The 9th LCS-RNet Annual Meeting in Warwick, UK

Day 1
Introductory Session / Welcome, Introduction to the meeting
Chair: Jim Watson (UKERC,UK)
Jim Watson (UKERC, UK)
Mikiko Kainuma (IGES / LCS-RNet Secretary General, Japan)
Plenary Session 1: Innovation, Resource Productivity and Industrial Policy
Chair: Stefan Lechtenböhmer (Wuppertal Institute, Germany)
P1_1 Fossil-free circular industry – how could it evolve?
Lars Nilsson (Lund University, Sweden)
P1_2 BUSINESS AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
Nick Molho, (Aldersgate Group)
Parallel session 1-1 :Innovation and industrial policy: what can we learn from successful national approaches?
Chair: Sergio La Motta (ENEA, Italy)
PS1-1_1 Innovation and industrial policy
Antonio Pflüger (Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany)
PS1-1_2 Environmental Vision 2050 – Innovation : technology, resource productivity and industrial policy
Yoshinori Kobayashi (Toshiba, Japan)
PS1-1_3 The Italian clustering approach to ‘intelligent’ factories and industrial sustainability
Flavio Tonelli (University of Genova, Italy)
Parallel session 1.2: NDCs, resource productivity and innovation: panel of analysts from different countries
Chair: Toshihiko Masui (NIES, Japan)
PS1-2_2 Thailand’s NDC 2030: Resources productivity and Innovation
Bundit Limmeechokchai (SIIT-TU, Thailand)
PS1-2_3 Assessing progress towards deep decarbonisation in Europe
Steve Pye (UCL and UKERC, UK)
Plenary session 2: Global energy markets and forms of carbon pricing
Chair: Karsten Neuhoff (DIW Berlin)
KN_1 Seizing a moment of opportunity after Trump’s withdrawal
Jean – Charles Hourcade (CIRED, France)
KN_2 Dipak Dasgupta (TERI, India)
Parallel Session 2-1: Fossil fuel markets and prices: implications for low carbon transition plans
Chair: Kentaro Tamura (IGES, Japan)
PS2-1_1 Towards a geopolitics of energy system transformation
Mike Bradshaw (Warwick/UKERC, UK)
PS2-1_2 Energy security and low carbon societies
André Månsson (Lund University, Sweden)
PS2-1_3 Ex-ante Analyses of Carbon Pricing for the Diffusion of Low Carbon Technologies in China’s Energy-intensive Sectors
Kentaro Tamura and Xianbing Liu (IGES,Japan)
Parallel Session 2-2 Carbon pricing and beyond: experience from different jurisdictions and future policy directions
Chair: Jean-Charles Hourcade (CIRED, France)
PS2-2_1 Michael Grubb (UCL)
PS2-2_2 CNational Emission Tax and International Agreements
Gjalt Huppes (CML, Leiden University, Netherlands)
PS2-2_3 Carbon pricing and beyond – experiences and implications –
Karsten Neuhoff(DIW Berlin)
Panel: Global Co-operation on Innovation
Chair: Paul Ekins (UKERC,UK)
Panel_1 David King (UK)
Panel_2 Antonio Pflüger (Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany).
Panel_3 CTCN Activities
Federico Villatico (CTCN-Climate Technology Centre and Network of UNFCCC)
Day 2
Plenary Session 3: Energy Access and Low Carbon Development
Chair: Jim Watson (UKERC)
P3_1 World Energy Outlook 2017
Hannah Daly (IEA)
P3_2 Low-Carbon Energy and Climate Research from DFID
Will Blyth (UK Department for International Development: DFID)
Parallel Session 3-1: Progress towards the energy access Sustainable Development Goal
Chair: Shuichi Ashina (NIES, Japan)
PS3-1_1 What can RE contribute to energy access ….and beyond? What is the role of practitioners? What are key success factors?
Carmen Dienst (Wuppertal Institute, Germany)
PS3-1_2 Progress towards the energy access Sustainable Development Goal
Jiang Kejun (ERI, China)
PS3-1_3 Bhutan’s leapfrogging challenge in energy access aiming at carbon-neutral society
Shuzo Nishioka and Miho Kamei (IGES, Japan)
Parallel Session 3-2: Interdependencies between energy access and other SDGs
Chair: Sergio la Motta (ENEA, Italy)
PS3-2_1 Fossil fuel production scenarios under carbon budget and equity considerations
Paul Ekins (UCL and UKERC, UK)
PS3-2_2 Trade-offs and synergies between universal electricity access and climate change mitigation in Sub-Saran Africa
Anteneh Dagnachew (PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Netherlands)
PS3-2_3 Climate actions and interactions with SDGs – focus on energy access –
Mikiko Kainuma (IGES, Japan)
PS3-2_4 Energy in the Network of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Zhou Xin (IGES, Japan)
Plenary Session 4: From international context to national strategy
Chair: Christophe Cassen (CIRED, France)
P4_1 Implementing Paris: How to increase the ambition of NDCs?
Henri Waisman (IDDRI, France)
P4_2 Where Will We GO: China’s Future
Jiang Kejun (ERI,China)
P4_3 Latest Climate Change Policies & Long-term Low Carbon Vision in Japan
Takeshi Abe (MOEJ)
Panel: What are the implications of international trends for the UK?
Chair: Jim Watson (UKERC,UK)
P_1 Stefan Lechtenböhmer (Wuppertal Institute, Germany)
P_2 Christophe Cassen (CIRED, France)
P_3 Jim Watson (UKERC,UK)
P_4 Andy Kerr (ClimateXChange)
P_5 Owen Bellamy (UK Committee on Climate Change)
P_6 Ian Ellerington (UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

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