Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
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Symposium Presentations:

WEDNESDAY JULY 18

Session 1: Bounding Analyses of Climate Bills using Selected Models

Brian Murray, Nicholas Institute - Session Chair
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Henry Jacoby, MIT Joint Center on MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Assessment of U.S. Cap and Trade Proposals.
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Martin Ross, RTI International.  Assessing Cap-and-Trade Proposals at the Global, National, and Sub-national scales with the ADAGE Model.
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Ronald Sands.  PNNL/U Maryland Joint Global Change Research Institute.  Application of Second Generation Model (SGM) to US Cap and Trade Reference Scenarios.  
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Session 2:  Federal Agency Modeling and Analysis

Francisco de la Chesnaye, US Environmental Protection Agency. Analysis of Climate Proposals Using Multiple Models (IGEM, ADAGE, and IPM).
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Alan Beamon and Howard Gruenspecht, Energy Information Administration (EIA).  EIA Analysis of Climate Proposals Using National Energy Modeling System (NEMS).
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Session 3:  Defining the Technology Transition

Richard Richels, Electric Power Research Institute. Managing the Transition to Climate Stabilization (Merge model).
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Bruce McCarl
, Texas A&M University.  Linking Biofuel Supply and Demand using the FASOMGHG model.
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John (Skip) Laitner, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. Incorporating End-use Energy Efficiency into CGE Models using AMIGA
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Session 4: Perspectives on the Models

Billy Pizer, Resources for the Future/National Commission on Energy Policy 
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David Montgomery, Charles River Associates
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THURSDAY JULY 19

Session 5: Frontier Technologies – Opportunities and Barriers: Technological, Economic, and Policy 

Jim Dooley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Carbon capture and storage.
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Doug Arent, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Advanced renewables
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Steve Plotkin, Argonne National Laboratory..Advanced transportation technologies.
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Michael Corradini, University of Wisconsin, Advanced nuclear technologies
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Session 6:  Crafting Technology Policy

Michal Moore, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, University of Calgary. The role of modeling in the regulatory process: providing incentives for developing and integrating new technology in the power industries to address climate change.
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Jon Anda, Environmental Markets Network. Carbon Markets, Financial Instruments and Induced Technical Change.  
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Bill Bonvillian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
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