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October 21 and 22, 2005
In October of 2005, the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization will host an international conference on climate change mitigation after 2012. By October, new information on climate science will be available from meetings of the Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel to be held in April 2005 and government experts will have convened for an informal exchange of information in May 2005. Moreover, first experiences with the European carbon dioxide emissions trading system will have been made and the beginning of the first commitment period in 2008 will be close enough to permit a realistic forecast of the extent to which individual countries will be in compliance with their assigned emission targets. All of this will have important repercussions on the formal negotiations on a post-2012 commitment period.

In our conference, Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto, our objective is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for cross-fertilization between academia and policymaking which will identify the best policies for advancing the international efforts to mitigate climate change. The conference seeks to re-examine the scientific evidence on detection and attribution of climate change and identify the key vulnerabilities. Taking into account recent political developments relevant to the process, participants will reassess the consequences of the Kyoto Protocol in its current form and make concrete proposals for improvements in climate policy during the second commitment period and beyond. Participants will discuss climate policy options in industrialized countries and the links between climate change control and economic development, specifically addressing the potential for such links in major developing countries.