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Assessing Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Summary of a Workshop
A Workshop Agenda
October 2-3, 2008
Embassy Suites Hotel, Capital Room A
900 10th St NW, Washington, D.C.
Workshop objective: Identify decisionmaking needs, capabilities, and opportunities for advancing thecapacity for economic analysis of climate policies, including guiding future investments in the U.S.federal R&D portfolio.
OCTOBER 2, 2009
8:30 am
Welcoming Remarks and Goals of the Workshop
Richard Newell, Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, Duke University
Robert Marlay, Deputy Director, Office of Climate Change Policy and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy
Panelists from Government and the Policy Community
This panel will identify the range of specific informational needs and questions regardingthe design, impacts, and outcomes of climate change policies and related energy policiesthat are being asked, or are likely to be asked in the future, by policymakers.
Bob Shackleton, Congressional Budget Office
Howard Gruenspecht, Energy Information Administration
Francisco de la Chesnaye, Electric Power Research Institute
Nat Keohane, Environmental Defense Fund
Tim Profeta, Duke University
10:10 am
Broader Group Reactions, Questions, and Discussion
Session II: Modeling and Other Analytic Approaches (Marilyn Brown)
11:00 am
This panel will present many of the existing modeling and other analytic approachescurrently being used to meet the type of informational needs explored in Session I. Rather
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Assessing Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Summary of a Workshop
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Workshop Agenda
October 2-3, 2008
Embassy Suites Hotel, Capital Room A
900 10th St NW, Washington, D.C.
Workshop objective: Identify decisionmaking needs, capabilities, and opportunities for advancing the capacity for economic analysis of climate policies, including guiding future investments in the U.S. federal R&D portfolio.
OCTOBER 2, 2009
8:30 am
Welcoming Remarks and Goals of the Workshop
Richard Newell, Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, Duke University
Robert Marlay, Deputy Director, Office of Climate Change Policy and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy
Session I:
Policymakers’ Informational Needs (Richard Newell)
9:00 am
Panelists from Government and the Policy Community
This panel will identify the range of specific informational needs and questions regarding the design, impacts, and outcomes of climate change policies and related energy policies that are being asked, or are likely to be asked in the future, by policymakers.
Bob Shackleton, Congressional Budget Office
Howard Gruenspecht, Energy Information Administration
Francisco de la Chesnaye, Electric Power Research Institute
Nat Keohane, Environmental Defense Fund
Tim Profeta, Duke University
10:10 am
Broader Group Reactions, Questions, and Discussion
Session II:
Modeling and Other Analytic Approaches (Marilyn Brown)
11:00 am
This panel will present many of the existing modeling and other analytic approaches currently being used to meet the type of informational needs explored in Session I. Rather
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than focusing on specific modeling results, panelists will present the capabilities and high-level structure of specific types of models/analytic approaches, advantages/disadvantages relative to other approaches, how decisionmakers are using these tools, whether/how the approaches incorporate uncertainty, and other related issues.
John Conti, Energy Information Administration
Dick Goettle, Northeastern University
Leon Clarke, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Questions from Audience
Martin Ross, RTI International
John Reilly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jean-Marc Burniaux, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Questions from Audience
Tom Kram, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future
Peter Evans, GE Energy
Questions from Audience
2:10 pm
Broader Group Reactions, Questions, and Discussion
Session III:
Economics of GHG Mitigation and Climate Change (Richard Newell)
3:00 pm
Economic Modeling and Policy for Global Warming
William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University
3:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Critical Assumptions, Advantages, and Limitations
This panel will explore the state of the economics of climate change, and the role of economic analyses in climate policy decisionmaking. Panelists will discuss key modeling assumptions, advantages, and limitations, potential impacts to the U.S. and world economies, approaches for estimating benefits and costs of mitigation, and the intertemporal and distributional equity issues associated with climate change and mitigation.
John Weyant, Stanford University
Joel Smith, Stratus Consulting Inc.
Richard Bradley, International Energy Agency
Dimitri Zenghelis, London School of Economics
William Cline, Peterson Institute for International Economics
4:30 pm
Broader group reactions, questions, and discussion
5:30 pm
Closing Comments and Charge for Day Two
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OCTOBER 3, 2008
8:30 am
Summary of Day One
Session IV:
Enhancing Analytical Capabilities to Inform Policy (John Weyant)
8:40 am
This panel will take stock of the current suite of modeling/analytical approaches for responding to policymaking informational needs. Panelists will explore how existing models and analytic approaches could be enhanced, specific areas that might deserve more focus (e.g., uncertainty, technology policy, risk, international analyses, interactions with other policy goals), new approaches worthy of further development, and opportunities for government agencies and other institutions to enhance their policy-analytic capabilities.
Brian Murray, Duke University
Ray Kopp, Resources for the Future
Ed Rubin, Carnegie Mellon University
Bryan Hubbell, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Skip Laitner, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
Nebojsa Nakicenovic, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
David Montgomery, CRA International
10:20 am
Broader Group Reactions, Questions, and Discussion
12:00 pm
Summary and Wrap-up
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