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An international conference for law, business and policy practitioners
University of California, Berkeley February 22 - 23, 2007
at Boalt Hall School of Law on Bancroft Avenue, Berkeley, CA
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Day 1 – Thursday, February 22
9:00-9:10 - Opening Remarks 
Cymie R. Payne, Director, Global Commons Project & Associate Director California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law , University of California-Berkeley
Blas Pérez Henríquez, Executive Director, Center for Environmental Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy , University of California-Berkeley
Inez Fung, Co-Director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment , University of California-Berkeley
9:10-9:35 - “Reasonable Scientific Certainty”: Sources and process of climate change
A leading climate modeler will launch the meeting by explaining why stoic scientists are worried about climate change and what current scientific research can tell us.
Inez Fung, Co-Director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment presentation -  paper -
9:35-10:30 - Adverse Impacts: Perspectives on the risk of harm to health, property and the environment
Why should we care? These perspectives on the human, environmental and financial costs of climate change suggest the dimensions of the problem.
Moderator: Steve Beissinger, Professor of Conservation Biology, University of California-Berkeley
Michael Hanemann, Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley presentation - paper -
Lin Erda, Agro-Environment and Sustainable Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
11:00-12:30 Frameworks for Market Mechanisms
Expert analysis of what makes carbon markets work, from the standpoint of an internationally recognized government policy specialist working with companies and trade associations, and an economist author of the prestigious Stern Review.
Moderator: Cymie R. Payne, Director, Global Commons Project & Associate Director California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley
Kevin Fay, Executive Director, International Climate Change Partnership
Lorraine Hamid, Senior Economist, Energy markets and policy instruments, HM Treasury; Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change
Hemant Sahai, Principal, Hemant Sahai Associates Advocates, New Delhi
12:30-2:00
Keynote Address:“THREE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT” 
DR. JANE C. S. LONG, Associate Director for Energy and Environment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Introduced by Alex Farrell, Assistant Professor, Energy Resources Group, University of California-Berkeley
2:00-4:00
US Climate Policy – Opportunities and Challenges - A Fresh Start: Where do we go from here?
US national policy on climate change is evolving: this panel will debate where it can, could and might go, and may be willing to predict what policies are most likely to be adopted.
Moderator : Eric Biber, Assistant Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley
Manik Roy, Director of Congressional Affairs, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Daniel Kammen, Co-Director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment
4:30-6:30
State Initiatives: California & Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
The states are developing ambitious climate change policies, for example, California’s Climate Action Registry laid the groundwork for the state’s new Global Warming Solutions law. This panel’s practitioners and scholars will provoke a fresh view of questions like - What political, legal and implementation issues does state action raise? Is the US Constitution a constraint? Do state policies need a federal framework?
Moderator: Christopher Carr, Morrison & Foerster
Stacy VanDeveer, Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire
Diane Wittenberg, President, California Climate Action Registry
Ann Carlson, Professor, University of California-Los Angeles School of Law
Dan Farber, Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley; Faculty Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy
6:30-7:30 Student Poster Session
Day 2 – Friday, February 23
9:00-10:30
Risk and Flexibility
Cap and trade programs require institutional capacity to succeed – none more so than programs that allow trading in overseas projects. Differences in legal regimes, uncertainty about monitoring and enforcement of arrangements, international trading between systems: the speakers on this panel tackle the perils and possibilities of international emissions trading.
Moderator – Nicholas van Aelstyn, Beveridge & Diamond
Jutta Brunnée, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Ruth Greenspan Bell, Resident Scholar, Resources for the Future
Kyle Danish, Attorney, Van Ness Feldman
10:30-11:45 - Parallel Sessions A and B
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Dispute Settlement & Compliance
The Kyoto Protocol emissions reduction program entails agreements between private and public parties, within and across national boundaries. As markets expand, what mechanisms will oversee compliance with commitments and how will disputes be resolved?
Moderator: David Caron, Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley
Charlotte Streck, Director of Climate Focus B.V., Rotterdam
Kenneth Markowitz, President Earthpace LLC.
Anne Joyce, former Senior Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hague
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Technological Innovation and Policy
This session discusses the role of technological innovation and public policy in meeting the challenge of climate change, focusing on the ability of cap and trade programs to foster innovation.
Moderator: John Shinn, Senior Staff Advisor, Global Issues, ChevronTexaco Energy Research Technology Company
Dan Skopec, Undersecretary for the California Environmental Protection Agency
Margaret Taylor, Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley
David Keith, Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment, University of Calgary
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12:30-2:00
Keynote Address: “GLOBAL WARMING: A TIME TO ACT”
U.S. SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Introduced by Christopher Edley, Dean, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley
2:30-4:00 Parallel Sessions C and D
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Climate Change Litigation
Hear the latest on climate change in the courts, from practitioners handling state, national and international litigation.
Moderator: Richard Frank, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley
Ken Alex, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Office of California Attorney General
Shawn Regan, Partner, Hunton & Williams
David Doniger, Climate Center Policy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Martin Wagner, Managing Attorney, EarthJustice International Program |
Industrial Innovation
This session focuses on the process of innovation within firms, and how they are likely to respond to climate change policies.
Moderator : Alex Farrell, Assistant Professor, Energy Resources Group, University of California-Berkeley
David Mowery, Professor of New Enterprise Development, Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley
Bob Epstein, Co-Founder, E2-Environmental Entrepreneurs
Kevin Ball, Director Low Carbon Business Policy, British Petroleum
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4:15-5:45
Looking Past 2012
This panel takes the long view, looking past the first Kyoto Protocol commitment period to the future of climate change policy. Where will cap and trade programs take us?
Moderator – Daniel A. Farber, Boalt Hall School of Law
Frank Convery, President, European Ass’n of Environmental and Resource Economists;
Professor, University College Dublin
David Victor, Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development; Professor, Stanford Law School
David Vogel, Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley
5:45 - Adjourn
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