What's Next?: Post-Kyoto Climate Change Options

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change announced today
the release of a major new report outlining options and recommendations 
for advancing the international climate change effort post-2012. 
The report is from the Climate Dialogue at Pocantico, a group of 
25 senior policymakers and stakeholders from 15 countries 
convened by the Pew Center.  The report was formally launched at an event 
yesterday in the hearing room of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee 
hosted by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-Indiana) and Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. 
(D-Delaware), the committee's Chairman and Ranking Minority Member.  
At the event,Senators Lugar and Biden also announced the introduction of a 
Sense of the Senate resolution calling for the United States 
to participate in negotiations under the Framework Convention on Climate Change 
to establish mitigation commitments by all major emitting countries.

For information on the Pocantico dialogue and report, 
and on the Lugar-Biden Climate Change resolution, 
please visit Pew Climate Change 
 
The new Pocantico report also will be the focus of 
"Beyond 2012 - A High-Level Forum," 
a side event at COP 11/MOP 1 in Montreal 
featuring an exchange of views among Ministers and senior business and NGO leaders.  
The event will take place at 1-3 pm on Wednesday, December 7, 
in the Palais des Congrès.