International Security Institutions >Climate Change and Global Public Goods

Although there is now a strong consensus on the reality of the problem of climate change, the debate about what needs to be done to solve it has hardly begun.  CIC's Climate Change and Global Public Goods project is designed to help the development of practical, workable responses to climate change - and in particular, to ensure that strategies for managing climate change are integrated effectively with solutions to other global public goods issues such as energy security, sound resource management and food security.

CIC's cross-issue expertise in global governance and international treaty-making enables it to bring a distinctive perspective to bear on these areas.  The project's current research focuses on three major themes: what a comprehensive international agreement on climate change would look like, how the institutional infrastructure can better support such an agreement, and how international climate policy can be underpinned by more effective 'theory of influence' in public diplomacy.

Lead researcher: Alex Evans

Recent Publications
Title Source Author Date
Rising Food Prices: Drivers and Implications for Development CIC and Chatham House Alex Evans April 2008
What will matter in 2020?: The challenge of scarcity and resilience Speech to Wilton Park conference Alex Evans January 2008
Climate Change: the state of the debate CIC and The London Accord Alex Evans and David Steven

December 2007

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Climate Change and Development: New Challenges, New Opportunities
April 2008

CIC recently hosted a panel discussion on climate change. Read the speech by Douglas Alexander, UK Secretary of State for International Development or view the presentation by Sri Mulyani Indrawati , Indonesian Minister of Finance.

Rising Food Prices: Drivers and Implications for Development
April 2008

Alex Evans discusses the rapid increase in food prices and what the change means for international development.

What will matter in 2020?
January 2008

Alex Evans recently spoke at the Wilton Park conference on why scarcity of food, energy and water will matter in 2020 and how we can weather these problems.

 


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