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Second FES-SWP North-South Dialogue
Global Governance Challenges
Fighting Global Warming: a new North-South Rift?
Berlin
February 18-19, 2002
THE FES-SWP NORTH-SOUTH DIALOGUE
The FES-SWP dialogue invites scholars from think tanks in industrialized and
developing countries to discuss key global governance issues. The first dialogue was
held in April 2000 with a discussion on regional and global security arrangements.
CLIMATE CHANGE: A NORTH-SOUTH ISSUE
The second dialogue focuses on climate change--a topic that doubtlessly calls for a
global response. After a long debate on whether or not climate change is a real
threat, there is now broad consensus both in industrialized and developing countries
that the risks of global warming are too high to be ignored. Thus the Climate
Convention which was ratified by 180 countries calls for a reduction of CO 2 emissions
to a more sustainable level. The debate on the Kyoto protocol shows however that
disagreement starts when vague definitions of sustainability serve as a foundation for
precise targets and binding international arrangements. The North-South conflict is at
the heart of the debate. The perspective in the South is: industrialized countries—
today contributing more than 70% to global CO2 emissions--are responsible for the
problem and thus have to find a solution. The perspective in some countries of the
North is: as long as developing countries are not part of the agreement, reductions in
the industrialized world are pointless. Because 80% of global emission growth is
expected to come from developing countries, reductions in the North will be more
than over-compensated by the South.
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION FOR THE DIALOGUE
Against this background, the FES-SWP dialogue will cover three themes: Firstly,
what has made it so difficult to implement the Climate Convention and the Kyoto
protocol? Secondly, can conflict diverging interests between countries in the North
and the South be turned into win-win situations? And thirdly, what are the lessons we
can learn for other fields of global governance?
AGENDA
Sunday February 17
Arrival of Participants
20:00
Welcome Dinner
Monday February 18
09:00
Welcome and Introduction
to the North-South Dialogue
Winrich Kühne, SWP
Jürgen Stetten, FES
09:30
Session I
chair: Friedemann Müller
The Process of the Climate Convention:
Failed Global Governance?
Lead speeches
 The negotiation process designed by the
Climate Convention (Karsten Sach, Federal
Environment Ministry, Germany)
 International Climate Change Negotiations: Towards
Global Participation (Zhong Xiang Zhang, East-West
Center, Honolulu)
Topics for discussion:
 The pace of the Conferences of Parties (COP) in
relation to environmental destruction: has global
management failed?
 Who is responsible, who is the victim of a failure?
 The logic of commitment distributions in the Kyoto
protocol: excluding the South
 Who is leading the process?
 Public attention and the media – does the negotiation
process take them into account?
10:45
Coffee break
11:15
Continuation of discussion
13:00
Lunch break
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Monday February 18 (cont.)
14:00
Session II
chair: Edmundo De Alba
Future Conflict Dimensions and Approaches for
Solutions in the North-South Context
Lead speeches
 Fixing great emission disparities between North and
South ("grandfathering principle") – major obstacle for
a global solution? (Sujata Gupta, Asian Development
Bank, India)
 Alternatives to CDM and Global Emission Trading
(Hermann Scheer, Member of Parliament, Germany)
Topics for discussion:
 Global property – to whom belongs the atmosphere,
who is liable for damage?
 Regional distribution of the expected damage, unequal
preventive measures
 Monitoring of emissions and enforcing an agreement –
a problem for the sovereignty of states?
 How to improve the COP mechanism
 Emission trading: can countries with bad governance
correctly absorb incomes from emission trading, which
rules are to be observed?
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Continuation of discussion
18:30
Panel Discussion (see attached programme)
20:30
Dinner Reception
Tuesday February 19
09:00
Session III
chair: Ambassador Richard E. Benedick
Challenging Global Governance
Lead Speeches
 Alternative forms of commitments on greenhouse gas
emissions for all countries
(Cédric Philibert, International Energy Agency)
 The adequacy of regime building for the solution of
global problems (Frank Biermann, Potsdam Institute
for Climate Impact Research)
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Topics for discussion
 Alternatives to conventional institutions (UN) and
procedures (unanimous voting)
 Disparity between consensus on the goal and
disagreement on the instruments
 The management problem of committing 200 states on
a set of obligatory measures
 Does global governance require leadership and what
kind of leadership?
10:45
Coffee break
11:15
Continuation of discussion and conclusions
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Departure of conference participants / excursion
For further information on the organizers
kindly visit
www.fes.de
www.swp-berlin.org
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Panel Discussion
Climate Policy: prepared for Johannesburg?
Jan Pronk
(keynote speaker)
Minister for Housing, Spatial Planning, and the Environment
Netherlands
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Member of Parliament
Emad El Sharkawy
Vice Chairman World Energy Council
Reinhard Loske
Member of Parliament
Peter Knoedel
Vice President of BP Germany
Sujata Gupta
Renewable Energy Advisor of Asian Development Bank
Christoph Bertram
(facilitator)
Director of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
The panel will take place on February 18th 2002, 18h30 at the premises
of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Hiroshimastrasse 17, 10785 Berlin
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