International Conference
on
“Mitigating Climate Change with
Special Reference to Developing Countries”
(28-30 March 2014)
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Organized by:Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University,
Lucknow-226 012 (U.P.), INDIA
Background Note:Humanity marches ahead with a hope that the road beyond Warsaw would have a better international
environment for addressing larger questions of effectively tackling climate change issues with more amounts of flexibility and manoeuvrability to safeguard national interests of negotiating nations. While developing countries like India and China have agreed to undertake commitments on emission reductions moving beyond the stated positions of common but differentiated responsibility, US too had budged a bit on loss and damage arrangements, agreeing to the 2016 review, paving the way for a new agreement to be signed at Paris in 2015 to replace Kyoto Protocol. The parties have agreed to keep talking with a positive frame of mind in the face of the fact that while the major emitters have been negotiating, the world's emissions have continued to rise and that too at an accelerating pace with emissions in 2011 about 50 percent higher than in 1990. The promise of developed countries was that the emissions were to be brought at 1990 levels by 2000 and then gradually decreased.
Greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels like coal and oil, as well as other gases emitted as a result of human activity, such as methane, black carbon and hydro-flouro-carbon or HFCs are responsible for an unprecedented rate of warming of the planet. This warming is already causing severe disruptions and harm to communities leading to severe climate change conditions.
Climate change is expected to cause severe droughts in some parts of the world and flooding in others, coastal erosion and an increased frequency of extreme weather events such as cyclones, tornadoes, storm surges and heat-waves. One of the sad ironies, however, is that the countries that have emitted the least amount of greenhouse gases will suffer the worst impacts due to global warming. People living on small islands, delta regions, those who will suffer droughts and floods and extreme events, are, for the most part, from poor countries and the poorest from among them will be the worst affected.
India is likely to be one of the most severely affected countries by climate change, given its sheer size, climatic geography and the impacts associated with Himalayan glacier melt, droughts in various regions, coastal vulnerability from sea level rise, reductions in agricultural production, livelihood loss for the poor, increased severity of cyclones and potential threats to the entire monsoon system.
The world has risen over two decades back to meet the challenge of climate change and UNFCCC, coupled with CBD and MDG have provided a hope that the trend might be arrested at least if not reversed. At one point of time it was agreed that 100 billion US dollars would be provided by the developed countries by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change. At Warsaw, however, they not only made it clear that they do not have come with a mandate to give any timeline on finance, but they also pitched the idea that developing countries should contribute to this fund. Moreover they see private investments as a large part of this fund and seeking investment barrier removal to the developing market. This simply meant that they have almost backtracked on the issues. The developed world is also now pushing that developing countries draw a timeline and a review system for future pledges of emission reduction.
India has long recognised the importance of equity in the climate negotiations process and has been a votary of “Common but Differentiated Responsibility” in accordance with respective capabilities. India's stance has been that every person should have equal access to development, implying an equal share of the earth's carbon budget. That is to say, if carbon dioxide emissions were to be reduced globally, the rich should be the first and fastest to do so and the poor, the last. India has used its low per capita emissions to push the point that its engagement in emissions reductions efforts should be deferred until after countries with higher per capita emissions reduce theirs. Since the global climate negotiations in Durban, however, the centrality of this position has been shaken, principally because of shifts in political positions. US and EU, now argue that the differentiations established in 1990s do not reflect contemporary global realities. Countries like India-China, South Africa and Brazil are now economic powerhouses with high emission profiles.
At Durban, India and China had to concede on differentiation based on industrialised world's historical responsibility for climate change. In Warsaw, backed by a clutch of developing countries like Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Philippines and Brazil, they attempted to reinstate the historical responsibility based firewall. They could not succeed in safeguarding differentiation against the intense opposition of US and EU countries, however, the expression used in the final declaration “without prejudice to the legal nature of the contributions” gives a foothold to resume the debate in Lima and probably a better road to Paris may be paved where the final agreement to replace Kyoto shall be finalised in 2015.
Problems, prospects, trials and travails in conducting these negotiations, the diplomacy and duplicity of major emitters, the helplessness of the smaller countries with little or no emissions to contribute and the hope that is generated by every round of climate talks to have a better world shall be some of the issues that shall be debated in the
three day International Conference on “Mitigating Climate Change With Special Reference to Developing Countries” organised by Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, during 28-30 March 2014.
Sub themes: For the purpose of covering the issues in their entirety the International Conference shall have the following
themes/sub themes to be discussed threadbare in respective session.
1. International Climate Change Regime
a. UNFCCC : Origin and Development
b. Kyoto Protocol : Stocktaking before its decline
c. Post-Kyoto Climatic Jurisprudence
d. CBD Regime in Post Kyoto world
2. Global Climate Governance and Its Future
a. COP-MOP Negotiations for Climate
b. Climate After Warsaw : Looking ahead
c. Emerging trends in climate responsibility
d. State Obligations
e. Climate Crimes?
3. International Climate Relations after Rio+20
a. Development vs Environment
b. BASIC diplomacy and its future
c. Possibility of Carbon free economy : Developing Country Perspective
d. Clean Developmental Mechanism & Emission Trading
e. Climate Change and newer geopolitics
4. National Climate Change Law and Policy-making in India
a. NAPCC : A balance sheet
b. Introspecting Climate Change & Clean Energy Policy
c. Climate change and disaster management law
d. Climate refugee, national security and the law
e. Emerging trends in climate change law
Venue: Conference Hall of the University.
Level of Participation:
1. Law Students, Academicians and Jurists
2. Lawyers and Law Professionals
Methodology:It is proposed that first 2-days of the 3-days Conference will be divided into 4 (Four) interactive
sessions/focused group discussions. Each session shall be Chaired and Moderated by a Chair & Co-Chair, who shall also present the Theme Paper for that session. Third day is earmarked for sightseeing and awareness creation as to climate change issues at local level.
Paper Submission Details:Academicians, lawyers, scholars and members of civil society are hereby invited to contribute papers for the
proposed International Conference. The contributions may be forwarded in both soft and hard copies according to the schedule provided hereunder.
thLast date for submission of abstracts : � 28 of February, 2014thLast date for Registration :� 28 of February, 2014thLast date for submission of papers� : � 15 of March, 2014
Soft copy of papers may kindly be forwarded to the following e-mail:-
Jail Road Bangla Bazar Road
Power House crossing
Kanshiram Smarak
Aashiana crossing
Kanpur Road
University
AmausiAirport
Charbagh Railway Station
Piccadily Hotel
Prof. (Dr.) Gurdip SinghHon'ble Vice Chancellor
Patron
Prof. (Dr.) Amar Pal Singh
Director of the Conference
Prof. (Dr.) Amar Pal SinghDirector of the Conference
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University,LDA, Kanpur Road Scheme, Lucknow-226012
Mob : 9554991133
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.rmlnlu.ac.in
Contact Details:
Dr. K.A. Pandey (09919493369), Mr. Manwendra Tiwari (09453475969)Mr. Anil Sain (09999996011), Dr. Mitali Tiwari (09005193292)
Core Organising Committee
Registration:Registration Fee for Delegates : Rs. 500/-
Registration Fee for Students : Rs. 200/-
Local hospitality shall be fully taken care of by the University, however, no TA/DA shall be provided by the University and therefore the participants should obtain the same from their respective institutions.
Registration may be made by mailing the scanned copies of the Registration Form and the Demand Draft of requisite amount drawn in favour of "Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University" payable at Lucknow, on or before the last date of registration i.e. February 28, 2014. The delegates are required to bring the physical copies of the Demand Draft and the Registration Form at the time of their joining the conference.
About the UniversityDr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law
University, was established by an Act of Govt. of Uttar Pradesh in 2005. Within a short span of 8 years the university has been able to develop an excellent infrastructure comparable to the best across the globe and has carved out a niche for itself in the national scheme of things. Committed to provide excellent infrastructural facilities and environment to advance and disseminate learning and knowledge of law and legal processes the university endeavours to develop amongst students and research scholars a sense of responsibility to serve the society in the field of law by developing skills in advocacy, judicial and other legal services, legislation and the like.
How to reach the University:The university is strategically well located at a
distance of 05 kilometers both from Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, Amausi (Lucknow Airport) and the Charbagh Railway Station.
International Conference on
“Mitigating Climate Change with Special Reference to Developing Countries”
(28-30 March 2014) Organized by:
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Please Note:
Registration fee is non-refundable. Registration fee includes Conference Kit and Lunch on all three days. Registration will be confirmed only if the scanned copy of the form & the DD is received on or before due date. Delegates/participants are requested to arrange for their own accommodation. In case of paper presentation/submission, please send the filled in copyright form alongwith the registration form. All the papers received by the Organizing Committee shall be peer reviewed and only selected papers may be allowed for
presentation in the Conference. The final list of such papers shall be uploaded on the University website by 25th March, 2014.
Papers presented in the conference shall be published in the Conference Proceedings bearing ISBN. A softcopy of the paper should be submitted to [email protected] as two separate attachments in MS WORD, one for the
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