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Economiste, CIRED - Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Jean-Charles Hourcade is director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He is acting director of the CIRED (Centre International de recherches sur l’Environnement et le Développement), a laboratory belonging both to CNRS and to E.H.E.S.S. (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris). Since 1990, he played a key role in French social science research coordination for backing up the awareness and negotiating capacities of official and governmental agencies in charge the climate change. As convening lead author of chapters for the Second (1996) and the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC and also in taking part in various European networks within EU and to the EMF (Stanford), he is committed to international cooperation.

References :

· 2006, with P.R. Shukla, Mathy, S., « Untying the Climate-Development Gordian Knot - Economic Options in a Politically Constrained World », à paraître in R. Guesnerie, H. Tulkens, (eds.), MIT Press, 19 p.

· 2003, avec Lecocq, F. - “Incertitude, irréversibilités et actualisation dans les calculs économiques sur l’effet de serre, pp. 177-199.- In : R. GUESNERIE -Kyoto et l’économie de l’effet de serre, Rapport du Conseil d’analyse économique, n° 39, Paris, La Documentation Française, 263 p.

· 1998, "Les dividendes économiques d'une réforme fiscale écologique"

Uno Svedin is Director of International Affairs at the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS, Stockholm, Sweden). He is chair of the International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research (IGFA) and member of Swedish delegations to various UN, OECD and EU bodies.

References :

· Svedin, U. & Aniansson Hägerhäll, B. (eds.) (1992) Society and the Environment: A Swedish Research Perspective, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1992.

· Kates, R.W., Clark, W.C., Corell, R., Hall, J.M., Jaeger, C.C., Lowe, I., McCarthy, J.J., Schellhuber, H.J., Bolin, B., Dickson, N.M., Faucheuz, S., Gallopin, G.C., Grubler, A., Huntley, B., Jäger, J., Jodha, N.S., Kaspersen, R.E., Mabogunje, A., Matson, P., Mooney, H., More III, B., O’Riordan, T. & Svedin, U. (2001) Sustainability Science, Science, Vol. 292 No. 5517, pp. 641-642.

· Svedin, U., O’Riordan, T. & Jordan, A. (2001) Multilevel governance for the Sustainability transition, in O’Riordan, T. (ed.), Globalism, Localism and Identity, Earthscan, London, pp. 43-60.

Romain Duval is Senior Economist in the Structural Policy Analysis Division of the OECD Economics Department, where he currently supervising an OECD research project on the economics of climate change. He has published journal articles on a wide range of economic issues including equilibrium unemployment, retirement behaviour, long-run equilibrium real exchange rates, the political economy of reforms and the "new" economy. He holds a PhD in Economics. His detailed CV and papers are available at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/17/2/39501574.pdf

References :

· “The Economics of climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Post-2012 Options”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, forthcoming, 2008.

· “A Taxonomy of Instruments to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Their Interactions”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 636, 2008.

· “The Role of R&D and Technology Diffusion in Climate Change Mitigation: New Perspectives Using the WITCH Model”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, forthcoming, 2008.

· Recommended reading in context of oral presentation in Porquerolles:
“The Economics of climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Post-2012 Options”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, forthcoming, 2008.

Richard C. J. Somerville is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, U. S. A. He is a theoretical meteorologist and an expert on computer simulations of the atmosphere. He received the Ph. D. in meteorology from New York University in 1966 and has been a professor at Scripps since 1979. Somerville is a theoretical meteorologist. His research is focused on critical physical processes in the climate system, especially the role of clouds and the important feedbacks that can occur as clouds change with a changing climate. Using a broad spectrum of observations, ranging from satellite images of storm systems to detailed measurements of microscopic cloud particles, Somerville compares computer simulations with reality. His work has led to many innovations and important improvements in climate models. He is an authority on the prospects for climate change in coming decades. Richard Somerville's interests include all aspects of climate, including climate science outreach and the interface between science and public policy. He comments frequently on climate and environmental issues for the media. He was an organizer of the Bali Climate Declaration by Scientists, in which more than 200 expert climate scientists from more than 20 countries urged climate change negotiators in 2007 to agree on large and rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions. Somerville has received awards from the American Meteorological Society for both his research and his popular book, The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, a new edition of which was published in 2008. Among many honors, he is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Meteorological Society. Richard Somerville is a Coordinating Lead Author for the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize equally with Al Gore.

References :

· Much additional information is available at Richard Somerville’s web site http://richardsomerville.com. On this site, available downloads include lists of Somerville’s publications, a curriculum vitae, contact information, sample writings, and ordering information for The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change. This web site also provides many links, including links to streaming video of several recent lectures by Richard Somerville.

· A short biography is attached. It contains a link to my web site http://richardsomerville.com which contains many links and downloads.

· (ii) A list of my three most relevant papers (also on http://richardsomerville.com )

· Reflections on the UN Climate Change Negotiations in Bali http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/reflections-the-un-climate-change-negotiations-bali

· 2007 Bali Climate Change Declaration by Scientists http://www.ccrc.unsw.edu.au/news/2007/Bali.html/

· The Ethics of Climate Change http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=1365

· The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (AR4): www.ipcc.ch

· The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, second edition (2008), by Richard C. J.Somerville: http://forgivingair.com (also available from amazon.com)