Global Energy Assessment: Confronting the Challenges of Energy for Sustainable Development

1. Quote: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level” Quote: “Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.”

2. Confronting the Challenges of Climate Change: Moving towards Solutions Global Energy Assessment: Confronting the Challenges of Energy for Sustainable Development

3. Global Energy Assessment: Confronting the Challenges of Energy for Sustainable Development • The Global Energy Assessment will evaluate the social, economic, development, technological, environmental, security and other issues linked to energy, providing the basis upon which the Assessment will identify options for the way forwardﾑboth on a global and regional level. • Further, the Assessmentt will seek productive ways to inform policymakers, the business and investment sector, and society at large, on the key opportunities and challenges facing the global energy system on the road to longer-term sustainable development. • The GEA will target the needs of a range of stakeholders, with policy-relevant analysis, capacity-enhancing guidance and decision-support material to: • National governments and intergovernmental organizations, • Commercial sector (energy service companies, investors and others) and • The R & D and academic institutions.

4. The GEA has been organized and structured around four major areas (clusters) of analysis: • Major Global Issues and Energy: assessing the challenges. • Energy Resources and Technological Options: assessing of the components available to build future energy systems. • Describing Possible Sustainable Futures: assessing of the composition of the systemsthat address the challenges. • Policies Advancing Energy for Sustainable Development: assessing the policies options that address the challenges and provide options for future energy systems.

5. Cluster I: Major Global Issues and Energy (the Challenges) This cluster is designed to address these issues: • Social Issues and Energy, • Development and Energy, • Energy, Economy and Investment, Security, • Interdependence and Energy, and • Environment, Health and Energy.

6. Cluster II: Energy Resources and Technological Options This cluster is designed to address these issues: • Energy Resources (Fossil, Nuclear and Renewable), • Energy End-Use in industries, transportation, and buildings, • Renewable Energy Technologies, • Carbon Capture and Storage, • Nuclear Energy, • Advanced Fossil, • Energy Supply System Operation, and • Synthesis Module: End-use and Supply Linkages and Synthesis.

7. Cluster III: Describing Possible Sustainable Futures This cluster is designed to address these issues: • Global and Regional Scenarios, Normative Futures, and Major Uncertainties, • Urbanization, • Rural and Peri-Urban Energy in Developing Countries, • Land-use and Other Cross-Sectoral Issues, and • Energy Services and Human Well Being.

8. Cluster IV: Policies for Realizing Sustainable Energy Futures This cluster is designed to address these issues: • Governance, • The Innovation Chain, • Regulatory Frameworks and Market Polices, including Trade, • Capacity Building, and • Investment for Energy Services.

9. The U.S. GEA Support Office is hereby authorized to host a series of detailed workshops, consultations, and other meetings to develop scientific, technical and policy content for the lead and contributing authors to the GEA, and to engage industry, the U.S. R&D community and other experts in the support of the GEA.

10. The Initial Focus for the US in the Global Energy Assessment: • Host Workshops: • Renewable Energy Technologies (e.g., Scoping Workshop on Biofuels) • Regulatory Frameworks and Market Polices, including Trade (scoping workshop) • Global and Regional Scenarios, Normative Futures, and Major Uncertainties (scoping workshop) • Engage U.S. Leaders to Support the Assessment: • Industry (e.g., PG&E, Goldman Sachs, ), Government (e.g., DOE, DOS, etc.), NGO’s (e.g., WRI, RFF, CPC, Apollo Alliance, etc.), and Research Institutions (e.g, University and other research centers). • The U.S. GEA Support Office: • US Focal Point, Consultative Group, etc.

11. Funding Sources: • US Government • Appropriations: ($1.0 Million in FY08 Omnibus Bill) • Authorizations: (Proposed for Energy Bill) • Industry • Public Utilities: PG&E, EPRI, etc. • Transportation: Toyota, etc. • Manufacturing Sectors: Still to address

12. The Congress hereby establishes a U.S. Global Energy Assessment (GEA) Support Office to implement U.S. participationin the Global Energy Assessment; to be the focal point for U.S. participation in the GEA; and authorizes the U.S. GEA Support Office to obtain U.S. financial support for the GEA, both from the private and public sectors; and to assist the GEA in the identification of individuals as lead and contributing authors and reviewers for the assessment process. The Congress designates the H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment to serve as the U.S. GEA Support Office for the period leading up to the formal assessment (2010) and for one year • thereafter, at which time the U. S. Global Energy Assessment Support Office shall cease to exist and its activities shall be terminated (December 31, 2011). • The U.S. GEA Support Office is hereby authorized to host a series of detailed workshops, consultations, and other meetings to develop scientific, technical and policy content for the lead and contributing authors to the GEA, and to engage industry, the U.S. R&D community and other experts in the support of the GEA. The U.S. GEA Support Office is hereby authorized and directed to establish a U.S. GEA Consultative Group of senior experts from industry, the R&D community, appropriate NGOs, and appropriate policy experts, to assist in carrying out this subsection. • The Congress hereby directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish an interagency mechanism to support the role of the U.S. GEA Support Office and provide appropriate data and information as required by the U.S. GEA Support Office in support of the Global Energy Assessment. • The Congress hereby requests that the National Academy of Sciences Committee for IIASA provide counsel and oversight of the U.S. participation in the Global Energy Assessment. • The U.S. GEA Support Office is hereby directed to report semi-annually to the U.S. Congress and to the Presidentof the United States on progress being made on the Global Energy Assessment. • The Congress hereby authorizes the following funds for use by the U.S. GEA Support Office in support of the aforesaid activities: • (a) for the year 2008, $6 million, (b) for the year 2009, $7 million, (c) for the year 2010, $6 million; and (d) for the year 2011, $3 million.

13. Confronting the Challenges of Energy for Sustainable Development Thank You

14. Ged Davis Deputy Chairman EcoCities plc United Kingdom Jose Goldemberg Professor, Instituto de Eletrotecnica e Energia University of Sao Paulo Brazil Thomas Johansson Professor of Energy Systems Analysis and Director International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at the University of Lund Sweden Nebojsa Nakicenovic Leader of Energy and New Technologies Programs and Professor of Energy Economics International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Vienna University of Technology Austria Robert W. Corell Director Global Climate Change Program, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment United States Kemal Dervis Administrator United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) United States Gerald Doucet Secretary General World Energy Council United Kingdom Irene Freudenschuss-Reichl Director General for Development Cooperation Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Austria Austria Leen Hordijk Director International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Austria Thomas Rosswall Executive Director International Council for Science (ICSU) France Jamal Saghir Director, Energy Transport and Water World Bank United States John Schellnhuber Director Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Germany Achim Steiner Executive-Director United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Kenya Bj嗷n Stigson President World Business Council for Sustainable Development Switzerland Uno Svedin Head of International Affairs and Professor Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS) Sweden Robert T. Watson Chief Scientist and Director, ESSD Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (ESSD), The World Bank United States Dadi Zhou Professor and former Director General Energy Research Institute (ERI) of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) China, P.R.