KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:

Lois Quam:

Managing Director of alternative investments for Piper Jaffray Companies

Facilitator: Dr. Timothy M. Smith, Director of Forest Products Management Development Institute, University of Minnesota

• Dr. Miguel Dabdoub, President of the Biofuels Chamber of the São Paulo Government, and professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• Dr. C. Ford Runge, Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy. Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law, University of Minnesota.
• Dr. Shri Ramaswamy, Department Head, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota.

• What are the challenges and opportunities for international trade of biofuels within the Americas? 
• What role should carbon policy play in these negotiations?

A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: What are current mechanisms influencing biofuels and carbon trade development in the Americas?

Facilitator: Dr. René Castro, Sustainable Development Professor at INCAE and former Costa Rica’s Minister of the Environment and Energy

• Dr. Hugo Altomonte, Coordinator of the Natural Resources and Energy Unit of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Dr. Alberto Trejos, Economics Professor at INCAE, and former Costa Rica's Minister of Foreign Trade
• Constanza Valdes, Senior Economist at the Markets and Trade Economics Division. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: “The National Strategy for Climate Change and Biofuels of Costa Rica”

Dr. Roberto Dobles Mora: Minister of Environment & Energy of Costa Rica;
President of the Administration Council Bureau at UNEP  2007-2009; and President of the Ministerial Global Environmental Forum 2007.

A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: What are the environmental impacts of biofuels development in the Americas?

Facilitator: Dr. Sangwon Suh, Assistant Professor of Industrial Ecology, University of Minnesota

• Dr. Alex Farrell, Assistant Professor University of California-Berkeley, and U.S. representative to the Steering Board of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels.
• Dr. Jason Hill, Research Associate, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
• M.S. Mary Ann Curran, Director of the Life Cycle Assessment program at the Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• What opportunities exist for collaboration among stakeholders throughout the Americas on the development of biofuels and carbon trade policies?
• What mechanisms are required to facilitate the integration of leaders? 

A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:  Stakeholder perspectives on possibilities, priorities and options for the development of biofuels trade and carbon policies throughout the Americas

Co-facilitators: Kent Cavender-Bares and David P. Bernard, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

• Dr. William A. Ward, Director of the Center for International Trade and Professor of Applied Economics and Statistics at Clemson University
• Craig Cox, Executive Director of the Soil and Water Conservation Society
• Dr. Thomas H. DeLuca , Senior Forest Ecologist, The Wilderness Society
• Dr. Marcia Patton-Mallory, Biomass and Energy Coordinator, Forest Service, USDA
• David P. Swanson, Partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, and Chair of the Agribusiness, Cooperative and Rural Electric Practice Group

A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: The Americas approach toward a carbon managed world

Facilitator: Dr. Elizabeth Wilson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Law, University of Minnesota

• Dr. Franz Tattenbach, Executive director of FUNDECOR, and elected member of the first Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, and former ambassador and lead negotiator of environmental policy for Costa Rica
• Gao Pronove, Executive Director of Earth Council Geneva and the Managing Director of the GHG Management Institute
• Dr. Luca Zullo, Technical Director of Cargill Environmental Finance

Breakout Sessions: Preparing for a “CALL TO ACTION”

Reaching Consensus on Making Biofuels Policy Work: Leadership Across Public, Private, NGO, and Geographic Boundaries

Our purpose will be to create a working document that reflects a consensus among conference participants about where to go next.

• What should be done to move the agenda forward?

This session will be facilitated by: Dr. Alfred Marcus, Edson Spencer Endowed Chair in Strategy and Technological Leadership. Co-Academic Director, Center for Integrative Leadership. University of Minnesota, Dr. René Castro, Sustainable Development Professor at INCAE and former Costa Rica’s Minister of the Environment and Energy, and  Dr. Alex Farrell, Assistant Professor University of California-Berkeley, and U.S. representative to the Steering Board of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels.

Depart for tour to SoyMor Biodiesel, and Poet Biorefining in Albert Lee, Minnesota (FULL)*

* Estimated return time to Minneapolis is 7.30 p.m. Those participating in the tour must wear long pants, full leather shoes (no sandals). Each person will be asked to wear safety glasses and a hard hat during the plant tour.