May – 20 – 21, 2010 – Ray Kopp, Michael Levi, Michael Spence, Joseph Nye, Dan Bodansky and Robert Keohane (PART VI)

On May 20-21, 2010, FEEM jointly with  the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG), the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) and the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, organized in Venice an International Workshop on Institutions for Climate Governance. The closed-door workshop gathered leaders from the academic world in the field economics, environmental and public policy, to engage in discussions on climate governance and on the institutional path towards a future agreement on international climate policies.  Some of these experts were interviewed to investigate the key and most pressing challenges in climate governance. We here report interviews to:

• Dr. Ray Kopp, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Climate and Electricity Policy,  Resources for the Future, USA
• Prof. Michael Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations, USA
• Prof. Michael Spence, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Philip H. Knight Professor of Management, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and Chair, Commission on Growth and Development, USA
• Prof. Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor and Former Dean, Harvard Kennedy School, USA
• Prof. Dan Bodansky, Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law School of Law University of Georgia, USA
• Prof. Robert Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University, USA