Location: Poets Cove, Pender Island, Canada
Date: 4 - 6 September, 2007

Context: Breaking Global Deadlocks from Ideas to Actions includes sherpas, a journalist and chief of staff to OECD Sec Gen. The meeting will not be strongly focused on think-tanks and governance. The focus is on our hypothesis that a well prepared more inclusive summit would indeed result in a win win outcome and that an effective networking of think tanks can contribute to the process. We believe the discussion must be focused on a concrete example (climate change), not just the abstract point.

Short scenario notes will be commissioned assuming it is 2015 looking backward on 2007 outlining:

(i)the characteristics of a viable “network” of the institutions.
What does success look like? What are the components of the “think tank” network in 2015? What is its mission? What are its instruments, programs, projects? How is it governed? What is its budget? How is it financed?

(ii) the process of its creation.
How was success achieved? What was the route taken in establishing the hypothetical constructive and influential network? What were the first steps? In retrospect, what should have been done differently? What were the keys to success?

Papers

CFGS Draft		The Grand Bargain
Barry Carin & Pratap Bhanu Mehta		The Policy Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee: A Short History of the World's Most Influential Network 2007 - 2015
Heather Creech		How to support an L14 in breaking global deadlocks: do we need need a formal network of institutions or an open source system of Experts?
Adil Najam		The Poets Cove Global Policy Network (PCGPN) - A Speculative Network for the Future

Backgrounders

The Earth Institute at Columbia University		The Global Roundtable on Climate Change
World Resources Institute (WRI)		World Resources Institute
The World Conservation Union		Climate Working Group: Catalyzing Action through Dialogue
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)		WBCSD: The Energy and Climate Focus Area
The Tyndall Centre		Tyndall Centre on Climate Change and Research
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)		Global Energy Assessment
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)		SEI Activities on Climate Change
Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies		The Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
The Pew Center		The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Oversease Development Institute		Overview of Climate Change at ODI
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory		Energy, Climate, and Global Security: Creating Resiliance for a Non-Linear World
International Institute for Sustainable Development		IISD Climate Change and Energy Program: Current Initiatives
International Emissions Trading Assosiation (IETA)		Principles of IETA
International Development Research Centre		Strengthening adaptation through research: IDRC responses to climate variability and change
Globe International Secretariat		The GLOBE G8+5 Climate Change Dialogue
The South African Institute of International Affairs		Strengthening the Governance of Africa's Natural Resources