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CMI Ninth Annual Meeting February 9-10, 2010 Co-Directors: Steve Pacala and Robert Socolow (on leave 2009-2010) Acting Co-Director: Craig Arnold Princeton University cmi.princeton.edu
Goal: The goal of the meeting is to understand the history of the CMI, to review findings from our work in 2009, to exchange information about future domestic and international policy in the context of Copenhagen, and to exchange information that will help frame our partnership in 2010 2015.
8-8:30 a.m.
8:30-8:45 a.m.
CMI Ninth Annual Meeting Conference Schedule:
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 Part One Breakfast Available Pablo Debenedetti: "Welcome and Safety Moment; Update on Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment" 8:45-9:15 a.m.
9:15-10 a.m.
10-10:45 a.m.
10-10:20 a.m.
10:20-10:45 a.m.
10:45-10:55 a.m.
10:55-11:40 a.m.
Steve Pacala & Robert Socolow: "CMI and PEI Overview; Recent Developments" Jorge Sarmiento: "Highlights of CO 2 Science" "Highlights of CO 2 Capture" Craig Arnold: "Reliable Electrochemical Energy Storage for Alternative Energy" Robert Williams Break Michael Celia: "Highlights of CO 2 Storage" 11:40-12:40 p.m.
"Highlights of CO 2 Integration" 11:30-12 p.m.
12-12:30 p.m.
Robert Socolow: "Group Overview" Shoibal Chakravarty and Massimo Tavoni: "One Billion High Emitters: An Individual Perspective on Emissions and Reductions" 12:40–1:20 p.m.
Lunch 1:20–1:30 p.m.
Group Photo
1:30-2 p.m.
2-2:15 p.m.
2:15-2:30 p.m.
2:30-5 p.m.
CMI Ninth Annual Meeting Conference Schedule:
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, Palmer House Part Two David Eyton: "BP Review of 2009" Venkatesh Narayanamurti: "Overview: Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP), Harvard" Chris Somerville and Stephen Long: "Overview: Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI)" First Deep Dive: Domestic Climate Policy Chair: Robert Socolow 2:30-3:30 p.m.
2:30-2:50 p.m.
2:50-3:10 p.m.
U.S. Climate Policy Prospects in Wake of COP15
Dallas Burtraw, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future: "Changing Political Landscapes and Pathways Forward: The Distribution of Cost from Climate Policy" David Hawkins, Director of Climate Programs, NRDC: "Update on Climate Policy in Congress" 3:10-3:30 p.m.
Henry Lee, Co-PI ETIP, Harvard University: "Climate and the Transport Sector" 3:30-4:10 p.m.
Domestic Gas Production and Refining
3:30-3:50 p.m.
David Nagel, Executive Vice President, BP America: "Natural Gas: Technology and Policy" 3:50-4:10 p.m.
4:10-4:20 p.m.
4:20-5 p.m.
5:30-8:30 p.m.
James Keating, Environmental Policy Advisor, BP America: "Climate Policy and Impacts on the Refining Industry" Break General Discussion Reception and Dinner at Prospect House Guest Speaker: Daniel Schrag, Director of the Center for the Environment, Harvard University: "A Path Forward on Pricing Carbon?"
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, Palmer) CMI Ninth Annual Meeting Conference Schedule:
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, Palmer House 8-9 a.m.
8:30-9 a.m.
9-9:05 a.m.
9:05-9:15 a.m.
9:15-12 p.m.
9:15-9:35 a.m.
9:35-9:55 a.m.
9:55-10:15 a.m.
10:15-10:35 a.m.
10:35-10:45 a.m.
10:45-12 p.m.
12-12:30 p.m.
12:30-1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
Executive Committee Breakfast Breakfast Available Steve Pacala and Robert Socolow: "Welcome and Safety Moment" Ellen Williams, Chief Scientist, BP: "Introductions and Reflections on New Role as Chief Scientist at BP"
Second Deep Dive: International Climate Policy
Chair: Steve Pacala Robert Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University: "The Regime Complex for Climate Change" Michael Levi, Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign Relations: "Outcomes and Implications from COP15" Kelly Sims Gallagher, Associate Professor, Tufts, and Research Associate, Harvard University: "Considering Copenhagen" Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund: "International Policy Implications from Forestry Offsets" Break General Discussion Report from Advisory Council and Discussion; Co-Chairs: Sally Benson and David Keith Lunch for all participants Meeting Adjourns
LAUNCH OF THE AGREEMENT December 1999 – June 2000.
BP runs an internal, U.S.-based competition for a research initiative in carbon mitigation.
October 2000
. BP and Ford Motor Company jointly announce the formation of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) at Princeton University to develop new approaches to carbon management.
“CMI will focus on resolving the fundamental scientific, environmental, and technological issues that ultimately will determine public acceptance of carbon management strategies. It will search for strategies that: 1) will have the desired effect on atmospheric carbon and climate; 2) will be safe and reliable with limited environmental impact; and 3) will involve neither prohibitive economic costs nor prohibitive disruption of patterns of energy consumption.” Recognizing the complexity and durability of the issues, both BP and Ford Motor Company make a ten-year commitment, with BP funding of $15,100,000 and Ford Fund funding of $5,000,000.
December 2000
. Kickoff meeting is held in Princeton.
Mission Statement:
The mission of CMI is to lead the way to a compelling and sustainable solution of the carbon and climate change problem.
By combining the unique and complementary strengths of the CMI parties – one premier academic institution and two influential global companies – CMI participants seek to attain a novel synergy across fundamental science, technology development, and business principles that accelerates the pace from discovery, through proof of concept, to scalable solution.
Carbon Integration Oppenheimer / Pacala / Socolow 2000-2015 Carbon Science Bender / Morel / Pacala Sarmiento / Sigman Carbon Capture Arnold / Kreutz / Larson / Law / Williams Carbon Storage Celia / Debenedetti / Peters / Prevost / Scherer
Leverage
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Science
– GFDL – NOAA Joint Institute
Capture
– Andlinger Center founded in 2009 with a $100 million gift – Major new $20 million Center on Combustion in May 2009
Storage
– Major new federal funding
Integration
– Siebel Energy Grand Challenge ($1.5 million per year) – New Princeton initiative to build climate science and policy
Research Groups: Science Capture Storage Integration Milan Politecnico Tsinghua Univ.
Alberta Geol. Survey Climate Central BP: G. Hill Co-Directors: S. Pacala R. Socolow Ford: J. Ginder “pause” ETIP, Harvard
Advisory
Council: D. Burtraw D. Hawkins D. Keith M. Levi S. Benson/F. Orr S.Long / C.Somerville
Research Programs:
Science Group
: From left to right: Bender / Morel / Pacala / Sarmiento / Sigman
Science Group 2009 Summary
The
SCIENCE GROUP
continued to narrow the uncertainty in the causes and magnitude of the terrestrial and ocean carbon sinks. New research by the
Pacala Group
points to the impact of nitrogen cycling on terrestrial carbon sinks, and its new biosphere model is the first to reproduce the history, magnitude and latitudinal distribution of carbon uptake. The
Sarmiento Group
is working to improve calculations of the ocean carbon sink and explain a puzzling increase in terrestrial uptake in the early 90s. New field and lab results from the
Bender and Morel Group
s are providing insights into controls on the distribution of ocean productivity and the impacts of ocean acidification. In paleoclimate studies, new samples collected by the
Bender Group
may be able to extend the Antarctic ice core record much further back in time, and the
Sigman Group’s
latest results are narrowing down the possible mechanisms of ice age CO 2 drawdown.
Research Programs:
Integration Group
: From left to right: Oppenheimer / Pacala / Socolow
Integration Group 2009 Summary (1 of 4)
Sharing Global CO 2 Emissions Reductions Among One Billion High Emitters: The
Pacala-Socolow
Group has proposed a new approach to the allocation of a global CO 2 emissions target among the nations of the world, based on a reinterpretation of concept of “common but differentiated responsibilities” (language in the current international agreements), so that the phrase refers to individuals rather than nations. In this formulation, obligations are the same for individuals with similar life-styles, independent of the per-capita emissions of the country in which they live. Follow-on work is aimed at modeling CO 2 emissions generated by activities strongly correlated with wealth, including travel by air and meat-eating. Other work documents a remarkable increase in the level of installation and operation of SO 2 scrubbers at China's coal plants, which conventional economic models would not expect to occur until China had reached a substantially higher per capita income.
Chakravarty, Shoibal , A. Chikkatur, H. de Coninck, Stephen W. Pacala , Robert H. Socolow , and M. Tavoni , 2009:
Sharing global CO 2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
,
106(29)
, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0905232106
11884-11888
Integration Group 2009 Summary (2 of 4)
The CMI Biofuels Workshop hosted at Princeton University on June 19-20, 2008 assembled 11 experts from various backgrounds for discussions about the sustainability of biofuels, food and the environment. The workshop led to the following Science paper:
Beneficial Biofuels – The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma
Abstract
: Recent analyses of the energy and greenhouse-gas performance of alternative biofuels have ignited a controversy that may be best resolved by applying two simple principles. In a world seeking solutions to its energy, environmental, and food challenges, society cannot afford to miss out on the global greenhouse-gas emission reductions and the local environmental and societal benefits when biofuels are done right. However, society also cannot accept the undesirable impacts of biofuels done wrong.
Tilman, D., Robert H. Socolow , J. A. Foley, J. Hill, Eric Larson , L. R. Lynd, Stephen W. Pacala , J. Reilly, Timothy Searchinger , C. Sommerville, and Robert H. Williams , July 2009:
Beneficial Biofuels - The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma
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Science
, Washington, D.C., American Association for the Advancement of Science,
325(5938)
, doi: 10.1126/science.1177970
270-271
Integration Group 2009 Summary (3 of 4)
CMI has partnered with the National Energy Education Development Project to bring the “
stabilization wedges
” concept to teachers.
The
Oppenheimer
Group has initiated a project on the history of environmental assessments, beginning with an assessment of the problem of stratospheric ozone depletion. Through analysis of published and archival documents and interviews with key scientists, policy makers, and members of industry, the history of scientific assessment of ozone depletion is being reconstructed. An intriguing dimension of this work is "negative learning" – the phenomenon where scientists stick for long periods of time to the wrong path, rather than converging on the truth inexorably via successive approximations. The expectation is that insights gained from this project will improve our understanding of the scientific learning process and will be transferable to scientific assessment of global climate change.
Integration Group 2009 Summary (4 of 4)
CMI is helping steer the national dialogue on carbon mitigation
Co-Directors
Pacala
and
Socolow
have both undertaken substantial projects in the service of U.S. carbon policy.
Pacala
is leading a committee of the National Academies on carbon monitoring.
Socolow
has been a member of two National Academies’ panels on America’s Energy Future and America’s Climate Choices, and is co-directing (with BPs Michael Desmond) an American Physical Society study on the potential for CO 2 capture from air.
Research Programs:
Capture Group
: From left to right: Arnold / Kreutz / Larson / Law / Williams
Capture Group 2009 Summary
The
CAPTURE GROUP
has made major strides in developing low-carbon solutions for both liquid fuels and repowering electricity in the U.S., and has a new emphasis on biofuels and electric storage technologies. Strategies developed this year by the
Williams Group
use coal and biomass combined with carbon capture and storage to provide liquid fuels with lower biomass requirements than conventional ethanol, and would motivate CCS at coal electric plants at lower emissions prices than retrofits
.
Recent shale gas discoveries are also motivating new modeling of CCS facilities powered by natural gas rather than coal. The
Arnold Group
is exploring how to optimize existing energy storage technology to meet the needs of alternative energy sources and extend battery lifetimes. A new combustion research center led by Chung Law, leader of the
Law Group,
will bring Princeton researchers together with experts from across the nation to study and develop new alternative fuels for use in advanced engines.
Research Programs:
Storage Group
: From left to right: Celia / Debenedetti / Peters / Prevost / Scherer
Storage Group 2009 Summary
The
STORAGE GROUP
is continuing to develop novel experimental techniques and expand capabilities of models, plus delve into new research areas with external funding. New time-lapse images of corroding cements are supplying the
Scherer-Prevost Group
with more detailed information on corrosion kinetics for an improved Dynaflow model. The
Celia Group
has added processes important on the long time scales relevant to storage security to their large scale models, and has begun a new collaboration with the Capture Group to explore using produced brine for both plant cooling and control of CO 2 injection. The
Debenedetti Group
has initiated a new program thrust on the formation and stability of CO 2 hydrates. .
And finally, members of the Storage Group are part of an exciting new multipurpose underground national laboratory (DUSEL), where they will study CO 2 sequestration on realistic length scales in a project led by Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor
Catherine Peters
.
CMI Launches Redesigned Website
Sept 25, 2009 The site ( http://cmi.princeton.edu/ ) now provides added functionality and content. It includes a searchable index of over 700 articles and annual reports published by CMI faculty and staff since the initiative's inception in 2000.
Also updated and expanded are the comprehensive lists of CMI members and their research interests, sponsors and research partners , and information on CMI's research, education, outreach and affiliated programs .
Special new sections include current news covering research conducted by the CMI community, annual meeting information, materials related to the Stabilization Wedges and One Billion High Emitters papers, a list of resources related to carbon mitigation and more.
Compilation of CMI Publications in Science: 2000 – Present (1/3)
Compilation of CMI Publications in Science: 2000 – Present (2/3)
Compilation of CMI Publications in Science: 2000 – Present (3/3)
Compilation of CMI Publications in Nature: 2000 – Present (1/2)
Compilation of CMI Publications in Nature: 2000 – Present (2/2)
Compilation of CMI Publications in PNAS: 2000 – Present (1/2)
Compilation of CMI Publications in PNAS: 2000 – Present (2/2)
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Process for planning 2011-2015
Princeton proposal in 2009 for 2011-2015 BP announces in 2009 its intention to extend the partnership with funding at least at previous levels but with budget otherwise to be determined Princeton completes inventory of new capabilities in in energy and climate in January 2010 BP undertakes corresponding inventory in winter 2010
Climategate
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East Anglia group
– Hacked email leads to allegations of data manipulation, suppression of alternative views – Group prominent in IPCC – Penn State exonerates Mann in partial review
IPCC
– Press reports of exaggeration of risks in scientific literature including Himalayan glaciers and risk of tropical forest loss
None of the allegations about the IPCC or the East Anglia group changes the strength of the scientific evidence.
Definitive For
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Uncertain Definitive Against
Climate change in the past Theory and models
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Current records
Meeting Overview
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