Hill Heat

Please join the House Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Caucus, Renewable Energy and International Law (REIL) , Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute on September 25th for a roundtable discussion led by national and international policymakers, business representatives, and key stakeholders on issues of global climate and clean energy policy. The discussion will be set in the context of international and business perspectives on the energy and climate bills before the Congress and what can be expected on the global policy front in the coming months.

Panel

• James Cameron, Founder, Climate Change Capital (Moderator)
• Bob Simon, Chief of Staff, Senate Energy Committee
• Suedeen Kelly, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Paul Dawson, Head of Environmental and Regulatory Affairs, Global Commodities, Citi
• Additional business and government leaders

The event is free and open to the public. No RSVP required.

For more information, contact Fred Beck, [email protected] or 202-662-1892.

09/25/2007 at 03:00PM

_Witnesses_

• Dr. Malcolm E. Verdict, Associate Director, Energy Systems Laboratory, Texas Engineering Experiment Station. Texas A&M University
• Mr. Fred Moore, Global Director, Manufacturing and Technology, Dow Chemical Company

09/25/2007 at 02:00PM

Panel 1

• Sigmar Gabriel, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
• Congressman Richard K. Armey PhD, Chairman, FreedomWorks
• Jerome Ringo, President, Apollo Alliance
• Dr. Wayne Winegarden, Partner, Arduin, Laffer & Moore Econometrics
• Carol L. Berrigan, Director, Industry Infrastructure, Nuclear Energy Institute
• Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures

Panel 2

• Daniel Kammen, Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
• Dr. Kenneth Green, Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• David Blittersdorf, Founder, NRG Systems, Inc.
• Mark Culpepper, Vice President of Strategic Marketing, SunEdison
• Donald Gilligan, President, National Association of Energy Service Companies

Submitted Testimony

• Paul Renfrow, Vice President, OGE Energy Corp.
• Dorothy Rothrock, V.P. Government Relations, California Manufacturers & Technology Association

09/25/2007 at 02:00PM

_Witnesses_

• Dr. Robert Bordley, Vehicle Development Research Laboratory, General Motors
• Professor Robert Cialdini, Regents’ Professor of Psychology and Marketing, Arizona State University
• John A. “Skip” Laitner, Visiting Fellow and Senior Economist, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
• Dr. Jerry Ellig, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

09/25/2007 at 10:00AM

Internal e-mails show that Transportation Secretary Mary Peters personally directed a behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign approved by the White House to oppose EPA approval of California’s landmark standards reducing greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.

• Oversight Committee Chair Henry Waxman’s Letter to CEQ Chairman Connaughton
• E-mails Referenced in Letter

09/25/2007 at 10:00AM

09/25/2007 at 09:30AM

09/25/2007 at 09:30AM

Chicago, September 25-26 2007

This two-day event will bring together companies, regulators and other experts to discuss the best solutions for companies looking to mitigate their carbon footprints. Supporters of this event include the City of Chicago DoE, IBM, and MetaFore. Corporate Climate Response also coincides with Chicago’s ‘Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet’ festival.

This is our 5th Corporate Climate Response event and a number of top speakers are participating including representatives from Ford, Time, Anheuser-Busch, IBM, McDonald’s, United Technologies, Catepillar, BP America, Exelon, EPA, Energy Star, WRI and more.

This event includes sessions on carbon footprint and life-cycle analysis, energy efficiency, choosing green power sources, offsetting and emissions trading, climate adaptation, and engaging the public on global warming issues. Attendees will also learn about the latest update in national climate change policy and how upcoming state and federal actions will directly impact US corporations. It will attract over 200 delegates from across the US whose responsibility is to implement climate change solutions for their organizations.

The event is sponsored by Environmental Defense, The Alliance to Save Energy, MetaFore, and the Institute for Sustainable Communication.

09/25/2007 at 12:00AM

09/24/2007 at 03:00PM

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced that he will convene an informal high-level event in New York on the margins of the General Assembly on 24 September to promote discussion on possible ways to move the international community toward negotiations on new global agreement on climate change at the upcoming United Nations climate change conference in Bali in December.

The Secretary-General hopes that world leaders will send a powerful political signal to the negotiations in Bali that “business as usual” will not do and that they are ready to work jointly with others towards a comprehensive multilateral framework for action on climate change for the period after 2012.

The Secretary-General informed Permanent Representatives and Permanent Observers to the United Nations of the event, which will be informal and will seek to reaffirm the importance of addressing climate change in a global forum and provide an opportunity to involve all countries in the multilateral process. The high-level event would not seek to engage Governments in negotiations on the outcomes in Bali nor seek a negotiated outcome.

09/24/2007 at 12:00AM