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From December 3-14, 2007, representatives from more than 180 countries will meet in Bali, Indonesia for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The central issue on the agenda is the procedural roadmap for negotiating an agreement to implement the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change beyond 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period ends. Negotiations will also address a number of other key issues, including policies to reduce emissions from deforestation in developing countries, adaptation to climate change, and technology transfer.

To learn more about the Bali conference, please join the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming staff Monday, December 3rd, at 3:00 p.m., in Room 2255 Rayburn House Office Building. Three of the country’s leading experts on international climate change policy – Dr. Joseph Aldy of Resources for the Future, David Doniger of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Ned Helme of the Center for Clean Air Policy – will brief staff on the key issues on the agenda in Bali, the negotiating positions of the key players, and the significance and expected results of the conference. The briefing is open to all staff and the public.

• Dr. Joseph Aldy, Co-Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Fellow at Resources for the Future, and co-editor of Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto
• David Doniger, Policy Director for Natural Resources Defense Council’s Climate Policy Center, former EPA Director of Climate Change Policy
• Ned Helme, President of Center for Clean Air Policy