The conference will be live-streamed here:
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Confirmed speakers:
- Lisa Viscidi, Director of the Energy, Climate Change and Extractive Industries Program, Inter-American Dialogue
- Sandra Lopez, Inter-American Development Bank
- Taylor Dimsdale, Head of Research at E3G in Washington, D.C.
- José Carlos Orihuela, Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies, Brown University
- Rebecca Ray is a research fellow at the Global Economic Governance Initiative of Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies and a PhD student in economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Ruijie Peng, Graduate student, University of Texas at Austin
- Timmons Roberts, Ittleson Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies and co-director of the Climate and Development Lab, Institute at Brown for the Environment and Society and Watson Faculty Fellow
- Guy Edwards, Research Fellow and co-director of the Climate and Development Lab, Institute at Brown for the Environment and Society
Conference
Concept: China is playing a major role across Latin America as a
creditor, investor and trade partner. However, China’s considerable
presence in Latin America, like those of other major powers in the
region, tends to focus on high-carbon activities including fossil fuel
extraction, large-scale agriculture and energy intensive industries. The
rapidly expanding economic, commercial and political ties between China
and Latin America have far reaching implications for the new climate
change agreement to be agreed in 2015. The aim of the conference is to
analyse Chinese-Latin American relations and explore some of the
opportunities and limitations towards establishing a more sustainable
agenda in a warming world. The event is being organized by Brown
University’s Climate and Development Lab at the Institute at Brown for
Environment and Society and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies at the Watson Institute. It is funded by Fundación Botín. The
conference relates to a project being carried out between the Climate
and Development Lab and E3G.
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