Climate Finance Workshop at World Future Energy Summit
Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 2011
Professor Richard Stewart spoke at the Abu Dhabi World Future Energy Summit on the legal and institutional challenges of delivering $100 billion annually to developing countries for climate mitigation and adaptation
Side event at COP16
Cancun, Mexico, December 1, 2010
NYU Law, together with the Tuck School of Business from Dartmouth College conducted a side event on “Institutions and Governance Mechanisms for Climate Finance” at the 16th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC in Cancun.
Consultative Workshop on Climate Finance with Connie Hedegaard
New York, NY, September 23, 2010
The Global Climate Finance Project at NYU Law hosted a consultative workshop on climate finance with Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action. The Commissioner discussed issues relating to climate finance with a group of NYU Professors and Fellows, as well as colleagues from Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Environmental Defense Fund, the Peterson Institute for Economics, the World Resources Institute and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
UNFCCC COP15 Climate Conference
Copenhagen, Denmark, December 7 – 18, 2009
A Consortium of partners from world‐class universities, international organisations and leading civil society actors hosted a joint programme of special events on international law and policy for a low‐ carbon economy, at the UNFCCC COP 15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen
Book launch
New York, December 3, 2009
As a part of the inauguration of the new NYU Straus Institute, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and UN Global Compact Executive Director Georg Kell participated.
Penny Wong, Australian Minister for Climate Change and Water visits NYU Law
NYU Law, September 21, 2009
The Honorable Penny Wong, Senator for South Australia and Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Water visited NYU Law on September 21, 2009 to discuss the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The event was hosted by the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law and the Environmental Law Society.
Abu Dhabi Conference on Climate Change: Financing Green Development
Abu Dhabi, UAE, May 3-5, 2009
NYU Law School held a conference in Abu Dhabi on Climate Change: Financing Green Development. The conference was supported by the Abu Dhabi government and addressed the legal and regulatory elements of carbon markets, climate finance, and climate-related investment in developing countries.
