COP21, three symposia at the Collège de France

A few weeks ahead of the ^21st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris, citizens, associations and politicians are mobilizing. Scientists, too, are making their voices heard to fuel the fundamental debate that accompanies these negotiations, and to remind us of the central role of science and research in the fight against climate change and its consequences.
As an emblem of free and ambitious French research, the Collège de France is organizing three major interdisciplinary symposia for COP 21, open to all. These three symposia will bring together eminent French and international specialists to discuss the issues at stake in the negotiations. Beyond this, the aim will be to analyze the origins of the climate changes currently underway, to consider how human societies can adapt to the upheavals they herald, and to imagine the responses and solutions that science has to offer.

Alain Prochiantz, Administrator of the Collège de France

Climate, energy and society: the Collège de France and COP 21

november 9, 2015
Pr Edouard Bard
Research in the face of climate change.

Paris 2015 and Beyond, Cooling the Climate Debate

october 29 and 30, 2015
Prs Thomas Sterner and Roger Guesnerie
Economics for climate policy. At this two-day symposium, experts from around the world will debate the economic design of climate policies before tackling the issues at stake in the COP 21 negotiations.

How to think about the Anthropocene?

november 5 and 6, 2015
Pr Philippe Descola
Anthropologists, philosophers and sociologists facing climate change: two days of debates to highlight the contributions of the human and social sciences to the fight against climate change and its consequences.

Taking responsibility seriously

Book edited by Professors Alain Supiot and Mireille Delmas-Marty (dir.), Presses Universitaire de France, 432 p., November 2015.

The result of an international colloquium held at the Collège de France on June 11 and 12, 2015, this book aims to restore the legal meaning of responsibility in the treatment of the three "fictitious commodities" of nature, labor and money. Bringing together specialists from every continent, it begins by taking the historical and cultural measure of the multiple meanings that the principle of responsibility can cover.

It then examines the reasons why globalization is a source of ecological, social and financial irresponsibility, and the ways in which the principle of responsibility can be restored. The remedies thus identified have been submitted to a wide-ranging discussion, leading to operational conclusions that will feed into the work of the ^21st Climate Conference to be held in Paris in December 2015.

Climate change: a challenge for humanity

12 legal proposals for the Paris Climate Conference - M. Delmas-Marty, L. d'Ambrosio, C. Devaux, K. Martin-Chenut

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