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CIPOD organises a talk by Vijeta Rattani
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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, ORGANIZATION AND DISARMAMENT
Cordially invites you to
A Talk on
The Global Climate Regime: From Kyoto to Paris and Beyond
Speaker:
Vijeta Rattani
(Former Programme Manager, Climate Change Team, Centre for Science and Environment)
Wednesday, 27 February 2019
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Room No. 349, School of International Studies (SIS – II)
Abstract
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the concerted international response to address the rising challenge of climate change. It rests on equity and common but differentiated responsibility and respective capability (CBDRRC) as its principles, mandating the developed countries to lead the efforts to address climate change. Under the UNFCCC, two major pacts — the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement are established. After 25 years of UNFCCC in function, while the global action has not been adequate to limit the surge of climate impacts witnessed globally, the principles have also been diluted over the years. At this point, it is unclear whether the recently established Paris Rulebook to implement the Paris Agreement will be able to step up climate ambition, which gains utmost urgency in the light of IPCC’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degree C.
Dr. Vijeta Rattani researchers on climate change issues on global, regional and national level with focus on climate governance. Till recently, she was associated with Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), where she was heading the climate change team as Programme Manager. Her PhD (obtained in 2015 from JNU) looked at the role of the European Union in the global climate regime during which period she was awarded with the prestigious German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship. She has been associated with several universities in Germany and Brussels as visiting researcher. She has taught a course on EU-India Relations in University of Bremen, Germany where the focus was on the environmental politics. She writes extensively for newspapers, magazines, forums, journals and contributes regularly to Down to Earth magazine. She also engages with policy makers, climate negotiators, educators and media; and participates at climate related conferences and summits, both globally and nationally.