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ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN CHINA, INDIA AND BRAZIL

THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2005

10a.m. – 4p.m. Middle Temple Hall, Middle Temple Lane, London EC4

Why do we debate energy and the environmental policies in Europe and America without reference to the way in which these gigantic new economies are dealing with these issues? China gets 80% of its electricity from coal, and has plans for 544 new coal fired power stations. What effect will that have on international climate change negotiations?

The rates of growth of the economies of countries such as China, India and Brazil will see them overtake the economies of many European countries in the near term. Their energy and environmental policies will be the key to the success or failure of many initiatives to tackle climate change and to determine energy policy. This is increasingly being recognised in government, with the invitations to China, India and Brazil to join the G8 talks on climate change in the UK in 2005, and the head of the national science academies of each of those countries subscribing to the joint statement on climate change by the G8 national science academies on 7 June 2005.

How are these countries going to be engaged with the debates in the rest of the world? How will this process of engagement be taken forward? Cambrensis decided not to wait for everyone else to address these issues, but to tackle them ourselves at an important one day conference in London on 29 September 2005.

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