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| Welcome message: Toward a partnership for the Americas on biofuels trade and carbon policy |
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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:
Lois Quam: Managing Director of alternative investments for Piper Jaffray Companies |
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| A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: What is the current state of biofuels in the Americas?
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| Dr. Miguel Dabdoub, President of the Biofuels Chamber of the São Paulo Government, and professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
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| 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. |
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| Dr. Shri Ramaswamy, Department Head, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota. |
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| A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: What are current mechanisms influencing biofuels and carbon trade development in the Americas? |
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| Facilitator: Dr. René Castro, Sustainable Development Professor at INCAE and former Costa Rica’s Minister of the Environment and Energy |
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| Dr. Hugo Altomonte, Coordinator of the Natural Resources and Energy Unit of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean |
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| Dr. Alberto Trejos, Economics Professor at INCAE, and former Costa Rica's Minister of Foreign Trade |
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| Constanza Valdes, Senior Economist at the Markets and Trade Economics Division. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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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. |
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| A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: What are the environmental impacts of biofuels development in the Americas? |
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Dr. Alex Farrell, Assistant Professor University of California-Berkeley, and U.S. representative to the Steering Board of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels. |
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Dr. Jason Hill, Research Associate, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota |
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| 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) |
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A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Stakeholder perspectives on possibilities, priorities and options for the development of biofuels trade and carbon policies throughout the Americas |
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| Co-facilitators: Kent Cavender-Bares and David P. Bernard, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment |
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| Dr. Marcia Patton-Mallory, Biomass and Energy Coordinator, Forest Service, USDA |
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| David P. Swanson, Partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, and Chair of the Agribusiness, Cooperative and Rural Electric Practice Group |
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| Dr. William A. Ward, Director of the Center for International Trade and Professor of Applied Economics and Statistics at Clemson University |
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| Craig Cox, Executive Director of the Soil and Water Conservation Society |
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| Dr. Thomas H. DeLuca , Senior Forest Ecologist, The Wilderness Society |
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| A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: The Americas approach toward a carbon managed world |
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| Gao Pronove, Executive Director of Earth Council Geneva and the Managing Director of the GHG Management Institute |
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| 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 |
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| Dr. Luca Zullo, Technical Director of Cargill Environmental Finance
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