General Sustainability Announcements

We are pleased to announce a conference: Cap and Trade as a Tool for Climate Change Policy: Design and Implementation to be held at the University of California at Berkeley on February 22-23, 2007. Please visit our web site at: www.ccelp.berkeley.edu/capandtrade.

This two-day meeting is an ideal setting to learn about the challenges faced by business and government in designing and implementing emissions trading for greenhouse gases, the state of the underlying science and the anticipated costs of action or non-action. International practitioners and experts on law, economics, and technological innovation will debate key issues in using cap and trade programs to control greenhouse gas emissions. Leading climate modellers, litigators, energy industry executives, legislators and government representatives will update and inform the business, finance, legal and policy communities on the directions climate change policy is taking regionally, nationally and internationally.

Date and Location:
February 22-23, 2007
University of California, Berkeley
California, USA

Speakers include:
US Senator Diane Feinstein (invited)
Inez Fung, Professor of Atmospheric Science, co-author: Climate Scientists' Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Massachusetts v. EPA
Fernando Tudela, Under Secretary for Planning and Environmental Policy, Ministry for Environment and Natural Resources of the Government of Mexico
Michael Hanemann, Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, 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 [INVITED]
Manik Roy, Director of Congressional Affairs, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Barry Rabe, Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Diane Wittenberg, President, California Climate Action Registry
Dan Farber, Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley
Ann Carlson, Professor, University of California-Los Angeles School of Law
Ruth Greenspan Bell, Resident Scholar, Resources for the Future
Kyle Danish, Attorney, Van Ness Feldman
Raoul Estrada Oyuela, Chairman, Kyoto Compliance Committee Enforcement Branch [INVITED]
Dane Ratliff, Legal Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration
David Caron, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley
F. William Brownell, Partner, Hunton & Williams
Ken Alex, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Office of California Attorney General
David Doniger, Climate Center Policy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Martin Wagner, Managing Attorney, EarthJustice International Program
David Mowery, Professor of New Enterprise Development, Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley
Bob Epstein, Co-Founder, E2-Environmental Entrepreneurs
Frank Convery, President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and 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
Ken Newcombe, Head of Strategic Development, Carbon Markets, Climate Change Capital [INVITED]

Organizers:
American Society of International Law
Global Commons Project at the California Center for Environmental Law and Policy (School of Law, UC Berkeley)
Center for Environmental Public Policy (Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley)
Berkeley Institute of the Environment (UC Berkeley)

Co-Organizers:
Energy & Resources Group (UC Berkeley)
California Climate Change Center (UC Berkeley)

Conference Information and Registration (including registration fee information):
Conference website: www.ccelp.berkeley.edu/capandtrade
For further information please contact:
Ms. Mary Elliott (melliott@law.berkeley.edu)