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How Can China and the US Work Together to Address Climate Change?
- September 25, 2008: 10:00am - 12:30pm
- Location: Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley campus
No topics have risen more quickly in recent years than procuring green energy alternatives and combating climate change. Several international studies show that China has surged past the U.S.
to become the world's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. According to a recent study by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, China accounted for 55 percent of the total increase in the world's greenhouse gas emissions between 2000 and 2006. How
can China and the United States work together to stop global climate
change? What United States policies will have the greatest impact in helping China go green? What can the new U.S. president do to help China become more energy efficient? The environmental and political consequences of China's tremendous growth are profound. If China does not succeed in greening its economy and cleaning its skies, negotiations for a new climate change treaty will have little chance of success. A solution to the problem of greenhouse gas emissions depends on both China and the U.S. and it is essential that the two countries do this cooperatively.
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) will hold a symposium on the relationship between US and China, focused on reducing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. Mark Levine, the director of the China Energy Group, will join Jiang Lin of the Energy Foundation, David Fridley of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Tom Gold formerly of the Berkeley China Initiative, and Professor He Jiankun of Tsinghua University in China for a panel discussion moderated by Robert Collier. At this symposium the FAS will also present its Public Service Award to Mark Levine, Senior Scientist, China Energy Group Leader at LBNL, for his extraordinary contributions to energy efficiency research and his work helping China build a strong set of energy efficiency policies.
The Federation of American Scientists is a progressive, non-partisan, policy institute providing decision-makers and the public with analyses and research in international security, learning and housing technologies. Sixty-nine Nobel Laureates serve on our board of sponsors.
FAS Press Release for this event.
PROGRAM DRAFT:
10:00 AM
Welcome
Beth Burnside –Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley
Overview of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Henry Kelly – President of the FAS
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Presentation of Service Award
Art Rosenfeld – Commissioner of the California Energy Commission
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Mark Levine – Leader of the China Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
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11:00 AM – 12:30PM
Symposium: How Can China and the U.S. Work Together to Address Climate Change?
· Mark Levine –past Director of the Environment Energy
Technologies Division, and Senior Scientist, China
Energy Group Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
· Jiang Lin – Energy Foundation
· David Fridley –Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
· Tom Gold – Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and former Leader of the Berkeley China Initiative
· He Jiankun – Professor and Executive Vice President, Tsinghua University
· Robert Collier – visiting scholar at the Center for Environmental Public Policy at UC Berkeley
Dr. Levine received his Ph.D. in chemistry from UC Berkeley. He was a Fulbright scholar in Germany. Before joining LBNL in 1978, he was a staff scientist at the Ford Foundation Energy Project in Washington, D.C., and a senior energy policy analyst at SRI, International in Menlo Park.
Dr. Levine has extensive international energy experience. He is a leader of global energy demand studies for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and has expertise in energy modeling, appliance energy efficiency policy, and other aspects of energy efficiency and climate change policy analysis. He sits on the boards of several energy policy organizations, including the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Center for Clean Air Policy.
