Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Q) prepares to conclude its Climate Change Lecture Series with Climate Change: Carbon Taxes, Cap & Trade, Renewables, Sequestration & Other Remedies, to be held at 7pm today at SFS-Q.
With Qatar currently hosting COP18, Dr Nathan Hultman, Director of Environment & Energy Policy Programs, University of Maryland, will put the complexities of the discussions central to this mega-conference into context and draw on his vast experience participating in the UN climate change process since the Kyoto meeting.
Dr Hultman commented: “After a decade of slow and halting progress toward a global approach to climate change, there remains a very large gap between the low level of ambition in existing international agreements and the necessary major steps for managing climate risks at reasonable levels in the long run. Against this backdrop, delegates will soon be meeting for another round of international climate negotiations in Doha, Qatar to discuss key issues of financing and to lay the groundwork for a future treaty.”
Dr Hultman will also address energy-climate challenges and opportunities specific to the GCC countries.
The discussions make up part of a series of open lectures on climate change held from November 11 to December 2 at SFS-Q.The Peninsula
