美国联邦政府的气候变化政策：历史，目前状况与将来的道

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“美国联邦政府的气候变化政策：历史，目前状况与将来的道路“
“U.S. Federal Climate Policy: Where are we, how did we get here, and where are we going?”

演讲人：
A presentation by

Josh Bushinsky
JD Candidate
University of Chicago School of Law

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009, 8:00 pm
Show up at 7:30pm for drinks; the discussion starts promptly at 8:45pm.

The Blue Frog bar 蓝蛙 at
Sanlitun Village 三里屯 Village
4-3-1 * 3rd Floor, S4 Tower, South District of the Building * North
Sanlitun, New Sanlitun * Chaoyang District
北京市朝阳区三里屯路19号院4号楼3楼 * 4－3－1

With the first successful vote on a comprehensive federal climate bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, 60 Democratic votes in the Senate, and  Copenhagen months away, the moment seems ripe for the passage of a U.S. climate bill.  This presentation will cover the elements of the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House of Representatives, its strengths and weaknesses, and the prospects of a bill landing on the President’s desk this year.  It will also describe some of the implications for U.S.-China and international climate negotiations.

About the speaker (演讲人简介):

Josh Bushinsky is a law student at the University of Chicago and is working this summer at the Beijing office of the Natural Resources Defense Council.  Prior to law school he worked for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Washington D.C. and in Sacramento, CA.  He has served on loan as a policy advisor to the California Air Resources Board Office of Climate Change and was staff lead to the California EPA’s Market Advisory Committee.  At the Pew Center, Josh worked on the design of the Northeastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Western Climate Initiative, and other U.S. state climate and energy
policies.  Josh holds a B.S. and M.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

Previous Events:

2009

July 8: “大脚’ 革命：可持续未来的城市规划与景观建筑 (The Big Foot Revolution: Urban Design and Landscape Architecture for a Sustainable Future)” by Dr. Yu Kongjian, professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Peking University.

June 17: “排放指标交易在中国：一种“跨越”的做法? (Emissions Trading in China: A ‘Leapfrog’ Approach?)” by Roger Raufer, Professional Engineer, Consultant, United Nations Division for Sustainable Development; Lecturer, Environmental Policy, University of Pennsylvania.  In his presentation, Roger proposes a very different type of emissions trading program for China that has component parts that address near-term public health concerns; non-compliance problems; and an emissions market structure, designed with China’s unique environmental needs in mind.  Such an approach would ‘leapfrog’ over existing systems used in the U.S. and Europe.  It would also lay the groundwork for the eventual pricing of CO2 and other greenhouse gases within the country.  Based on presenter’s article, abstract here.

June 3: “中国的危废去哪儿了? 一次基于流言的调查 (Where does China’s Toxic Waste Really go? Following the Rumors with an Investigative Reporter)” by 邹曦 (Zou Xi), 北京科技报记者 (Journalist, Beijing Science and Technology Report).  Zou Xi told the story of how she and her colleagues started an investigation following the trail of Beijing’s toxic waste, and what this trail has shown them about the state of environmental enforcement in China.  Based on this article by the presenter.

May 20: “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Local and Regional Environmental Governance in China” by Scott Moore, Fulbright Scholar at Peking University.  A common refrain is that many of China’s environmental ills result from poor local enforcement and implementation of the country’s environmental regulations and policies. In his presentation Scott discussed at one attempt to strengthen central control of environmental enforcement, the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s Regional Supervision Centers (区域督查中心), and argued that China should give regional authorities more authority to make and implement policy, rather than less.

May 5: “避免高排社会：中国能否实现低二氧化碳排放的发展道路 (Averting Carbon Lock-in: Can China Still Undertake a Low Carbon Development Path?)” by Dr. Tao Wang, Core Research Fellow, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; Research Fellow, Sussex Energy Group, SPRU, University of Sussex.  Dr. Wang discussed his research on accounting for emissions in China’s international trade, along with the promise of China undertaking a low carbon development strategy, including the findings of the just released Tyndall Center report “China’s Energy Transition: Pathways for Low Carbon Development” which was presented in Beijing during his trip.

Arpil 22:”见证谈判：一个观察员对气候变化谈判的看法 (At the Negotiating Table: An Observer’s View of the Global Climate Negotiations)” by Claire Stockwell
Gordon Global Fellow and International Climate Change Negotiation Observer, Treaty Law Consultant and Adviser to Greenpeace International.  Claire provided a short description of the history of the global climate negotiations, following the current round of talk’s progression from the beginnings in Montreal, through to the breakthrough in Bali last year. She then provided a re-cap of her recent trip to the Bonn round of talks, and some views of how the next eight months will play out looking ahead to Copenhagen.

April 8: “1.5亿多辆：控制中国汽车对环境影响的挑战 (150 Million and Counting: Challenges of Controlling the Environmental Impacts of China’s Motor Vehicles)” by David Vance Wagner, International Policy Adviser, Vehicle Emissions Control Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection, People’s Republic of China.  Presentation slides on David’s blog available here.

March 19: “”劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室中国能源部门：推进中美能源效率合作” (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s China Energy Group: Innovation
in US-China Cooperation on Energy Efficiency), by Lynn Price and Zhou Nan, both of LBNL.  See this post on a backgrounder on the Top-1000 program in which LBNL played a key role in creating.

March 4: “风冷却因素：讨论中国风电发展面对的挑战与机会 (Wind Chill Factors: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Wind Energy in China),” panel discussion by Andrew Hilton (Vestas - Director of Strategic Communications and Branding), Pan Weiping (Garrad Hassan - China Country Manager and Business Development), James Liang (AES Corporation - Wind Energy Business Development Manager)

Feb 17: “美国能源部在中国：一个充满着变化与希望的时代 (U.S. Department of Energy in China: A time of Transition and Hope)” by Dr. Marco Di Capua, Executive Director of the U.S. Department of Energy China Office, and U.S. Embassy in Beijing

Jan 21: “”中国的水资源：保障可持续发展的未来” “(China’s Water Resources: Ensuring a Sustainable Future) by Christine Boyle–”Understanding Northern China’s Water Crisis” (presentation materials available here) and Yusha Hu–”Water Quality and Urban Wastewater Management in China” (presentation materials available here).

Jan 14: “柿子检软的吃：提高中国终端用户的用电效率 (Picking The Low Hanging Fruit: Promoting End Use Energy Efficiency in China) by Dr. Li Yuqi, Director & Chief Engineer of the Demand Side Management (DSM) Technical Center, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Beijing.

2008

Dec 17: “中国的绿色建筑设计–发展整个系统的方法” (Green Building Design in China: Developing Whole Systems Approaches)” by Geoff Lewis, Fulbright Scholar at Tsinghua University and author of China Green Buildings blog.  Presentation slides available here.

Dec 10: “Solar’s Supply Chain Advantage” by Julian Wong and “China’s Solar Photovoltaic Policy and the Road Ahead” by Julia Wu, solar analyst at New Energy Finance.  Julian’s publication available here; Julia’s presentation slides available here.

Nov 19:  “China Carbon Perspectives” with Ian McInnes, Head of AED China Climate Solutions (speaking on Ventilation Air Methane) and Sustainable John Romankiewicz, analyst at New Carbon Finance (giving an overview of China’s carbon markets); “Building a Smart Grid” by ML Chan, Executive Director of JUCCCE Smart Grid Initiative.

Oct 29: “International Collaboration in Low Carbon Innovation” by Dr. David Tyfield, Lancaster University.  Full transcript available here.

Oct 22: “Debunking the Myths of China’s Coal Industry” by Julian Wong.  Background material available here.

Oct 9: “Rural Biogas Stoves” by Jimmy Tran, China Association for Rural Energy Industries (CAREI) and PhD candidate at University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources.