Publication

Against the backdrop of both increased attention to the devastating effects of climate change and renewed political momentum to tackle the issue, the permanent missions to the UN of Sweden and Pakistan, in cooperation with IPI, convened a retreat on the theme “Climate Change: From Bali to Copenhagen,” in April 2009, in New York. Representatives of more than thirty UN missions, as well as academic and scientific experts on climate change, convened to examine some of the major threats posed by climate change and existing gaps and inconsistencies in current efforts by individual states and the international community to address them.