SustainabiliTank: Stockholm Environment Institute Symposium at Tufts University, Massachusetts, on – “Taking Climate Change Seriously: Research and Policy Directions for the Next US Administration.”

Stockholm Environment Institute Symposium at Tufts University, Massachusetts, on – “Taking Climate Change Seriously: Research and Policy Directions for the Next US Administration.”

Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on November 13th, 2008
by Pincas Jawetz (PJ@SustainabiliTank.com)

SEI-US Symposium

Taking Climate Change Seriously:
Research and Policy Directions for the Next US Administration

Friday, December 5, 2008
9am â€“ 5pm

Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall
Tufts University, Medford Campus
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The symposium is free of charge.
Limited space!
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Scientists are reporting with increasing urgency about the impacts of unabated climate change. With the new administration taking office there is a significant opportunity to reshape the US’ role in addressing the climate challenge.

A one day symposium of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at Tufts University will explore how sound science and policy research can lay a foundation for new climate policies â€“ ones that will allow us to move beyond the current climate stalemate and which offer hope that a low carbon sustainable future is possible.

SEI has been working to address the challenges of climate mitigation and adaptation for more than two decades in both the US and all around the globe. SEI staff and invited speakers from NGOs and policy makers will present relevant projects and discuss how their experience and research can inform US policy makers.

Agenda:

9.00am	Welcome by Lawrence S. Bacow, Tufts President, and Charlie Heaps, Center Director, SEI
9.15am	Introduction: Taking Climate Change Seriously: Symposium Overview, Framing the Discussions.
9.30am	CLIMATE SCIENCE Urgent Findings of the Latest Climate Science Melanie Fitzpatrick, Union of Concerned Scientists
10.00am	CLIMATE ECONOMICS Climate Benefits of the California Lifestyle: Interstate Differences in Carbon Emissions Frank Ackermann, SEI Needed Improvements in Economic Assessments of Climate Policies John A. “Skip” Laitner, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
11.00am	Break
11.15am	CLIMATE ADAPTATION Come Rain and Shine: Adaptation in the Modern Era William Dougherty, SEI Adaptation Planning in California: Preparing for Water Scarcity Brian Joyce, SEI
12.15pm	Plenary Discussion
12.30pm	Lunch
1.30pm	US MITIGATION POLICIES Regional Climate Initiatives as a Pathway to a Federal Cap Sonia Hamel, Climate Change Policy Advisor Legislating the Highway Act of 1956: Lessons for Climate Policy Roel Hammerschlag, SEI
2.30pm	INTERNATIONAL POLICIES The Greenhouse Development Rights Framework Applied to the US Eric Kemp-Benedict, SEI What Economic Development Will Mean for China’s GHG Emissions Liz Stanton, SEI
3.30pm	Break
3.45pm	Update from COP14 Sivan Kartha, SEI, Reporting live from Posnan.
4.00pm	Panel and Plenary Discussion Where do we go from here? Viable policy options for the US. Facilitator: Kenneth A. Colburn, Center for Climate Strategies Panelists: Charlie Heaps, SEI; Sonia Hammel; William Moomaw, Tufts (invited); Frank Ackerman, SEI
5.00pm	End

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