Events
Upcoming
The Georgetown Climate Center will provide two briefings this week to discuss its newly released pre-proposal backgrounder on the EPA's forthcoming performance standards for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The brief provides background information about the law and existing regulations and raises issues that states may want to consider in evaluating EPA’s forthcoming proposal.
On Thursday, Sept. 22, the Center is partnering with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies to discuss the upcoming regulations. The briefing will provide background information about the law and existing regulations and highlight potential opportunities for...
This event, sponsored by the Heinrich Boll Foundation North America, will bring in leading experts from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss strategies for lowering emissions and gaining economic strength despite these constraints.
Vicki Arroyo, executive director of the Georgetown Climate Center, will serve as the moderator for the event.
Speakers will address how smart industrial and energy policies provide opportunities for new jobs and more energy security. In addition, they will highlight how rural areas can generate tax revenue and opportunities for clean technologies by pursuing ambitious renewable energy strategies. The event will in particular focus on regions that rely heavily on energy intense industries and coal for power supply, and will emphasize...
Past Highlights
The Georgetown Climate Center and the Pew Center on Climate Change hosted the State-Federal Workshop on Climate and Energy Policy on February 24-25 in Washington, DC, to begin answering the question: "What's next for climate policy?"
The conference explored how state and federal governments can work together to chart a new path forward on climate and energy policy. A wide range of issues were discussed including the outlook for federal regulatory and legislative action, updates on state and regional climate initiatives, state and federal adaptation efforts, transportation solutions, and opportunities in the emerging clean energy economy.
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The Georgetown Climate Center recently assisted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in convening one of five “listening sessions” on the design of regulation under the Clean Air Act’s New Source Performance Standards program. The session was intended to assist the EPA in gathering feedback from coalitions like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the Western Climate Initiative, among others.
Executive Director Vicki Arroyo kicked off the session, providing EPA Asst. Administrator Gina McCarthy and staff with comments regarding incorporating state approaches into a federal program. For more information about the sessions, click here to visit the EPA's website.
Senior officials from state agencies discussed important action that is underway to combat climate change in the U.S. despite the absence of comprehensive, federal action in Congress in 2010. The event, an official side event at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change (COP16), was hosted by the Georgetown Climate Center and was held on the U.S. stage.
Participants included: Jared Snyder, Assistant Commissioner for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; Doug Scott, Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency; Lauren Faber, Assistant Secretary for Climate Change Programs for the California Environmental Protection Agency; and Vicki Arroyo, executive director for the Georgetown Climate Center.
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The Georgetown Climate Center co-sponsored this event, featuring a keynote address by Maria Blair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Blair discussed the Obama administration's work on adaptation and an interim progress report on the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. Other panels included the "Human Dimensions of Climate Change," "Regulatory Frameworks for Adapting to Climate Change" and "Biodiversity/Natural Resources Management." The Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and Environmental...
The Georgetown Climate Center and the Climate Registry hosted this forum of leading sub-national actors at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen.
U.S. Governors Chris Gregoire of Washington and Jim Doyle of Wisconsin joined Canadian Premiers Jean Charest of Quebec, Gordon Campbell of British Columbia and Greg Selinger of Manitoba to discuss sub-national efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, progress made in recent years, the need for national and international policy and the key role that states and provinces will play in addressing climate change.
This workshop explored innovative approaches that states and cities have taken to curb emissions and energy use in transportation and other sectors, and the implications for emerging federal policy. Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator, US EPA Office of Air and Radiation, served as the keynote speaker.
The day-long event was co-sponsored by the Georgetown Climate Center and UCLA's Emmett Center on Climate Change.
Bringing together state, regional and federal policymakers, this event marked the first meeting of the three regional greenhouse gas reduction groups (RGGI, WCI, Midwest Accord). The workshop was co-hosted by the Georgetown Climate Center, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the National Association for Clean Air Agencies (NACAA), and the Pew Center on the State.
Keynote speakers included EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle.
