Friday, April 11, 2008
8:00 – 8:30 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30 am
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Opening Ceremonies:
Vincent Manno, Associate Provost and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts UniversityFraming the Issues:
Professor William Moomaw, Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) and Charles Bralver, Executive Director, Center for Emerging Market Enterprises (CEME)Keynote Address: "Zero Net Energy"
George David, Chairman, United Technologies Corporation
9:30 – 10:40 am
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Moderator:
William Moomaw, The Fletcher SchoolFraming the Issues:
Amory Lovins, Cofounder, Chairman, Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain InstituteDialoguers:
Kamal Meattle, CEO, Paharpur Business Center and Software Technology Incubator Park, India
Edward Muller, CEO Mirant-US Power Generation; Co-former CEO of Mission Energy-global power plant operator/builder
David H. Marks, Goulder Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, MIT Co-director, Masdar Initiative, Abu Dhabi
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First Dialogue: Sustainable Development and Energy – Efficiency, Coal and Alternative Energy Options
How can we promote sustainable development while addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation? How does a sustainable energy future look compared to the current trajectory the world is now pursuing? Coal is an abundant but carbon intensive low-cost energy resource. Associated emissions make continued growth in coal fired power generation economically, socially and environmentally damaging in terms of air pollution, acid rain and global warming.
• What are the relative costs and what is the effectiveness of a) improving power generation and end use efficiency, b) continued use of low efficiency coal with carbon dioxide capture and storage and c) switching to alternative generation technologies and fuels in lowering carbon dioxide emissions in emerging markets?
• How significant can efficiency gains be, and what roles can biofuel, solar, hydro, geothermal and wind energy play in lowering carbon emissions as these economies develop?
10:40 – 11:00am
Break
11:00am – 12:30pm
Moderator: Joseph A. Stanislaw, The JAStanislaw Group LLC, Retired CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Framing the Issues: Jose Moreira, Director, Biomass Users Network, Brazil
Dialoguers:
Polly Shaw, Director of External Relations, SunTech Power Holdings Co., China
Tulsi R. Tanti, Founder, Chairman, and Managing Director, Suzlon Energy, India – Invited
Eduardo Lećo de Sousa, Executive Director, Unica – Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association, Brazil
Isaac Berzin, developer of biological capture and storage of carbon dioxide, Greenfuels
Second Dialogue: Globalization and the Promotion of New Technologies from and in Emerging Markets
Globalization and growth are driving world markets and economies. How can emerging market countries grow their economies even as they seek to reduce carbon emissions and become more energy efficient? How will energy technology in emerging markets relate to markets in North America, Japan and Europe? All countries will need to participate in this global challenge. There are current examples, however, of companies in emerging market countries that have taken the initiative to develop, produce, and distribute new alternative energy technologies that will help move us in the right direction to mitigating climate change:
• China’s Suntech Power Holdings Co., one of the world’s leading manufacturers of solar energy, has endorsed ‘the Path to Climate Sustainability’.
• India’s Suzlon Energy, the fifth-largest wind-energy firm in the world (the biggest in India), clinched its single biggest contract to supply wind-turbine capacity to PPM Energy, the largest US wind-power developer.
• Brazil’s largest sugar and ethanol producer, Cosan, is the dominant player in the world’s most highly developed biofuels market and is now exporting major quantities of ethanol abroad.
• GreenFuel’s algae based bio-fuel stocks promise to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, generate renewable transportation fuels, and produce feed for fish and livestock.
12:30 – 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30 – 3:00pm
Moderator:
Charles Bralver, The Fletcher SchoolFraming the issues:
Juan Pablo Bonilla, Coordinator, Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative, Inter-American Development BankDialoguers:
Dan Reifsnyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and Science, U.S. Department of State
Olaf Groth, Global Business Network, The Monitor Group
Garry Howorth, PFC Energy
Hans Hoogeveen, Secretary General of Dutch Agricultural Ministry
Nick Welch, Climate Change Group, Shell International
Third Dialogue: Promoting Alternative Energy Technology in Emerging Markets – Policies and Financing
To promote and scale out alternative energy technologies, government regulations and financing opportunities need to be explored. How do national governments develop their own regulatory and market incentive structures to address carbon emissions reductions in a way that fits with their own values, institutions, and economies? How can economies achieve GDP growth while reducing carbon emissions? What kinds of regulations, market structures and incentives are different countries exploring? How do the ground-rules that international regimes establish play into national government actions as well as financing opportunities?
• The Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol rewards developed countries for investing in technologies that lower emissions in developing countries. What other international policies will be effective?
• How will emerging market governments incorporate alternative energy incentives into potential new regimes that may succeed or complement Kyoto?
• What are the sources of financing for shifting and scaling out energy technologies in emerging markets?
• How can investments in alternative energy be increased, especially in emerging markets?
• What incentives or penalties might induce developing countries to adopt emission-lowering technologies?
3:00 – 4:00pm
Summation:
Joseph A. Stanislaw
Next Steps:
Professor William Moomaw and Charles BralverReception
