Quote: Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increase

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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.
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Global Energy Assessment Confronting the
Challenges of Energy for Sustainable Development
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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?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.

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• 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 systems that
  address the challenges.
• Policies Advancing Energy for Sustainable
  Development assessing the policies options that
  address the challenges and provide options for
  future energy systems.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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. RD community and other
  experts in the support of the GEA.

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• 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., PGE, Goldman Sachs, ),
  Government (e.g., DOE, DOS, etc.), NGOs (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.

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

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The Congress hereby establishes a U.S. Global
Energy Assessment (GEA) Support Office to
implement U.S. participation in 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. RD 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 RD
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 President of 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.
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Thank You
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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?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.