The book's message is that treaties should not just tell countries what to do, but rather they must create incentives for states to participate in a treaty (for more information on the book click here.) This message was elaborated by the book's author, Scott Barrett, Professor of Environmental Economics and International Political Economy at the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Comments were provided by Ms. Irene Freudenschuss-Reichl (UNIDO) and Mr. Hosseein Moeini Meybodi (Iran). For further information on the interventions made during the panel discussion please click here.

17 October 2002. Brussels

Inge Kaul, Director, ODS, mentions in her keynote address to the seminar organized by the European Policy Centre in conjunction with the World Bank and the European Commission that identifying and funding issues to advance global cooperation would be expensive but the costs of inaction would be many times greater. 

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Fifth Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region

11-13 August 2002, Troms¯, Norway

Inge Kaul, Director of ODS, was invited to speak on human development issues in the Arctic where she presented the paper "Challenges of Human Development in the Arctic". 

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Global Public Goods Financing: New Tools for New Challenges

19 March 2002. Monterrey, Mexico

This side event at the International Conference on Financing for Development was co-sponsored by the Government of France, the Government of Sweden and United Nations Development Programme. 

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Seminar on Financing Global Public Goods 

15 January 2002. New York

Organized by the Government of France and the Office of Development Studies, UNDP. 

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