The topic for the IRGC event was Risk Governance Guidelines for Bioenergy Policies.
Read IRGC’s Message about the risk governance of bioenergy.
Speakers included :
Granger Morgan, Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, Chairman of the IRGC Scientific and Technical Council
Alex Farrell, Associate Professor of Energy and Resources at UC Berkeley
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Barbara Bramble, Senior Program Advisor, International Affairs, National Wildlife Federation
George Weyerhaeuser, Senior Fellow, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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Charlotte Opal, Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
Simonetta Zarrilli, UNCTAD, Division on International Trade and Commodities
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Marie-Valentine Florin, Deputy Secretary General, IRGC
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WIREC 2008 was hosted by the US Government and built on previous international renewable energy summits held in Bonn in 2004 and Beijing in 2005. Leaders from around the world addressed such topics as : the benefits of large-scale renewable energy deployment on energy security ; climate change ; air quality and economic growth ; multiple policy options and best practices that encourage and enable accelerated renewable energy up-take ; and, advancing the networks and partnerships to explore and initiate renewable energy projects.
Further information on WIREC on : www.wirec2008.org and www.americanrenewables.org
Further information on the current IRGC’s project work on risk governance guidelines for bioenergy here