Resources for the Future at Climate Week NYC

Climate Week NYC is a large, multi-event gathering held in New York City and hosted by the Climate Group, an international nonprofit whose purpose is to drive climate action, fast. This year RFF will host two events and participate in several others to share our research and policy insights and have critical conversations about the future of climate and energy goals.

We’ll be hosting a private, invite-only session on climate and trade and another public event on multi-state cap-and-invest programs. Please check this page regularly for additional details—we look forward to sharing more specifics soon!

For more information about RFF’s plans in the lead up to Climate Week, please contact Kristina Gawrgy at [email protected]. For media inquiries, please contact Sara Kangas at [email protected].

Managing Differences in Ambition Across Multi-State Cap-and-Invest Programs

States participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative are expected to increase the stringency of the program as a result of their ongoing Program Review process, but uncertainty around the status of RGGI in Pennsylvania and Virginia raise the prospect that some big players won’t be able to adopt Program Review changes, at least not on the same schedule as the other RGGI states. What are the states’ options for accommodating different stringencies while maintaining a linked emissions trading program? Resources for the Future (RFF) and International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) invite you to join a panel of experts for a discussion of promising approaches to accommodating differences in ambition across states in multi-state programs like RGGI.

This side event is co-sponsored by RFF and IETA and is open to the public. Registration is not required.

Speakers:

• Franz Litz, Principal, Litz Energy Strategies LLC (Moderator)
• Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, RFF
• Pam Kiely, Associate Vice President, U.S. Region, Environmental Defense Fund
• Maya Domeshek, Research Associate, Resources for the Future
• Dan McGraw, Head of Regulatory Analysis, Mercuria

C2ES x RFF Climate Aligned Trade Working Group: Kick-Off Meeting

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and RFF are inviting select companies to join the kick-off meeting of our climate-aligned trade working group. This working group’s first meeting will take place during Climate Week.

The purpose of this meeting is to formally launch a C2ES/RFF climate-aligned trade working group with companies to develop practical and effective U.S. climate and trade policies to address competitiveness and reduce emissions. This meeting will provide a level set on designing a carbon border adjustment mechanism, update on Senate proposals to establish a carbon border adjustment, and international efforts.

More details to come.

Global Renewables Summit 2024

The Global Renewables Summit is the first-ever high-level public-private summit to discuss the progress, opportunities, and challenges of tripling renewable energy globally by 2030. Following the first Global Stocktake adopted at COP28 and captured in the historic UAE Consensus – which calls for tripling the world’s renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency gains by 2030, and ensuring deep, rapid, and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in line with a pathway to limit global warming to 1.5 °C in a nationally determined manner – the Summit will serve as a platform to advance key areas of action to scale-up renewable deployment this decade, especially in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). Learn more.

RFF Speakers:

• Billy Pizer, President and CEO

Energy Opportunity Forum

The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA is hosting its second annual Energy Opportunity Forum. This forum is hosted by our Energy Opportunity Lab (EOL), which was launched at COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in 2022. EOL aims to catalyze opportunities for improved life chances through energy via actionable research, strategic convenings, community collaborations and equity-focused practical and policy solutions in order to eradicate energy insecurity in historically disadvantaged communities across the US and enable energy for development globally. Learn more and register.

Speakers:

• Billy Pizer, President and CEO, RFF
• Suzanne Russo, Fellow, Director of the Environmental Justice Initiative, RFF
• Amb. Dr. Monica Juma, National Security Advisor to the President of the Republic of Kenya
• Dr. Tony Reames, Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Environment and Sustainability
• Amb. Ekitela Lokaale, Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General and CEO, United Nations Global Compact
• Tshepidi Moremong, Chief Operating Officer, Africa 50
• Dr. Juliana Bol, Assistant Professor, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
• David Mozersky, President and Co-Founder, Energy Peace Partners
• Beth Colleton, President, Bedari Collective

The following leaders and experts will be present at Climate Week. For media inquiries before, during, or after the event, please contact Sara Kangas at [email protected].