题目:大国政治、环境责任以及中国的国际气候政策
主讲人：伦敦政治经济学院Dr Robert Falkner，国际关系学副教授
主持人：英皇娱乐政府管理学院  张健 副教授                               
时间：2015年4月21日 星期二 14：30―16：00
地点：英皇娱乐政府管理学院 廖凯原楼207教室                      
语言: 英语

讲座摘要:

International society has come to accept a general responsibility for protecting the global environment, but the international response to the challenge of climate change has been inadequate. In particular, the question of how to distribute the burden for climate mitigation has never been satisfactorily resolved. The principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities”, which is at the heart of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has led to different and often conflicting interpretations. While it is generally agreed that industrialised countries need to act first and reduce carbon emissions, the role and responsibility of emerging economies, such as China and India, is less clearly defined. The question of how to allocate global responsibility for emissions reductions among the leading emitters will be one of the most difficult issues on the agenda of the 2015 Paris climate negotiations. Using insights from the English School of International Relations, this talk will review the burden-sharing debate and consider the extent to which China has come to accept a special responsibility for emission reductions in line with its great power status.

主讲人简介:

Dr Robert Falkner is Associate Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  At LSE he serves as Co-Director of the Dahrendorf Project and Academic Director of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA, which is an alliance between LSE, NYU Stern School of Business and HEC School of Management and one of the world’s top-ranked global EMBA programmes. He is also an associate of the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and an associate fellow of the Energy, Environment and Resources Programme at Chatham House, the London-based think tank.

Dr Falkner has published widely on issues relating to international political economy, global business and global environmental politics, including The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). His research has been supported by grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), European Commission, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Global Public Policy Network, Open Society Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. He was an associate editor of the European Journal of International Relations (EJIR) in 2004-08 and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Global Environmental Politics, Global Policy and Energy Research and Social Science.

Before joining LSE in 2002, he held positions at the universities of Munich, Oxford, Kent and Essex. He received degrees in economics and politics at Munich University in Germany and gained a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University (Nuffield College). In 2006-07, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

Dr Falkner has undertaken consultancy and advisory work for private and public sector organizations, including the Department for International Development (UK), European Commission, European Environment Agency and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany). He has extensive experience of executive education, including for the World Economic Forum, Duke Corporate Education, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (UK) and TRIUM Global Executive MBA.