Decoding Copenhagen - November 20, 2009
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Nov 20, 2009
from 08:00 AM to 09:30 AM |
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| Where | swissnex boston, 420 broadway, Cambridge |
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Decoding Copenhagen
In December 2009 the parties of the United Nations Climate Change Conference will meet in Copenhagen in order to discuss the post-Kyoto era and the climate change mitigation beyond 2012. What is really at stake in Copenhagen? What is the position of the USA, emerging countries like China and India, and Switzerland? Can we except concrete outcomes from such a large gathering? Our two speakers will help us better understand the implications of the conference and answer your personal questions.
Speakers
Martin Beniston is a full professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He holds the Chair for climate research and is the Director of the Institute for Environmental Sciences. He has studied environmental science at the University of East Anglia, UK, atmospheric physics at Reading University in the UK, and received his PhD in Paris in 1978. He has worked in a number of research institutes in France, Germany, and Switzerland, and was one of the vice-chairs of a climate impacts working group during the IPCC second assessment report process. He was appointed professor and head of the Geography Department of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 1996, before moving on to his most recent position in Geneva in October, 2006.
Jürgen Weiss heads the climate/carbon practice at the Brattle Group. He specializes in climate change and carbon market analyses, renewable energy, and electric utility economics. He has significant experience in the development and application of economic and financial models to analyze the impact of proposed rules and regulation on business practices, cash flows, incentives, and the value of power assets and related contracts. His consulting and expert testimony experience has focused on climate change policy implications for utilities and energy-intensive industries. He advises clients on changes in the value of existing assets, transmission flow patterns and capacity adequacy, integration of renewables, market design and performance analysis, and efficient retail incentives and rate design. Prior to joining The Brattle Group, Dr. Weiss was a co-founder and managing director of Watermark Economics. In addition, he was previously the managing director of Point Carbon's global advisory practice and a director at LECG. Dr. Weiss holds a PhD in business economics from Harvard University.
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This event will take place
on Friday November 20th, 8:00am - 9:30am
at swissnex Boston, Consulate of Switzerland,
420 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
Participation is free and a breakfast will be provided, but you will be required to sign up for this event. The amount of seats is limited.
Please send us in advance the questions you want to ask to the speakers.
For more information and to RSVP
kindly contact Caroline
