A key question in this session is how to best design an effective global climate change policy through international agreements covering all the parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Can a mix of allowance-based transactions and project-based transactions in different carbon markets work efficiently enough? Another choice is between legislation that requires enforceable, economy-wide reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and framework legislation setting economy-wide GHG reduction targets. Soft law governance of activities that affect the emission of GHGs as well as of adaptation to new climate conditions is an important issue.

Chair: Professor Birgitte Egelund Olsen, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Rapporteur: Martin Lidegaard, CONCITO, Denmark

Speakers:

13.30-13.55: Niccola Notaro

Legal adviser for Multilateral Environmental Agreements in the European Commission, DG Environment, Unit E2-International Agreements and Trade, European Commision

The legal architecture of the future climate regime

13.55-14.20: Sanford E. Gaines

Director, Utton Transboundary Resources Center, New Mexico, US

The Implications of WTO Law for the Design of a Global Climate Change Regime

14.20-14.45: Hans Chr. Bugge

Professor, Institutt for offentlig rett, Oslo University, Norway

The Future Climate Regime: Fundamental Issues of Fairness, Efficiency and Sustainable Development

14.45-14.50: Break

14.50-15.10: Colin Crawford

Associate Professor, College of Law, Georgia State University, USA

The Public, the Private and the Extra-legal: Incentives, Impediments and Initiatives for Managing Growth and Ensuring Sustainable Development

15.10-15.30: Cymie R. Payne

Lecture and Associated Director, California Center for Environmental Law and Policy, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

Balancing the Risks

This discussion will cover the different instruments and strategies used by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), the World Bank (including the World Bank Carbon Finance Unit), and other special funds at the international and regional levels. One of the key questions for this session is whether it is realistically possible to close the gap between global funding needs and available funding resources. Fighting climate change is also about designing the right set of tools to alter the course of investments – making private money go where it has never gone before. Green Scheme Investments (GSI) in the EIT-countries can be discussed. The use of ESCO projects to ensure development, implementation, and financing to move energy efficiency and reduce operation and maintenance costs is a relevant issue. Venture capital involvement, primarily in industrialised countries with clean energy and clean tech projects, as well as insurance issues will also be part of this session.

Chair: Head of Programme Kirsten Halsnæs, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Rapporteur: Martin Lidegaard, CONCITO, Denmark

Speakers:

16.00-16.20: Peter Bjornsen

Program Manager and Sr. Policy Officer, UNDP-GEF, Washington DC, USA

The GEF as a global funding mechanism for climate change

mitigation and adaptation

16.20-16.40: Gert Aagaard Andersen

Ambassador for the environment, Danida

Financing climate change in developing countries – options and challenges

16.40-16.55: Kirsten Halsnæs

Head of Programme, Risø DTU, National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy 

Sustainable development and Climate Change – a Platform for Joint International Policies

17.00-17.15: Christina Voigt

Dr.juris, Post.Doc. Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Public and International Law

The Future of Climate Investment: Lessons Learned From the Clean Development Mechanism

17.15-17.30: Silvia Magnoni and Marcello Bassi

Project Manager for International Affairs, Baltic Sea Solutions, Denmark/Deputy Director Project Development and Modelling, Millennium Institute, USA

Analysing strengths and weakness of existing and proposed financial mechanisms for climate change mitigation and adaptation to inform the UNFCC talks at COP15

17.30-17.45: Wiebke Lass

Dipl.-Volksw., Senior Researcher, Postdam University

Investment Needs for Climate Policy: The Case of Germany

17.45-18.00: Matthew A. Shapiro

Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

Targeting and Capturing Returns from Sustainability-Oriented Research

The discussion will cover the effectiveness and impacts of different economic instruments as well as the interface between climate change, trade, and sustainable energy development. Part of this discussion is the push for renewable energy sources and lower GHG emissions using economic instruments, so carbon taxes and government subsidies will be included. Voluntary agreements, voluntary carbon offsets, and emission rights auction revenues used for international climate change cooperation can be part of the discussion, as well as the choice between (or the right mix of) command and control or market-based instruments to reduce GHGs, and the legal and economic impacts of that choice.

Chair: Ph.d. Peter Møllgaard, Copenhagen School of Business, Denmark

Rapporteur: Martin Lidegaard, CONCITO, Denmark

Speakers:

8.00-8.25: Peter Jørgensen

Head of the Department of Planning, Energinet.dk, Denmark

“Integration of Wind Power in the Danish Energy System – preparing for 30 % renewables in 2025”

8.25-8.45: Peter Møllgaard

Professor, Head of Department, Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, DK

Risky Power: Choice of technology, security of demand and market power in power markets

8.45-9.10: Lars Aagaard

Deputy General Director, Danish Energy Association, Denmark

“Is it possible for European Member States to act as Energy Pioneers?”

9.20-9.40: Frede Hvelplund

Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark

”Economic crises and the need for renewable energy incentives and ownership models that are independent of the present macroeconomic situation”

9.40-10.00: Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark

How can farmers participate in the EU Emission Trading System?

This session has two focal points: It will address the implementation of climate policies facilitated by an infrastructure that ensures sustainable water treatment, waste treatment, energy efficiency, etc. at national, regional, and local levels. And it will address the impact of such new infrastructures and other climate aiding steps on the urban development.

One example could be to analyse the potentials for the electrified society, where the infrastructure for energy supply is mainly based on electricity, such that the energy source is broadly used for light, power, transportation, heat etc. An additional topic could be to analyse how the energy could be supplied and balanced from wind turbines, wave energy, water and turbines based on biofuel. Another example could be considerations on how new surface water treatments can influence future urban development structures. And finally an additional topic could be how the transfer of knowledge of planning issues can be a tool to help newly industrialised countries (NICs) and developing countries reduce their GHG emissions.

Chair: Research Professor Mikael Skou Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark

Rapporteur: Martin Lidegaard, CONCITO, Denmark 

Speakers:

10.30-10.55: Dan Jørgensen

Member of European Parliament

Policy instruments in the EU's climatepackage

10.55-11.20: Carsten Bjerg

CEO and Group President, Grundfos

Government measures to support sustainable buildings

11.20-11.35: Carsten Daugbjerg

Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark

Government intervention in climate-friendly industries: lessons from the Danish wind turbine industry and organic farming

11.45-12.00: Anders Chr. Hansen

Associate Professor, RUC

Taxing fuels from Zero Emission Vehicle Fuel in Europe – are Tax Favours Necessary?

12.00-12.15: Josefien van Zeben

PhD Student, Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics and Amsterdam Center for Environmental Law, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The Centralized Third Phase of the EU ETS - A Study in Regulatory Efficiency

12.15-12.30: Christian Ege

Ecological Council

Green tax reforms in an EU member state - synergy between legal and economic instruments to reduce emission of climate gasses 

More than 60 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are related to energy. Denmark is a showcase for increasing use of low-carbon wind energy – today about 20 percent of electricity consumption is covered by wind energy – and politicians wish to increase that percentage substantially in the coming years. The key question addressed in this session is to identify obstacles (systemic, legal, and economic) to the increased use of such intermittent power generation as well as ways to circumvent these obstacles. The importance of international connectivity, design of the power grid to take account of decentralized, intermittent power generation, organization of the the transboundary electricity exchange (NordPool), the tariff structure and public service obligations will be important elements of the scenario we develop.

Chair: Assistant Professor Martin Heide Jørgensen, Engineering College of Aarhus, Denmark.

Rapporteur: Martin Lidegaard, CONCITO, Denmark

Speakers:

14.10-14.25: Søren Hermansen

Director of Samsø Energy Academy, Denmark

100% RE, from vision to reality on the Danish island community – Samsø

14.28-14.43: Knud Pedersen

Vice President, DONG Energy

Imagine if CO2 emission from transport were dramatically reduced

14.46-15.01: Peter Newman

University of Westminster

Markets, experts and depoliticising decisions on major infrastructure

15.04-15.19: Jacob Hansen

Director H2 Logic A/S

Sustainable transport – hydrogen infrastructure and vehicles

15.22-15.37: Kristian Olesen and Henrik Harder

Research assistant and associated professor, Aalborg University

Challenges of Climate Change seen in a Danish regional spatial perspective, the Eastern Jutland case anno 2008

15.40-15.55: Victor Andrade

Assistant professor, Department of Architecture and Design, Aalborg University

Towards Climate Protection: Urban Design Initiatives in Copenhagen