Since 2007, IDDRI and the French Development Agency (AFD) have been working in partnership to produce a French annual publication on sustainable development with the Sciences Po University Press. This 2010 edition led to the publication of a book in English by the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), entitled CITIES: steering towards sustainability (A Planet for Life series).
The book has three objectives: taking stock of international negotiations and policies conducted in the field of sustainable development over the past year, providing a series of facts and figures on these trends, and exploring a specific subject. The previous editions thus examined the issues of energy choices in the face of climate change (2007), biodiversity…
Without a doubt, 2009 was the year of the climate with the high point being the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The IDDRI was closely involved in this event, which you were able to follow primarily on our blog. What was learned during these two weeks of high emotion, setbacks and disappointments? The IDDRI gives you its ‘off-the-cuff’ analysis of these two weeks and the Copenhagen deal: What happened? Who won and who lost? What should we make of this declaration? And most importantly, what do we do next? [Download this publication]
This first analysis will be followed by a more in-depth review and a public conference on 27 January 2010.
2010 is the…
Today, the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opens in Copenhagen (Denmark), and will run from 7-18 December. The stakes are high for the international community: it must reach an ambitious, fair and effective agreement to ensure a massive, rapid and global reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, while adhering fully to the principles of the Rio Declaration (1992), especially that of common but differentiated responsibilities.
Since this round of negotiations was launched at the Bali Conference in December 2007, IDDRI has been actively involved as both observer and actor in these negotiations and is striving to identify the room for manoeuvre available and to foster the emergence of points of convergence.
For the last two…
On 7 December 2009, the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will open in Copenhagen (Denmark). As a key stage in the adoption of a new international climate regime to replace the Kyoto Protocol (1997-2012), the Copenhagen conference will conclude the round of negotiations launched by the Bali conference in December 2007. The priority and the challenge for the international community is to reach an ambitious, fair and effective agreement to ensure a massive, rapid and collective reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Yet less than two months before the Copenhagen meeting, its outcome is causing a great deal of concern due to the lack of political consensus on some key points of the negotiation.
Although the main obstacle on the…
At the heart of international concerns, the issue of climate change and its consequences in terms of vulnerability and adaptation is approached by IDDRI particularly from the perspective of the Mediterranean basin, which is both a priority region for adaptation and a testing ground for what could be achieved elsewhere in the world.
IDDRI is developing this research as part of the European CIRCE project (Climate Change and Impact Research: the Mediterranean Environment, www.circeproject.eu), which involves over 60 partners on the three shores of the Mediterranean. Laurence Tubiana is coordinating the economic and social sciences aspects of the whole project, and four of IDDRI’s researchers are also involved: first on the issue of adaptation policies (review, challenges, methods and opportunities for regional…
To celebrate a year of integration with Sciences Po, IDDRI is pleased to introduce its new logo! The logo symbolises the merger of the two institutions, which during the course of this year have allowed to identify avenues of collaboration, and that have enabled IDDRI to fully participate in Sciences Po life.
Teaching has provided an essential entry point. For several years Sciences Po has been actively pursuing an international policy that aimed to position the institution on the same level as the world’s best universities. As a result of this policy, students from all over the world were received by Sciences Po, while French students were able to stay for long periods in foreign universities or international institutions.
Through its close…
2009 : A year toward a Green New Deal?
Laurence Tubiana and IDDRI's wishes for the upcoming year : Let us hope that this year will see decisions being made for this green deal, the conclusion of a climate agreement and progress in biodiversity conservation.
Focus on...The Poznan Conference...and afterwards?
Some conclusions of the COP 14 held in Poznan (December 2008) : progress in deforestation and REDD issues, agreements and desagreements on the futur Agenda, etc...
* Headline: Climate Change: Poznan Conference
Focus on challenges and expectations for the COP 14 holds in Poznan. This conference should allow considerable progress to be made in the implementation of the Action Plan and Roadmap adopted in Bali.
A part of IDDRI's team will actively participate to the Conference and facilitate the negociations and the debats.
>> publication of a serie of IDDRI publications on the negociation on the "Climate and Energy" package.
* Focus on...The Congress (Barcelona, October 2008)
Some findings of the Congress held in Barcelona.
The debates particularly highlighted theeconomic dimension of biodiversity loss.
* Headlines : Natural Resources: Toward the creation of an Intergovernmental panel of biodiversity?
A note to better understanding the process of the implementation of the IPBES science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) and the objectives of this intergovernmental plateform.
* Focus on... Climate negotiations and the Accra Climate Change.
Some progress have been made during the Accra Climate Change Talks, the last meeting before the Poznan Conference, notably in terms of the subject of deforestation (REDD). But the Accra Talks also confirmed the difficulty of the task to come, with the deadline of the Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen in 2009.
* Headlines : Climate Change: Sectoral approaches.
IDDRI organized several workshop on the sectoral approaches in order to clarify what can be excpected of the different types of sectoral agreements as regards the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. IDDRI's work will now focus on the content of the international finance "package".
* IDDRI's Publications:
focus on the publication of the book "Escrime White Paper", the english version of the French book le Livre Blanc Escrime.
* Headlines : Climate negociations : IDDRI mobilizes stakeholders
Some conclusions on the three high level workshops organized by IDDRI on climate change challenges and issues, on terms of the subject of sectoral approaches, key similarities and differences between American and European policies.
* Observatory for Sustainable Development: a selection of Sustainable Development highlights.
* Headlines : International Conference, What governance for high seas biodiversity?
The high seas are at the heart of many different issues that threaten the exceptional biodiversity they contain, because of the growth of the activities traditionally conducted in this area and the development of new ways of using these resources. IDDRI organizes a Seminar in order to examine potential ways to improve biodiversity governance in these high sea areas.
* Observatory for Sustainable Development: Sustainable Development Highlights
* Headlines: 2008, Year of the Climate
Focus on some events of the year 2007, with a considerable increase in awarness on climate change issues; Key elements and event for 2008 (climate change, the French presidency of the UE, etc.)
Focus on two strategic partnerships finalized in 2007 (with Sciences Po and the AFD)
* IDDRI publications - Bali Special Edition : the latest IDDRI's publications on climate change and the Bali Conference
* Observatory for Sustainable development: a selection of sustainable development highlights.
* A la une : Changement climatique : La Conférence de Bali
Le point sur les attentes et objectifs de la prochaine conférence des Parties à la CCNUCC, qui se pose comme le point culminant de deux années de discussions internationales. Est notamment attendue la définition d'une "feuille de route".
* Les dernières publications de l'Iddri :
focus sur la parution de la deuxième édition de l'opus Regards sur la terre 2008
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