What Does Climate Change Mean for Global Governance?
Executive Summary This panel brought together eminent climate thinkers Mrs. Isabel Hilton, Dr. Steve Rayner, Dr. Kamal Kapadia and Mr. Chris Goodall to debate issues of climate governance and the emerging geopolitics of today’s world. World-renowned environmental journalist and founder of China Dialogue, Mrs. Isabel Hilton, chaired the panel and opened with a short introduction to set the stage for the speakers. She discussed negativity around China following the UN negotiations in Copenhagen last December and shared her insights into the Chinese perspective. Dr. Steve Rayner, Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the Saïd Business School and Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Society at the University of Copenhagen, examined the architecture of the Kyoto protocol and suggested that the global approach to climate governance was flawed because it failed to change the production patterns behind greenhouse gas emissions. He understands the outcome of the C
