International Event on Leadership and Climate Change

LEAD Indonesia hosted the 2007 LEAD International Session on "Leadership and Climate Change" ahead of the Bali Climate Change Conference of Parties.

Speakers including Emil Salim, Chair of the Indonesia delegation to CoP13, and Daniel Murdiyarso, Senior Scientist with CIFOR addressed 150 global leaders drawn from across the LEAD network.

LEAD Fellows, Associates and staff came together to explore four central Climate Change Challenges:

• Avoiding Deforestation,
• Renewable Energy,
• Climate Change Adaptation, and 
• Towards a Low Carbon Economy.

Participants built their knowledge on the themes through case studies and interactive discussions with experts and leaders including Emil Salim, Chair of the Indonesia delegation to CoP13, and Daniel Murdiyarso, Senior Scientist with CIFOR.

Focussed skills building sessions on leadership, communication and stakeholder engagement also helped participants prepare for on-site meetings with frontline stakeholders and professionals, and tackle participatory team challenges.

By developing a deeper understanding of the issues and identifying areas where leadership is most needed to implement sustainable solutions, the group learned together and made formal recommendations on the four themes in the Bandung Declaration, a document that was shared with delegates at the 2007 UNFCCC Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP13).

For details of the event check out the resources on our participant gateway website and forum.

News of the event was captured in daily bulletins by our Fellow Aristide KOMZE, Cameroonian journalist and cohort 12 Fellow:

Day 1 bulletin

Day 2 bulletin

Day 3 bulletin

Day 5 bulletin

Representatives of the LEAD network are currently attending the CoP, where LEAD will hold a side event on climate change leadership. An update of more details from the International Training Session, and the outputs of our network activities in Bali will follow in a special New Year bulletin.

Release date: Monday, December 10, 2007