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CITRIS-COPENHAGEN RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE AND ENERGY

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CITRIS-COPENHAGEN RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE AND ENERGY:
FINDING THE WAY TO CLIMATE STABILIZATION THROUGH INNOVATION

June 18-19, 2008
The University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark

Organizers:
Alex Farrell
Paul Wright
Niels Christian Nielsen
John Zysman
Gary Baldwin
Johannah Christiansen

Research Assistants:
Jeremy Eddy
Anton Favorini-Csorba
Mark Huberty
Stacy Jackson
Nina Kelsey
Lorie Mariano
Yvette Subramanian

ORGANIZED BY & IN COLLABORATION WITH:
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Purpose of the Conference:

This event brings together some of the world’s foremost scientists and engineers with industry and government leaders with a clear purpose:

To explore visions, research, and innovations in technology, business, and public policy required to guide the choices in the production, distribution, and use of energy while avoiding dangerous climate change. 

Day 1, Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The first day of this two-day meeting will be by-invitation-only, to maximize the opportunities for a select group to explore new ways to think about the interdependencies and tradeoffs in energy, climate science, economics and risk, and the broad policy context—economic policy, employment, and trade, as well as climate policy. These highly-interactive discussions will be led by experts from CITRIS, Denmark, and the international community. The expected outcome will be a series of recommendations that will feed into the Danish Government’s planning process leading up to the U.N. Global Summit on Climate—COP-15—to be held in December of 2009.

Day 2, Thursday, June 19, 2008
The second day of this two-day meeting will target an audience of 200–300 attendees and will be structured as a series of formal talks and breakout sessions, led by internationally-recognized experts on energy and climate.  These sessions will focus on a range of critical technological, business, and policy issues in energy, climate science, economics, and risk, and the interdependencies and tradeoffs among them. The meeting will end with a series of recommendations that will presented to high-level representatives of the Danish Government, including the Prime Minister, and will feed into the planning process leading up to the U.N. Global Summit on Climate—COP-15—to be held in December of 2009.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

8:30 - 8:45         Welcome

  • Helge Sander, Danish Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation

8:45 – 9:00        Opening of the Meeting

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      • Lykke Friis (Provost, University of Copenhagen)
      • Beth Burnside (UC Berkeley Vice-Chancellor for Research)

9:00-10:00         The Context for a Dialogue on Innovation and Transformation in Energy and Climate
The central focus of this meeting will be discussions on how the energy and climate challenges should be thought about —what qualitative approaches and what quantitative tools are needed, beyond existing efforts, for innovation and transformation in industry and the implications for competitiveness and economic growth.

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      • Moderator – John Zysman (UC Berkeley)
      • Economics and Risk – Lord Adair Turner (London School of Economics and British Climate Change Commission) (Tentative)
      • Business Models –James E. Rogers (Chairman and CEO, Duke Energy) (Tentative)
      • Policy – Laura Tyson (UC Berkeley)

10:00-10:30       Break

10:30-12:30        Navigating the Complexities
The necessities of dealing with climate change and economic growth imperatives have pushed the world energy system into a phase of profound and long-term transformation with respect to technology, business, and policy. Moreover, this transformation is and will remain subject to high levels and multiple sources of uncertainty. This session will address key questions about how to navigate the transformation of the world’s energy production and consumption systems. This session will also explore how the energy and climate challenges should be thought about—what qualitative approaches and what quantitative tools are needed, beyond existing efforts, for innovation and transformation in industry and the implications for competitiveness and economic growth.

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      • Moderator – Niels Christian Nielsen (Q Networks, Inc.) and Shankar Sastry (UC Berkeley)
      • The Navigation Process – John Zysman (UC Berkeley)
      • Climate policy and growth – Erika Mann (Member, EU Parliament)
      • A scorecard for progress – Eileen Claussen (Pew Center on Global Climate Change) (Tentative)
      • Managing the portfolio of technologies – Sir David King (Queen’s College, UK) (Tentative)

12:30-2:00         Lunch
                        Introduction: S. Shankar Sastry (Dean of Engineering, UC Berkeley)
Keynote speaker: Steven Chu (Nobel Laureate and Director, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory) (Tentative)

2:00-3:30           Breakout Sessions on Topics in Technology and Use
Each technology and each business in the energy sector faces unique challenges and opportunities in the upcoming transition towards a prosperous, sustainable future. These sessions will feature discussions by a leading expert in each technology or business, followed by expert commentors and an interactive discussion with each group.

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      • Wind – Ditlev Engel (CEO Vestas) (Tentative)
      • Solar PV and thermal-electric – Dan Kammen (UC Berkeley)
      • Nuclear – Riitta Kyrki-Rajamaki (Lappeenranta Technical Univ., Finland)
      • Smart grid and energy storage – Jacob Ostergaard (Technical University of Denmark) (Tentative)
      • Energy-efficient manufacturing– R.C. Liang (Delta Electronics, Taiwan)
      • Bio-fuels – TBA (UC Berkeley)
      • Sensing energy use and the environment with Wireless Sensor Networks – Paul Wright (UC Berkeley) and Patrick Mantey (UC Santa Cruz)
      • Growth and policy: Transformations of growth models, with examples from the Middle East and Asia – John Zysman (UC Berkeley), Murat K. Gursoy (United Nations Development Program, Turkey), Trevor Houser (Peterson Institute for International Economics) (Tentative)
      • Carbon Capture and Sequestration – Eli Aamot (StatoilHydro)

3:30-4:00           Break

4:00-5:00           Towards COP-15: A Report from the CITRIS Meeting
A comprehensive summary of the results of the meeting, with feedback and recommendations to the principal organizers of COP-15

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      • Paul Wright (UC Berkeley and CITRIS)
      • Eric Rasmussen (Mondag Morgen)
      • James E. Rogers (Duke Energy)

6:00                  Reception