A new series organized just for the Fall of 2009 to address some critical issues that will come up at the Conference of the Parties 15 in Copenhagen in December 2009. Each of the speakers will present on a different aspect of the climate negotiations, including legal, financial, north-south issues and technology transfer.
Converging on Copenhagen Series Lecture Fletcher Feature

September	30	“Breaking the Impasse Between the United States and China” Speaker: Kelly Sims Gallagher, Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School Time: 12:30pm- 1:45pm Location: Cabot 205
October	21	“Legal Aspects of the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen Agreement” Speaker: David Wirth, Adjunct Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School Time: 12:30pm-2:00pm Location: Cabot 205
November	10	“Preparations for Copenhagen” Speaker: Friis Arne Petersen, Ambassador of Denmark to the United States Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm Location: ASEAN Auditorium
	11	“Financial Aspects of a Climate Change Agreement” Speaker: Alan Miller, Environment Department, International Finance Corporation Time: 12:30pm-2:00pm Location: Cabot 205
December	2	“What to Expect in Copenhagen” Speaker: William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School Time: 12:30pm-2:00pm Location: Cabot 205

The Energy and Climate Forum was launched in Fall 2006 as a cross-university effort.  Sponsored by the Department of Economics, the Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE), and the Fletcher School's Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP), it consists of monthly seminars featuring both internal and external speakers addressing critical issues surrounding energy and climate. Topics may include science, engineering, technology and innovation, economics, health and the environment, and resources policy and politics. For Fall of 2009 the forum will be co-sponsoring the Converging on Copenhagen Speaker Series.

Professors William Moomaw of Fletcher and Gilbert (Gib) Metcalf of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Antje Danielson of TIE organize the Forum. Please email Professor Moomaw (and copy heather.angstrom@tufts.edu) with suggestions for speakers or comments on events.

For more information and to see a list of previous speakers, please visit the Forum website at: http://environment.tufts.edu/?pid=16&c=20

The Sustainable Development Diplomacy Roundtable provides all Fletcher students who are interested in sustainable development diplomacy with the opportunity to discuss informally some of the difficult issues that diplomats and other professionals confront in their work. It is intended as a chance for students to explore the dilemmas and practical choices that professionals working on current challenging SDD questions face.

All roundtables will be with Visiting Professor of Practice in Natural Resource Policy, Hans Hoogeveen, who is also the Director General at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands, responsible for International Affairs, Research and Development, Innovation Policy and Implementation of European Union policies. Mr. Hoogeveen also will be joined by additional practitioner experts at the Roundtable.

The Energy, Climate, and Innovation (ECI) Research Group Meetings are a forum for presentation and discussion of current or recent research in the energy policy space, with particular focus on the processes and role of innovation in helping to meet the energy and climate-change challenges around the world today. Presentation of work-in-progress is particularly encouraged because a primary aim of the seminar is to enable researchers to receive constructive suggestions in a timely manner.  The series is currently open to faculty and pre-and-post doctoral researchers, and is run by Prof. Kelly Sims Gallagher.

Considering Copenhagen Conference, early February 2010