Second ETS Workshop, Monday, 10 November 2008

Implications of ETS for Electricity Generators

Monash Conference Centre, 30 Collins Street, MELBOURNE

Program

2:00 – 3:00
John Freebairn
Ritchie Professor of Economics, Melbourne University
The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and Electricity: Generator Claims for Compensation
Discussant: Tom Hird, Competition Economics Consulting
Open Discussion

3:00 – 4:00
Graciela Chichilnisky
Professor of Economics and of Mathematical Statistics,Columbia University; Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor, Monash University
Negative Carbon Technology and the ETS
Discussant: Joshua Gans, Melbourne Business School
Open Discussion

4:00 – 4:15 -Afternoon tea

4:15 – 5:15
Tony Wood
Clean Energy Program, Clinton Foundation
Emissions trading: Implications for technology and regulation
Discussant: Tom Leuner and Mark Wilson, AER
Open Discussion

5:15 – 6:00
Blair Comley
Deputy Secretary, Department of Climate Change
State of Play
followed by
Round Table Discussion

6:00 – 6:30 -Refreshments