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State of the Union watch party at Local 16!

Join us for a State of the Union watch party

Wednesday, January 27
7:00pm-10:00pm 

Program & Speech begins at 8:45pm

Local 16
1602 U Street, NW, Washington, DC 
(corner of 16th and U Streets NW)  
http://bit.ly/Local16Map

U Street Metro Stop (Green/Yellow line)

PLEASE RSVP ONLINE:  http://bit.ly/927SOTUrsvp

Co-Hosted by Generation Obama-VA/DC/MD, DC For Obama, DC Young Democrats, Democratic GAIN, DC For Democracy, Women's Information Network, New Latino Movement, Gertude Stein Democratic Club, South Asians For Opportunity, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, Jobs That Are Left and more!

Jan 25, 12:00pm WEBCAST of Jim Jones on US Strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan

The Administration's Strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan

January 25, 2010, 12:00pm – 1:30pm


***EVENT FULL:  To watch the live webcast please click here.***


As the international community prepares to convene in London on January 28 to coordinate its efforts in Afghanistan, please join the Center for American Progress for remarks by National Security Advisor James L. Jones on January 25, 2010 on the administration's strategy in Afghanistan and the region.
Jones' speech will be followed by a panel of experts on Afghanistan analyzing the upcoming London conference, the state of the Karzai government in Afghanistan, and the international community's nonmilitary efforts in the country. The panel will include Paul O'Brien, vice president of policy and advocacy at Oxfam International, J. Alexander Thier, director for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the United States Institute of Peace and James A. Bever, Director of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force at USAID. Panelists will assess U.S. progress on the "civilian surge," efforts to improve Afghan governance and tackle corruption, recent proposals for reconciliation with elements of the insurgency put forth by the Karzai government, and ways in which the United States can improve its own coordination and capacity on the civilian side.

Copenhagen and Beyond on 1/19

IFPRI is pleased to invite you to the following IFPRI Policy Seminar, which will be held in our fourth floor conference facility located at 2033 K Street, NW (entrance to building on 21st street between K & L streets). Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues.

Kindly RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee (Tel: 202.862.8107; s.hill-lee@cgiar.org).

****IFPRI Policy Seminar****

Copenhagen and Beyond: Three Perspectives on Agriculture and Climate Change

Panelists:

William Hohenstein, USDA

David Waskow, Oxfam America

Gerald Nelson, IFPRI

Chair:

Mark Rosegrant, Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

12:15 pm – 1:45 pm

*Please join us for a light lunch beginning at 11:45 am*

Abstract

The climate change negotiations in Copenhagen:

  1. failed miserably,
  2. were rescued at the last minute, or
  3. resulted in a promising set of new initiatives that will ultimately lead to a binding international treaty.

William Hohenstein (USDA), David Waskow (Oxfam), and Gerald Nelson (IFPRI) will provide perspectives on which of these three outcomes ultimately prevailed, how to remove the brackets in the negotiating text, and what the future might hold for policies and programs for agricultural climate change adaptation and mitigation.

William Hohenstein serves as the Director of the Climate Change Program Office (CCPO) at the USDA. The CCPO serves as a focal point for support to the Secretary of Agriculture on the causes and consequences of climate change, as well as for strategies for addressing climate change.

David Waskow is the Climate Change Program Director in the Washington office of Oxfam America. He was previously the international program director at Friends of the Earth - US.

Gerald Nelson is a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Environment and Production Technology Division.