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Session 5: Dealing with Climate Change
In this session, our panelists will discuss the costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gases and the pros and cons of using a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax to do so.
Presentations
Billy Pizer slideshow
Jae Edmonds slideshow
Speakers
Michael Parr
DuPont
William A. Pizer
Resources for the Future
Billy Pizer is a Senior Fellow and Research Director at Resources for the Future where his research looks at how the design of environmental policy affects costs and environmental effectiveness, often related to global climate change. His research has examined the aggregate level and distribution of regulatory costs, the effect of uncertainty on policy outcomes, the choice among various market-based policies, the role of voluntary programs, impacts on competitiveness, the importance of technological change, and the valuation of environmental benefits over long time horizons.
Pizer was a Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report, chaired the DOE review of its Integrated Assessment Research Program, and serves on both the EPA Environmental Economics Advisory Committee and the DOE Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee. Since August 2002, Pizer has worked part-time as a Senior Economist at the National Commission on Energy Policy. During 2001-2002, he served as a Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers where he worked on environment and climate change issues. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Center for Environmental Science and Policy during 2000-2001, and taught part-time at Johns Hopkins University during 1997-1999. His work has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, as well as other scholarly journals and books. In 2006 he won, with Richard Newell, the Petry Prize for their work on discounting.
Jae Edmonds
Joint Global Change Research Institute
Jae Edmonds is a Chief Scientist and Laboratory Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) Joint Global Change Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Edmonds is the principal investigator for the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program to Address Climate Change, an international, public-private research collaboration. His research in the areas of long-term, global, energy, economy, and climate change spans three decades, during which time he published several books, numerous scientific papers and made countless presentations. His most recent book, Global Energy Technology Strategy, Addressing Climate Change, distills more than a decade of research on the role of technology in addressing climate change. Dr. Edmonds has served in the capacity of Lead Author on every major IPCC assessment to date and presently serves on the IPCC Steering Committee on "New Integrated Scenarios". He serves on numerous panels and advisory boards related to energy, technology, the economy and climate change. His received his Ph.D. in the field of Economics from Duke University in 1975.
Robert Shackleton
Congressional Budget Office
