If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Jonathan Pershing, the State Department's Special Envoy for Climate Change, discusses the progress made on international climate policy and prospects for future agreement. Since the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was established in 1994, efforts to secure international agreement on climate policy have gained increasing attention, but compromise has not been easy to achieve. Pershing serves as the U.S. Department of State's senior climate negotiator and Head of Delegation at official level meetings of UN climate change conferences. He is widely recognized for his work on international climate change architecture, including the design of a post-Kyoto Protocol climate change agreement. The World Beyond the Headlines is a project of the Center for International Studies, which brings scholars, journalists, and world leaders to the University to discuss issues of current global importance. For more information on this event, visit pge.uchicago.edu/events/2010-2011/pershing-climate-change-international-negotiations Information on the entire The World Beyond the Headlines series can be found at cis.uchicago.edu/wbh This program was organized by the University of Chicago Program on the Global Environment and co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies, the Environment, Agriculture and Food Working Group, and the Chicago Environmental Policy Association. May 24, 2011

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