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

Opening remarks
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
Day1
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)    
Day2
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)    

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