Participants:

Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Columnist
The Economist

Sen. Jeff Bingaman
U.S. Senator
State of New Mexico

Rep. Earl Blumenauer
Congressman
State of Oregon

Rep. Ed Markey
Congressman
State of Masachusetts

Greg Nickels
Mayor
City of Seattle

Gov. Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
State of Colorado

Sen. Ken Salazar
U.S. Senator
State of Colorado

Dan Arvizu
Director
National Renewable
Energy Laboratory

Mark Falcone
Principal
Continuum Partners

Van Jones
Founder and President
Green for All

Charles Maxwell
Senior Energy Analyst
Chesapeake Energy
Corporation

Federico Peña
Former Secretary
U.S. Department
of Energy

Carl Pope
Executive Director
Sierra Club

Rhone Resch
President
Solar Energies
Industry Association

Jon Ratner
Director of Sustainability
Forest City Enterprises

Heather Stephenson
Co-Founder
IdealBite

2008 Energy and Climate Change Roundtable

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
8:00 am – 4:00 pm

Space Theatre
Denver Performing Arts Complex

Session Three: The New Energy Economy

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Facilitator: Vijay Vaitheeswaran

Introduction: The Government's Role in the New Energy Economy
 Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Rep. Ed Markey, Greg Nickels, Gov. Bill Ritter Jr., Sen. Ken Salazar

Topic Expansion: Corporate and Community Initiatives in the New Energy Economy
 Dan Arvizu, Mark Falcone, Van Jones, Charles Maxwell, Federico Peña, Carl Pope, Jon Ratner, Rhone Resch, Heather Stephenson


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Original Overview:

The 2008 Energy and Climate Change Roundtable is designed as three discussions among an array of knowledgeable participants. A moderator will lead each of the three sessions, encouraging dynamic, substantive interchange among the participants, bringing local, state, national and international perspectives to the forefront. Seated in a venue with a capacity for 550 persons, the audience for the Roundtable will include individuals with a particular interest in the subject of energy and climate change.

Roundtable Focus

State and local leadership have largely led the way in implementing on-the-ground solutions to address global climate change and to diversify the energy economy. For this reason, the sessions presented below will focus on innovative actions at the state and local level in particular, while incorporating the need to build a more effective partnership at the federal level in what is now increasingly an international climate reality.

Session One: The Business of Climate Change

8:00 am to 9:45 am, the Space Theatre

The global challenge of climate change has moved to the top of the boardroom agenda as businesses strive to balance their economic interests while recognizing the global imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A full range of challenges and opportunities facing business leaders will be explored in this session, regarding capitalization, research and development, technology transfer, the policy regime, and the emerging carbon market.

Session Two: Energy in a Carbon Constrained Economy

10:00 am to 11:45 am, the Space Theatre

This roundtable will focus on balancing the benefits of traditional energy resources as a nationally secure base load resource against depleting supplies and the need to reduce greenhouse gases in an increasingly carbon-constrained economy.

Keynote Lunch: Sir Nicholas Stern

12:00 to 1:15 pm
in the Galleria adjacent to the Space Theatre

Session Three: The New Energy Economy

1:30 pm to 3:30 pm, the Space Theatre

This session will explore the rich array of resources in the “modern energy economy” with a focus on fuel resources, technology development, policy barriers and outlooks, energy security, and the capital formation required to achieve this transformation.



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