U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Hearing on “China's Energy Policies and Their Environmental Impacts”
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The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 on “China's Energy Policies and Their Environmental Impacts.” The hearing will be held in Room 562 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, located at First Street and Constitution Avenues, NE, Washington DC 20510.
The August 13 hearing will examine China’s energy policymaking structure and reforms, China’s environmental policy and activities to address the environmental impacts of its energy use, the effects of China’s greenhouse gas emissions, China’s approach to global climate change, and U.S.-China civil nuclear energy cooperation.
Scheduled to testify on August 13 are Ms. Katharine Fredriksen, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy; Mr. Scott Fulton, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for International Affairs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Dr. Erica Downs, China Energy Fellow at The Brookings Institution; Mr. Edward A. Cunningham, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. Joseph Aldy, Co-Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements and Fellow at Resources for the Future; Dr. Mark Levine, Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division and Group Leader of the China Energy Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Dr. Jonathan Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the State University of New York at New Paltz; Dr. Joanna I. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Dr. Dan Jaffe, Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry at the University of Washington-Bothell; Dr. Andrew C. Kadak, Professor of the Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Dr. Stephen Mladineo, Senior Program Manager at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. A copy of the complete hearing agenda is attached at the end of this press announcement.
Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioners William A. Reinsch and Daniel M. Slane
What: Public Hearing on “China's Energy Policies and Their Environmental Impacts”
When: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 9:15 am to 4:15 p.m.
Where: Room 562, Dirksen Senate Office Building, First Street and Constitution Avenues, NE
Washington DC 20510
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Hearing on “China's Energy Policies and Their Environmental Impacts”
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Room 562, Dirksen Senate Office Building
Delaware and Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20510
As of August 7, 2008
Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioners William A. Reisnch and Daniel M. Slane
9:15 am – 9:30 am Opening Statements
9:30 am – 10:30 am Panel I: Administration Perspectives
- Ms. Katharine Fredriksen, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Mr. Scott Fulton, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for International Affairs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC
10:30 am – 11:30 am Panel II: China’s Energy Policymaking Structure and Reforms
- Dr. Erica Downs, China Energy Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
- Mr. Edward A. Cunningham, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Panel III: China’s Environmental Policy and Activities to Address the Environmental Impacts of its Energy Use
- Dr. Joseph Aldy, Co-Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements and Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC
- Dr. Mark Levine, Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division, and Group Leader of the China Energy Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
- Dr. Jonathan Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:00 pm Panel IV: The Effects of China’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and China’s Approach to Global Climate Change
- Dr. Joanna I. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
- Dr. Dan Jaffe, Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry, University of Washington-Bothell, Bothell, WA
3:00 pm – 4:15 pm Panel V: U.S.-China Energy Technology Cooperation: Civil Nuclear Energy
- Dr. Andrew C. Kadak, Professor of the Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- Dr. Stephen Mladineo, Senior Program Manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Falls Church, VA
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