Seminar 1: Washington DC, January 24-25, 2008

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Host: Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Sponsors: Mario Soos, German Embassy, Washington, DC
Co-Organizers: R. Andreas Kraemer, Director, Ecologic
Introduction of Rapporteur

The Stern Review and its consequences: Can we put a price tag on policy inaction?

Chair/Moderator: Deb Callahan, Consultant, Climate & Energy Program, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Introduction: Jennifer Morgan, Director, Climate & Energy Security, E3G
Introduction: Suedeen G. Kelly, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington DC

Papers Session 2

Chair/Moderator: Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Senior Policy Adviser and the European representative to The Nature Conservancy
Introduction: Pierre Noël, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Introduction: Chris Flavin, President, Worldwatch Institute

Papers Session 3

This session reviews the EU Emission Trading Scheme and the Linking Directive; US systems under discussion or development, as well as op-tions and obstacles to linking between the EU and the U.S. (including on the state level). The EU can link much of the global economy to its emission trading scheme, and is increasingly getting economic benefits from doing so. U.S. participation in the EU scheme depends – among others – on the adoption and implementation of similar trading schemes with similar levels of coverage and ambition (as measured by general price levels).

Chair/Moderator: Camilla Bausch, Head of Climate and Energy, Senior Fellow, Ecologic Institute
Introduction: Martin Hansen, Advisor, Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy
Introduction: Karsten Neuhoff, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University

Papers Session 4

Location: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany,
Embassy House, 1900 Foxhall Road NW, Washington, DC
Host: Mario Soos, German Embassy, Washington, DC
Chair/Moderator: Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Senior Director, Policy Programs, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, tbc
Keynote Speaker: Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State
(download Mr. Volker's speech here)

Papers Dinner

Friday, January 25, 2008

Transport is the most vulnerable subsystem in our industrialized and urbanized societies; it is strongly dependent on liquid fuels. Transport is only a means to reach an end: mobility. The session explores possibilities for re-inventing transport, from novel concepts for individual transport to the use of information and communication technology.

Chair/Moderator: Hans-Joachim Ziesing, Consultant, former Senior Executive German for Economic Research
Introduction: Malcolm Fergusson, Senior Fellow and Head of Transport Program, Institute for European Environmental Policy
Introduction: Kit Batten, Managing Director for Energy and Environmental Policy,Center for American Progress

Papers Session 5

Towards a global public policy on energy and industrial restructuring, the session will review existing institutions and procedures for developing, agreeing and implementing public (international) policies for industrial modernization and restructuring. In the absence of sufficient political will for strong intergovernmental cooperation, the role of change agent will fall on private enterprise. What can (and should) governments do or not do to facilitate private sector and non-governmental action?

Chair/Moderator: Mikael Skou Andersen, National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Political Analysis
Introduction: Reid Detchon, Executive Director, Climate and Energy, United Nations Foundation
Introduction: Joseph E. Aldy, Fellow, Resources for the Future; Co-Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Papers Session 6

Presentation of Summary Text (first draft, with “open points” to be revisited in the 2nd and 3rd Strategy Seminars) by R. Andreas Kraemer, Discussion.