Hearing on China’s Energy Consumption and Opportunities for U.S.-China Cooperation to Address the Effects of China’s Energy Use
June 14-15, 2007
385 Russell Senate Office Building
Delaware & Constitution Avenues, NE
Washington, DC 20510
FINAL AGENDA (UPDATED 6/15/07)
Hearing Co chairs: Vice Chairman Daniel Blumenthal, Commissioners Richard D’Amato, Dennis Shea, and Peter Videnieks
Thursday, June 14, 2007
9:00 am Opening Statements
9:15 am – 10:15 am Panel I: Administration Perspectives
- The Honorable Karen Harbert, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Ms. Judith E. Ayres, Assistant Administrator for International Affairs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC
10:15 am – 11:30 am Panel II: U.S. National Laboratory Perspectives
- Dr. Jane C.S. Long, Associate Director, Energy and Environmental Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Panel III: Chinese Energy Consumption Patterns and Trends: A
Baseline Assessment
- Dr. Lee Schipper, Director of Research, EMBARQ, World Resources Institute,
Washington, DC
- Mr. Saad Rahim, Manager, Country Strategies Group, PFC Energy, Washington, DC
- Mr. Trevor Houser, Visiting Fellow, Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies, China Strategic Advisory LLC, New York, NY
1:00 noon – 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Panel IV: The Strategic Consequences for the United States and the World of
China’s Energy Consumption
- Dr. James Holmes, Associate Professor, Strategic Research Department, Naval War College, Newport, RI
- Dr. Toshi Yoshihara, Associate Professor, Strategic Research Department, Naval War College, Newport, RI
- Mr. Mikkal Herberg, Research Director of the Asian Energy Security Program, National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle, WA
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 – Continued
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Panel V: The Environmental Consequences for China, the United States, and the World of China’s Energy Consumption
- Dr. Jennifer Turner, China Environment Forum Coordinator and Senior Project Associate, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
- Dr. Mun S. Ho, Visiting Scholar, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC
Friday, June 15, 2007
8:30 am – 10:30 am Panel VI: Gubernatorial Perspectives
- Governor Joe Manchin, West Virginia
- Governor Brian Schweitzer, Montana
10:30 am – 12:00 noon Panel VII: Policy Strategies for Addressing the Effects of China’s Energy Consumption
- Ms. Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Director of the China Clean Energy Program, National Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC
- Dr. Jeffrey Logan, Senior Associate II Climate and Energy, World Resources Institute, Washington, DC
- Mr. Thomas Donnelly, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 – 1:15 pm Congressional Perspectives
- Representative Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD)
1:15 pm – 1:45pm Panel VIII: Administration Perspectives
- Mr. David Helvey, Country Director, China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, International Security Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC
1: 45 pm – 3:15 pm Panel IX: Private Sector Strategies for Addressing the Effects of China’s Energy Consumption
- Mr. John Sie, Institute for Sino-American International Dialogue, University of Denver, Denver, CO
- Dr. Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director Energy Technology Innovation Project, Adjunct Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Mr. Wayne L. Rogers, Partner, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Washington, DC
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm Panel X: U.S.-China Governmental and Nongovernmental Cooperative Programs in Energy and the Environment
- Dr. S.T. Hsieh, Professor, Director of US/China Energy and Environment Technology Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- Dr. Wei-ping Pan, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
- Mr. Michael J. Mudd, Chief Executive Officer, FutureGen Alliance, Washington, DC
Written Statements Submitted For the Record:
- Dr. Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow, Director of Asia
Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY
- Dr. Mark Levine, Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA
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