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23 - 24 mai 2009
Climate Diplomacy Workshop
Par Désirée McGraw
Climate Diplomacy Workshop
Convenors: Désirée McGraw and Johannah Bernstein
International Development Studies Programme, McGill University
Location: Maison Jeanne Sauvé, 1514 avenue Docteur-Penfield, Montréal
Deadline for Registration: 11 May 2009
Please register via email to: info.isid@mcgill.ca
The workshop is open to students (graduate and undergraduate) at McGill University - but not for academic credit. Registered students will be provided with a list of reading and other preparatory materials in advance of the workshop.
The Climate Diplomacy workshop will explore the legal, political and scientific dimensions of the current climate negotiations, which will culminate in a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol at the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen next year. It will also provide students with an introduction and overview of key international environmental diplomacy issues and challenges.
The workshop includes a combination of lectures, discussion sessions, interactive role-play exercises, and a full day UN climate change negotiation simulation. The seminar components are described in the attached .pdf
A note on the convenors:
Johannah Bernstein: Johannah Bernstein is an international environmental lawyer with law degrees from Oxford University (United Kingdom) and Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada), as well as a B.A. degree in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic in Maine (United States). Johannah's entire professional life has been devoted to multilateral environmental diplomacy, starting first as director of the Canadian coalition of NGOs involved in the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, and then from 1992 to 2000 working with several international environmental organisations (EarthAction, the Earth Council and the Stockholm Environment Institute) for which she developed advocacy and lobbying programmes on global sustainability issues. She is also one of the founding editors of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, now considered to be the most authoritative reporting source for United Nations sustainable development negotiation processes. Since 2000, Johannah has been managing her own environmental law and policy consulting practice, first in Brussels and now in Geneva and Montreal.
Désirée McGraw: Désirée is the Executive Director of the Jeanne Sauvé and the Sauvé Scholars Foundations. A public affairs professional with twenty years of experience as a policy expert, reporter and spokesperson in the field of sustainable development, She has been described by the national media as “one of Canada’s ten most influential people on environmental issues”. As chair of a 2006 federal Liberal Taskforce on Environment and Sustainable Development, her ground-breaking report and recommendations are credited with providing a national blueprint for reconciling Canada’s social and economic objectives with its environmental concerns and commitments. Désirée has lectured on Sustainable Development and Globalization at McGill University since 2002, just prior to which she coordinated outreach for the University’s new School of Environment. Since her appointment in 1989 by Governor-General Jeanne Sauvé to serve as an advisor on the Canadian delegation to the UN Third Special Session on Disarmament, Désirée has served on a number of other Canadian delegations to UN conferences, including on Environment and Development (Rio, 1992), the Biodiversity Convention (Nairobi, 2000) and the Climate Change Convention and the Kyoto Protocol (Montreal, 2005). Following her appointment by UN Under-Secretary-General Maurice Strong to serve as one of two Youth Ambassadors to the 1992 Earth Summit, she spent four years working as an international reporter for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Her graduate research as a Commonwealth Scholar at the London School of Economics focused on global environmental cooperation. Prior to her position at the Sauvé Foundation, Désirée served as Director of Policy and acting Chief of Staff to Canada’s Minister of International Cooperation (2003-2006); she coordinated all key ministerial files in the areas of sustainable development, stakeholder relations and multilateral organizations. Désirée is a Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen’s University, an associate of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and serves on the board of several organizations such as Canadian Lawyers Abroad.
