Tufts University at COP28
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The Fletcher School’s Climate Policy Lab (CPL) at Tufts University works to determine which climate policies work, which don’t, and why. The lab conducts independent, evidence-based research and policy analysis, providing objective insights that enhance effective climate-related choices for policy makers across the geographic and ideological spectrum. Our work is founded on the desire for sustainable and resilient development that will address climate change in a manner that will improve the quality of life for all people. The scope of the Lab is highly attuned to state, national, and bi-lateral policy processes while maintaining a global perspective – the motto of The Fletcher School.
Meet the Tufts University COP28 Delegation
Climate Policy Lab Events at COP28
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Date: December 1st — December 6th
Location: Booth #10, Zone B6 (across from Building 76)
Organizers: Tufts University, Boston College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Northeastern University
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Date: Friday, December 1st
Time: 1:30pm — 2:45pm (GST)
Location: Brazilian Pavilion, Blue Zone
Speaker: Easwaran Narassimhan
Organizers: INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing and Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts
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Date: Saturday, December 2nd
Time: 6:30pm — 8:00pm (GST)
Location: SE Room 5, Zone B6, Building 83
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGcN2pnqIvk
Speakers: Kelly Sims Gallagher, Easwaran Narassimhan, Ottmar Edenhofer, Elmar Kriegler, Jessica Strefler, Nico Bauer, Natalie Unterstell, and Detlef van Vuuren
Topic: We explore the scope of advanced mitigation measures to deepen near term emission cuts and better align global emissions with the 1.5°C limit based on latest results from mitigation scenario modelling. This is complemented by perspectives on facilitating deep decarbonisation in Brazil, India and the EU.
Organizers: Tufts University, CPR, PIK, Instituto Talanoa, and PBL
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Date: Sunday, December 3rd
Time: 3:00pm — 4:30pm (GST)
Location: ICM Pavilion, Zone B7, Building 88
Speaker: Kelly Sims Gallagher
Topic: Raising Ambition in mitigating climate change through green growth and equitable economic transition strategies.
Organizers: ICM
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Date: Monday, December 4th
Time: 5:00pm — 6:15pm (GST)
Location: IDB Group Pavilion, Blue Zone, B5, Building 56
Speaker: Easwaran Narassimhan
Topic: Institutional requirements for mobilizing climate finance
Organizers: INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing and The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group
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Date: Tuesday, December 5th
Time: 10:45am — 12:00pm (GST)
Location: China Pavilion, Zone B5, Building 58
Speaker: Kelly Sims Gallagher (keynote)
Topic: Accelerating learning through rapid global development of low carbon, climate-resilient technologies
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Date: Wednesday, December 6th
Time: 7:00pm — 9:00pm (GST)
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Dubai
Speakers: Timothy Afful-Koomsin, Nancy Gleason , Carlos Alvarado Quesada, and Kelly Sims Gallagher
More information here
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Date: Thursday, December 7th
Time: 2:00pm — 3:15pm (GST)
Location: Hotel Anantara Downtown
Speakers: Easwaran Narassimhan
Organizer: Indiaspora Climate Action Forum
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Date: Friday, December 8th
Time: 9:00am — 9:30am (GST)
Location: Press Conference Room 2, Zone B6, Building 77
Speakers: Soyoung Oh, Regina Valdez (chair), Shaun Fitzgerald, Paul Holthus, Chelsey Baker, and Amy Ruddock
Topic: The panel will discuss how new and emerging greenhouse gas removal (GGR) approaches can play an important role in tackling climate change.
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Date: Saturday, December 9th
Time: 12:00pm — 1:00pm (GST)
Speakers: Abay Yimere, David McGlinchey, and Christopher Schwalm
Location: Woodwell Pavilion, Zone B7, Building 87, Floor 1
Topic: This moderated panel discussion examines the results of a recently released climate risk analysis for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Organizer: Woodwell Climate Research Center
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Date: Sunday, December 10th
Time: 9:00am — 10:00am (GST)
Speakers: Soyoung Oh, Shaun Fitzgerald, Audrey Wagner, Aline Soterroni, Olivia Wallis, Heiko Baltzer, and Muhammad Huzaifa
Location: Higher Education Pavilion, Zone B7, Building 90 *there is a typo on the COP28 map*
Topic: This event will explore the critical role of how we manage landscape to support our journey towards net zero and beyond.
Organizer: University of Cambridge
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I began this post on the eve of my first COP in the equal spirits of awe and skepticism. Every COP is an enchanting contradiction, I am told. Here, the UNFCCC plots a trajectory for course correction from the shadow of a combustion engine in the shape of a city. On arrival, a cab ferried me along an arterial highway fourteen lanes deep, threading through desert overlain with golf courses. I am not exempt from contradictions either, traveling by air alongside some eighty-four thousand others; by week’s end, the two planes that carried me from Boston and Dubai had emitted 4.7 tons of CO2.