Into the New Planet
Causes of Planet-wide Change and the New Architecture of Global Environmental Governance
Causes of the New Planet
What are the main forces that are ushering in our new ecological and political realities? Is their accumulative power different from or similar to longstanding causes of environmental harm? Does the new earth call on us to revise our understandings of the causal dynamics of environmental degradation? Does the new world call on us to alter our causal understandings of world order?
Facilitator: Nikki Detraz
Room: Mackenzie
Participants: Laura Bozzi, Peter Dauvergne, Eric Deibel, Gabriela Kütting, Mike Maniates, Richard Matthew, Miquel Muñoz, Simon Nicholson, Thomas Princen, Sharon Spray, Scott Valentine, Rosalind Warner
International Institutions and the New Earth
How can international organizations and regimes respond to the new planet? What are the most promising initiatives at the international level aimed at addressing global sustainability? How can existing institutions respond meaningfully and effectively to a rapidly deteriorating earth? Traditionally, scholars of IR have seen environmental problems as longstanding challenges toward which political institutions need to change. Now, ecological realities are changing as the political world strives to get its bearings. How should we think about the institutional architecture of the world on a rapidly changing earth?
Facilitator: Sikina Jinnah
Room: Hochelaga 4
Participants: Mark Axelrod, Katja Biedenkopf, Sarah Burch, Pam Chasek, Beth DeSombre, Maria Ivanova, Stefan Jungcurt, Markus Lederer, Jack Manno, Pamela Martin, Miranda Schreurs, Detlef Sprinz, Harro van Asselt
Global Civil Society on a New Earth
The environmental movement has been changing over the past decade. In some ways it has been shifting its understandings and political strategies to match the planetary-wide biophysical alterations associated with a new earth, and in many ways it has been rendered anachronistic. How prepared is the transnational environmental movement to respond effectively to new ecological and political realities? How should it adjust to the changing biophysical and social landscapes? What is the environmental movement today—especially as we appreciate its multifaceted character across geographical and cultural space?
Facilitator: Simone Pulver
Room: Hochelaga 5
Participants: Juliann Allison, Sofie Bouteligier, Ken Conca, Shannon Gibson, Michael Gunter, Aysem Mert, Kate O'Neill, Sonalini Sapra, Heike Schroeder, Judy Shapiro, Paul Wapner
Geopolitics of the New Planet
Resource scarcities, environmental degradation, and the inequitable distribution of access to ecological space and services can catalyze both conflict and cooperation. In turn, the structuring of power and influence within the international state system are basic to the production of environmental harm and to the ability (or inability) of the system to generate responses. How, then, will the changing environmental condition impact geopolitics? How in turn will changing distributions of geopolitical power impact the prospects for the new earth?
Facilitator: DG Webster
Room: Hochelaga 6
Participants: Rafaela Brito, Hans Bruyninckx, Hilal Elver, Richard Falk, Kate Goodwin, Paula Duarte Lopes, Bryan McDonald, Jacob Park, Stacy VanDeveer, Erika Weinthal