Bingaman and Domenici Announce Roundtable On the E.U. Emissions Trading Scheme
March 8, 2007
02:24 PM
Last year, Sens. Domenici and Bingaman hosted an all-day workshop on the design features of a mandatory market-based program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. In keeping with their commitment to educate themselves and others in the Senate on these complex issues, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Energy Committee today announced a roundtable discussion with some of the most respected and influential authorities on the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme from Europe and the United States.
The EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme is the largest multi-country, multi-sector greenhouse gas emissions trading system in the world. After its launch in 2005, the new trading system experienced startup problems; however, its performance today offers helpful insight and lessons to policymakers who want to better understand how a market-based trading program could operate efficiently and effectively in the United States.
The EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme is the largest multi-country, multi-sector greenhouse gas emissions trading system in the world. After its launch in 2005, the new trading system experienced startup problems; however, its performance today offers helpful insight and lessons to policymakers who want to better understand how a market-based trading program could operate efficiently and effectively in the United States.
Monday, March 26
2:00pm
Dirksen G50
Joining in this Roundtable with Members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will be:
Jos Delbeke, EU Commission
Director for “Climate Change and Air” of the European Commission‘s Directorate-General for Environment
Brussels, Belgium
Per-Otto Wold, Point Carbon
Founding Partner and CEO
Oslo, Norway
Garth Edward, Shell Oil
Trading Manager - Environmental Products
London, England
Jean-Yves Caneill, Electricté de France
Director of Sustainable Development
Paris, France
Bruno Vanderborght, Holcim Cement
Vice President of Climate Protection
Zurich, Switzerland
Denny Ellerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Executive Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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