Penn Workshops on Markets & the Environment

Workshop 1 - Friday October 23, 2009
“Rethinking the Foundations of Climate Change Law and Policy”

Penn Law School
3443 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tanenbaum Hall room 345

Thursday
6:30 pm	Dinner Union Trust Steakhouse 717 Chestnut St Philadelphia, PA 19106 (215) 925-6000
Friday
8:30 am – 9:00 am	Breakfast Rare Book Room, Tanenbaum 253
9:00 am – 10:05 am	Jason Johnston, Jonathan Klick and Dean Leuck, “Climate, Policy and Development: The Difficulties of Inferring Causality from Wildland Fire Trends.” Commentator: Sheila Olmstead, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future.
10:05 am – 10:15 am	Break
10:15 am – 11:20 am	J. Scott Armstrong, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Kesten C. Green, Monash University, “Public policy lessons from history: Using structured analogies to predict the effects of the manmade global warming movement” Background Papers Kesten C. Green and J. Scott Armstrong, "Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists Versus Scientific Forecasts" J. Scott Armstrong, Kesten C. Green, and Willie Soon "What is the Appropriate Public-Policy Response to Uncertainty?" J. Scott Armstrong, Kesten C. Green, and Willie Soon "Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit" Kesten C. Greena, J. Scott Armstrong, and Willie Soon "Validity of Climate Change Forecasting for Public Policy Decision Making" Commentator: Cary Coglianese, University of Pennsylvania Law School
11:20 am – 11:30 am	Break
11:30 am – 12:35 pm	Jody Freeman, Senior Climate Counselor, Office of the President, United States; Andrew Guzman, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, “Seawalls are Not Enough: Climate Change and U.S. Interests” Commentator: Indur Goklany, Independent Scholar
12:35 pm – 1:35 pm	Lunch Faculty Lounge, Silverman Hall, room 144
1:35 pm – 2:40 pm	Jonathan Adler, Case Western Reserve University, “Eyes on a Climate Prize: Rewarding Energy Innovation to Achieve Climate Stabilization.” Commentator: Howard Chang, University of Pennsylvania Law School
2:40 pm – 2:50 pm	Break
2:50 pm – 3:55 pm	Thomas Merrill and David Schizer, Columbia University School of Law, “Energy Policy for an Economic Downturn: A Proposed Petroleum Fuel Price Stabilization Plan.” Commentator: Mary Hutzler, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Institute for Energy Research
3:55 pm – 4:05 pm	Break
4:05 pm – 4:50 pm	Concluding Comments and Discussion Brian Mannix, formerly Associate Administrator for Policy, Economics, and Innovation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency