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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

• 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT

  Registration Opens for General Audience and Media (Boxed Lunch Provided)

• 12:30pm - 12:35pm PDT

  Welcome: Kathryn Moler, Vice Provost, Dean of Research and Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, ¾ÅÉ«ÉçÇø

• 12:35pm - 12:40pm PDT

  Introduction: Robert E. Rubin, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary; Co-Chair Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations

• 12:40pm - 1:05pm PDT

  Keynote Remarks: Mary D. Nichols, Chair, California Air Resources Board

• 1:10pm - 2:00pm PDT

  Roundtable: Policy options to address climate change in the absence of a federal carbon price

  Carolyn Fischer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future

  Lawrence Goulder, Senior Fellow, Steering Committee Member, ¾ÅÉ«ÉçÇø Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR); Shuzo Nishihara Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, ¾ÅÉ«ÉçÇø

  Nathaniel Keohane, Senior Vice President, Climate, Environmental Defense Fund

  Nancy Sutley, Chief Sustainability Officer, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

  Moderator: Charles Kolstad, Senior Fellow, ¾ÅÉ«ÉçÇø Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR); Professor, by courtesy, of Economics, ¾ÅÉ«ÉçÇø

• 2:00pm - 2:10pm PDT

  Break

• 2:10pm - 3:05pm PDT

  Roundtable: How can policy encourage technological advances that can help mitigate the impact of climate change?

  Etosha Cave, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Opus 12

  Lucas Davis, Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor in Business and Technology, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

  Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director of the ¾ÅÉ«ÉçÇø Woods Institute for the Environment; Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at ¾ÅÉ«ÉçÇø

  Ryan Nunn, Policy Director, The Hamilton Project, Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

  Moderator: Lauren Sommer, Science and Environment Reporter, KQED Public Radio

• 3:05pm - 4:00pm PDT

  Roundtable: Which policy and regulatory changes would be possible after a carbon price is achieved?

  Abigail Dillen, President, Earthjustice

  Christy Goldfuss, Senior Vice President, Energy and Environmental Policy, Center for American Progress

  Jerry Taylor, President, Niskanen Center 

  Roberton C. Williams III, Professor, University of Maryland, Chief Economist, Climate Leadership Council; University Fellow, Resources for the Future

  Moderator: Jay Shambaugh, Director, The Hamilton Project, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

• 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT

  Networking Reception