Federal Events & Workshops

This Capitol Hill lunch briefing with leading experts will examine extreme weather hazards, with a case study on the Texas drought, their relationship to changes in our climate, and how the country can better prepare for such events.

A two-day workshop State and Federal Climate and Energy Policy: Where Do We Go from Here? on February 24 and 25, 2011, co-sponsored by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and the Georgetown Climate Center explored how state and federal governments can work together to chart a new path forward in climate and energy policy.

Capitol Hill briefings on the 2010 hurricane season, which forecasters predict will produce between 14 and 23 named hurricanes - the most active season since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina and 27 other named storms swept the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Key discussion topics include risks an active hurricane season pose for energy-related infrastructure, for inland areas as storm surges push oil from the Gulf spill beyond beaches and marshland, and for stakeholders dealing with flooding in coastal communities in the Gulf and along the East Coast. 

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), The American Geophysical Union (AGU), The American Meteorological Society (AMS), The Ecological Society of America (ESA), and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change held a briefing on climate change impacts and adaptation.

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change hosted at the Barcolena Climate Change Talks 2009 to offer insights into the latest Congressional and regulatory efforts to reduce U.S. emissions, and outline recommendations for a comprehensive framework agreement in Copenhagen as a foundation for negotiating a ratifiable treaty.

This briefing presents different views on how allowance alue should be used, and key mechanisms for distributing it.

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change, National Association for Clean Air Agencies (NACAA), Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center, and Pew Center on the States hosted a two-day workshop on State and Federal Action on Climate Change.

This briefing discusses issues in the development and oversight of a well-functioning carbon commodity market. These topics include overall market design, options for the choice of regulator, the derivatives market, the Over-the-Counter (OTC) market, and the rules and enforcement necessary to prevent market manipulation and abuses.

This workshop considers what useful insights can be gleaned now about quantifying the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The workshop’s objectives are to develop a set of practical recommendations that decision makers can employ in the near-term and to outline a research path to improve decision making tools over time.