Programme

Since the purpose of the Forum is to identify and examine potentially valid approaches for the architecture of a future climate regime, the format of the sessions is intended to provide a focus on the major issues and ample time for interaction among the participants. In every session the scheduled presentations will be very short ‑up to 15 minutes‑ followed by open discussion to allow all the participants to freely intervene. No attention will be paid to any implementation details. The chair persons will introduce the topic with their personal viewpoint, will manage the time of the speakers and will guide the debate.

The venue will be in Madrid, on April 11-13, 2007. All technical sessions will take place at the Headquarters of the Spanish Energy Regulatory Commission, 47 Alcalá Street, Madrid (MAP). Most participants will stay at the Hotel Intercontinental, 49 Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid (MAP). Both places are at less than 10 minutes by taxi. Buses of the organization will take the participants from the Hotel Intercontinental to the technical sessions and back, leaving from the hotel in the morning at 8:15 am (Wednesday 11) and 8:00 (Thursday 12 and Friday 13). On Thursday 12, buses will leave at 19:30 from the Intercontinental Hotel to take participants to El Prado Museum.

There will be three main sessions in the first full day of the Forum on Thursday April 12th, which will separately address the central topics: the role that developed countries could play, the role that developing countries could play, and the viewpoint of the major stakeholders: industry, financial institutions and the civil society. This will be followed in the morning of the second day by a personal inventory, made by appointed participants, of the main ideas that were proposed in the preceding day, together with their own opinions, and then a general discussion where all viewpoints will be jointly considered.

On Wednesday April 11th, prior to the main conference, as indicated in the agenda, there will be a one-day academic workshop, mostly for NGOs, academics and representatives of think tanks, but open to all Forum participants who may wish to attend. The purpose of this workshop will be to review and to present and discuss any new findings and ideas that could be useful during the debates of the Forum, but in a more academic environment. There will be an introductory session at the beginning of the Forum where the major findings and conclusions of the academic workshop will be briefly presented.

The participants in the Forum will take part in their personal capacities, not necessarily reflecting the policies and positions of their respective institutions. The participants and the FSR will be free to use the information received in the Forum, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the source of such information can be revealed.