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Montreal Strategic Climate Change
Workshop on Sub-National Strategies for Clean Energy Investment,
Technology Deployment
and Innovation, October 3-5, 2005 --> Click HERE for meeting
presentations.
This workshop, hosted by Clean
Energy Group and the
Heinrich Böll Foundation, will continue the dialogue
and cooperation started at Renewables
2004 in Germany and
will provide substantive
input prior to Canada’s focus on sub-national activities
on climate change at COP-11/MOP-1. Thus States, Provinces
and Länder continue to take the lead in shaping the
new clean energy economy of the 21st Century.
The goals for this sub-national workshop would be as follows:
• To build on the dialogue and commitments made at Renewables
2004 to expand the international network of sub-national
clean energy funders;
• To discuss clean energy investment strategies and the potential
for state-level partnerships to take joint action
against climate change through investing in renewable energy
technologies;
• To consider long-term technology and innovation approaches
to climate change mitigation; and,
• To provide the outcomes of this workshop as input to sub-national
activities at COP-11/ MOP-1.
The seminar will be highly participatory with concise impact
statements in each session followed by moderated interactive
expert discussions. A draft white paper, "A
Possible Turning Point for Climate Change Solutions: How
Innovations
in Investment, Technology and Policy Are Needed for Emissions
Stabilization," prepared by Lewis Milford and Allison
Schumacher of Clean Energy Group, provides a springboard
for discussion. We expect to update this white paper to include
the workshop
outcomes.
 Meeting
Agenda
Invited
Participants List
References and Further Reading
Barrett, S. (2005), “Kyoto
Plus,” in D. Helm
(ed.), Climate Change Policy, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, ch. 13, pp. 282-303.
Benedick, R. (2001), “Striking
a New Deal on Climate Change,” Issues in Science and Technology, Fall,
pp. 71-76.
Brooks, C., Milford, L. and Schumacher, A. (2004), “Global
Clean Energy Markets: The Strategic Role of Public Investment
and Innovation,” a report from Clean Energy Group.
Buchner, B. and Carraro, C. (2004), “Economic and
Environmental Effectiveness of a Technology-Based Climate
Protocol,” Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Working
Paper, Milan.
European Environment Agency (2005), “Climate
Change and a European Low-Carbon Energy System,” EEA Report
Number 1/2005, Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications
of the European Communities.
G8 Presidency (2005), “Gleneagles Plan of Action:
Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development,” obtained
from http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page7882.asp.
Hargadon, A. (2004), “Clean
Energy and Fuel Cells: Implications for Innovation Strategies
from Historic Technology
Transitions,” a report from the Public Fuel Cell
Alliance, Clean Energy States Alliance.
House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs (2005),
Second Report of Session 2005-06, “The
Economics of Climate Change,” London, The Stationery Office
Limited.
Pacala, S. and Socolow, R. (2004), “Stabilization
Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years
With Current Technologies,” Science, Volume 305,
pp. 968-972.
Pershing, J. and Bradley, R. (2005), “A
Climate Solution Concept,” Center for American Progress, Washington,
DC.
Schelling, T. (1997), “The Cost of Combating Global
Warming: Facing the Tradeoffs,” Foreign Affairs,
Volume 76, Number 6, pp. 8-14.
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
(2005), Economic
Instruments for Long-term Reductions in Energy-based Carbon
Emissions, Ottawa, Canada.
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