Workshop Programme

9.30-10.00: Tea and coffee

10.00-10.15: Introduction and welcomes

10.15-12.00: Session 1: The UNFCCC, Reform Options, and their Critics

Chair: Jan Selby, University of Leeds

Ruth Townend, Chatham House: Climate governance: where are we now, and what might come next?

Steffen Bauer, German Institute of Development and Sustainability; and Wolfgang Obergassel and Victoria Brandemann, Wuppertal Institute: An evaluation of UNFCCC reform proposals in light of today’s geopolitics (online)

Jason Ralph, University of Leeds: If COP is ‘the only game in town’ its rules should change.

Remarks from Piers Forster, University of Leeds and UK Climate Change Committee

12.00-12.50: Lunch

12.50-1.30: Session 2:

Chair: Simon Lightfoot, University of Leeds

Prakash Kashwan, Brandeis University: Climate realisms: climate governance or climate apartheid? (online)

1.30-3.15: Session 3: Strategic actors and climate multilateralism

Chair: Clare Richardson-Barlow, University of Leeds

Karoliina Hurri, Finnish Institute of International Affairs: Sino-American climate collaboration and its future

Kate Hua-Ke Chi, Tufts University: Fossil fuel phase-out commitments and US-China climate relations

Dan Bradley, UK Mission to the EU: The EU facing COP30 (online)

James Jackson, University of Manchester: A finance gap only China can (now) bridge?

3.15-3.45: Refreshments

3.45-5.30: Session 4: Issues and sectors

Chair: Richard Beardsworth, University of Leeds

Shirley Lukin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Cities, transnational municipal networks, and climate multilateralism

Berat Senyerli, Bankable Zero: Youth engagement and climate multilateralism (online)

Ellie Kinney, Conflict and Environment Observatory: Military emissions and climate multilateralism

Max van Deursen, Wageningen University: UNFCCC transparency mechanisms (online)

5.30: Wrap up and Close

COP at 30, Paris at 10, Trump at 2: What Future for Climate Multilateralism