VIDEO: Session 1: Introduction and Welcome, and Keynote Address: Challenges and Responses

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Event Date

11-5-2010

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VIDEO (47:37):

SESSION 1: Introduction and Welcome, and Keynote Address: Challenges and Responses

Introduction: Lakshman Guruswamy, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES), Professor of Law, University of Colorado at Boulder

Welcome: David Getches, Dean, School of Law, University of Colorado at Boulder

Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Doug Vilsack, CEO, Elephant Energy

Keynote Address: Challenges and Responses: Dr. Dan Shine, Senior Adviser, Office of Science and Technology, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Moderator

Lakshman Guruswamy, David Getches, Doug Vilsack

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This conference is a sequel to the 2009 World Energy Justice Conference (WEJC 2009) which began examining ways of mainstreaming safe, clean, and efficient energy for the world's Energy Poor (EP). The EP number two and a half billion people living on less than $1-2 a day who have no access to modern energy services. WEJC 2010 more fully develops these themes. WEJC 2010 will explore how the next round of global warming meetings in Cancun could design new flexibility mechanisms that give credits, for example, for the reduction of black carbon by the adoption of cookstoves, and embrace small scale projects by poor stakeholders. WEJC 2010 will traverse ways of generating more capital, and promoting manufacture of appropriate sustainable energy technologies (ASETs) by social entrepreneurs as well as large corporations. The conference will explore promising pathways for doing so.

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