Environmental and Energy Studies

Paul Ashley, an Ecosystem Scientist with Parks Canada will be presenting a one hour seminar on ecological monitoring in Sirmilik National Park, Nunavut, Canada. At 22,000 square kilometers, Sirmilik is one of the largest protected areas in the world, and is without a doubt a jewel of the eastern high Arctic.

In Hungary buildings are key to the climate challenge: they contribute approximately half of energy-related CO2 emissions. This sector has been shown to have the highest cost-effective climate change mitigation potential in Hungary.

The main purpose of the event is to take stock of the Copenhagen COP-15 summit. What does the outcome mean? What are the chances and options remaining for a sufficiently ambitious climate regime? How can the world go on after this outcome in keeping climate change at reasonably safe levels?
 

Speakers

"In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry [US], exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

Mainstream theories of international law and international relations have developed a rather ambivalent attitude towards non-state actors. While non-state actors have been broadly acknowledged as empirical entities, they are conceptually and theoretically excluded from our field of study. While we cannot longer deny that non-state activism is relevant in the process of law and decision-making, a separate constitutive role for NSAs in international law making is still largely denied.