Press invitation: Launch of climate strategies

You are invited to attend the launch meeting of climate strategies - a new internatonal organisation, sponsored by the shell foundation, intended to support cohesive policy responses to climate change.

Following the international turmoil caused by US president George W Bush’s public rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, this international network of senior policy researchers, headed by Professor Michael Grubb, has been conducting the first major studies of the options for responding to the international situation.

The launch meeting, held a week before the global negotiations reopen in Bonn (16-27 July), will present findings from the first two major collaborative Climate Strategies studies:

· ‘Keeping Kyoto: A study of approaches to maintaining the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change’, presented by Professor Michael Grubb (Imperial College and Cambridge University)

· ‘Rejecting Kyoto: A study of proposed alternatives to the Kyoto Protocol, presented by Dr Benito Müller (Oxford Institute of Energy Studies).

Both reports will be available on the day, which will also correspond to the launch of the new Climate Strategies website.

Agenda (Local Times are BST)

1.00 pm Reception and lunch
1.30 pm Presentations
2.00 pm Discussion
2.30 pm Close

Chair: Duncan Brack, Head of the Energy and Environment Programme, RIIA

To confirm your attendance and for more information please contact:

Charlotte Jourdain
Climate Strategies
Environmental Policy and Management Group
Imperial College, London

Tel: 44-20-7594-7307
climatestrategies@ic.ac.uk
Website live from 9 July

To be held at:

The Royal Institute of International Affairs
Chatham House
10, St James’s Square
London SW1Y 4LE

Nearest tube station: Piccadilly Circus on the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines.