High-level roundtable on climate negotiations

The High-level roundtable on climate negotiations will take place as an EAERE 2024 pre-conference event on June 30 at KU Leuven, Belgium. This roundtable will be staged before the 29th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in 2024 and aims to foster conversation between leading climate negotiators and experts on global climate policies. 

The roundtable will mainly comprise official climate negotiators. In the morning and early afternoon, each speaker will present in 10-20 min their preferred international policies to address climate change and global poverty. Then, there will be an open discussion between the speakers, followed by a Q&A session with the public. 

The event will help understand the opportunities, conditions, and obstacles for enhanced international cooperation on climate action.

The registration is free but mandatory. If you would like to attend online, please specify in the registration form.
 

Program

        14:00 – 14:30: Refreshments

        14:30 – 16:15: Panel on Ratcheting up ambition  

           Chaired by Partha Sen (Delhi School of Economics)

• Tulio Andrade – Brazil's Head of the Division of Climate Negotiation (online)
• Adrien Fabre – CNRS climate economist at CIRED, Paris
• Hu Bin – Research Director on Global Climate Governance, ICCSD, Tsinghua University
• Elisa Oezbek –  Germany's Deputy Head for International Climate Policy at the foreign affairs ministry
• Jacob Werksman – EU's lead climate negotiator
   

        16:15 – 16:45: Coffee break

        16:45 – 18:30: Panel on Climate Finance
           Chaired by Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford)

• Dipak Dasgupta – India's former lead climate negotiator
• Iskander Erzini Vernoit – Co-coordinator, Finance Working Group of the Climate Action Network (CAN)
• Michael Finus  – Professor of economics at the University of Graz
• Outi Honkatukia  – EU's lead negotiator on climate finance
• Avinash Persaud – Special Advisor on Climate to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank

Co-Chairs

Rick van der Ploeg (U Oxford)
Partha Sen (Delhi School of Economics)
 

Organising Commitee

Adrien Fabre (CNRS France)

Sareh Vosooghi (KULeuven)

Questions about the event may be sent to adrien.fabre@cnrs.fr
 

Participation
Registrations are now open. Given the limited number of seats, priority will be given to early registrants. Please register here.

This event is organised with the support of EAERE.