<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Toward
an Innovation Centered Climate Change Strategy<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Daniel Esty</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">, Yale University </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">March 31</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">3:00-4:30 PM</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">E19-319</span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Abstract</span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><b></b></span></font><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Prospects
for a global agreement on climate change to supplant the Kyoto Protocol are now
badly bogged down. The success of the international negotiations is deeply
intertwined with the U.S. domestic political conversation around climate
change. Unfortunately, the current legislative efforts seem unlikely to
win the necessary majorities in the House and Senate. It is now time to think
about alternative strategies. In this talk, I will argue that we need to put
innovation at the center of our approach to climate change. Critical to this
strategy realignment is a focus on getting a clear price signal on greenhouse
gas emissions and a package of additional incentives that help to engage the
full creative spirit of the country and the world in the effort to advance
energy efficiency, explore alternative sources of power generation, and
establish whether carbon capture and storage can be done cost effectively. This
talk will examine the policy process that will be necessary to put forward such
an innovation-centered approach to climate change.</span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">About the Speaker</span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Daniel C. Esty</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental
Law and Policy at Yale University. He holds faculty appointments in both
Yale’s Environment and Law Schools. He also serves as the Director of the Yale
Center for Environmental Law and Policy (<a href="http://www.yale.edu/envirocenter)">www.yale.edu/envirocenter)</a> and the
Center for Business & Environment at Yale (</span></font><a href="http://www.yale.edu/CBEY"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">www.yale.edu/CBEY</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> ). Professor Esty
is the author or editor of nine books and numerous articles on environmental
policy issues and the relationships between environment and corporate strategy,
competitiveness, trade, globalization, governance, and development. His
recent prizewinning book, </span></font><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Green to
Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value,
and Build Competitive Advantage</span></font></i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">, argues that pollution control and
natural resource management have become critical elements of marketplace
success and explains how leading-edge companies have folded environmental
thinking into their core business strategies. Prior to taking up his
current position at Yale, Professor Esty was a Senior Fellow at the Peterson
Institute for International Economics (1993-94), served in a variety of senior
positions on the US Environmental Protection Agency (1989-93), and practiced
law in Washington, DC (1986-89). Professor Esty spent the 2000-01 academic year
as a Visiting Professor at INSEAD, the European business school in
Fontainebleau, France. In 2002, Professor Esty received the American Bar
Association Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy
for “pioneering a data-driven approach to environmental decision making” and
developing the global Environmental Sustainability Index. He served four
years as an elected Planning and Zoning Commissioner in his hometown of
Cheshire, Connecticut. He sits on the Board of Directors of Resources for the
Future and the Connecticut Fund for the Environment.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "></span></span></font></p></body></html>