Next week the United
Nations General Assembly meets. There are several related international
summits, starting Monday the 24th with The Future in Our
Hands,
the UN High-Level Event on Climate Change, followed Wednesday by the
Clinton Global Initiative Annual
Meeting,
with representatives from NRDC and Pew, major
corporate leaders, and luminaries such as Ted Turner and Jane Goodall.
The next, Thursday, September 27, Bush convenes the Major Economies
Meeting on Energy Security and Climate
Change,
organized by the White House to promote its agenda.
Not surprisingly, this week sees a flurry of policy and science briefings in Washington DC.
Tomorrow, Sens. Lieberman and Carper present a cap-and-trade discussion with the Progressive Policy Institute.
Friday, September 21: Yvo de Boer (UN) and David Sandalow (Brookings/CGI) discuss the upcoming “Climate Week” with the Brookings Institution, Dr. Kerry Emanuel and other top climate scientists talk hurricanes and climate change on the Hill, and Sir Nicholas Stern weighs in on Bali.
In addition the next two weeks sees hearings on renewable electricity standards and wildfire, and briefings on urban development, ecosystems, and global policy.
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