ECN: ECN-IVM Symposium
International Energy and Climate Policy - ECN-IVM Symposium
Technology: the key to a Copenhagen agreement?
On 18 September ECN and IVM have jointly organised a symposium on technology in the international climate regime. The symposium brought together academics, negotiators and politicians with the aim of information exchange and mutual learning through an open dialogue. The symposium took place in the Vondelkerk in Amsterdam.
A report of the symposium by Frans Berkhout and Heleen de Coninck is now available here.
Programme
(links to slides available by clicking on the title)
10:00-10:30 | Reception with coffee and tea | |
Academic views on technology and international climate policy (chair: Hoff) | ||
10:30-10:40 | Welcome by the chairs | Prof. Frans Berkhout (IVM) Dr. Ton Hoff (ECN) |
10:40-11:15 | Heleen de Coninck (ECN) | |
11:15-11:45 | Prof. Robert Socolow (Princeton University) | |
11:45-12:15 | Prof. Thomas Brewer (Georgetown University / Climate Strategies) | |
12:15-12:30 | Summarising remarks | Dr. Ton Hoff (ECN) |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
Focus on the Copenhagen negotiations (Chair: Berkhout) | ||
13:30-14:00 | Lucy Naydenova (EU issue leader for technology in the Copenhagen negotiations) | |
14:00-14:30 | Dr. Bert Metz (European Climate Foundation) | |
14:30-15:00 | When is Copenhagen a success? | Prof. Ruud Lubbers |
15:00-15:30 | Coffee & tea | |
15:30-17:00 | Panel discussion | Bas Eickhout (GroenLinks, European Parliament) Lucy Naydenova (EU issue leader for technology in the Copenhagen negotiations) David Hone (Shell) Prof. Robert Socolow (Princeton University) Andrew Higham (UNFCCC) Prof. Ruud Lubbers |
17:00-18:00 | Reception | |
This symposium is organised on the occasion of the defence of Heleen de Coninck’s PhD thesis, entitled “Technology rules! Can technology-oriented agreements help address climate change?” on September 17th, 2009, at 13:45h at the VU University Amsterdam.
