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A Global Response to Climate Change: The Road After Bali

Co-Organized with the United Nations Foundation

NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2008 - In December 2007, nearly 200 nations agreed at United Nations-led talks in Bali, Indonesia to launch negotiations on a new global pact to fight climate change. The resulting "Bali Roadmap" marks a new chapter in climate diplomacy and clears the way for two years of talks to adopt a treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol beyond its expiration date of 2012. In the following audio, a panel of diplomats and policy experts convened by the Asia Society and the United Nations Foundation assesses both the outcome of the Bali talks and the challenges that lie ahead.

Left to right: Joseph Aldy, Robert C. Orr, R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa, Suzanne DiMaggio (Asia Society/Elsa Ruiz)

Dr. Robert C. Orr highlights agreement on a framework, agenda, and timeline for negotiations as key outcomes in Bali, and suggests that adaptation, technology, and financing need to become priorities. Noting that the Bali talks have placed deforestation and land-use challenges within the purview of international climate discussions for the first time, Ambassador R.M. Marty Natalegawa stresses the need for incentives to tropical forest-rich countries to preserve their forests. Dr. Joseph Aldy rounds out the discussion by examining options for a post-2012 international climate policy framework.

Suzanne DiMaggio, Director of the Asian Social Issues Program at the Asia Society, moderates the discussion.

Speakers:
Dr. Joseph Aldy, Fellow, Resources for the Future; Co-Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
Ambassador R.M. Marty Natalegawa, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations
Dr. Robert C. Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination & Strategic Planning, United Nations

Listen on Demand (1 hr., 39 min.)

R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa was appointed Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations in 2007. He began his career with Indonesia's Department of Foreign Affairs in 1986, and served as Ambassador to the Court of St. Jamess and Ireland as well as the Chief of Staff of the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and as the Director General for ASEAN Cooperation in the Department of Foreign Affairs. While in these posts, as Spokesperson of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Natalegawa oversaw the convening of the first East Asia Summit (EAS), reflecting Indonesia's vision of an inclusive EAS, with Australia, India, and New Zealand among the participants, and ASEAN as the hub.

Robert C. Orr was appointed Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning and Policy Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General in August 2004. His responsibilities include advising the Secretary-General on strategic issues, developing signature policy initiatives, and running the Secretary-General's cabinet-style Policy Committee. Dr. Orr also serves as the Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, which coordinates 23 UN entities involved in counter-terrorism activities. Dr. Orr joined the United Nations from Harvard University, where he served as the Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to this, he served as Director of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, and held senior posts in US government.

Joseph Aldy is a Fellow at Resources for the Future, where his research addresses climate change policy, mortality risk valuation, energy subsidies to low-income households, and energy policy. Dr. Aldy is the Co-Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements and the Co-Director of the International Energy Workshop. An invited contributor to the American Meteorological Society's Climate Policy blog, he also served on the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 2000, focusing on climate change policy, air quality regulations, petroleum markets, electricity restructuring, hazardous waste policy, environmental issues in China, and sustainable development.

Director of the Asia Society's Asian Social Issues Program (ASIP), Suzanne DiMaggio focuses on a range of political, economic, and social challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region. She is currently in the process of launching an Asia-Pacific Environment Initiative aimed at developing policy solutions at the national, regional, and multilateral levels to address climate change and related global threats to security, and informing public policy dialogue in Asia and the United States. Ms. DiMaggio previously served as the Vice President of Global Policy Programs at the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), where she oversaw efforts to promote multilateral approaches to global problem-solving and encouraging constructive US international engagement.