The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group
III report underscores the urgency for rapid,
deep and sustained cuts to greenhouse gases for the world to have a
chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F). This
seminal report offers new insights on possible pathways for
policymakers, business leaders and others to ramp up their efforts to
tackle the climate crisis at the scale and urgency required.
Join World Resources Institute experts and
IPCC authors on April
12
for an overview of the IPCC report and learn
about the transformative actions across sectors (including energy,
transportation, food, forests and much more) needed to curb greenhouse
gas emissions and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
This event will be hosted in English with simultaneous interpretation in
French and Spanish.
Speakers
Chukwumerije Okereke, Director, Centre for Climate Change and
Development, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Nigeria;
IPCC Coordinating Lead Author
Taryn Fransen, Senior Fellow, Climate, World Resources Institute
Craig Hanson, Vice President for Food, Forest, Water & the Ocean,
World Resources Institute
Jennifer Layke, Global Director, Energy, World Resources Institute
Preety Bhandari, Senior Advisor, Global Climate Program and the
Finance Center, World Resources Institute (Moderator);
IPCC Lead Author
On April 9th we will engage in a mass, nonviolent
direct action at the power plant
that burns all of Senator Joe Manchin’s fossil fuel – where he earns
$500,000 per year while killing climate legislation.
Through a large-scale act of civil disobedience that “breaks through”
the noise and the social media clutter, we can not just move one
specific player, but shake the ground on which the game is played. We
can help elevate climate change to the center of the domestic agenda –
and make this crisis impossible for the White House and Congress to
ignore.
We chose the Grant Town Power Plant specifically because we need the
world to know how corrupt Joe Manchin is. He is not some thoughtful,
grandfatherly, moderate. He is raking in $500,000 per year from his coal
company while single-handedly gutting climate legislation. He also
directed his appointees to raise electricity rates on us working-class
West Virginians in order to keep his coal business afloat.
The purpose of the
hearing
is to discuss the scope and scale of critical mineral demand and
recycling of critical minerals.
Witnesses
David Howell, Acting Director and Principal Deputy Director Office of
Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, Director, Vehicle Technologies
Office, U.S. Department of Energy
Joe Britton, Executive Director, Zero Emission Transportation
Association
R. Scott Forney III, President, General
Atomics, Electromagnetic Systems Group
J.B. Straubel, Founder and CEO, Redwood
Materials
Dr. Duncan Robert Wood, Vice President, Strategy & New Initiatives
Sylvia R.
Garcia
(D-Texas), in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s State
and Tribal Assistance Grants Programs
H. Morgan
Griffith
(R-W.V.), in support of the Abandoned Mine Land Economic
Revitalization (AMLER) Program
Aumua Amata Coleman
Radewagen
(D-American Samoa) in support of an increase for the American Samoan
operations account at the Department of Interior Office of Insular
Affairs
Kim
Schrier
(D-Wash.) in support of the State and Volunteer Fire Capacity Programs
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
This
hearing
will explore how investments in energy efficiency can save Americans
money, reduce carbon emissions, and promote energy security.
Witnesses
Paula R. Glover, President, Alliance to Save Energy. Glover leads a
diverse coalition of stakeholders to find lasting, consensus-based
energy efficiency solutions. She has helped the Alliance secure
billions of dollars in federal funding for energy efficiency programs,
amplified its work on energy justice, and worked to advance the next
generation of technologies. Glover previously served as the President
and CEO of the American Association of
Blacks in Energy.
Darnell Johnson, CEO and President, Urban
Efficiency Group (UEG). Johnson leads Illinois’ first native,
minority-owned utility implementation and sustainability design firm.
His work with UEG has assisted thousands of
underserved residents in Northwest Indiana, the greater Chicagoland,
and Milwaukee to reduce their energy burden by delivering energy
efficiency and community sustainability services while working toward
carbon neutrality.
Sara Baldwin, Director of Electrification Policy, Energy Innovation.
Baldwin leads the firm’s electrification policy practice area,
providing research and analysis on the pathways to electrify and
decarbonize buildings, transportation, and industry. Before joining
Energy Innovation, Baldwin served as V.P. of Regulatory for the
Interstate Renewable Energy Council and as a Senior Policy Associate
for Utah Clean Energy.
Dave Schryver, President & CEO, American
Public Gas Association (APGA). Schryver leads
APGA’s work to represent the interests of
America’s publicly owned natural gas local distribution companies
before Congress, federal agencies, and other energy-related
stakeholders. He previously worked for the American Public Power
Association and managed the Government Affairs Department for Colorado
Springs Utilities.
The Kigali
Amendment
aims for the phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by cutting their
production and consumption. Given their zero impact on the depletion of
the ozone layer, HFCs are currently used as replacements of
hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs); however
they are powerful greenhouse gases.
Treaties
Amendments to the Treaty on Fisheries between the Governments of
Certain Pacific Island States and the Government of the United States
of America (Treaty Doc.
115-3)
Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and
the Government of the Republic of Croatia comprising the instrument as
contemplated by Article 3(2) of the Agreement on Extradition between
the United States of America and the European Union, signed June 25,
2003, as to the Application of the Treaty on Extradition signed on
October 25, 1901 (the “U.S.-Croatia Extradition Agreement”), and the
Agreement between the Government of the United States and the
Government of the Republic of Croatia comprising the Instrument as
contemplated by Article 3(3) of the Agreement on Mutual Legal
Assistance between the United States of America and the European Union
signed at Washington on June 25, 2003 (the “U.S.-Croatia Mutual Legal
Assistance Agreement”), both signed at Washington on December 10, 2019
(Treaty Doc.
116-2)
Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the
Ozone Layer (the “Montreal Protocol”), adopted at Kigali on October
15, 2016, by the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal
Protocol (the “Kigali Amendment”) (Treaty Doc.
117-1)
Witnesses
PANEL I
Major General Vaughn Ary (ret.), Director of the Office of
International Affairs, Department of Justice
Richard Visek, Acting Legal Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S.
Department of State
Dr. John Thompson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Bureau
of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S.
Department of State
PANEL II
Jim Sousa, President of the American Tunaboat Association, Director at
GS Fisheries
Stephen Yurek, President and CEO,
Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI)
On April 9th