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Project Title: America's Climate Choices: Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change

PIN: BASC-U-08-04-B         

Major Unit:
Division on Earth and Life Studies

Sub Unit:
Board on Atmospheric Sciences & Climate

RSO:
Geller, Laurie

Subject/Focus Area:



America's Climate Choices: Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change
January 8, 2009 - January 9, 2009
National Academy of Sciences Building
2100 C St. NW
Washington D.C.


If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:


Contact Name: Shelly Freeland
Email: sfreeland@nas.edu
Phone: (202)334-2649
Fax: 202-334-3825


Agenda:

Agenda

10:00 A.M
welcome, introductions, and overview of study goals

10:20 A.M.
speaker: Congressional updates (may include reps from the National Academies's Office of Congressional Affairs and relevant U.S. House and Senate committee staffs)

11:00 A.M.
speaker: technology development perspectives. Dr. Robert Marlay. Deputy Director of the Office of Climate Change Policy & Technology and the Climate Change Technology Program., U.S. Department of Energy

11:40 A.M.
speaker: institutional/political-economy perspectives. W. David Montgomery. Vice President, CRA International

12:15 P.M. Lunch

1:00 P.M.
follow-up discussion with speakers and other attendees

2:15 P.M.
break, end of open session


Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
Robert Fri
Marilyn Brown
Francisco de la Chesnaye
Thomas Tietenberg
Leon Clarke
Ann Carlson
Majora Carter
Robert O. Keohane
George Eads
Edward Rubin
Doug Arent
James Trainham
Genevieve Giuliano
Bruce McCarl
Loren Lutzenhiser
Andrew Hoffman
Mack MacFarland

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
The panel discussed their views on key topics to be addressed in the study, key sources of input needed for the study, and plans/strategies for carrying out their work.

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:
none

Date of posting of Closed Session Summary: January 15, 2009



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