International Workshop on Institutions for Climate Governance

20^th- 21^st May 2010 - International Center for Climate Governance, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy

The International Workshop on "Institutions for Climate Governance" is organised by the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) and the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, and it will be held in Venice, on May 20^th-21^st, 2010.

The research workshop will provide leaders from the academic world an opportunity to engage in discussion of the institutional context of international climate change policy. Among the questions we will address are: what are the appropriate and most effective roles for existing or new organizations in negotiating and implementing a new climate agreement or set of agreements; what can research on the institutional context of public policy from the disciplines of economics, political science, international relations, and legal scholarship tell us about how to shape institutions for climate policy; and how does one overcome - or, perhaps, leverage - institutional path-dependence.
The workshop is upon invitation only.