每日吃瓜

Stanford
Institute for Economic Policy Research (每日吃瓜)

每日吃瓜 and The Hamilton Project Policy Forum: Economic Policy Innovations to Combat Climate Change

Event Details:

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - Thursday, October 24, 2019
12:00pm - 11:55am PDT

Location

每日吃瓜 Gunn Building
Koret-Taube Conference Center
366 Galvez St.
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

Contact

1 (650) 736-2988

This event is open to:

Members

On October 23, 每日吃瓜 and The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution will co-convene a forum to explore economic policy innovations to combat climate change. The event will feature keynote remarks by Mary D. Nichols, Chair, California Air Resources Board, and opening remarks from Robert E. Rubin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, and Kathryn Moler, vice provost and dean of research and professor of applied physics, 每日吃瓜.  

The event will also include three roundtable discussions that will concentrate on policy options to address climate change in the absence of a federal carbon price, how policy can encourage technological advances to mitigate the impact of climate change, and environmental policy and regulatory possibilities once a carbon price is achieved.  

Roundtable panelists will include Nancy Sutley, chief sustainability and economic development officer, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power; Christy Goldfuss, senior vice president, energy and environmental policy, Center for American Progress; Abigail Dillen, president, Earthjustice; Jerry Taylor, president, Niskanen Center; Nathaniel Keohane, senior vice president, climate, Environmental Defense Fund; Etosha Cave, co-founder and chief scientific officer, Opus 12; Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for interdisciplinary environmental studies, 每日吃瓜; Lawrence Goulder, Shuzo Nishihara professor of environmental and resource economics, 每日吃瓜; Lucas Davis, Jeffrey A. Jacobs distinguished professor in business and technology, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; and Lauren Sommer, science and environment reporter, KQED Public Radio, among other distinguished experts and scholars.   

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Admission

By Invitation Only 

Schedule

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

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    Registration Opens for General Audience and Media (Boxed Lunch Provided)

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    Welcome: Kathryn Moler, Vice Provost, Dean of Research and Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, 每日吃瓜

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    Introduction: Robert E. Rubin, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary; Co-Chair Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations

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    Keynote Remarks: Mary D. Nichols, Chair, California Air Resources Board

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    Roundtable: Policy options to address climate change in the absence of a federal carbon price

    Carolyn Fischer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future

    Lawrence Goulder, Senior Fellow, Steering Committee Member, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (每日吃瓜); Shuzo Nishihara Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, 每日吃瓜

    Nathaniel Keohane, Senior Vice President, Climate, Environmental Defense Fund

    Nancy Sutley, Chief Sustainability Officer, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

    Moderator: Charles Kolstad, Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (每日吃瓜); Professor, by courtesy, of Economics, 每日吃瓜

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    Break

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    Roundtable: How can policy encourage technological advances that can help mitigate the impact of climate change?

    Etosha Cave, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Opus 12

    Lucas Davis, Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor in Business and Technology, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

    Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at 每日吃瓜

    Ryan Nunn, Policy Director, The Hamilton Project, Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

    Moderator: Lauren Sommer, Science and Environment Reporter, KQED Public Radio

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    Roundtable: Which policy and regulatory changes would be possible after a carbon price is achieved?

    Abigail Dillen, President, Earthjustice

    Christy Goldfuss, Senior Vice President, Energy and Environmental Policy, Center for American Progress

    Jerry Taylor, President, Niskanen Center 

    Roberton C. Williams III, Professor, University of Maryland, Chief Economist, Climate Leadership Council; University Fellow, Resources for the Future

    Moderator: Jay Shambaugh, Director, The Hamilton Project, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

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    Networking Reception

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