Post-Doha Climate Change Negotiations: the perspective from Small Island Developing States

Thursday 23rd May 2013, 1:00pm — 2:00pm

National climate change negotiators have recently met in
Bonn, Germany, in a meeting part of the UN process aimed at achieving a global
agreement to avert dangerous climate change. The meeting of the Ad Hoc Working
Group on the Durban Platform marks the first talks since countries gathered in
Doha agreed to take a series of limited actions before 2020. Since then
countries have begun to negotiate targets beyond 2020. Negotiator Ian Fry will
shed a light on the current state of play in climate change negotiations from
the perspective of Small Islands Developing States.

About the speaker

Ian Fry is an International Environmental Officer for the
Government of Tuvalu and recently attended the climate change negotiations in
Bonn, Germany. Ian has worked for the Tuvalu government for the last 13 years
and has attended climate change Conferences of Parties since COP 3 where the
Kyoto Protocol was finalised. He also represents the Alliance of Small Island
States in climate change negotiations specifically relating to future regimes
and land use change and forestry issues. He is a part-time lecturer at the
Fenner School and is in the process of completing a part-time PhD on the Kyoto
Protocol and the role of science in policy making.