used for emission inventories may affect their credibility and the acceptability of assertions of GHG emission reductions. The uncertainty of an oil & gas company’s GHG emission inventory or of its quantified emission reductions is determined by the uncertainties of the estimates of their key contributing sources. In turn, each of these emission source uncertainties depends on the availability of sufficient data and our ability to measure emissions and properly account for their variability. The workshop will address these concerns and consider methodological aspects from the point of view of both regulators and industry.
• 3rd Future Environmental Trends Conference
  Energy, Environment, and Development – Analysing Opportunities for Reducing Poverty
  14-16 December 2006, Bangalore, India
  The conference will focus on challenges for sustainable development that arise from the nexus between energy, environment, and poverty. It will provide an opportunity for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and the donor community to engage in constructive dialogue on possible solutions. It will attempt to identify an agenda for action and policy relevant research, particularly focusing on developing countries in Asia.
• IDGEC Synthesis Conference
  Institutions for Sustainable Development in the Face of Global Environmental Change: Questioning • Explaining • Demystifying (QED)
  6-9 December 2006 in Bali, Indonesia
  The IDGEC synthesis process shall assist in developing a new research agenda to guide the next phase of work on the institutional dimensions of global environmental change. This new agenda shall be the focus of a preparatory dialogue and search process that runs through 2005 and 2006: the IDGEC New Directions initiative.
• Climate-Policy Induced Technology Exports
  Potential and Risk
  30 November 2006, Brussels, Belgium
  Experts from the research and business community will present the results of the EU-funded research project TETRIS. The following topics will be addressed:
  • Linking domestic emissions trading schemes to the EU ETS
  • Does the CDM foster technology transfer?
  • How large is the permit supply from CDM and JI?
  • Measuring the risks of investing in climate change mitigation
  • Impacts of investment risk on CDM, JI and technology transfer
• Ad Hoc Group for the Modelling and Assessment of Contributions of Climate Change (MATCH)
  27 - 28 November 2006, Cologne, Germany
  The “Ad hoc group on modelling and assessment of contributions to climate change (MATCH)” held a meeting in November 2006 in Cologne. It discussed and agreed a work plan to be able to report to the SBSTA in October 2007 its latest results on historical contributions to climate change. The report of the meeting and further information on the research is available on http://www.match-info.net
• Death by a Thousand Coasts: The Ethics of Climate Change
  24 – 27 November 2006, Washington, DC, USA
• Energy Convention Groningen (ECG2006)
  20-22 November 2006, Groningen, The Netherlands
  The 2006 edition of the Energy Convention Groningen will focus on energy transition in general, and the transition from a natural gas-based energy system to a sustainable energy future in particular.
• 6th Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  17 - 18 November 2006, Berlin, Germany
  The 2006 conference will be the sixth event in the series of annual Berlin Conferences. This year’s discussions will address the theme ‘Resource Policies: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity’.
• Open Science Conference on the GHG Cycle in the Northern Hemisphere
  14-18 November 2006, Sissi-Lassithi, Crete, Greece
  The conference seeks to integrate the knowledge gathered on the greenhouse gas cycle within the big European research projects and the experience acquired outside those projects.
• Global Environmental Change: Regional Challenges
  An Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) Global Environmental Change Open Science Conference
  9-12 November 2006 Beijing, China
  ESSP is organizing this Open Science Conference to present progress in our understanding of the natural and social systems of global environmental change and to highlight the ESSP approach to the study of the Earth System. CONFERENCE THEMES:
  * Earth System Science Approach: New advances in studies of the physical, biogeochemical, biodiversity, and human dimensions aspects of global environmental change.
  * Science for Sustainability: Global environmental change research relating to carbon, food, human health, and water; as reflected in the ESSP Joint Projects.
  * Integrated Regional Studies: The dynamics, impacts and consequences of the interactions between natural and social systems at regional scales, including extreme events, and how they connect with global-scale phenomena.
  * Global Change in Monsoon Asia: Global environmental change research in monsoon Asia.
• Australasian Emissions Trading Forum 2006 Conference
  Business Opportunities in Emissions Trading
  9 November 2006, Melbourne, Australia
  Business opportunities associated with emissions trading schemes are rapidly expanding both nationally and internationally. Globally the market value is estimated at US$30 billion and is growing fast. This conference will allow you to review developments and identify potential business opportunities.
• Second Annual Legal Dimensions of Climate Change Conference
  8 November 2006, Washington, DC, USA
  Topics to be discussed include
  * Climate Change And Litigation: Lawsuits in the United States and International Litigation
  * Climate Change And Energy Project Development: Conventional Energy Projects and Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects
  * Emissions Trading Transactions: Transactions under the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation, Transactions in the European Union Emissions Trading System, and Transactions in US Voluntary Markets
  * Climate Change And Business Planning: "Carbon Due Diligence" for Transactions, Projects, and M&A, Officer Liability, and Corporate Governance and Climate Change
• Environmental Markets Association's 10th Annual Fall Conference
  Navigating Markets in a Climate of Change
  5 - 8 November 2006, Marina del Rey, California, USA
  The EMA’s 10th Annual Fall Conference will present diverse perspectives on changing markets, policies, and international potential for trading, sustainability, and market development. This conference will consist of two days of breakout sessions with panel discussions and question and answer sessions.
• GWEA2006 Symposium on Impact Evaluation of Global Warming and Approach to Risk Analysis in East Asia
  31 October – 4 November 2006, Taipei, Taiwan
  The symposium focuses on (1) Features and connotations of the climate change in East Asia, (2) Impacts on ecosystem and adaptation, (3) Impacts on food production and adaptation, (4) Impacts on human health and society, (5) Risk as sessment on global warming, to visualize impact of global warming in the near future and examine risks of the effects.
• IEA-ENEL Workshop on Sectoral Approaches for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in the Power Sector
  30 - 31 October 2006, Rome, Italy
• 2nd National Conference of BIOCAP Canada
  Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy:
  Biosphere solutions for energy and the environment
  31 October - 1 November 2006, Ottawa, Canada
  BIOCAP’s 2006 Conference will highlight research insights, policy development, and investment strategies enabling Canada’s transition to a sustainable bioeconomy. The Bioeconomy presents Canada with an exciting opportunity. Our abundance of forests and farmlands provide Canada with a “Green Advantage” for addressing energy security, environmental health and the rural economy, however, ensuring sustainability is critical. This conference provides an opportunity to engage in Canada’s transition to a sustainable bioeconomy.
• 13th Ph.D. Workshop on International Climate Policy
  27 - 28 October 2006, Leeds, UK.
  The 13th PhD Workshop on International Climate Policy of the independent scientific community the European Ph.D. Network on International Climate Policy is open to Ph.D. students and researchers from all disciplines working on different aspects of International Climate Policy. As a vital part of the network, the Ph.D. candidates meet twice a year for a workshop session which gives them the opportunity to present their theses and discuss them with other Ph.D. students and scientists working in the area of climate policy.
• Rapid Climate Change
  International Science Conference
  24 - 27 October 2006, Birmingham, U.K.
  The RAPID Climate Change Conference brings together the international community of scientists studying rapid climate change to discuss recent research, identify outstanding problems and explore potential impacts on weather, climate and society.
• Climate Change and Business
  23 - 25 October 2006, Kyiv, Ukraine
  This will be the second international event on JI projects in Ukraine. Over 300 participants from 24 countries attended the conference last year, including local project developers and hosts, Ukrainian government representatives, carbon credit buyers, technology providers, scientists, and international organizations.
• Climate Change Policies and Economic Growth
  23 October 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark
  By implementing climate change policies across nations we must reduce emissions of green house gasses. This needs to happen in a way which allows for continuous and significant economic growth. Finding the right balance between the two objectives is essential to the dialogue between governments having signed the UN Climate Change Convention from 1992. CEPS and DI wish to contribute to the European discussion on various ways to address the challenge of climate change post 2012.
• 2nd Annual European Energy Policy Conference 2006
  16 - 17 Oct 2006, Brussels, Belgium
  The 2nd Annual European Energy Policy Conference is part of a 5-year commitment to the development of debate and critical discussion on the issues surrounding the energy industry, energy policy, sustainability and external relations.
• Make Markets Work for Climate
  16-17 October 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  During the conference, the critical question to be addressed is how we can make markets work more effectively for climate change? Issues that will be discussed are for example: How can we create new grant and loan mechanisms at the international level to achieve economies of scale? Are there greater possibilities to blend public and private finance resources through carbon finance? What potential is there to make emissions trading schemes technically compatible to increase trading between parties with and without quantified targets?
• 5th International Human Dimensions Workshop
  Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Water, Trade, and the Environment
  13 - 26 October 2006, Chiang Mai, Thailand
• Carbon Finance 2006
  9 - 10 October 2006, London, UK
  This is the 6th in the Carbon Finance series. The main focus will be on recent progress in the Clean Development Mechanism, global developments in emissions trading schemes, and a preview of the hot topics at the UN's forthcoming COP12/MOP2 meeting. The conference will be followed by an optional one-day CDM Workshop.
• Coal Mine Methane in the Asia-Pacific Region
  Workshop to be held under the auspices of the Methane to Markets International Partnership and the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
  4-5 October 2006, Brisbane, Australia
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Coalbed Methane Outreach Program (CMOP), with Australia's Department of Industry, Tourism, and Resources, and Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Organization (NEDO) is sponsoring a workshop in Brisbane, Australia to address coal mine methane technical, market, and project development issues and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region.
• INTERCARBON 2006
  28 September – 1 October 2006, Augsburg, Germany
  Both the congress and the exhibition serve as an important source of information for those involved in either emissions trading or climate protection projects. International delegations consisting of major players within the renewable sector, as well as governmental representatives, experts and financiers from Hungary, China, Russia and Egypt have already confirmed attendance.
• Natural Gas as a Climate Change Solution:
  Breaking down the barriers to methane's expanding role
  IPIECA climate change workshop
  26 September 2006, Washington DC, USA
• Increasing the Pace of Technology Innovation and Application:
  Enabling Climate Change Solutions
  IPIECA climate change workshop
  27 - 28 September 2006, Washington DC, USA
• KyotoPlus: Escaping the Climate Trap
  New Targets - New Technologies - New Policies - New Alliances
  International Conference
  28 - 29 September 2006, Berlin, Germany
  KyotoPlus is a project on strategies and solutions to climate change, launched by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The initiative recognizes the Kyoto Protocol from 1997 as a necessary first step. But further, decisive action is needed. Under KyotoPlus, we mean both additional initiatives and efforts complementing the Kyoto process, as well as the discussions on a follow-up regime.
  The congress will create a forum for players from government, industry, the cultural sector, churches and society.
• Washington Summit on Climate Stabilization
  18 - 21 September 2006, Washington DC, USA
  Join us for a world-class gathering of experts to assess the likelihood that we are tipping toward abrupt and highly disruptive climate change. As we celebrate the Climate Institute’s 20th anniversary, we expect to identify practical methods of achieving the stabilization of global greenhouse concentrations within the lifetime of the Summit’s attendees. The science symposium will explore the implications of changes in the intensity of hurricanes and other severe weather events, in the melting rates of glaciers and ice sheets, in the incidence and severity of drought, and in the impacts on ecosystems and human health.
• 1st International Conference on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
  19-21 September 2006, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  The goal of the conference is to provide participants with a conceptual understanding of the financial and economic development benefits that the CDM can provide.
  • Conference website
  • IISD Site
• Third International Conference on Biomass for Energy
  18-20 September 2006, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Carbon Management at Urban and Regional Levels: Connecting Development Decisions to Global Issues
  4-8 September 2006, Mexico City, Mexico
  The conference will explore the question "How can cities, regions, and cities-in-regions together lead in the de-carbonization of our societies and by so doing stabilize greenhouse gas emissions and climate change?"
  
• 6th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society
  6th European Conference on Applied Climatology
  4 – 8 September 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  The 6th EMS annual meeting will consist of a broad and open scientific conference with oral and poster presentations as well as symposia and special lectures. As part and partner of the EMS there will be the 6th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC) which has been set up by the European Climate Support Network (ECSN) and which will be organizing all the climate-related sessions.
• World Renewable Energy Congress IX and Exhibition
  19-25 August 2006, Florence, Italy
• Living with Climate Variability and Change
  Understanding the Uncertainties and Managing the Risks
  WMO Climate Risk Conference
  17-21 July 2006, Espoo, Finland
  The conference will review opportunities and constraints in integrating climate risks and uncertainties into the mainstreams of decision-making where sensitivity to climate variability and change is but one among many factors to consider. It will draw on the experiences of public and private organizations worldwide that have been engaged in managing risks including those of a climatic origin. The focus of the conference, therefore, is on decision-processes in real-world contexts, including agriculture, water resource management, disease control, power generation and disaster mitigation, where climate is one of the factors to be considered. The goal of the conference is to make substantial progress in the establishment of an operable agenda for climate related risk management, and to propose an enduring process for future work.
• NCAR Summer Colloquium on Climate and Health
  16- 22 July 2006, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  This colloquium exposes graduate and post-graduate students to methods for integrating climate change, climate variability and public health research. It will include presentations, opportunities for students to discuss integrated work with leaders in their respective fields, and gain hands-on experience with analytic tools.
• AOGS 2006
  Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 3rd Annual Meeting
  10 - 14 July, Singapore
• Third World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists
  3 -7 July 2006, Kyoto, Japan
• 2nd International Conference on Quantified Eco-Efficiency Analysis for Sustainability
  28 - 30 June, 2006,Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
  The concept of eco-efficiency has emerged as one of the crucial themes linking the economy and environment and presenting opportunities for joint improvement in economic and environmental performance. In June 2006 the Second International Conference on Eco-Efficiency, on the theme Quantified Eco-Efficiency Analysis for Sustainability and building on the First International Conference in 2004, will further develop understanding of the concept of eco-efficiency, how it is being implemented in industry, and what policies are most effective in promoting it.
• Russia and the Carbon Market
  28 - 29 June, 2006, Moscow, Russia
  The conference will include presentations and discussions of up-to-date topics on Russia's share of the global carbon market, with specific focus on AAU trading and investing in JI projects in Russia.
• Annual Meeting of the
  International Energy Workshop 2006
  jointly organized by ERC, EMF, IEA(ETSAP), and IIASA
  27-29 June 2006, Cape Town, South Africa
• Computable General Equilibrium Modeling in Environmental and Resource Economics
  25 June - 1 July 2006, Venice, Italy
  Environmental policies are increasingly assessed not only on the basis of their environmental effectiveness but also depending on the associated economic impacts with respect to efficiency and incidence. These three dimensions of Sustainable Development, i.e. environmental quality, economic performance and equity concerns are intertwined and subject to tradeoffs. The quantification of tradeoffs requires the use of numerical model techniques. Computable general equilibrium models have meanwhile become an established analytical framework for evaluating the economy-wide and environmental implications of policy intervention on resource allocation and income of agents. In this context, the Summer School provides a comprehensive introduction to applied general equilibrium analysis of environmental policies by internationally renowned experts. The Summer School is targeted to PhD students.
• International Workshop on "Governance and the Global Water System"
  20-23 June 2006, Bonn, Germany
• 8th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-8)
  19 - 23 June 2006, Trondheim, Norway
  The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of the latest advances in the field of greenhouse gas control technologies. The Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT) conference series has established itself as the foremost conference bringing together the international community to discuss greenhouse gas control technology issues.
• Institutions for providing global environmental goods
  Managing uncertainty, complexity and change in the field of biodiversity and climate change
  15 - 16 June 2006, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
• Carbon Markets Asia
  13 -14 June 2006, Hong Kong
  The main objective of this conference is to help increase the supply of Carbon Projects from the region. Project developers/project owners who are contemplating attending this event are being encouraged to attend and understand the opportunities and complexities of successful registering a CDM project
• The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: a Legal Perspective
  9 - 10 June 2006, Siena, Italy
  The Conference is one of the few international events focusing on the legal and institutional aspects of the Kyoto Protocol implementation and it brings together the most qualified experts worldwide on the subject.
• Linking Schemes:
  Potential Impacts of Linking the European Union Emissions Trading System with Emerging Carbon Markets in other Countries
  29 – 30 May 2006, Brussels, Belgium
  The final conference of the project, to be held on 29 – 30 May 2006 in Brussels, Belgium, comprises state-of-the-art contributions given by policy-makers as well as presentations from the research community based on reviewed papers. The objectives of the conference are the following: to provide an overview of emerging domestic schemes in other industrialised countries, to identify sensitive aspects of linking the EU ETS with other emerging domestic schemes, to assess the effects linking would have for emerging carbon markets, to formulate both policy recommendations and research perspectives for the national and European/regional level.
• A Future with Zero CO2 Emissions
  A European conference for local governments on climate protection and promotion of renewable energy
  15-17 May 2006 Stockholm, Sweden
• Klimawandel und Klimafolgen in Hessen (climate change and climate impacts in the federal state of Hesse/Germany)
  16 May 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany
• CARBON EXPO 2006
  10 - 12 May 2006, Cologne, Germany
  CARBON EXPO is the global carbon market event that combines the up-to-date content af a high-level conference with the advantages of a trade fair.
  
• Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries
  A workshop to discuss methodological and policy issues
  10-12 May 2006, Bad Blumau, Austria
  The objective of this workshop is to provide a timely forum for an informal discussion and assessment of methodological and policy approaches for reducing emissions from deforestation. The workshop will base its discussions on the published literature, the 31 March submissions by governments and observer organizations, and inputs by workshop participants. The timing of the workshop has been selected to precede and provide input into the dialogue at SBSTA 24 and SBSTA workshop in late 2006
• Fourteenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-14)
  1-12 May 2006, New York, USA
  • Official Website
  • IISD-Site
• Climate Change Technology: Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century
  9 - 12 May 2006, Ottawa,Canada
  The EIC 2006 EIC Climate Change Technology Conference will examine engineering solutions that either mitigate or adapt to climate change. This three-day conference will interest engineering and environmental technology practitioners of all disciplines; delegates from industry, manufacturing, academia, government agencies and regulators; consulting engineers, and special interest groups; economists, financial, and legal experts and other specialists working in the climate change field.
• Fifth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration
  8 - 11 May 2006, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
  The Carbon Sequestration Conference was initiated in 2001 in order to facilitate the exchange of information and experience primarily between the engineers and scientists invol. Building on the very successful past four Conferences which attracted over 400 participants each, the 2006 conference will again strive to bring together the experts directly involved in developing, demonstrating and deploying carbon capture, separation and sequestration technologies as part of the Administration's Climate Change Technology Program.
• 12th PhD Workshop on International Climate Policy
  28 - 29th April 2006, Groningen,Netherlands
  This Workshop is organised by the European PhD Network on International Climate Policy, which is an independent scientific community. As a vital part of the network, the PhD candidates meet twice a year for a workshop session which gives them the opportunity to present their theses and discuss them with other PhD students and scientists working in the area of climate policy.
• 25th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-25)
  26-28 April 2006, Port Louis, Mauritius
  Delegates will consider a range of matters concerning the work, budget and organization of the IPCC, including: acceptance and adoption of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2006 Guidelines); further work on emissions scenarios; election procedures for the IPCC Bureau and any Task Force Bureau; the IPCC communications strategy and outreach activities; a process and policy for admitting observer organizations; and the future work programme of the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
  • IPCC-Site
  • IISD-Site
• TEMA's 10th Annual Spring Conference
  Environmental Markets: A Leading Indicator?
  23-25 April 2006, Sunny Isles, Florida, USA
  The Conference includes two full days of educational sessions with topics including GHG, NOx, and SO2 market trend and updates on CAIR/CAMR, a look forward to the future of emissions markets, and much more.
• Workshop on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
  Methodological Issues in regard to Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS)
  20-21 April 2006, Paris, France
• The 17th Global Warming International Conference and Expo (GW17)
  20-21 April 2006, Miami, USA
• Learning and Climate Change
  10 - 11 April 2006, Laxenburg, Austria
• European Geosciences Union
  General Assembly 2006
  2 – 7 April 2006, Vienna, Austria
• Greenhouse gas credits trade versus biomass trade
  weighing the benefits
  5 - 6 April 2006, Trondheim, Norway
• Wall Street Green Trading Summit
  4 - 5 April 2006, New York, USA
  This conference is the fifth in a series of green trading summits and is the only global conference to cover emissions, renewable energy, and negawatt (energy efficiency) trading. This triple convergence of environmental financial markets is now poised for accelerated growth. With carbon trading poised to grow globally into a $3 trillion global market in 20 years, there is more interest in green trading solutions to reduce pollution and accelerate technology transfer than ever before.
• Latin American Carbon Forum
  22 - 24 March 2006, Quito, Ecuador
  The objective of the Latin American Carbon Forum is to update the participants in relation to the present carbon market dynamics and to strengthen the required networks that affect the markets. This implicates the approach of different actors of the demand, the supply, the regulation and the actors who facilitate the building capacities. The participants will have the opportunity at the Forum (i) to share experiences and lessons learned in relation to the construction of CDM capacities and project design, (ii) to discuss networks capacity building as a critical factor for CDM success, (iii) to get to know originating programs and initiatives from the demand and the supply of carbon certificates, and (IV) to interact in bilateral meetings with project owners, certificate buyers and project design experts.
• U.S.-Japan Workshop on Climate Actions and Co-benefits
  22 - 23 March 2006, Rosslyn, Virginia, USA
  On March 22 and 23, the Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOEJ), the Japan-based Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and U.S. EPA (EPA) held a workshop on Climate Change Actions and Co-Benefits. Participants agreed to strengthen international cooperation on actions that improve air quality and promote clean energy, energy security, and economic opportunities at home and abroad. EPA and its Japanese partners explored options for collaborating on projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally and encourage sustainable development.
• Planning for the Future: Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Inventories & Clean Energy Linkages
  International Specialty Conference sponsored by the Air & Waste Management Association
  7 - 9 March 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA
  This conference will examine the convergence of policies and technical issues that are central to understanding and mitigating GHG emissions and Climate Change impacts. It will consist of both invited and contributed papers with a mixture of plenary panel discussions and concurrent sessions and will provide opportunities for discussions, networking and exchanging views.
• Carbon Market Insights 2006
  28 February - 2 March 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark
  The conference will include presentations and discussions of up-to-date topics on EU ETS, CDM/JI and Global Markets. Please see the conference programme for more detailed information.
• 2nd Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference
  20-21 February 06, Adelaide, South Australia
  The 2nd Australia–New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference will explore business opportunities and risks associated with climate change. It will build on the success of the inaugural conference (Auckland 2004) where feedback overwhelmingly called for this follow-up event. This event will be the pre-eminent climate change and business conference in the Asia-Pacific region.
• 9. Symposium Energieinnovation
  Dritte Energiepreiskrise-Anforderungen an die Energieinnovation
  15 - 17 February 2006, Graz, Austria
• 2nd National Councils' Climate Conference
  5 December 2005, Nottingham, UK
  In the year 2000 the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change was launched, which committed signatories to reduce greenhouse gasses. Eighty-seven councils around the United Kingdom signed up to it. Now, five years on, it is time for a follow-up conference to give the original initiative new impetus. The initiative to organise this second national Councils‘ Climate Conference was taken, in co-operation with ICLEI, by the City Council of Nottingham and is supported by five UK expert organisations in climate change.
• Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  International Organisations and Global Environmental Governance
  2 - 3 December 2005, Berlin, Germany
  This conference will be the fifth event in the series of annual Berlin Conferences, which brings together every year a group of about 150-200 colleagues to present and discuss their research on the human dimensions of global environmental change.
• Strengthening Climate Cooperation, Compliance & Coherence
  2 - 3 December 2005, Montreal, Canada
  This International Law Symposium on Sustainable Developments in Law and Policy on Climate Change presents a unique opportunity for scholarly dialogue between lawyers, scientists and policy-makers, for exchange information on the most recent climate law trends and practices, and for participants to build their knowledge and capacity in this important emerging area. The focus of the event is threefold:
  Cooperation: Recent developments in law and policy to support Joint Implementation (JI) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and future directions for these mechanisms.
  Compliance: Recent developments in international law and policy to strengthen compliance with the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol, through facilitation and enforcement.
  Coherence: Intersections between global and domestic climate regimes, and other international regimes (trade and investment, indigenous peoples & other human rights, biodiversity and desertification).
• Strengthening Climate Cooperation, Compliance & Coherence Change
  An International Law Symposium on Sustainable Developments in Law and Policy on Climate
  2 - 3 December 2005, Montreal, Canada
  This symposium is a unique opportunity for scholarly dialogue between academics, lawyers, scientists and policy-makers, to debate the most recent trends and practices in sustainable development law related to climate change, and for participants to build their knowledge and capacity in this important emerging area.
• 2nd ESPACE International Technical Conference
  ESPACE (European Spatial Planning: Adapting to Climate Events)
  29 November 2005, Winchester, UK
  This conference will review how well the planning system in England is delivering adaptation to climate change and will explore new ideas on what more we can be done in England and across Europe.
• 1/3 of Our Planet: What Can Asia and Europe Do for Sustainable Development?
  23-25 November 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia
  In terms of population, Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) countries from Asia and Europe constitute close to a third of the world's population. The conference aims to be a platform for dialogue on environment and sustainable development issues. The event promises to be the largest meeting of its kind, drawing up to 250 high-profile international personalities from Asia and Europe.
• Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Risk - an Economic and Management View
  16 - 18 November 2005, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
  The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 20. This small group shall facilitate intensive discussions. International leading researchers will give key note presentations.
• The Legal Dimensions of Climate Change: A Conference by and for the Legal Profession
  15 November 2005, Washington DC, USA
  For More Information, Please Contact: secle@wcl.american.edu
• CO2 –Abscheidung und -Speicherung:
  Eine Zukunftsoption für die deutsche Klimaschutzstrategie?
  10 - 11 November 2005, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• Carbon Finance 2005
  31 October - 1 November 2005, London, UK
  This conference will provide an update on all the major global developments shaping the fast-moving markets in carbon credits and allowances. Topics to be covered include: what to expect at COP11/MOP1 and from Phase II of the EU ETS; where next for carbon prices; panel discussions on what carbon buyers expect and carbon sellers want; and forthcoming developments in Japan, the US and Russia.
• Climate or development?
  28 - 29 October, 2005, Hamburg, Germany
  Climate policy, driven by the dynamics of the Kyoto Protocol has evolved to become one of the most booming areas of bilateral development cooperation. This is due to the new prospects opening up for both private investments and public subsidies in developing countries in the context of the Clean Development Mechanism and programmes to adapt to climate change impacts.
• Energy Convention Groningen 2005
  26-28 October 2005, Groningen, Netherlands
  The theme of the convention is: Energy scenarios and strategies for change. The following questions will be addressed: Is gas the transition fuel of the next decades? Can renewables have substantial contribution to future energy supply? How should governments realize security of supply? How do scenarios relate to mature and emerging energy markets? How do energy markets affect geopolitics? How should specific areas (nations, regions, cities) compose a comprehensive energy strategy?
• Bioenergy 2005
  Nordic Bioenergy Conference
  25 - 27 October 2005, Trondheim, Norway
  Nordic Bioenergy Conference is a prestigious international bioenergy conference where we intend to analyse the Nordic and European market for bioenergy, while presenting new technology for a more efficient and environmentally sound utilisation of biofuels.
• European Climate Change Programme (ECCP II)
  STAKEHOLDER MEETING
  24 October 2005, Brussels, Belgium
  The second European Climate Change Programme is meant to develop further policies on climate change in close co-operation with stakeholders (industry, NGOs, governments, think tanks). The first conference is to gather input for the programme's future actions.
• Moving beyond 2012: International perspectives on future climate change policy options
  International seminar
  21 October 2005, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  On the basis of an environmental, economic and political assessment of post-2012 policy options, this international seminar will discuss the options and will provide an overview of the international perspectives on this issue.
• 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community
  Global Environmental Change, Globalization and International Security:
  New Challenges for the 21st Century
  9 - 13 October 2005, Bonn, Germany
  The 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community is set up to promote a better understanding of global transformations, to identify the resulting opportunities and challenges and to develop appropriate responses. This entails a critical assessment of what the community has achieved to date as well as the development of a forward-looking action plan that links human dimensions research into contemporary policy debates on future actions of the global community.
• Fifth Annual Workshop of Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading
  27-28 September 2005, Paris, France
  Developments in international emissions trading markets continue to move apace, with concomitant effects on the many actors and stakeholders. This fifth annual workshop, organised jointly between the IEA, IETA, and EPRI, provided an opportunity for government, industry, brokers, finance, and NGO delegates to discuss some of the key issues relating to market developments.
• Linking the Kyoto Project-Based Mechanisms with the EU ETS
  UNIDO Seminar on Emissions Trading/Linking Directive
  15 -16 September 2005, Vienna, Austria
  The seminar will be organized as a series of interactive panel sessions. Speakers and participants include renowned international experts and carbon business practitioners representing a wide range of high-profile institutions and industries. The event will provide an excellent networking and knowledge-sharing opportunity for business and industry and for government experts and other stakeholders involved in the implementation of emissions trading and the project-based mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol.
• Reduction of emissions and geological storage of CO2
  Innovation and industrial stakes
  15 - 16 September 2005, Paris, France
  The purpose of the symposium is to examine the role of technical innovation as well as the capture and geological storage of CO2 in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This symposium will also consider new technological approaches in the light of the resources needed to finance such operations.
• 3. International Emergency and Rescue Congress - INTERCON
  International Disaster Reduction Day & 6. Forum of the DKKV
  08-09 September 2005, Hamburg, Germany
  The German Meteorological Society (DMG) is organising a symposium on September 9th 2005 entitled “Extreme Weather Events”. The event will be held 9 am to 5 pm with scheduled meetings and poster sessions on the topics of “Forecasting Exreme Weather Events”, “Meteorological Processes in Extreme Weather Events” and “Long-Time Changes of Extreme Weather Events”. In the context of these sessions there will also be some additional general survey lectures on meteorological issues. Please find registration forms and further information at the DMG
• International Energy Program Evaluation Conference
  17 - 19 August 2005, New York
  The Conference advances the goals of conserving natural resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by helping to overcome one of the key barriers to implementing energy programs – the lack of confidence in the reported results.
• The Greenland Dialogue
  16 - 19 August 2005, Ilulissat, Greenland
  The Danish Minister for the Environment will in cooperation with the Greenland Home Rule Government host an informal ministerial meeting to promote the international dialogue on future climate cooperation.
• G8 Gleneagles 2005
  6-8 July 2005, Gleneagles, Scotland
  
  • Policy Issues: Climate Change
    Our prime objective for 2005 is to raise the profile of climate change as a matter deserving the urgent attention of Heads of Government in the G8 and outside it, so as to promote an international consensus on the need for further action to control emission
• Human Security and Climate Change
  An International Workshop
  21 - 23 June 2005, Oslo, Norway
  For more information, see: http://www.cicero.uio.no/humsec/
• Energy-Forum: Towards a new Energy Culture
  15 - 17 June 2005, Pamplona, Spain
  One of the main outcomes of the conference will be the creation of a European Network of Organisations at the end of the Conference that will dealt with the change towards a New European Energy Culture, taking into account societal, educational and dissemination aspects in the energetic behaviour and use of technologies.
• THE 2005 JOINT ASSEMBLY
  a partnership between AGU, SEG, NABS and SPD/AAS
  23 - 27 May 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  The Program Committee is developing a Union-wide science program that will cover topics in all areas of geophysical sciences.
• CARBON EXPO
  Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference
  11 - 13 May 2005, Cologne, Germany
• Adapting to Climate Change in Canada 2005
  Understanding Risks and Building Capacity
  4-7 May 2005, Montreal Canada
  Our climate is changing. All regions and sectors of Canada will be affected. Increasingly, governments, industries, and communities will need to consider adaptation to the impacts of a changing climate. Planning, infrastructure design and construction, and operations and management will all be affected.
• Options for Including LULUCF Activities in a Post-2012 International Climate Agreement
  5-6 May 2005, Graz, Austria
  An Expert Meeting to Brainstorm on Objectives of LULUCF, Options for Inclusion of LULUCF in a Climate Agreement, and Implications of these Options
• OECD Forum 2005
  Fuelling the Future: Security, Stability, Development
  2 - 3 May 2005, Paris, France
  
• Fourth Annual Conference On Carbon Capture &Sequestration
  Developing Potential Paths Forward Based on the Knowledge, Science and Experience to Date
  2 – 5 May 2005, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
• Third Annual Brussels Climate Change Conference
  EU climate change policy beyond Kyoto:
  Building a global climate change agreement
  19 - 20 April 2005, Brussels, Belgium
  This years' theme will be "EU climate change policy beyond Kyoto: Building a global climate change agreement" and cover i) EU climate change policy after the Spring Council, ii) transport and air transport in particular, iii) developing the EU ETS further and finally, iv) mitigation and technology solutions.
• IPCC-23
  23rd session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  8 April 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Low-Carbon Society Scenario toward 2050
  Scenario Development and its Implication for Policy Measuresin
  24 March 2005, Tokyo, Japan
  The purpose of this symposium is to bring together Japanese researchers and stakeholders on climate change to a common forum, and inform them of national-level climate policy scenarios toward 2050 that have been developed in UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, and other countries.
• The Climate Conference
  6 April 2005 Melbourne, Australia
  The Climate Conference: Melbourne 2005 will provide a forum for organizations from the private and public sectors to share information on the measures and policies they are implementing to address climate change and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Hosted in partnership with The Victorian State Government, this invitation only event will allow for excellent networking opportunities and high profile coverage of these leadership actions.
• International Symposium on
  Interfaces between Climate and Economic Dynamics
  3-4 March 2005, Interlaken, Switzerland
  Climate Change can be viewed as a cycle with four phases: economic activities cause emissions of GHGs, which cause climate changes, which inflict climate impacts, which feed back to economic activities and growth. A great deal of specialized research was conducted for each phase of the cycle. That research refers to the forecasts of the previous phase and feeds its own forecasts to the next. There exist thus four critical interfaces. The main purpose of this symposium is to explore those interfaces. To that end, it will forward the collective understanding of each phase and allow the specialists of each phase to express what type of data and forecasts they need from the previous phase and what they can supply to the next. This will facilitate the development of a coherent view of climate change, its causes and its consequences.
• Carbon Market Insights 2005
  1-3 March 2005, Amsterdam, Netherland
• Rio 05 Congress
  World Climate And Energy Event
  15-17 February 2005, in Rio de Janeiro, and from 18-20 February 2005, in Fortaleza, Brazil.
• Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
  A Scientific Symposium On Stabilization Of Greenhouse Gases
  1-3 February 2005, Exeter, UK
  The aim of the symposium is to advance scientific understanding of and encourage an international scientific debate on the long term implications of climate change, the relevance of stabilisation goals, and options to reach such goals; and to encourage research on these issues.
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• FAO/Netherlands International Conference on
  Water for Food and Ecosystems
  31 January - 5 February 2005, The Hague, The Netherlands
  The prime objective of the WFE Conference is: to help governments identify management practices, practical lessons learned and the necessary enabling environments that lead to sustainable water use at the river-basin level and the harmonization of food production and ecosystem management with a view to implementing already internationally agreed commitments
• World Conference On Disaster Reduction (WCDR)
  18-22 January 2005, Kobe-Hyogo, Japan
• International Workshop On Community Level Adaptation To Climate Change
  16-18 January 2005, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Climate Change Risks & Opportunities: Learning from the Leaders
  13-14 January 2005, New York, NY, USA
  Conference Objectives:
  to bring the leaders of the corporate, financial and legal sectors together with some of the worlds foremost experts on climate change policy to discuss the legal and practical implications of the problem for U.S. businesses; to consider the experience of the major companies that have taken early action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and to discuss pragmatic steps companies can take to develop an effective and profitable strategy for contributing to climate change mitigation.
• 2004 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  Greening of Policies – Interlinkages and Policy Integration
  3-4 December 2004, Berlin, Germany
  The conference is organized by the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU), Freie Universität Berlin, in cooperation with the Global Governance Project (a joint research project of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), FFU, and Oldenburg University), on behalf of the Environmental Policy and Global Change Section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW). It is endorsed by the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) core projects Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) and Industrial Transformation (IHDP-IT).
• Adapting for Climate Change
  2 Dec 2004, London, UK
  This conference will address both likely impacts and adaptation responses, in the context of an integrated approach which includes local emissions mitigation responses under schemes such as the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change. It takes place in the run-up to the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Buenos Aires in December 2004, which is set to focus for the first time primarily on adaptation measures.
• Methane to Markets Ministerial Meeting
  15 - 17 November, 2004, Washington, DC, USA
  The ministerial meeting will be structured to facilitate discussions between Partner countries and initiate a public-private dialogue with interested stakeholders. The first day of the meeting will focus on technical issues related to methane capture and use opportunities in each of the targeted sectors. The Ministerial Program will begin on the second day and will include panel discussions on crosscutting issues and conclude with Ministerial Statements and the signing of the Terms of Reference for the Partnership. The third and final day will be devoted to working meetings of the Steering Committee and the three Subcommittees (Coal, Oil and Gas, and Landfills).
• Werte! Woran orientiert sich Deutschlands Zukunft?
  Jahreskonferenz des Rates für Nachhaltige Entwicklung
  11 November 2004, Berlin, Germany
• 6th anniversary TBLI Conference
  The sixth Triple Bottom Line Investing Conference
  11 - 12 November 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  It is the world's largest international learning event dealing with sustainable investment. During the two-day event, the latest developments on screening, auditing, reporting, sri analysis, corporate citizenship, indexes and research will be covered. The focus of the 2004 TBLI Conference is TBLI and Growth. How is TBLI growing and what are the drivers? What are the risks and opportunities? This year, we are giving special attention in the program to the daily SRI-issues for asset management, banking, and insurance industries covering topics such as: the Equator Principals and environmental risk assessment; financial sector initiatives dealing with climate change
• ACIA International Scientific Symposium on Climate Change in the Arctic
  9-12 November 2004, Reykjavik, Iceland The
  ACIA International Scientific Symposium on Climate Change in the Arctic will address a variety of issues connected to climate change in the circumpolar Arctic and its environmental and societal consequences. The ACIA scientific assessment report will be the primary document under consideration at the symposium. The scientific results and their background, including indigenous peoples’ perspectives and observations, will be presented and discussed in an integrated circumpolar context.
• Second Joint Research Workshop: Business And Emissions Trading
  3 - 5 November 2004, Halle, Germany
• Climate Change and Business
  The Australia-New Zealand Conference and Trade Expo 2004
  3-5 November 2004, Auckland, New Zealand
  This inaugural Australasian conference will be sharply focused on understanding the business opportunities and risks arising from climate change. The conference is the result of a cooperative effort from NGOs (the Environmental Defense Society is the lead organiser), governments, trade unions and business groups.
• WADE's 5th International Conference on Cogeneration and Decentralized Energy
  27 - 28 October, Beijing, China
  As one of the fastest growing economies in the world, China has maintained an annual growth rate of over 7% over the past decade. China’s power supply has also experienced an unprecedented growth of 10% a year in the same period. To sustain the economic development, China is estimated to require over 30,000 MWe of new capacity each year, much of which will be from CHP and some form of DE systems.
• Technical Workshop on JI/CDM
  21 - 22 October 2004, Vienna, Austria
  The Austrian JI/CDM Programme (managed by Kommunalkredit Public Consulting GmbH on behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry , Environment and Water Management) is organizing its first technical workshop on JI/CDM. The aim of this 2-day workshop is to provide to interested institutions and project developers the knowledge necessary to set up a JI/CDM project in general and to successfully participate in the 2nd Call of the Austrian JI/CDM Programme, which will be published in October 2004.
• EU Emissions Trading 2004
  Competitive and financial implications
  21-22 October, 2004 Brussels
• Ninth European Ph.D Workshop on International Climate Policy
  15-16 October, 2004, Viterbo, Italy
• CLIMATE ALLIANCE OF EUROPEAN CITIES
  12th International Annual Conference and General Assembly
  14 -15 October 2004, Brussels, Belgium
  The Climate Alliance is the largest network of cities and towns committed to climate protection, tropical forest preservation and a global partnership with indigenous peoples. Topics of presentations and debate include Impacts of climate change on European cities and towns; The future of EU climate policy; EU's Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment; Conclusions for local policy from renewables2004; Regions as partners of local government for climate protection; Commitment and compliance: voluntary action of local government; Case studies, good practice, and monitoring of local climate policy; Partnership with indigenous peoples from tropical rainforests
• Transportation and Climate Change
  An IPIECA Workshop
  12-13 October 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  This high level international two day Workshop will bring together key figures from academia, government, business, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations to consider the future of transportation worldwide in the context of global climate change.
• Roundtable on Emerging Issues in the Relationship Between the Climate and Trade Regimes
  Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and the WTO
  14 October 2004, Geneva, Switzerland
  The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) is organising an open roundtable on trade and climate change. Presentations will explore the relationship between the climate change regime and trade rules, including the implications of the current Doha Round of trade negotiations.
• Greenhouse Gas Mitigation & The Law
  30 September 2004, London, UK
  This conference is aimed at better equipping organisations in both the private and public sector to develop appropriate climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, enabling them to reduce risks from litigation while simultaneously exploiting a wide variety of emerging opportunities in the low carbon economy. It features legal opinion, policy analyses and authorative presentations from leading industrial and commercial organisations in various sectors.
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Abrupt Climate Change
  Positive Options and Robust Policy
  30 Sept -1 Oct, 2004, Paris, France
  Please note that this is a by-invitation event in a room small enough to facilitate discussion. Accordingly, there are only a limited number of places available in addition to paper presenters and discussants, so for additional experts this registration constitutes a request to be invited.
• 3rd API Conference on the Oil and Gas Industry's Voluntary Actions to Address Climate Change
  29-30 September 2004, Arlington, Virginia, USA
  The conference will provide a forum for a broad range of topics and perspectives from API member companies, federal and state agencies, academic and non-governmental organizations and others to exchange information on known voluntary best practices and partnership experiences. The event is modeled after the previous two conferences with seven sessions presented over a two-day period.
  For more information including a detailed agenda, go to www.api.org/petroteam
• WARNSIGNAL KLIMA: Genug Wasser für alle?
  Genügend Wasser für jeden – wichtiges Menschenrecht
  Symposium zur Information der Öffentlichkeit
  28 - 29 September 2004, Hamburg, Germany
• 5th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC)
  26-30 September 2004, Nice
  The ECAC Conference aims at promoting a fruitful exchange of information on the applications of climatology at a European level between all parties concerned, as national meteorological and climatological services, universities, international organizations, agencies and private service providers. Such a cross fertilization is pivotal in helping the climatological community and service providers to become more effective in meeting the growing demand in climatological applications. This is especially true with respect to climate monitoring, climate prediction and risk management.
• Climate Change and Forest Sector: Clean Development Mechanism in Tropical Countries
  21 - 23 September 2004 Seoul, Korea
  An overall objective of the workshop is to promote the development of carbon markets through the implementation of clean development mechanism(CDM) forest activities such as afforestation and reforestation of degraded forest land in the tropics. One of objectives of the workshop is to enhance understanding of CDM carbon forestry and to identify the opportunities for forest industry and rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region.
• Emissions Marketing Association:
  EMA 8th Annual Fall Meeting and International Conference
  19-22 September 2004, Toronto, Canada
  
• IGES/NIES Open Symposium International Climate Regime beyond 2012
  Long-term Goals and Near-term Actions
  9 Sepember 2004, Tokyo, Japan
  The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, together with the National Institute for Environmental Studies, will hold an open symposium at the Fukoku Seimei Building to discuss the near-term actions that can be taken as part of long-term efforts to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
• The Seventh International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-7)
  5 - 9 September 2004 Vancouver, Canada
  The conference is being organised by the University of Regina and Natural Resources Canada in co-operation with the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of the latest advances in the field of greenhouse gas control technologies. The Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT) conference series has established itself as the foremost conference bringing together the international community to discuss greenhouse gas control technology issues.
• 19th World Energy Congress
  5 - 9 September 2004, Sydney, Australia
• Ankara Climate Change Conference
  Understanding the CLIMATE, Challenging the CHANGE!
  1 – 3 September 2004, Ankara, Turkey
  The Conference aims to introduce the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Turkey’s accession to the Convention to policy-makers and other key stakeholders at the national and international level.
• The 32nd International Geological Congress (32IGC)
  20 - 28 August 2004, Florence, Italy
  Topic 09: Future of Energy and Resources T - 09.01 Fossil fuels T - 09.02 Petroleum systems in deep-water settings T - 09.03 Renewable energy T - 09.04 Methane hydrates T - 09.05 CO2 confinement T - 09.06 Geothermal fields T - 09.07 Global and continental-scale mineral resources assessments
• Disasters and Society - From Hazard Assessment to Risk Reduction
  26 - 27 July 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany
  The amount of damages caused by disasters has increased over the past decades. Extreme events can not always be prevented. However, we can minimize the amount of damage which they inflict upon society. It is therefore important to have reliable forecasting methods as well as effective systems for warning and disaster management. The conference Disasters and Society - From Hazard Assessment to Risk Reduction provides a forum to present and discuss research results covering the full functional chain associated with disasters.
• Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in the Global System
  SCAR Open Science Conference
  27 - 28 July 2004, Bremen, Germany
  For the first time since its foundation in 1958 the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) will be holding an open international and interdisciplinary scientific conference on "Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in the Global System”. The Open Science Conference will review our present understanding of the close couplings between Antarctica, the Southern Ocean and the other parts of the Earth System. Antarctic scientists from 35 countries accepted the invitation of SCAR to participate in the Open Science Conference submitting more than 700 abstracts. It is anticipated that the outcome of the conference will influence the planning of SCAR`s future Antarctic research programmes.
• Second Annual European Environmental Markets Conference
  28 June - 1 July 2004, Brussels, Belgium
  The European Environmental Markets Conference will be focusing on the status of implementation of the EU ETS and the development of Renewable Energy Credit (REC) trading in Europe
• International Conference on New and Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development
  28 June - 1 July 2004, Évora, Portugal
  The Evora International Conference on New and Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development will mark a new development in modern technologies reflecting the reports on the action to meet the goal of Johannesburg Conference Plan of Action. This Conference will follow the objectives of the Lisbon (1998), Madeira (2000) and Azores (2002) Conferences “to bring together engineering practitioners, product developers and researchers with economists, political scientist and government administrators to explore the multifaceted relationship between renewable technologies and sustainable development.
• Hydrogen in Europe
  Towards a consistent Policy Framework for Sustainable Energy and Mobility
  23 - 24 June 2004, Bruges, Belgium
  The conference will focus on incentives for business action, on framework conditions, and on market development. It endeavours the aim of a strategic timetable for a sustainable European Hydrogen economy. In parallel with quite a number of technology development conferences, it will specifically address the need for a consistent policy framework aiming at a dynamic and efficient hydrogen strategy
  For more information, see: http://www.coleurop.be/
• 2nd International Workshop on Climate, Tourism and Recreation
  8 -11 June 2004, Kolimbari, Crete, Greece
  Organised by the International Society of Biometeorology, Commission on Climate, Tourism and Recreation
• International Conference for Renewable Energies (Renewables 2004)
  1 - 4 June 2004, Bonn, Germany
  From June 1 to 4, 2004, Germany will host the International Conference for Renewable Energies, as announced by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2002 in Johannesburg. Renewables 2004 will lend further impetus to the dynamic process launched in Johannesburg for the global development of renewable energy. It will also take up and add to the momentum generated by the coalition of like-minded countries for promotion of renewable energy (known as the Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition, JREC).
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• Sustainable Energy Finance
  Creating the Climate for Change
  1-2 June 2004, Bonn, Germany
  Speakers from Fortis Bank HypoVereinsbank Syndicate Bank KfW World Bank Munich RE Cleantech Venture Network Carbon Trust Alternative Energy Venture Capital Climate Change Capital EXIM Bank Hg Capital Triodos IFC Global Environment Facility Ecosecurities E+Co New Ventures Invest International Resources Group UNEP European Commission Hermes WRI and many more, will present and discuss practical solutions for bringing down the barriers to investment and deepening the market's exposure to sustainable energy systems.
• Second World Renewable Energy Forum: Renewing Civilization by Renewable Energy
  29-31 May, 2004, Bonn, Germany
  This Forum will consider the use of renewable energy in industry, rural areas, and cities, and renewable energy projects proposed by NGOs prior to the Renewables 2004 conference, to be held immediately after the Forum
• Critical Elements of International Climate Policy
  12-14 May 2004, Hamburg, Germany
  Focus on the international climate change policy regime, consequences of the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol and post-2012 climate policy. For more information, see: http://www.hwwa.de/climate.htm
• 2nd World Conference and Technology Exhibition on Biomass for Energy and Industry
  10-14 May 2004, Rome, Italy
  The 2nd World Conference and Technology Exhibition on Biomass for Energy, Industry and Climate Protection will contribute to present the cutting-edge developments in the field of the biomass utilisation. It will be in particular an excellent forum for the presentation of the latest innovative global strategies, technologies, projects and efficient practice rules for energy and environment. It will also give the opportunity for an information exchange and for discussions among scientists, policy makers, practitioners of the use of biomass for energy, industry and climate protection. The Conference will involve the biomass industry which has a range of innovative products and services to offer as biomass technologies are rapidly approaching market readiness. The exhibition integrated into the Conference will provide an excellent opportunity for making business in the emerging biomass sector.
• The Ocean in a High-CO2 World
  10-12 May 2004, Paris, France
  The symposium organized by the Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO will address the biological and biogeochemical consequences of increasing atmospheric and oceanic CO2 levels, and possible strategies for mitigating such increases.
• Third Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration
  3-6 May, 2004, Alexandria, VA, USA
  This conference will bring together experts directly involved in developing, demonstrating and deploying carbon capture, separation and sequestration technologies as part of the Administration's Climate Change Technology Program
• Klimaveränderung und Konsequenzen für die Wasserwirtschaft
  2. KLIWA Fachsymposium
  3 - 4 May 2004 Würzburg, Germany
• European Geosciences Union 1st General Assembly
  25 - 30 April 2004, Nice, France
• Carbon Market Insights 2004
  20-21 April , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  By 31 March 2004, all countries covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme have to submit their National Allocation Plans. Carbon Market Insights 2004 provides a unique and timely opportunity to be updated on the developments in the carbon markets and explore the consequences for industry and business. In-depth sessions on the status and prospects for the CDM will be provided on day two.
  
• Fifteenth Annual Earth Technologies Forum
  The Conference on Climate Change and Ozone Protection
  13-15 April 2004, Washington DC, US.
  The Earth Technologies Forum annual conference evolved from the International Conference on Ozone Protection Technologies and the International Climate Change Conference & Technologies Exhibition. The merger of these two internationally-recognized conferences preserves the best of each, providing the most comprehensive educational program and exhibition featuring the latest ozone protection and climate change technologies and policies.
  
• Third Annual GreenTrading™ Summit
  Emissions, Renewables & Negawatts New York, US
  22-24 March 2004, New York, US.
  Subjects include: Carbon emission reduction credits; Building the forward price curve for carbon; Importance of market indexes for liquidity; CO2 and REC market developments on state level; White, green and black certificate trading; Interrelationship of environmental and energy efficiency markets; Importance of energy decisions on the competitiveness of business investments; Presenting the corporate case for carbon and greenhouse gas management; Carbon and greenhouse gas transparency for market development.
• Fourth Global Forum On Sustainable Energy (GFSE-4)
  Energy for Sustainable Development: Reconsidering the Role of Incentive Measures
  18 -20 February 2004, Vienna, Austria
  Particular emphasis will be placed on renewable energy issues in order to provide input into Renewables 2004, hosted by Germany in June 2004. Furthermore GFSE-4 will again provide a meeting platform for various energy-partnerships announced at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 and monitor their progress.
• European Emissions Trading Conference
  3 February 2004, Dublin, Ireland
  The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is a key element in the European Union’s strategy in meeting its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. The scheme will involve the allocation of allowances for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions under approved national allocation plans and the trading of these allowances on a pan-European basis. The focus of the conference will be on the practical aspects of allocating emissions allowances.
  
• Fourth Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS 2004)
  4-7 February 2004, New Delhi, India
  Now in its fourth year, the DSDS endeavours to find ways to effect the much-needed shift away from mindless human practices that add up to global warming, resource scarcity, and destabilization of traditional livelihood patterns; from economic policies that overlook environmental costs and, thereby, the future of the earth; from strategies that put political interests above the earth’s ecological well-being; and from profit-centric corporate philosophies.
• Governance for Industrial Transformation
  2003 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  5-6 December 2003, Berlin, German
• 5. BIOMET-Tagung "Mensch-Pflanze-Atmosphäre"
  3 - 5 December 2003, Dresden, Germany
• Transition in agriculture and future land use patterns
  1-3 December 2003, Wageningen, The Netherlands
  The workshop offers a state-of-the-art overview on the efforts to transform agriculture over a generation time (around 25 years) and to achieve major reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases. Interactions of such transitions in agriculture with future patterns of land use are made, and implications for policy making are identified. Major gaps in our scientific understanding on such interactions are formulated. Emphasis is given to the experience gained from cross-disciplinary approaches.
• 3rd International Methane & Nitrous Oxide Mitigation Conference
  17-21 November 2003, Beijing, China
  The conference will feature detailed discussions on important sources of methane and nitrous oxide, including landfills and sewage management, natural gas and oil systems, coal mining, and agriculture. Attendees will participate in source-specific discussions on characterizing emission sources, using proven and innovative technologies to reduce emissions, and overcoming the barriers to project development.
• ISWA World Congress 2003
  Sustainability in a New World
  9–14 November 2003, Melbourne, Australia
  The Waste Management Association of Australia invites you to attend the most diverse and stimulating ISWA World Congress ever planned for the world’s waste management professionals and allied industries. A high calibre program featuring international and Australian keynote speakers will stimulate discussion on the challenges of worldwide sustainability issues.
  
• Business and Emissions Trading
  12-14 November 2003, Wittenberg, Germany
  The workshop is part of a three years pro-ject which intends to bring together young scientists from various backgrounds (eco-nomics/management-/social sciences, theoretical/empirical, descriptive/explicative/prescriptive) to chart the course on new issues for corporate sustainability. The workshop is a joint workshop with the workgroup “OR in environmental man-agement” within the Society for Operations Research e.V.(GOR).
• Delivering Climate Technology
  Programmes, policies and politics
  4 - 5 November 2003, London, United Kingdom
• 21st IPCC Plenary session
  3 - 7 November 2003 ,Vienna, Austria.
• EIB Forum 2003
  Visions of Environmental Sustainability - Europe's Long Term Energy and Water Policies
  23 -24 October, Dublin, Ireland
  
• 2003 International Conference on Tropical Forests and Climate Change
  Carbon Sequestration and Clean Development Mechanism
  21 - 23 October, Manila, The Philippines
  
• 2003 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community
  16-18 October 2003, Montreal, Canada
• CASMGS 2003 Fall Forum: Measuring and Monitoring Carbon
  15-17 October, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
  How can soil carbon best be measured and monitored in order to ensure a valid carbon accounting system? Join fellow scientists, policymakers, and industry representatives in discussing this question at the Carbon Measurement and Monitoring Forum. This conference will be hosted by the Consortium for Agricultural Soils Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases (CASMGS)
• Ph.D. Research on International Climate Policy in Europe, Seventh Workshop
  10-11 October, 2003, Hamburg, Germany
• Energy and Environmental Technologies for Sustainable Development (ICEET-2003)
  8-10 October 2003, Jaipur, India
• The Trondheim Conference on CO2 Capture and Sequestration
  Third Nordic Minisymposium on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
  and Advances of the Klimatek project Power production with CO2 capture
  1-3 October, 2003
• 4th International Cogeneration & Decentralized Energy Conference and Exhibition
  1 - 2 October 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  There is a vast potential for decentralized energy (DE) – high efficiency cogeneration and on-site renewable energy – in Brazil and throughout Latin America. It represents a multi-billion dollar market. This International Conference will present important and up-to-date information about the opportunity for DE and the challenges to it.
• Third World Conference on Climate Change
  29 September 2003 - 3 October 2003, Moscow, Russia.
  • Official Site
• 6. Deutsche Klimatagung
  Klimavariabilität
  22 -25 September 2003, Potsdam, Germany
• International Conference on Earth System Modelling
  15-19 September 2003, Hamburg, Germany
  Four years after the Fourth International Conference on Modelling of Global Climate Change and Variability, this conference addresses global, regional and reduced complexity modelling. It will provide an opportunity to present new results in this field and to discuss recent developments and plans for the future.
• 2nd Scoping Meeting for the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC
  1-3 September, Berlin, Germany
• Post-2012 climate policy options: European perspectives
  4-5 September, 2003, Hamburg, Germany
  This conference of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA) is part of a global conference series in the framework of the project "Developing a post-2012 policy architecture" endorsed under the IHDP/IDGEC as a flagship Carbon Management Research Activity (CMRA). Different policy scenarios will be discussed.
• International Conference on Climate Policy After Marrakech: Towards Global Participation
  4-6 September, 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• Meeting Kyoto Targets in the EU – Challenges for the Power Sector
  WWF Conference
  25-26 June 2003, European Parliament, Brussels
• European Emissions Trading 2003
  25-26 June 2003, Brussels, Belgium
  Developing comprehensive strategies to successfully prepare for the impact of a European emissions trading scheme on your commercial activities
• 2nd Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
  15 - 20 June 2003, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• Nationale Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien: "Perspektiven der Umsetzung und Weiterentwicklung"
  Gemeinsame Tagung der Vereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie und der Vereinigung für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung in Kooperation mit dem Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung
  22 - 24 May 2003, Heidelberg, Germany
• 14th Annual Earth Technologies Forum (ETF)
  22-24 April 2003, Washington, D.C.
  The Earth Technologies Forum annual conference evolved from the International Conference on Ozone Protection Technologies and the International Climate Change Conference & Technologies Exhibition.
• Environmental Future of Aquatic Ecosystems
  5th International Conference on Environmental Future (5th ICEF)
  23-27 March 2003, Zurich, Switzerland
  Leading scientists from around the world are to predict the potential alternative state(s) of each of the 21 marine and freshwater ecosystems by the year 2025 with respect, in particular, to climate change, human population growth and fisheries decline.
• FRONTIERS 2
  5th European Society for Ecological Economics Conference
  12-15 February 2003, Tenerife, Spain
  FRONTIERS 2 will focus on state-of-the art applications of ecological economics for environmental planning and management, in education and for testing the robustness of research tools.
• Sustainable Technologies for the 21st Century
  12-13 Dec 2002, Delmenhorst, Germany
  The workshop intends to identify some of the sustainable technologies that could lead to a long term sustainable development considering the goals of the UNFCCC. In addition, the workshop will discuss how these technologies could be integrated into economic models.
• 2002 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  Knowledge for the Sustainability Transition: The Challenge for Social Science
  6-7 December 2002, Berlin, Germany.
  The 2002 Berlin Conference has been endorsed by the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and is organised by the Global Governance Project of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in co-operation with the Environmental Policy Research Unit of the Free University of Berlin.
• US Climate Change Science Program: Planning Workshop for Scientists and Stakeholders
  3-5 December 2002, Washington, DC
  The United States Climate Change Science Program will hold a comprehensive Workshop on the U.S. Climate Change Science Program to receive comments on a discussion draft version of its Strategic Plan for climate change and global change studies.
  
• USDA Symposium on Natural Resource Management to Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  19-21 November, 2002 Raleigh, USA
  In response to global warming, there is a need for identifying how terrestrial ecosystems can be managed to optimize carbon sequestration and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Regional Cycles - Regional Economy towards Sustainability
  31 October - 2 November 2002, Leipzig, Germany
  Regional economy as a concept for sustainable development has raised a lot of interest among researchers and policy makers in the last years. But where do regional cycles make sense? How can European Regions learn from each other? The International Conference: “Regional Cycles – Regional economy towards Sustainability” aims to answer these questions and to enliven the interdisciplinary debate on sustainable regional economic activities in Europe. The theme “Regional Cycles" should hereby be understood in a wide sense, including financial, substance and material cycles and their regionalisation.
• 3rd International CHP & Decentralized Energy Symposium
  and USAID International Conference & Exhibition on Bagasse Cogeneration
  24-26 October 2002, New Delhi, India
  The conference is sponsored by USAID and the World Alliance for Decentralized Energy (WADE). Central themes of the event will be the GHG emission reduction impacts of DE and the application of DE in developing countries.
• 5th Workshop of the Central European Ph.D. Network on International Climate Policy
  11 - 12 October, Wageningen, the Netherlands
  PhD students are given the opportunity to present their PhD theses or research ideas and bring them up for peer review and discussion amongst fellow colleagues. The workshop will be hosted by the Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group of Wageningen University (for further information on the location and the group, please visit www.sls.wau.nl/enr/ )
  
• Financial Solutions for Greenhouse Gas Markets
  25 September 2002, Cologne, Germany
  
• Environmental Communication in the Information Society
  16 th International Symposium Environmental Informatics
  25 - 27 September 2002, Vienna, Austria
• Second European Conference on Green Power Marketing
  5 - 6 September 2002, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  This year too, the successful European trade forum will offer you a platform for high-quality international debate and discussion on the trading and marketing of renewable energy. Green power offers electricity providers an attractive alternative to predatory competition and an opportunity to generate decisive competitive advantage.
  
• International Workshop on Regional Integrated Assessment of Climate Impacts
  16-20 September, 2002
  Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy
• Johannesburg 2002
  World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
  26 August - 4 September 2002, Johannesburg, South Africa
  see: "Global Change and Climate Change Links: Sustainable Development "
  
• Emissions Reductions: Main Street to Wall Street - The Climate in North America
  17 - 18 July, 2002, New York City
  Worldwide, the Greenhouse Gas market is beginning to solidify. Canada will most probably ratify the Kyoto protocol and Mexico will be a potential large Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) market, but what about the US? A conference to build awareness of the financial implications of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reductions sponsored by Swiss Re, AON, Duane Morris LLP and NatSource.
• World Renewable Energy Congress
  29 June - 5 July 2002, Cologne, Germany
  The World Renewable Energy Congress is a meeting where scientists, architects, engineers, policy makers, government officials, planners, innovators and industrialists from all nations get together for a week to discuss and exhibit their knowledge as to how the world can adapt renewable energy to reduce the effect of climate change and global warming. WREC 2002 is organized by the World Renewable Energy Network and by the Forschungszentrum Jülich, the local host, supported by the State Government of North-Rhine Westphalia and the State Initiative for Future Energies.
  
• ECOS 2002
  15th International Conference on Efficiency, Costs, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems
  3-5 July, 2002, Berlin, Germany
  The ECOS 2002 conference is part of a series of international meetings that focus on modern aspects of thermal sciences with particular emphasis on engineering thermodynamics
• International conference on impact assessment (IAIA 2002)
  17-21 June 2002 Den Haag, The Netherlands
• World Renewable Energy Policy and Strategy Forum:
  Renewable Energies - Agenda 1 of Agenda 21
  13 - 15 June 2002, Berlin, Germany
• Third International Human Dimensions Workshop: Human Dimensions of Urbanisation and the Transition to Sustainability
  3 – 14 June 2002, Bonn, Germany
  The workshop will bring together around 40 young scientists from developing countries and Central/Eastern European Countries/Russia to focus on human dimensions issues related to urbanisation from a variety of different perspectives and disciplines. Representatives from each of the IHDP’s four Science Projects (GECHS, LUCC, IT and IDGEC) will work with the group to highlight how each project is addressing particular issues on urbanisation.
• Conference on Climate Change and Transportation
  20 May 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• The Coastal Society 2002 Conference
  Converging currents: science, policy and culture at the coast
  18th International Conference
  19 - 22 May, 2002, Galveston, TX, USA
  The conference will explore interrelationships among the physical, ecological, cultural and political currents that converge at coastal areas. Operating at all scales of spatial resolution – local, regional, national and international – these currents intermingle to form a rich tapestry of natural elements and human designs, each dependent on the other.
• Klimaschutzkongress NRW
  Flexible Instrumente der internationalen Kooperation im Klimaschutz
  22 May 2002, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Sustainable Justice - Implementing International Sustainable Development Law
  22-25 May, 2002, Montreal, Canada
  This conference, organized by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, will rally the resources and expertise of the global legal community towards the World Summit for Sustainable Development to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 26 August through 4 September 2002 – ten years after the “Rio Earth Summit.”
  For more information, email conference@cisdl.org or see www.cisdl.org .
  
• WSSD Fourth Preparatory Committee (PrepCom 4)
  27 May - 7 June 2002, Bali, Indonesia
  • Documents
  • IISD site
  • SDIN Site
• Wilton Park Conference
  Climate Change: What can be done?
  13-17 May 2002
• EU and German climate policy
  Challenges before the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol
  6-8 May, 2002, Hamburg, Germany
  
• Green Trading Summit: Emissions, Renewables and Negawatts
  14-15 May 2002, New York City
  The Green Trading Summit addresses how trading creates solutions for reducing pollution and accelerating technology transfer. This is the context for green trading which includes the new markets for trading carbon & greenhouse gas emission reduction credits, renewable energy credits and negawatts (reduction in use of electricity). In these new markets, the commodities are quantifiable and fungible across markets and borders. Furthermore, portfolios of such commodities are likely to appreciate in value over time
• International Conference on Climate Change and the Built Environment
  8-9 April 2002, Manchester, United Kingdom.
• 2002 Global Windpower
  Conference and Exhibition
  2 - 5 April 2002, Paris, France
  
• Earth Technologies Forum (ETF)
  25-27 March 2002, Washington, D.C
  The conference on global climate change and ozone protection technologies and policies is sponsored by the International Climate Change Partnership (ICCP), and the Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Agency for International Development, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme, Environment Canada, Industry Canada, Australian Greenhouse Office, Netherlands' Reduction Plan for the Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, as well as over 80 industry groups.
• GLOBE 2002
  13 - 15 March 2002, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  International leaders in the business of the environment will convene to discuss how major developments in energy policy and sustainable development can be translated into technology solutions and business opportunities. Recognizing globalization as a leading force in the business of the 21s century, GLOBE 2002 offers the strategic intelligence needed to conquer the challenge of balancing strategic business, energy and environment agendas
• Emissions Trading Schemes
  Objectives, Implementation and Future Opportunities
  5 March 2002, London
  The conference will provide an unrivalled opportunity to take part in the debate on the future of this exciting new market, at the time of its inception. Leading global policy makers will explain the objectives and implementation of emissions trading. You will hear how your company can prepare itself for the challenges of trading schemes and make the most of this new opportunity.
  • NGO-Event
• GHG Accounting and Reporting Workshop
  1 March 2002, Milan, Italy
  Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, in co-operation with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the World Research Institute (WRI), organise for the 1st of March 2002 a discussion workshop on the Greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and reporting related to the Kyoto Protocol. The mission of the working group is to develop and promote internationally accepted greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and reporting standards through an open and inclusive process. The aim of the workshop is to disseminate the results of the project and the open the discussion in Italy too on the proposed methodologies that are the result of a unique multi-stakeholder partnership of businesses, NGOs, and governments.
  For more information see website of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
• Continental Energy Markets and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Implications?
  20 - 21 February, 2002, Ottawa, Canada
  This conference will explore a range of options related to the development of continental energy markets, in particular focusing on the implications of such development for meeting commitments to effectively address climate change. The speakers will discuss: the Bush Energy Plan; alternatives to the supply side solution; implications of the U.S. scenarios; and innovative approaches.
  • IISD's Summary Report
• Globalisation and sustainable development: is ethics the missing link?
  21 - 23 February, Lyon, France
  Representatives of civil society, government, international organisations, finance, business, religion, media and academia, along with members of the public, will convene in Lyon for three days to exchange their views on how to reinvigorate the ethics debate within the sustainable development and globalisation agendas. Participants will be challenged to identify new ways for humanity to overcome the economic, social and environmental impasse in which it currently finds itself trapped.
• Climate change: integrating human and natural dimensions
  8 February 2002, Wellington, New Zealand
  Central and local government, industry, and agricultural producers are now seriously addressing the issues of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to projected climate changes. To do this effectively, they need input from social scientists as well as from physical scientists. This workshop will bring staff from government, industry and the agricultural sectors together with social and physical scientists.
• World Social Forum 2002
  31 January - 5 February, 2002, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  Main Theme I - The production of wealth and social reproduction
  Main Theme II - Access to wealth and sustainability
• Third International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (NCGG-3)
  21-23 January 2002,. Maastricht, The Netherlands
  The symposium, apart from its scientific objectives to document new results and knowledge of the role of NCGGs in climate change, aims at being instrumental in the process of furthering the mitigation of NCGGs
• The 82nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting :
  Generating Environmental Information and Services
  13-17 January 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA
• Executive Board of the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism
  Second Meeting
  14-16 January 2002, Bonn, Germany
• Global Environmental Change and the Nation State
  2001 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  7-8 December 2001, Berlin
  
• International Conference on Freshwater Water - a Key to Sustainable Development
  3-7 December 2001, Bonn, Germany
  Serving as a preparatory step for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg the Conference offers an opportunity to discuss practical incentives on how to establish a forward-looking process to improve freshwater management.
  • Conference Homepage
  • IISD-Site
• Equity for a Small Planet
  IIED's 30th Anniversary Conference
  12-13 November 2001, London, UK
  The principal aim of the meeting is to provide an international platform for Southern experiences to inform the agenda for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. Examples from key sectors (forestry, mining, fresh water, food, textiles, tourism) will be explored to establish where, and if, there are models and methodologies that have worked.
• 1st annual European Energy and Transport Summit Conference
  18-19 October 2001, Barcelona, Spain
  
• AMS Policy Forum on Weather, Climate and Energy
  16-17 October 2001, Washington, D.C.
  The Atmospheric Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society, in collaboration with the University of Oklahoma, will hold a forum that will explore how weather and climate information can be used to more effectively match energy supply and demand while reducing costs and risk and increasing reliability.
• Reducing greenhouse gases – anticipating tomorrow's drivers, opportunities and financial solutions
  11- 12 October 2001, Ruschlikon, Switzerland
  Developing new business strategies and financial solutions for the transition to a lower greenhouse gas (GHG) future is the focus of an upcoming conference to be hosted by Swiss Re at its Centre for Global Dialogue in Ruschlikon. The conference aims to encourage dialogue between stakeholders and enable businesses that are coping with ways to reduce GHG to find solutions for reaching a sustainable climatic future.
• The first Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) General Assembly
  9-11 October 2001, Kalmar, Sweden
• The 2001 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community
  6-8 October 2001, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
• 5th UNCTAD/Earth Council Policy Forum on Trade, Investment, and the Climate Change Regime
  29-31 August 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Global Change Open Science Conference
  Challenges of a changing earth
  10-13 July 2001, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• ECO-INFORMA 2001: Environmental Risks & the Global Community
  14-18 May 2001, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
  
• International symposium on Climate change and variability in northern europe
  Proxy data, instrumental records, climate models and interactions
  6-8 June 2001, Turku, Finland
• IPCC, Seventeenth session
  4 - 6 April 2001, Nairobi
  • Meeting documents
  • IISD-Site
• National Energy Modeling System/Annual Energy Outlook 2001 Conference
  of the US Energy Information Administration (EIA)
  27 March 2001, Arlington, VA
• SPARC 2000
  2nd SPARC General Assembly Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate
  6 - 10 November 2000 in Mar del Plata, República Argentina
• Fünfte Deutsche Klimatagung
  2 - 6 October 2000 in Hamburg
• Climate Change: Mitigation, Measurement and Measures
  28- 29 September 2000 in Groningen
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) Spring Meeting
  Integrative Geoscience Solutions: A Start for the New Millenium
  30 May - 03 June 2000 in Washington DC, USA
• Second EFIEA climate policy workshop "From Kyoto to The Hague - European perspectives on making the Kyoto Protocol work"
  18-19 April 2000 in Amsterdam
• Global Sustainable Development in the 21st Century (TERI's Silver Jubilee Conferences)
  18 - 21 February 2000, New Delhi, India
• Ad Hoc Intersessional Working Groups of CSD-8 (Preparatory meetings for the eighth session of the UN-Commission on Sustainable Development)
  22 February - 3 March 2000, New York
• 80TH AMS Annual Meeting ("Applying Environmental Science to Societal Needs in the New Millennium")
  9 - 14 January 2000, Long Beach, California
• Eleventh Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and Fifth Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention
  Beijing, 29 November - 3 December 1999
• • The Ozone Secretariat
  • IISD-Site
• Sustainability 21 Conference
  5 - 6 November 1999 in Helsinki
  This high-level conference is being held in advance of the December Helsinki European Summit, at which EU Heads of State and Government will review Europe’s progress towards sustainable development and the integration of environmental issues into other policy areas.
• International Energy Agency: International Workshop on Policies & Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy
  Paris, 15 - 16 April 1999
• The Twentieth Session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP GC-20)
  Nairobi, Kenya, 1 - 5 February, 1999
  • IISD-Site (with ENB)