List:
I listened for about 5 hours today to the NAS meeting identified below.
The meeting was very well done. A video is promised (I’ll pass on, if I get
word later), but they said no transcript or other report on today will be
coming.
The website link given below was
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/dbasse/becs/dbasse_171101
<http://sites.nationalacademies.org/dbasse/becs/dbasse_171101>
- and this URL gives more:
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/dbassesite/documents/webpage/dbasse_171703.pdf
<http://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/dbassesite/documents/webpage/dbasse_171703.pdf>
The acronym for the group is BECS (= Board on Environmental Change and
Society; part of the NAS Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and
Education) At least one participant noted the correspondence to BECCS. The
latter was a fairly large part of the second panel’s discussion on CDR (and a
smaller bit on “Geo” and SRM). Mine (on CDR) was the first of only two
questions from the 200 listeners in addition to maybe 50 in the NAS auditorium
- and might have generated some of the considerable amount on “geo” topics.
Neither I nor any other used the word “biochar” - but there were comments that
were relevant. There was no mention of any “geo” topic during or after the
first panel.
All the panelists (mostly not members of the official BECS group) were
knowledgeable on this combined social science / climate topic. I am missing
here a few other speakers (whose names are all on the agenda that can be found
at the first link). I have most of the names of those asking questions (mostly
comments) after each panel - and they will be in the video when released. A
few good Ppt slides hopefully coming.
Here are the two panels:
Panel 1: The bottom-up approach for international agreements, and the
uncertainties in meeting the climate targets of national climate plans
Moderator: Richard Moss, Joint Global Change Research Institute, BECS Chair
Guiding Questions: • What is understood about how bottom-up approaches work and
achieve their objectives at the international level? • Are there examples that
serve as guides (or warnings)? More generally, what do we know and still need
to know about how different forms of international agreements result in
emissions reductions? • What do Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) indicate
about the outcome of Paris agreements for global mean surface temperature? Do
they make assumptions about behavioral and societal changes that might affect
IAM results? • What role can NGOs play in achieving national climate plans and
how can they be meaningfully engaged?
David Victor, Director of the International Law and Regulation Laboratory,
University of California-San Diego (Via WebEx)
Nathan Hultman, University of Maryland
Leon Clarke, Joint Global Change Research Institute
Gavin Schmidt, Director NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Keya Chatterjee, Executive Director US Climate Action Network
Panel 2: Institutional and behavioral responses to policy and technology
initiatives
Moderator: J. Timmons Roberts, Brown University, BECS member
Guiding Questions: • What do we know about the social science of implementation
of other similar programs in the past? What are the possibilities to improve
implementation? • How do we keep the majority of fossil fuel in the ground as
required to meet emissions targets? • What should we realistically expect in
terms of emissions reduction, by economic sectors, by level (national,
community, individual/household), and by types of tools adopted (such as market
approaches, regulation, etc.)? • How do institutions support and thwart energy
system transitions, including by affecting technological innovation and policy
creation?
Joseph Aldy, Harvard University
Jennie Stephens, University of Vermont
Michael Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt Law School
Tom Dietz, Michigan State University
I intend to follow this BECS group closely. I heard a lot of good
material.
Anyone else have comments on this NAS social science (BECS) group or
today’s program?
Ron
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> Date: April 19, 2016 at 9:55:40 AM MDT
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> Thank you for your interest in the Board on Environmental Change and Society
> Seminar “Moving on From Paris: Implementation Lessons from Social Sciences”
>
> The seminar will take place on April 28, 2016. A detailed agenda and further
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