22nd Annual IFAMA World Forum and Symposium, June 11-14, 2012

22nd Annual IFAMA World Forum and Symposium

"The Road to 2050: The China Factor"









Date: 11 to 14 June 2012
Venue: Shanghai, China

This event provides a unique opportunity for industry leaders from all parts of the agribusiness chain to learn, explore, and discuss issues that are critical importance to the current and future health of the global food system.

Organized by: International Food and Agribusiness Management
Association (IFAMA)
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.

Website: https://www.ifama.org/events/conferences/2012/Default.aspx

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Call for Papers to NCPAG@60 International Conference, 27-29 June 2012

Call for Papers to NCPAG@60 International Conference

The National College of Public Administration and Governance , University of the Philippines (NCPAG-UP) invites you to participate in an international conference as part of its 60th anniversary celebration. With the theme “Public Administration and Governance: Tradition and Transformation,” the conference will be held on 27-29 June 2012 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

The sub-themes and corresponding panels of the Conference are:

1) Public Administration and Governance Education

Panel 1-a: Pedagogy, Tradition, and Emerging Challenges in PA Education

Panel 1-b: Distance Education, E-Learning, and Other Innovations

Panel 1-c: Challenges to Administrative Thought

2) Excellence, Professionalization, Innovation, and Transformation

Panel 2-a: Ecology, Environment, Climate Change, and Public Policy

Panel 2-b: Public Sector Reforms and Best Practices

Panel 2-c: Citizenship and Civil Society in Governance

3) Public Administration Today and in the Future.

Panel 3-a: Human Rights, Human Development , Democratization and the MDGs

Panel 3-b: PA and International Covenants and Convention and the Right to Development

Panel 3-c: Local Governance

There shall be plenary sessions during the morning and simultaneous panels in the afternoon. Poster presentations shall also be running parallel to the morning and afternoon sessions.

For those interested to present papers, the deadline for the submission of abstracts via email enp.gamboa@yahoo.com is 30 November 2011. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31 January 2012. The full papers for accepted abstracts are due on 30 April 2012.

The NCPAG-UP will be unable to fund transportation expenses and daily allowances for paper presenters and participants. The Organizing Committee has negotiated with EDSA Shangri-La Hotel for a discounted rate of P6,500/P7,200 for single/double accommodation. Participants may directly contact the hotel about their flight details. Other hotels that are near the conference venue are: The Linden Suites, Discovery Suites, The Malayan Plaza, and Richmonde Hotel.

Registration fee for local participants is PhP6,000 and for international participants is US$250.00.

For participants of countries requiring visa to the Philippines, please email enp.gamboa@yahoo.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it so that the Conference Organizing Committee can send an official invitation to facilitate your visa application.
For more inforamtion: http://intercon.up-ncpag.org/ocs/index.php/intercon/2012

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New Publication: Confronting the Challenge of Energy Governance by Neil Gunningham

Transnational Environmental Law, Page 1 of 17 2012 Cambridge University Press
doi:10.1017/S2047102511000124


ISSN: 2047-1025 EISSN: 2047-1033

Confronting the Challenge of Energy Governance by Neil Gunningham

Climate and Environmental Governance Network, College of Asia Pacific’s Regulatory Institutions Network (REGNET), and Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Email: Neil.Gunningham@anu.edu.au.

Abstract
There is a compelling argument for developing a low carbon emissions trajectory to mitigate climate change and for doing so urgently. What is needed is a transformation of the energy sector and an ‘energy revolution’. Such a revolution can only be achieved through effective energy governance nationally, regionally, and globally. But frequently such governance is constrained by the tensions between energy security, climate change mitigation and energy poverty. At national level, there is a chasm between what is needed and what governments do ‘on the ground’, while regionally and globally, collective action challenges have often presented insurmountable obstacles. The article examines what forms of energy law, regulation and governance are most needed to overcome these challenges and whether answers are most likely to be found in hierarchy, markets, or networks.

For more information: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8491579

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New Publication: Adaptation in Russian Climate Governance by Maria Rakkolainen and Monica Tennberg

Governing the Uncertain
2012, Part 2, 39-54, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-3843-0_3
Adaptation in Russian Climate Governance
by Maria Rakkolainen and Monica Tennberg

Abstract
This chapter presents and discusses the practices of Russian adaptation governance. Climate policy in the country has long considered a changing climate to be a natural phenomenon, not a human-caused problem, and it is only recently that this view has started to change on the official level. Hazardous events caused by the warming climate, such as floods and permafrost degradation, as well as the economic losses resulting from such events, are defined as major national and economic concerns. Most of the current governance efforts focus on emergency response; national plans for pro-active adaptation are only just in the making. The chapter discusses a pilot project to develop an adaptation strategy for the Murmansk region. Russian adaptation governance suffers from the same problems as Russian environmental governance in general: a lack of the material, intellectual and organisational resources needed to tackle the issues and implement concrete plans of action.

For more information: http://www.springerlink.com/content/j4518358728rv028/

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New Publication: Toward Enabling and Inclusive Global Environmental Governance by Navroz K. Dubash

Toward Enabling and Inclusive Global Environmental Governance Navroz K. Dubash1

 

Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India

 

Navroz K. Dubash, Centre for Policy Research, Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110016, India Email: ndubash@gmail.c

Published online before print February 23, 2012, doi: 10.1177/1070496511435550 The Journal of Environment Development March 2012 vol. 21 no. 1 48-51    

                           

Abstract

Sustainable development has always been a compromise formulation that papered over real conflict between environment and development. Twenty years after Rio, the geopolitical climate is far less conducive to easy compromises. Given an embattled North and a rising South, particularly Asia, the language of zero sum conflict rather than positive sum cooperation is likely to prevail. Green growth offers one way to paper over these conflicts yet again, but it would be prudent to resist this temptation. There is incomplete buy-in to the green growth story, and some in the South are also concerned that this narrative will downgrade poverty alleviation and equity considerations from the sustainable development triad of environment, growth and distribution. In this context, Rio+20 can play a positive role by focusing on national and sub-national institutions and embracing a diversity of national political, institutional and legal contexts; seeking to impose uniformity is likely to chafe. Global efforts can play a supporting role by inducing normative change, stimulate national processes, and provide hooks for domestic policy actors. In addition, Rio+20 should ensure that inclusion of the weakest should remain firmly on the agenda. While the conversations may be difficult, Rio+20 will be most productive if it leads to engagement with fraught geopolitical issues than if, once again, these are papered over.

For more information: http://jed.sagepub.com/content/21/1/48.short
For full text: http://jed.sagepub.com/content/21/1/48.full.pdf+html

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Green Opportunities in China: Clean Development Mechanism, 30 March, 2012 (Friday)

Event Date:	30 March, 2012 (Friday)
Event Time:	12:30pm to 2:00pm
Venue:	The Mira Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui
Contact:	Ms Looby Ho
Telephone:	28231228
Email:	looby@chamber.org.hk
Website:	www.hkgcc.org.hk/en/index.aspx

As a member of the Hong Kong Business Coalition on the Environment (BCE), Business Environment Council is happy to be a supporting partner of a luncheon featuring a talk on – Green Opportunities in China: Clean Development Mechanism by Madam SUN Cuihua, Deputy Director of the Department of Climate Change, National Development and Reform Commission, China. The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) is the luncheon’s organizer.

Price BEC members: $580 per person (please indicate you are a BEC member when you submit the registration form)
Non BEC member: $680 per person

Language Putonghua (with English simultaneous interpretation)

For further information, please click here.

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Global Meet on Determinants of Sustainable Development: Road to Rio+20, 18 to 20 May 2012

Date: 18 to 20 May 2012
Venue: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Goal
The goal of the Road to Rio+20 meet is to create awareness and interests amongst the global key actors on the importance of health to be included as one of the policy agendas in the global summit in view to contribute to establish health justice throughout the world with a  special reference to Bangladesh.

Objectives
The objective of this global meet is to initiate a global campaign ‘Voice for Health’ (Green Earth, Healthy Earth) – to focus on the centrality of Health to Sustainable Development and across the board of development issues.

Organized by: Eminence
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.

Website: http://www.voice4health.org/

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