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:
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
9:00-9:15 Welcome
- Helge Sander, Danish Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation
9:15- 9:30 Opening of the Meeting
- Beth Burnside, Vice-Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley
- Lykke Friis, Prorector, University of Copenhagen
- Erik Rasmussen, Founder and CEO, Monday Morning
9:30-10:45 Addressing the Climate Challenge through Innovation and Industry Transformation
The focus of this session will be to assess how innovation and industry transformation can be leveraged to mitigate and adapt climate change. What qualitative approaches and quantitative tools are needed, beyond existing efforts, to evaluate policy options and their implications for competitiveness and economic growth?
- James E. Rogers, Chairman and CEO, Duke Energy
- W. Michael Hanemann, Professor, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
- Laura Tyson, Professor of Business Administration, UC Berkeley
- Ditlev Engel, President and CEO, Vestas Wind Systems
Moderator, with comments, by
- John Zysman, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30 Navigating the Complexities
The transition to a climate friendly economy is a complex one of adjusting policies to promote new models of growth and competition, managing a portfolio of potential technologies, and finding measures to assess and drive our progress. This session will explore the interdependencies, opportunities and trade-offs between these issues.
- Daniel M. Kammen, Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, UC Berkeley
- Joe Aldy, Fellow, Resources for the Future (tentative)
- Erika Mann, Member of the European Parliament
- Shankar Sastry, Dean, School of Engineering, UC Berkeley
Moderated, with comments, by
- Niels Christian Nielsen, Chief Executive Officer, Q Network
- Nick Rowley, Director, Kinesis
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 Keynote session
- Steven Chu, Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Introduced by
- Steen Riisgaard, President and CEO, Novozymes
14:15-15:45 Breakout Sessions
Led by experts from UC Berkeley, Danish research institutions and the international scientific community, each session will focus on a technology topic. The expected outcome will be a more comprehensive understanding of the innovations within the field, potential for enhancing growth, policy implications and new, exciting business models. Topics will include the following:
- Wind power (Peter Brun, Senior Vice President, Government Relations, Vestas Wind Systems)
- Solar PV and thermal-electric (Daniel M. Kammen, Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, UC Berkeley)
- Nuclear energy (Riitta Kyrki-Rajamäki, Professor of Nuclear Energy Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology)
- Energy-efficient manufacturing (R.C. Liang, Senior Technology Adviser, Delta Electronics)
- Bio-fuels (Jay Keasling, Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Steen Riisgaard, President and CEO, Novozymes; Dan Miller, CEO, Roda Group)
- Sensing energy use and the environment with Wireless Sensor Networks (Paul Wright, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Acting Director and Acting Director, CITRIS, UC Berkeley)
- Carbon capture and storage (Eli Aamot, Vice President R&D New Energy, Statoil)
- Growth and policy: Transformations of growth models (John Zysman, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley; Murat Gursoy, Project Manager, UNDP Turkey; Trevor Houser, Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Koji Hirao, Professor of Economics, Senshu University)
- Efficient energy production (Rudolf Blum, General Manager, R&D, DONG Energy)
15:45-16:15 Break
16:15-16:45 Keynote session
- Shai Agassi, Founder and CEO, Project Better Place
16:45-18:00 Towards the 2009 UN Summit
A comprehensive summary of the results of the meeting with feedback and recommendations to the Danish government.
- Paul Wright, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Acting Director Acting Director, CITRIS, UC Berkeley
- Tim Flannery, Scientist and Author; Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council
- James E. Rogers, Chairman and CEO, Duke Energy
- Katherine Richardson, Vice Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen
18:00-19:00 Reception