Partners
- Brooks World Poverty Institute
University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom - Sustainable Consumption Institute
University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom
Global warming is a global problem, and a solution requires rapid and radical action by all countries. But if the developing countries are to make the contributions that they must make if the problem is to be brought under control, there must be equitable burden sharing—although conceptions of what is fair and equitable differ. The Initiative for Policy Dialogue’s (IPD) Climate Change Task Force meeting convened climate scholars and advocates from all over the world to discuss negotiations in North-South burden-sharing on climate change mitigation.
There is already global agreement that the international community must respond to climate change in ways that do not adversely affect growth and poverty alleviation within the developing world. This would even be so if it were not the case that the developed countries had a historical responsibility for the increases in greenhouse gases, or bear especial culpability for their failures to live up to prior commitments. This means both that the incremental costs of mitigation must be borne by the developed countries, and that the developed countries help the developing countries bear the costs of adaptation.
- Clive Agnew
Task Force Member
Head of School of Environment and Development
The University of Manchester, School of Environment and Development - Imran Ahmad
Task Force Member
Senior Economic Affairs Officer
Development Policy and Analysis Division, UNDESA - Kevin Anderson
Task Force Member
Director
Tyndall Center, University of Manchester - Paul Baer
Task Force Member
Research Director
EcoEquity - Raekwon Chung
Task Force Member
Climate Change Ambassador of South Korea
Republic of Korea - Kevin Conrad
Task Force Member
Executive Director
Rainforest Coalition - Ricardo Fuentes
Task Force Member
WDR Co-author
World Bank - Ian Goldin
Task Force Member
Director
The James Martin 21st Century School
- Stephany Griffith-Jones
Task Force Member
Financial Markets Program Director
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) - Merylyn Hedger
Task Force Member
Fellow
IDS, University of Sussex - David Hulme
Task Force Member
Executive Director
Brooks World Poverty Institute - Sivan Kartha
Task Force Member
Director of the Climate and Energy Programme
Stockholm Institute - Gerhard Knies
Task Force Member
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
DESERTEC Foundation - Benito Muller
Task Force Member
Director, Energy and Environment
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies - Mohan Munasinghe
Task Force Member
Chairman
Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND) - José Antonio Ocampo
Task Force Member
Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University and former Minister of Finance of Colombia
Columbia University
- Atiq Rahman
Task Force Member
Executive Director
Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies - Manoj Roy
Task Force Member
Researcher
Brooks World Poverty Institute - Jagjeet Sareen
Task Force Member
Associate Programme Officer
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - Sangeeta Shashikant
Task Force Member
Researcher
Third World Network - Andrew Simms
Task Force Member
Policy Director
New Economics Foundation - Friederick Soltau
Task Force Member
Programme Analysis and Networks Branch
Division for Sustainable Development
UN DESA - Joseph Stiglitz
Task Force Member
President
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) - Matthew Stilwell
Task Force Member
Director of the European Office
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD)