Hill Heat

Witnesses

• Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense
• The Honorable Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• Ron Sims, King County Executive, State of Washington
• Kevin Book, Senior Analyst and Vice President, Friedman Billings Ramsey & Company, Inc.
• Christopher Berendt, Director, Environmental Markets and Policy, Pace

Kevin Book is a pro-nuclear energy analyst. Chris Berendt ([email protected]) advises companies how to incorporate emissions management into their business.

House Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee (Chairman Markey, D-Mass.) will hold a hearing the hear state governors discuss the low-carbon energy future

Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee (Chairman McCarthy, D-N.Y.) of House Education and Labor Committee will hold a hearing on the future of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).

Sen. Kerry presiding.

Witnesses Panel 1

• Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs, Department of State
• Dan Reifsnyder

Panel 2

• Timothy Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation
• Dr. Richard Sandor, Chairman and CEO, Chicago Climate Exchange
• Dr. Jonathan Pershing, Director, Climate, Energy, and Pollution Program, World Resources Institute

2:40 Kerry The 95-0 vote against the Kyoto treaty was not meant as a rejection of action on climate change.

2:45 Lugar It is critical that the international dialogue on climate change move beyond the disputes of the Kyoto protocols.

2:48 Dobriansky Climate change is a serious problem and humans are contributing to it. We are committed to doing our part. At Bali we will work to launch a new phase in climate diplomacy. The US is committed to concluding this effort by 2009. I recently met with key heads in Bogor, Indonesia. There are four key factors: mitigation, adaptation, finance, and technology. We enter the Bali meeting with an open mind. Our deliberations will be guided by two considerations: environmentally effective and economically sustainable.

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3:46 Reifsnyder The threat of sanctions and tariffs is not popular.

The second full committee hearing on Lieberman-Warner.

Witnesses

• David Hawkins, Director, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council
• Dr. David Greene, Corporate Fellow, Geography and Environmental Engineering, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Robert Baugh, Executive Director, Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO
• Andrew Sharkey, President and CEO, American Iron and Steel Institute
• Donald R. Rowlett, Director of Regulatory Policy and Compliance, OGE Energy Corp.

The events in the Science and Society: Grand Challenges series will be held every Monday night in November from 6pm to 7:30pm in the AAAS Auditorium at 1200 New York Avenue. A reception will start at 5pm.

November 12th’s discussion will be about “Meeting the Global Energy Demand”

Speakers

• John Holdren, Director of the Science, Technology & Public Policy Program at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government
• Lori Ryerkerk, General Manager of Government Relations at the ExxonMobil Corporation.

The first discussion was on “Climate Change”, and future discussions will be on “Managing a Pandemic” and “Containing the Spread of WMDs” and will feature experts from the White House, and the Center for American Progress.

RSVP.