Climate Change Institute to Engage State Legislatures

Conference
November 29 - December 1, 2006
Wingspread Conference Center
33 East Four Mile Road
Racine, Wisconsin 53402

From November 29 to December 1, 2006, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, in collaboration with the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Johnson Foundation, hosted a climate change institute for state legislators. The conference covered many issues including understanding climate change science, the status of relevant technologies, and how other levels of government and various states across the country are responding to climate change. The conference offered attendees a chance to meet experts in fields related to climate change as well as colleagues who are considering climate change issues throughout the nation.

Presentations

November 29, 2006

Dinner Keynote Speaker

• An Alaskan Perspective on Climate Change - Reggie Joule, State Representative, Alaska

November 30, 2006

Climate Change 101

• Jerry Mahlman, Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Society and the Environment and the National Center of Atmospheric Research

Technology Update

• M. Granger Morgan, Professor and Department Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University (pdf [1])
• Patrick Hughes, Building Technologies Integration Manager, Engineering Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (pdf [2])
• Sally Benson, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (pdf [3])
• Keith Paustian, Professor of Soil and Crop Sciences, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University (pdf [4])
• David Greene, Corporate Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (pdf [5])

Business Perspectives

• Lewis L. Falbo, Director, Worldwide Safetey, Health, and Environmental Operations, S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (pdf [6])
• Barbara J. Swan, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Alliant Energy (pdf [7])

Keynote Speaker

• A Wisconsin Perspective on Climate Change - Robert W. Wirch, State Senator, Wisconsin

December 1st, 2006

What Are Other Countries Doing?

• Elliot Diringer, Director of International Strategies, Pew Center on Global Climate Change (pdf [8])
• James Reilly, Senior Energy and Environment Advisor, British Embassy (pdf [9])

What Are Local Governments Doing?

• Julie Rosenberg, State and Local Capacity Branch, United States Environmental Protection Agency (pdf [10])

Next Steps for States

• Judi Greenwald, Director of Innovative Solutions, Pew Center on Global Climate Change (pdf [11])
• Paul Pinsky, State Senator, Maryland