Recovering the global economy and battling climate change: the vision of the Obama Administration June 23, 2009

The Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy cordially invites you to a joint event with the Embassy of the United States of America.

Public lecture and discussion by Mr. Mark Hopkins, Director of International Energy Efficiency, United Nations Foundation, Washington:

Recovering the global economy and battling climate change: the vision of the Obama Administration

Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 3.30 pm @ CEU, Popper Room

Introductory remarks by Mr. Jeffrey D. Levine, Chargé d’Affaires a.i., United States Embassy.

Discussion moderator: Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Director, 3CSEP

The lecture will be followed by a reception.

Energy efficiency has a key role to play in combating climate change, but at the same time it can make an important contribution to recovery from the economic crisis. The lecture will focus both on the Obama Administration’s vision of a new clean energy economy and the emergence of energy efficiency as an ever hotter topic on the global scale. The following topics will be discussed in the talk:

• The Obama Administration’s vision of a post-economic-crisis new clean energy economy


• Divided responsibility: impact on US climate commitments


• The UNFCCC process: developed and developing world perspectives


• Many nations improving energy efficiency, scale of modest compared to the problem and opportunity


• Emerging business models to enable companies to profit from widespread deployment of energy efficiency


• Provisions in the economic stimulus package


• New energy and climate legislation pending on Capitol Hill

Mark Hopkins is an internationally recognized expert on energy efficiency with 35 years of experience in policy and program development. He currently directs the UN Foundation’s energy policy program to incorporate strong energy efficiency commitments in international agreements. He also works to develop the capacity of UN agencies to deploy clean energy.

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Official Website: http://3csep.ceu.hu/node/49