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Highlights | April 2009 |
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email:
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CEES
Highlights provides occasional updates on CEES research, project
developments, and other related news items.
To unsubscribe from this list, or for general inquiries regarding
CEES, please send an email to Cactus
Woodworth-Lies at cactus@colorado.edu.
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CEES
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Date:
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Contact:
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CEES has received funding from the CU
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Initiative for proof-of-concept work related
to Xcel Energy's SmartGridCity experiment in Boulder, CO. The studies
focus on leveraging dynamic residential electricity rate design to optimize
long-term energy efficiency purchase decisions by residential consumers, as
well as designing environmental signals to influence consumer choices on when
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CEES
Partners with Hogan & Hartson and Deloitte LLP to Launch Colorado Clean
Energy Series |
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Date:
March 2009 |
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Contact:
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CEES has teamed up with Hogan & Hartson and Deloitte LLP to launch the Colorado Clean Energy Solutions Series. Conducted in collaboration with Governor Ritter, Colorado School of Mines, and Colorado State University, the series is designed to encourage collaboration amongst all stakeholders necessary for the development of a successful infrastructure in Colorado to support and advance clean and renewable energy solutions and climate change abatement. The first event in the series took place on March 30, 2009, and was focused on Smart Grid. The event was designed to inform entities developing smart grid technology of policy, industry, and economic trends likely to impact the space; to advance the application of smart grid solutions to our climate change problems; and to develop policy recommendations for state and federal consideration.
Video files of the event are available at http://cees.colorado.edu/energysolutions.html. Future
events in the series will focus on renewable energy financing, carbon
capture, alternative fuels, and utility-scale solar power generation.
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Carbon
Management Center Under Development |
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Date:
April 2009 |
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Contact:
dorank@colorado.edu
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The Carbon
Management Center is an early-stage research and policy center specializing
in technological and policy solutions to carbon abatement. CEES Senior
Fellow Kevin Doran serves as the Faculty Site Director for the CMC, which
includes institutional participants from the Colorado School of Mines, Colorado
State University, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
“We've identified over 125 researchers at CSU, CU, CSM and NREL
interested in participating in the Center's activities,” notes Doran.
CMC research will cover six broad “thrust areas”: (1) carbon capture; (2)
carbon utilization in industrial processes; (3) terrestrial carbon storage
and GHG emission reductions; (4) geological carbon storage; (5) integrated
assessment and decision support; and (6) education and service. |
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CEES,
EDF, and CERES to Release S&P 500 Climate Risk Disclosure Report |
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Date:
April 2009 |
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Contact:
dorank@colorado.edu
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Senior Fellow Kevin Doran, CEES Analyst Elias
Quinn, and Environmental Defense Fund economist Martha Roberts have completed
the first ever comprehensive analysis of climate risk disclosure by the
S&P 500. Covering all 10-Ks filed from 1995 through 2008, the
report will be released in May 2009 by CEES, EDF and CERES. In addition
to a quantitative analysis of extent and types of climate risk disclosures
made by the S&P 500, the report also provides a qualitative assessment
regarding the informational value of those disclosures. |
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CEES
and IBI to Present First North American Biochar Conference |
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Date:
August 9-12, 2009 |
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Contact:
jonah.levine@colorado.edu
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The Center for Energy and Environmental Security
(CEES) at the University of Colorado Law School is pleased to present the
first North American Biochar Conference.
Cosponsored by the International Biochar Initiative (IBI), the
conference will run from August 9 to 12, 2009 in Boulder, Colorado. Biochar is a charcoal-based product produced
from biomass that can sequester carbon, enhance soils, and provide useable
energy during the production process. CEES and IBI are honored to have U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack as the keynote speaker for this
event. The North American Biochar 2009 conference will feature daily
sessions on the science of biochar and a strong focus on the policy and
economic dimensions of biochar. In addition to the keynote by Secretary
Vilsack, other confirmed participants represent the leading actors in the
world on the topic of biochar. Poster
sessions and networking opportunities will also occur daily. Conference
Registration can be found online at: http://cees.colorado.edu/ibi_2009.html.
Please note that student rates and sponsorship opportunities are
available.
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CEES
and the Philanthropiece Foundation Partner to Create Blueprint For Action In
Guatemala |
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Date:
April 2009 |
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Contact:
julie.teel@colorado.edu
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CEES is pleased to announce that it has entered
into an introductory partnership with the Philanthropiece Foundation to
collaboratively create a blueprint for action in Guatemala that will reduce
energy poverty and promote empowerment of women by increasing the
availability of appropriate and sustainable energy technologies. The
blueprint will build on existing activities undertaken by Government
ministries, NGOs, entrepreneurs, policymakers, lawyers, educators, and
community members in Guatemala and integrate social, technological, and
economic approaches to alleviating energy poverty. The ultimate goal is to
contribute to a political and legal environment in Guatemala that nurtures
community-based and women-focused solutions to energy and environmental
challenges. Project Partner: Philanthropiece—Piecing Together a Better
World, www.philanthropiece.org.
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CEES
Produces CCS White-Paper and Stakeholder Framework with Camco Global |
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Date:
Fall 2008 |
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Contact:
adam.reed@colorado.edu
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In Fall 2008, CEES collaborated with Camco Global
and the Colorado School of Mines under a grant from the British Consulate to
organize Carbon Capture and Geological Sequestration (CCS) stakeholder
meetings in the Western United States. CEES analysts Jennifer Dill and
Vanessa Finch worked closely with Elizabeth Lokey of Camco Global and CEES
Research Fellow Adam Reed to develop a framework for stakeholder meetings as
well as produce a white-paper on critical law & policy issues related to
liability, planning, transportation, infrastructure, and property. |
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CEES
Analysts Present at Copenhagen Climate Congress |
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Date:
March 2009 |
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Contact:
adam.reed@colorado.edu
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Elias Quinn, CEES Analyst, and Adam Reed, CEES
Research Fellow, travelled to Copenhagen to present their work at the
Copenhagen Climate Congress 2009, the premier scientific lead-in meeting to
the Conference-of-Parties (COP) 15 to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from March 10-12. The Congress aimed to
synthesize existing and emerging scientific knowledge to make enlightened
societal decisions concerning mitigation and adaptation strategies to respond
to climate change. Adam and Elias presented posters at the “Potentials
and Limits of Biofuels” and “Integrating National and International
Approaches” sessions. Adam presented “Life-cycle analysis and renewable
fuel goals: a regulator's Scylla and Charybdis.” Elias presented
“Attempts to insulate carbon-regulated economies from under-regulated
imports, and the inadvertent integration of the world's carbon markets,” an
article he published in Climate and Carbon Law Review earlier this year. |
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CEES
to Present Energy Justice Conference |
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Date:
October 2009 |
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Contact:guruswam@colorado.edu
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This conference will focus on the “other” third
of the world—the energy oppressed poor - afflicted by energy access problems.
The high energy world relies principally on hitherto abundant sources of fossil
fuels for its prosperous lifestyle. By contrast, the low energy world,
numbering around two billion people, typically lives on less than a dollar or
two a day and primarily rely on biomass-based fire to meet all of their
energy needs. The burning of biomass leads to one and half million
deaths every year, predominantly of women and children. Moreover, they
will be the most severely affected by global warming. This conference is
predicated on the applicability of energy justice to these problems. |
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