Federal Climate Policy: Design Principles & Remaining Needs

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Preliminary Agenda

(as of 11/06/07)

Speakers

• Joe Aldy

• Vicki Arroyo

• Paul Baer

• Scott Barrett

• Bruce Braine

• Bill Chameides

• Richard Cooper

• Herman E. Daly

• Mark MacLeod

• Gilbert E. Metcalf

• Chris Miller

• Richard Morgenstern

• Rafe Pomerance

• Brent Yacobucci

7:30 – 8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 8:15 am

Introduction and Overview
Paul Higgins, American Meteorological Society

8:15 – 8:45 am

Joe Aldy, Resources For the Future (Designing a Domestic Carbon Fee)

8:45 – 9:45 am

Panel: obstacles facing emission fees

Mark MacLeod, Environmental Defense

Vicki Arroyo, Pew Center for Global Climate Change

Rafe Pomerance, The Climate Policy Center

9:45 - 10:15 am

Bruce Braine, American Electric Power Service (Impacts of Emission Taxes on the Electricity Sector)

10:15 – 10:30 am

Break

10:30 – 11:00 am

Bill Chameides, Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University

11:00 – 11:30 am

Scott Barrett, Johns Hopkins University

11:30 – 12:00 pm

Richard Morgenstern, Resources for the Future (Competitiveness Effects of Pricing CO2: Impacts on Manufacturing and Policy Options)

12:00 – 1:15 pm

Lunch, Keynote address: Herman E. Daly, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, (Climate Policy: From Know How to Do Now)

1:15 – 1:45 pm

Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University (Distributional Considerations with Carbon Fees)

1:45 – 2:15 pm

Richard Cooper, Harvard University (International Cooperation: the Case for an Emissions Tax)

2:15 – 2:45 pm

Paul Baer, EcoEquity (Progressive carbon fees and the US's international obligations)

2:45 – 3:15 pm

Break

3:15 – 3:45 pm

Brent Yaccobucci, Congressional Research Service (Legislative Proposals and Congressional Action on Climate Change and Emissions Fees)

3:45 – 4:15 pm 

Chris Miller, Congressional Staffer, Office of Harry Reid (Outlook on Congressional/Federal action on carbon emissions reduction policies – fees, caps, regulations and other options)

4:15 – 5:00 pm

Panel discussion on design principles and remaining needs

Joe Aldy

Gilbert Metcalf

5:00 – 5:15 pm

Summary and wrap up

Paul Higgins, AMS Policy Program

5:15 – 7:00 pm

Wine and Cheese Reception

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