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"Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade on the Road to Copenhagen"

May 12 , 2009

Salzburg, Austria

9:00 am - 6:30 pm

Following on its earlier meetings held in Poznan and Bonn – the ICTSD-IPC Platform on Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade convened in Salzburg alongside IPC’s international seminar on Food and Environmental Security.  The objective of the meeting was to explore additional areas at the nexus of climate change, agricultural and trade policy and to begin formulating Platform recommendations in the run-up to the Copenhagen COP-MOP.

Meeting Information

Agenda

Presentations

Session I - Financial Incentives for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Dr. Timothy Josling, Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus, Insititute for International Studies, Stanford University; IPC Member:

What Box(es) for Environmental Payments?

Franz Fischler, Former Commissioner for Agriculture, European Union; IPC Member:

EU CAP Reform and Climate Change

Robert L. Thompson, Gardner Endowed Chair in Agricultural Policy, Unversity of Illinois; IPC Member:

U.S. Domestic Support and Climate Change

Wendy Mann, Senior Advisor, Natural Resources Management and Environment Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations:

Financing Mitigation from Agriculture in Developing Countries

Session II - Climate Change and Standards


Jane Earley, Managing Partner, Earley & White Consulting Group, LLC:

Private Standards - Creating Coherence

Willem-Jan Laan, Director, Global External Affairs, Unilever; IPC Member:

Best Practices and Goals for the Private Sector

Hasit Shah, Chairman, Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya (FPEAK):

Food Miles vs. Comprehensive Life Cycle Analyses

Marlynne Hopper, Economic Affairs Officer, Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) Secretariat, WTO:

Impact of Climate Change on Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health, and on the development and implementation of SPS-related standards

Session III - Platform Recommendations

  • Agriculture in the Run-up to Copenhagen

Hayden Montgomery, Senior Policy Analyst, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, New Zealand:

Agriculture in Post-2012 Climate Change Agreement – Priorities for Copenhagen

Daniel Martino, Executive Director, Carbosur (Uruguay); Coordinating Lead Authorof Agriculture Chapter for IPPC AR4:

Ensuring Effective Adaptation and Mitigation and Food Security

Raul Montemayor, President, Federation of Free Farmers Cooperatives, Inc., The Philippines, IPC Member:

The Need to Consider Development Impacts

  • WTO Considerations

Carlos Perez del Castillo, Former Representative of Urugay to the WTO; IPC Member:

The Key Issues

Michel Petit, Professeur, Institut Agronomique Mediterraneen, Montpellier; IPC Member:

Defining the Process

  • Development Policy

Namanga Ngongi, President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa:

Africa's Food Security and Climate Change Adaptation Needs

Ann Tutwiler, Agricultural Trade Advisor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; IPC Member:

Aid for Trade and Climate Change: Funding for Adaptation and Mitigation

 

 

 


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