| Title of Process: | International Climate Change Taskforce |
| Coordinating Institutions: | Institute for Public Policy Research, Centre for American Progress and the Australia Institute (link to process) |
| Objective: | The Taskforce's recommendations were delivered early in 2005 and are aimed at all major governments in the international negotiations, with special emphasis on the United Kingdom (UK), which held the Presidencies of the G8 and the European Union in 2005. Over recent years Prime Minister Tony Blair has identified climate change as a priority and the UK will be uniquely positioned to lever support for multilateral action on climate change as the next stage of negotiations begin. |
| Project Description: | Given the international danger posed by climate change ippr, together with
CAP and the Australia Institute, has established the International Climate
Change Taskforce. The members of the taskforce include former CBI director
general Adair Turner, leading environmentalist Jonathon Porritt, and Premier
of New South Wales Bob Carr.
Taskforce members have been chosen for their expertise, creativity and political influence. The geographic representation of the taskforce reflects the need for engagement and support from major European and developing countries, and the desire to bring the two countries that have rejected the Kyoto Protocol, the US and Australia, back into the multilateral process. The Taskforce was launched shortly before its first meeting on 22nd March 2004 in Windsor, near London. The deliberations and decisions taken by taskforce members are informed throughout by input from NGO, governmental, scientific and academic experts from developed and developing countries. The group published their proposal in January 2005. |
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