Sponsored by the National Institute for Environmental Studies

and the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum

 

Preliminary Agenda

 

* Presenters should plan for 30 minutes total for presentation and questions *

 

Thursday, January 22

08:30

Welcome address by Shuzo Nishioka, NIES

Introduction and Objectives

-       Mikiko Kainuma, NIES

-       John Weyant, EMF

09:30

Session 1: Integrated Assessment / Climate Economic Modelers

-       Overview of the AIM Model,  Yuzuru Matsuoka, Kyoto Univ

-       AIM Multigas Model, Junichi Fujino, NIES

10:30

Break

10:45

-       Technology and Stabilization, Jae Edmonds, PNL/JGCRI

-       Detlef van Vuuren, RIVM

-       Brian Fisher, ABARE

12:15

Lunch

13:15

-       MARIA with learning effects and a development of multi-region and multi-sector IAM - Project Phoenix, Shunsuke Mori, TUS and RITE

-        Jiang Kejung, ERI

-        Stabilizing Long-Term Temperature; The Issues of Uncertainty,  Timing, Costs,  and Technology, Richard Richels, EPRI

-       Atsushi Kurosawa, IAE

15:15

Break

15:45

-       PR Shukla, IIMAHD

-       Addressing Non-CO2 Gases in GHG Scenarios, Francisco de la Chesnaye, USEPA

-       Alternative pathways toward stabilization, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, IIASA

-       Session 1 Open Discussion

17:30

End of First Day


 

 

Friday, January 23

08:30

Session 2: Climate Modeling

-       Climate Modeling for Global Warming Projection at the Meteorological Research Institute, Akira Noda, MRI.

-       ENSEMBLES - a European project for climate change modeling, Ulrich Cubasch, ZEDAT

-       Climate Sensitivity: Uncertainties & Learning, Michael Schlesinger, Univ of Illinois

-       Issues in atmospheric stabilization considering multiple gases, Chris Forest, MIT

10:30

Break

11:00

-       The effect of carbon-cycle climate feedbacks on the emissions requirements for CO2 concentration stabilization, Tom Wigley, UCAR

-       Climate change experiments with a high-resolution climate model - current

      status and future plans -, Toru Nozawa, CCSR/NIES

-       Session 2 Open Discussion

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Session 3: Impacts Modeling

-       Impact assessment with AIM model, Kiyoshi Takahashi, NIES

-       Tom Kram, RIVM

14:30

Break

15:00

-       Synthesizing GHG Stabilization with impacts and adaptation, Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University

-       Session 3 Open Discussion

16:00

Workshop Wrap-up Discussion

-       EMF Experience and New Climate Stabilization Study, John Weyant, EMF

17:00

Workshop Conclusion