Embassy Climate Talk

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Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm
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This seminar will assess how the COP20 set the stage for the successful negotiation of the COP21 Paris Agreement. The seminar will place particular emphasis on the role that Latin American countries played in the COP20 and COP21 conferences in order to gauge the achievements and limitations of regional cooperation with regard to one of the most important and high-stakes medium- and long-term multilateral issues of the 21st century.

Featuring:​

Francisco E. González is the Riordan Roett Senior Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Before joining SAIS in Washington, D.C., Prof. González taught at the SAIS Bologna Center in Italy (2003–2005) and he was a junior faculty member at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations in Great Britain (2000–2005). Prof. González was the recipient of a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2002–2005), which he served at Nuffield College, Oxford, and prior to that he was a Lecturer in Politics at St. John’s College, Oxford (2000–2002)

Gabriel Quijandría holds the position of Vice Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources at the Ministry of the Environment of Peru. Mr. Quijandría is an expert on environmental and natural resources management issues with twenty years of experience in several public, non-profit and academic institutions in Peru and Latin America. Experience in environmental policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation with regard to issues such as climate change; biodiversity conservation; sustainable development financing and protected areas planning and management. He holds a degree in sociology from the Universidad de la República of Uruguay and a Master Degree in Natural Resources Management by INCAE Business School in Costa Rica.