PRESS CONFERENCE
Christopher Flavin,
President, World Watch Institute

The speech and Q& A will be in English.

With the successor to the Kyoto Protocol due to be decided in Copenhagen this December, politicians, scientists, NGOs, and corporations are in the final stages of negotiation. As governments discuss by how much to reduce greenhouse gas emissions between 2012 and 2020, climate experts warn Copenhagen is the world's last chance to take political, economic, and technological actions that will prevent irreversible global warming later this century. As for technological solutions, switching to solar, wind, biomass, and thermal energy is seen by many as the only viable way to reduce emissions, while others push natural gas, nuclear power and clean coal as safe, stable, and reliable energy sources that are better for the environment than oil or gas. Which energy sources the world should embrace will be a major topic of discussion, and contention, at Copenhagen.

Join the FCCJ as Christopher Flavin, President of the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based international research organization focused on energy, resource and environmental issues, discusses the role of energy technologies at Copenhagen and strategies to replace fossil fuels -- increasing energy security and avoiding dangerous climate change. Flavin is co-author of three books on energy, including "Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution."

Christopher Flavin, President, World Watch Institute.