The international community recently concluded the latest round of
negotiations on an international climate change agreement. Despite
significant hurdles, the negotiators made important progress by managing
expectations and adopting a pragmatic and forward-looking approach.
The CSIS Energy and National Security Program
invites you to a discussion with
- Jonathan Pershing, Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change, U.S.
Department of State
Moderated by
- Sarah O. Ladislaw, Senior Fellow, CSIS
Energy and National Security Program
Mr. Pershing about his views on what was achieved in Cancun and what the
main challenges are going forward.
Registration required. Please send your confirmation to [email protected].
Center for Strategic and International Studies
District of Columbia
01/05/2011 at 01:00PM
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) – News conference The Energy
Information Administration (EIA) holds a news conference to present a
projection of U.S. energy supply, demand and prices to 2035 with the
early release of the reference case projection from the “Annual Energy
Outlook 2011.”
Speaker
- EIA Administrator Richard Newell
The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies, Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW,
Kenney Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Felisa Neuringer Klubes,
202-663-5626, [email protected]; or Jonathan Cogan, 202-586-8719,
[email protected]
Energy Information Administration
District of Columbia
12/16/2010 at 09:30AM
While politics continue to evolve here in America, the challenges
presented by our dependence on oil and fossil fuels, and the increasing
destabilization of the climate continue to persist. General Wesley
Clark, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and an all-star panel will discuss these
ongoing challenges from national, economic and planetary security
perspectives.
Witnesses
- General Wesley K. Clark, US Army (Ret.),
NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe
1997-2000
- Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman of the Waterkeepers Alliance
- Richard L. Kauffman, Chairman of the Board, Levi Strauss & Co.
- Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development,
Environment, and Security
- Kenneth Green, American Enterprise Institute
House Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee
210 Cannon
12/01/2010 at 11:00AM
r. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, will talk about accelerating
innovation to help meet our energy and climate goals at a National Press
Club luncheon on Monday, November 29.
As United States Secretary of Energy, Chu, is charged with helping
implement President Obama’s agenda to invest in clean and renewable
energy, end the nation’s addiction to foreign oil and address the global
climate crisis.
Steven Chu will say that the clean energy successes of China and other
countries represent a “Sputnik Moment” for the United States that
requires the nation to focus its attention on clean-tech innovation.
The energy secretary will call for the nation to ramp up efforts to
develop and deploy the next generation of energy alternatives to ensure
the country is able to compete for what he sees as the jobs of the
future. Chu is also expected to use the opportunity to tout several of
his agency’s ongoing research efforts, including a stimulus-funded
project to develop a cost-competitive plug-in car battery with a
single-charge range of 500 miles or more.
Chu was co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997.
Prior to his appointment, Chu was director of
DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and
professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at the University of
California. Previously, he held positions at Stanford University and
AT&T Bell Laboratories.
The National Press Club luncheon will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m. and
Chu’s remarks will begin at 1:00, followed by a question-and-answer
session.
The National Press Club 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor
Department of Energy
District of Columbia
11/29/2010 at 12:30PM
This
event
will focus on the impacts to communities of rising sea levels along the
coast. An international audience will exchange information about
vulnerability assessments, tools, and methodologies that are being used
by coastal communities to understand and reduce their vulnerability to
natural hazards and to sustain their way of life and the ecosystem
habitats and services on which they depend.
Department of State
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
11/29/2010 at 11:00AM
The 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change begins in Cancun, Mexico.
webcast
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
11/29/2010 at 11:00AM
“Report to the President on Accelerating the Pace of Change in Energy
Technologies Through an Integrated Federal Energy Policy” addresses one
of the greatest challenges facing the United States: how to transform
the Nation’s energy system within one to two decades through leadership
in energy technology innovation—a challenge with great implications for
economic competitiveness, environmental stewardship, and national
security.
Speakers
- John P. Holdren – PCAST Co-chair, Assistant
to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Ernest Moniz and Maxine Savitz, PCAST
members and Co-chairs of the PCAST Energy
Technology Innovation System Working Group
- Robert Simon, Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources
- David Goldston, Director of Government Affairs at the Natural
Resources Defense Council and former Chief of Staff for the House
Committee on Science
Auditorium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
White House
District of Columbia
11/29/2010 at 10:00AM
A panel of scientific experts will participate in a national
teleconference on Thursday, November 17 to discuss the dramatic
developments in climate change during 2010. Reports from leading
scientists, record global temperatures, extreme weather events and
exonerations of scientists, depicted in a timeline linked here, were
largely overshadowed by the BP oil spill and the political debate over
climate and energy legislation.
The discussion will feature leading climate scientists including:
- Michael Mann, Ph.D.just returning from the Arctic. Dr. Mann was
falsely accused of professional misconduct by climate change deniers
and has been completely exonerated by independent panels. He received
his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math from the
University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. degree in Physics from
Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale
University. He was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report, and has
served as chair for the National Academy of Sciences ‘Frontiers of
Science’. He has received the outstanding publication award from
NOAA, and in 2002 was selected as one of the
50 leading visionaries in science and technology by Scientific
American. He is author of more than 120 peer-reviewed and edited
publications, and recently co-authored the book “Dire Predictions:
Understanding Global Warming” with colleague Lee Kump.
- Greg Holland, Ph.D. will be calling in from La Reunion in the South
Indian OceanDr. Holland is the Director of the National Center for
Atmospheric Research and a fellow of the American Meteorological
Society and the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.
He has several areas of research interests including hurricanes and
tropical meteorology, and unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs). His
publications have included major contributions to six textbooks and
forecast manuals, together with over 100 research papers in
atmospheric sciences and UAVs.
- Mark C. Serreze, Ph.D., Director of the National Snow and Ice Data
Center (NSIDC) Serreze,is also a research associate professor at the
University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Fellow of the Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). He studies
Arctic climate, and the causes and global implications of climate
change in the Arctic. Serreze is well known for his research on the
declining sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean. He has has authored more
than 90 scientific publications, including an award-winning textbook,
The Arctic Climate System, which he co-wrote with former
NSIDC director Roger Barry.
To participate in this teleconference call, callers should dial
1.800.434.1335. The conference code is: 529973# Please tell the operator
that you are seeking the “2010 Year in Review” conference call.
Note: This call is for media only, and will include a question and
answer session for journalists.
Project on Climate Science
11/17/2010 at 01:30PM
Witnesses
- Dr. Jeffrey P. Chamberlain, Department Head, Electrochemical Energy
Storage & Energy Storage Major Initiative Leader, Chemical Sciences
and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory
- Martha G. VanGeem, Principal Engineer & Group Manager, Building
Science and Sustainability, CTL Group
- Daniel Cheifetz, Chief Executive Officer, Indie Energy Systems Company
- Michael Lopez, Director of Facility Operations, Bolingbrook High
School
- Joseph Ostafi IV, Regional Leader for the Science and Technology
Division, Group Vice President, HOK
2525 Dirksen Federal Courthouse, 219 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago,
Illinois
House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
11/15/2010 at 10:30AM