LIST OF PANELS

The panel Climate Change Policy, Business and Development aims to address the development debate, the effects of climate change on the society, and the economy and environment interfaces.  We welcome papers that reflect on the policy/business and policy/environmental dimensions of the topics related to climate change as well as on their societal and economic implications.

During the last decade, capitalism has undergone several changes. Different sectors including social, economic and environmental life have been modified as a result of the development of global policies. . However, the strategies undertaken by core countries are still leaving the environmental agenda in the background, and driving social and environmental impacts to scales never experienced before. In North-South relations, environmental issues are presented in a more discursive level than the supposed pursuance of different practical strategies for sustainable development and growth.  Regulatory measures of economic activity have generated a scenario of uncertainty. With each deeper system crisis, prospects for solving dilemmas intrinsic to the development arise again.  Climate change, in such way, has became a further component that drives global change to new degrees of complexity. The ways of production  face a number of dilemmas in public policy that cannot be solved only with the availabe tools for regulating economic activities. Uncertainty and inevitability became central foundations for a new level of reflection about climate change and its relations with State, Market and Society As a nonlinear phenomenon, climate change requires  potent answers from all areas of public policy that in the past were not closely associated with the regulation of business. . To what extent can climate change be predicted? What are the development responses and adaptation possibilities to  climate change? To what extent, may State, Market and Society  establish integrated strategies for addressing climate change uncertainty scenarios? These issues are the guidelines for the discussions to which this panel is proposed. A set of actions are necessary for knowledge production about climate change, including cross scale interplay, as comprehensive understanding of the complexities that are inherent to sustainable development are needed in the face of climate change.