LCS-RNet/International Research Network for Low Carbon Societies

Meeting

3rd Annual Meeting of the LCS-RNet in Paris, France

Synthesis Report
Ten Key Findings
Synthesis Report
1. Nature of the desirable paradigm shift
2. The risks of lock-in
3. Supply-side responses: decision-making against a background of controversy
4. Demand-side response: energy efficiency and beyond
5. Energy policies and beyond
6. Innovation and beyond
7. “Green growth” and sustainable development in different contexts
8. Tailoring low-carbon policy packages for sectors and countries
9. The need for international arrangements
10. Upgrading climate finance in the context of the financial crisis
 
List of Participants
Day 1
Welcome and Opening    
Welcome and Introduction
Dominique Dron (High Commissioner for Sustainable Development) and Mr Jean-Charles Hourcade (President of LCS-RNet).
Opening
Dr. Shuzo Nishioka
Plenary Session 1.1 Abstract Presentation
Climatic challenge and ‘green growth’: what "paradigm shift"?
Shuzo NISHIOKA (NIES, Japan, chair)/Jean Charles HOURCADE (CIRED, France, rapporteur)
   
PS1.1_1 Financing Low Carbon Society in China
Zou-JI (Renmin University of China/WRI Beijing)
   
PS1.1_2 Green Growth Knowledge Platform
Marianne Fay (World Bank)
   
PS1.1_3 Climate policies, world security and other dimensions of world governance
Jim SKEA (UKERC, UK)
Plenary Session 1.2 Abstract Presentation
Session 1: What international arrangements to leverage domestic climate policies?
Mikiko KAINUMA (NIES, Japan, chair)/ Emmanuel GUERIN (IDDRI, France, rapporteur)
   
PS1.2_S1_1 International Arrangements to Leverage Domestic Climate Policies
Erik HAITES (Margaree Consultants Inc, Canada)
   
PS1.2_S1_2 What works in Climate Change? Greening REDD
Tom HELLER (Climate Policy Initiative, USA)
   
PS1.2_S1_3 China’s Low Carbon Perspective- Issues for International Arrangement
Jiang KEJUNG (ERI, China)
   
PS1.2_S1_4 Low-Carbon Russia: A Risk-Reducing Strategy For Providing Energy And Economic Security: 2050 Perspective
Igor BASHMAKOV (CENEF, Russia)
Session 2: Climate finance, lessons learnt and prospects
Jean Charles HOURCADE (CIRED, France, chair)
   
PS1.2_S2_1 How to Mobilise USD 100 Billion?
Wolfgang STERK (WI, Germany)
PS1.2_S2_2 Climate Finance-Policy Risk and Investment
Derek BUNN (London Business School, UK)
PS1.2_S2_4 Climate Finance Lessons Learned and Prospects
Ivan ZELENKO (World Bank)
   
Session 3: Climate policies, economic globalization and trade: tensions and opportunities
Zou JI (ReminUniversity of China, chair)/Neil STRACHAN(UCL, UK, rapporteur)
   
PS1.2_S3_1 Climate, globalisation & trade: Direct and indirect linking of carbon markets by 2020
Rob DELLINK (OECD)
   
PS1.2_S3_2 Technological Competitiveness of Renewables in the New Multipolar Global Economy
Daniela PALMA (ENEA, Italy)
PS1.2_S3_3 A More Ambitious EU Target on GHG Emissions: Macro-Economic Impacts through a CGE Analysis
Fabio EBOLI (CMCC-FEEM, Italy)
   
PS1.2_S3_4 Climate policies, economic globalization and trade: tensions and opportunities
Dimitri ZENGHELIS (LSE, UK)
   
Round Table 1.3 Abstract Presentation
Visions of Durban (visions of experts)    
R1.3_1 Laurence TUBIANA (IDDRI)    
R1.3_2 Emilio la ROVERE (COPPE, Brazil)
R1.3_3 Shigemoto KAJIHARA (Ministry of the Environment, Japan)    
Day 2
Plenary Session 2.1 Abstract Presentation
Conditions of a major shift in innovation patterns and technical systems
Ottmar EDENHOFER (PIK, Germany chair, still to be confirmed)/Michel COLOMBIER (IDDRI, France, rapporteur)
   
PS2.1_1 Lessons from the Long-Run Energy Models Decarbonization in Developed Countries
Nebojsa NAKICENOVIC (IIASA, Serbia)
   
PS2.1_2 Drivers of Infrastructure Dynamics How to Prevent Carbon Intensive Lock-in in Developing Countries?
Tomonori SUDO (African Development Bank/JICA, Tunisia)
 
PS2.1_3 INNOVATING FOR CLIMATE
Massimo TAVONI (FEEM, Italy)
Plenary Session 2.2 Abstract Presentation
Session 1: What technological mix in a controversial world?
Nebojsa NAKICENOVIC (IIASA, Serbia, chair)
   
PS2.2_S1_1 Japan’s Energy/Climate Policy “After FUKUSHIMA”
Jusen ASUKA(IGES)
   
PS2.2_S1_2 Future Challenges for the French Power Generation Paradigm: Reliability versus Low-Carbon Issues?
Nadia MAIZI (Mines ParisTech, France)
 
PS2.2_S1_3 Ottmar EDENHOFER (PIK, Germany)    
Session 2: The specifics of technical change in infrastructure sectors
Shobakhar DHAKAL (Global Carbon Project, IGBP/HDP, Nepal, chair)
   
PS2.2_S2_1 Integration of Renewable Energies into the Energy System – Requirements for System Integration by the Example of Germany
Peter VIEBAHN (Wuppertal Institute, Germany )
 
PS2.2_S2_2 Economics of mitigation in sectors with long-lived capital stock And implications for climate policies
Franck LECOCQ (CIRED, France)
PS2.2_S2_3 Transforming Urban Infrastructure for Low-Carbon Cities - Issues, Options and Emerging Lessons in Developing Countries
Feng LIU (World Bank)
PS2.2_S2_4 Tokyo’s Cap-and-Trade and Green Building Program - Reducing CO2 from Building Sector
Kenji SUZUKI(Tokyo Metropolis, Japan)
Session 3: Industry, innovation and investment risks in alternative technologies: differences and commonalities between sectors and countries
Dominique BUREAU (MEDDTL, France, chair)/Christina HOOD (AIE, France, rapporteur)
   
PS2.2_S3_1 EIB Financing of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency … and a few thoughts on investment risks based on this experience
Sophie JABLONSKI-MOC (EIB, Luxemburg)
 
PS2.2_S3_2 Decarbonation of electricity systems: When all new production will stand outside the market
Dominique FINON(CIRED, France)
 
PS2.2_S3_3 Industry, innovation and investment risks in alternative technologies: differences and commonalities between sectors and countries
Philippe QUIRION (CIRED, France)
 
PS2.2_S3_4 Peter DROEGE ( Eurosolar, Germany)    
Plenary Session 3.1 Abstract Presentation
Low carbon development patterns and lifestyles
Frédéric de CONINCK (Ponts Paristech, France, chair)/Nadia MAIZI (Mines ParisTech, rapporteur)
   
PS3.1_1 Energy Efficiency and Beyond: Reducing energy intensity as a low carbon strategy
Stefan LECHTENBÖHMER (WI, Germany)
 
PS3.1_2 Reconsidering cities in a post carbon society
Eric VIDALENC (Ademe, France)
   
PS3.1_3 Urban dynamics, mobility and consumption styles: The rationale for “leapfrogging”
Prasoon AGRARWAL (Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India)
   
Plenary Session 3.2 Abstract Presentation
Session 1 : Sharing experiences in the promotion of energy efficiency and of the ‘dematerialization’ of the economies
Sergio la MOTTA (ENEA, Italy, chair)/Eric VIDALENC (Ademe, France, rapporteur)
   
PS3.2_S1_1 UK Experience in the Promotion of Energy Efficiency and ‘Economic Dematerialization’
Neil STRACHAN (UCL, UK)
PS3.2_S1_2 Energy Efficiency: the Italian way for buildings and industry
Giampaolo VALENTINI (ENEA, Italy)
PS3.2_S1_3 A Carbon Deposit System for Global Climate Policy Changing the Global Carbon Metabolism, with a Quantified Application to the EU Going Alone 
Gjalt HUPPES (CML, Leiden University, Netherland)
PS3.2_S1_4 What is Success or Failure in Climate Policy?
John REILLY(MIT, USA)
   
Session 2: Domestic and international drivers of urban dynamics
Fabio GRAZI (AFD, France, Chair) /Tomonori SUDO (African Development Bank, Tunisia, rapporteur)
   
PS3.2_S2_1 Urbanization and Low-Carbon Growth Pathways: Modeling the Interactions between Energy, Urban Land Prices and Climate
Henri WAISMAN (CIRED, France)
PS3.2_S2_2 Numerical Tools for Low-Carbon Urban Development Studies
Donatella SPANO (FEEM, Italy)
PS3.2_S2_3 Key Elements for Designing the Technology Roadmap for EV Development -A Case Study in Shanghai
Libo WU(Fudan University, China)
 
PS3.2_S2_4 Global Patterns of Urban Energy Use - Challenges and Progress
Niels SCHULZ (IIASA, Austria)
 
Session 3: Behavioral changes and life-styles; what drivers? Who governs what?
Stefan LECHTENBÖHMER (Wuppertal Institute, Germany, chair)/Julia NORDMANN (WI, Germany, rapporteur)
   
PS3.2_S3_1 Cities and carbon mitigation: Needs for consumption perspectives
Shobakhar DHAKAL (Global Carbon Project, IGBP/HDP, Nepal)
   
PS3.2_S3_2 Sustainable Lifestyles in European Cities: Train of Ideas: Best Practice Examples
Maria WELFENS (WI, Germany)
   
PS3.2_S3_3 Understanding Local Energy Governance
Joanne WADE (University of Surrey, UK)
PS3.2_S3_4 Behavioural Changes and Lifestyles: the Food Driver
Bruno Dorin (CIRAD, France)
Final Session
Chair: Ottmar EDENHOFER (PIK, Germany)    
FS_1 Summing up the main policy messages
Jean Charles HOURCADE (CIRED, France) and Mikiko KAINUMA (NIES, Japan)
   
FS_2 First reactions
Dominique DRON (CGDD, France)
   
Round Table
Rationale for a low-carbon society: timing policy tools and behavior changes    
RT_1 John REILLY(MIT, USA)    
RT_2 Christian EGENHOFER (CEPS)    
RT_3 Midori SASAKI (Ministry of the Environment, Japan)    
RT_4 Franck JESUS (Ademe, France)    
RT_5 Paul WATKINSON (MEDDTL, France)