Location: Paris
Date: 31 March - 1 April, 2008

Context: An international group of policy and governance experts met with the OECD secretariat in Paris to explore elements necessary to break the global deadlock on climate change. We reviewed the status of preparations for the Japanese G8 Summit, the UNFCCC and the Major Economies Initiative on Energy Security and Climate Change. We reviewed forecasts of energy demand, the key to reduce the climate change threat. To determine possible ways forward, we explored carbon taxes and emission schemes, nuclear power, biofuels, and technology development and transfer. For each of these four sessions, presenters had been asked to assume the role of a “Philosopher King” and to prescribe who should do what, how and when. What win-win-win policy initiatives should be taken by the G8+5 and by the OECD?

Backgrounders

Fatih Birol		The Global Context - World Energy Outlook 2007
Helen Mountford		Carbon Taxes and Emission Trading Schemes
Ted Parson		Fiscal and Regulatory Approaches to Limiting Greenhouse Gases
Luis E. Echavárri		The Contribution of Nuclear Power
Burton Richter		Reducing the Potential for Weapons Proliferation in a World of Expanded Nuclear Power
George Weyerhauser		Biofuels
Teresa Malyshev		Biofuels
Ambuj Sagar		Technology Cooperation in the Greenhouse
John Dryden		Technology and Climate Change