Symposium on Post-Paris COP 21 Carbon Policy – Implications, Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for the U.S. and the Globe

UW Conference Center – Hilton Salon D & E

February 24, 2016

5:30 p.m.

Overview:

In response to global negotiations in Paris in December 2015, the Center for Global Studies and School of Energy Resources at the University of Wyoming in cooperation with the Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies and the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources have organized a discussion series in Spring 2016 that brings together academic, government, and industry perspectives to look at global and national implications, opportunities, and challenges that result from the Paris COP 21 process. The purpose of the event is to foster a discussion with students and the UW community about the status of international cooperation on carbon policy following the Paris negotiations, energy policy internationally and nationally, and strategies available to stakeholders to respond to these changes. A second panel discussion, scheduled for April 4, 2016 (Union Family Room @ 5:30), will focus on national and state implications of the new energy policies.

Moderator:

Jean Garrison is director of the Center for Global Studies and professor of international studies and political science at the University of Wyoming. The author of three books and numerous articles, Garrison’s research interests focus on U.S. foreign policy with an emphasis on U.S.-China relations, leadership, and energy security. She holds a BA in political science from UW and a PhD from the University of South Carolina.

Panelists:
Michele Betsill is department chair and professor in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on global environmental governance, with a particular interest in the role of non-state actors in creating new mechanisms for steering society towards a more sustainable future. She is the founder and co-leader of the Environmental Governance Working Group at CSU, a multi-disciplinary research community of faculty and graduate students in the College of Liberal Arts and the Warner College of Natural Resources. She received her PhD from the University of Colorado-Boulder.


Jeane Hull is a member of the UW Energy Resources Council and until recently held the position ofExecutive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer with Peabody Energy. With Peabody, she led technical services including engineering, asset management and continuous improvement functions across Peabody’s global platform as well as supply chain management activities. She has extensive engineering, environmental and regulatory affairs experience in the public and private sectors and has held numerous management positions with Rio Tinto and affiliates. Hull graduated from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology with a BS degree in Civil Engineering. She also holds a MBA from Nova University in Florida.

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Sam Kalen is the Winston S. Howard Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies at UW. His research focuses on the fields of energy, environment, public lands and natural resources, administrative law, and constitutional law. Prior to joining the UW College of Law faculty in 2009, Kalen practiced law in Washington, D.C. for over 20 years, both in the private and public sectors. Kalen holds a BA in History from Clark University and JD from the Washington University School of Law.

David Lawrence is an energy executive, investor, and advisor with extensive global experience across the energy industry. He is Chairman of Lawrence Energy Group LLC, with interests in emerging stage energy prospects and serves as Chairman of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute Advisory Board. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President of Exploration and Commercial for Shell Upstream Americas and Head of Global Exploration and Executive Vice President for Global Exploration at Royal Dutch Shell. Lawrence received his BA in geology magna cum laude from Lawrence University and his PhD from Yale in geology and geophysics.

Charles “Chuck” Mason is the H. A. "Dave" True, Jr. Chair in Petroleum and Natural Gas Economics in the Department of Economics and Finance at UW. He is an internationally known scholar who specializes in environmental and resource economics. His current research interests include modeling prices for crude oil and natural gas, the role of delivery infrastructure in natural gas markets, and motivations to hold stockpiles of oil and gas. Mason has a BA and PhD in Economics and a BA in Mathematics, all from the University of California at Berkeley.

Ricardo “Rick” Nogueira is the Climate Finance Team Lead in the Office of Global Change at the U.S. Department of State. In this role he oversees climate finance negotiation efforts and serves as the alternate U.S. board member on the Green Climate Fund, the largest multilateral climate fund. Nogueira was previously the Director of EEA North America, where he was responsible for founding and managing a $400 million clean energy fund (Leaf Clean Energy Company). He holds a BA from Lafayette College and a JD from Seton Hall School of Law.