Cost-Effective Carbon Restrictions

October 15, 2007
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Detroit Branch
1600 East Warren Avenue
Detroit, MI 48207-1063

8:00 a.m.		Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.		Introductory Remarks Coal, Cars and Cold: Cheap or Costly Carbon Containment? (PDF,142KB) William Testa, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
8:45 a.m.		Overview: Options for Carbon Reduction GHG Mitigation and the Energy Sector (PDF,332KB) Howard Gruenspecht, Deputy Administrator, Energy Information Administration
9:45 a.m.		Emissions Trading The U.S. Carbon Market (PDF,293KB) Mike J. Walsh, Senior Vice President, Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc.
10:30 a.m.		CAFE Standards and Carbon Emissions: Impact, Efficiency, and Economics Bringing Transportation into a Cap-and-Trade Regime Martin Zimmerman, Clinical Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan
11:15 a.m.		Carbon Tax Opinion The Carbon Tax Option: A New Look at an Old Idea (PDF,211KB) Gilbert Metcalf, Professor of Economics, Tufts University
12:00 p.m.		Lunch
12:45 p.m.		Luncheon Speaker John D. Dingell, U.S. Representative from Michigan
2:00 p.m.		Alternate Power Generation Options Carbon Reduction Options in Power Generation (PDF,1022KB) David K. Schmalzer, Director, Fossil Energy Program and Acting Manager, Carbon Management and Sequestration Research, Argonne National Laboratory (PDF,9KB)
2:45 p.m.		Regional Impact Regional Economic Impact Assessment of Climate Change Legislation: A Case for Michigan (PDF,212KB) Sugandha Tuladhar, Associate Principal, Charles River Associates
3:30 p.m.		Break
3:45 p.m.		Nuclear Option The Economic Future of Nuclear Power (PDF,405KB) Don Jones, Senior Economist and Vice President for Marketing, RCF Economic and Financial Consulting Incorporated
		Last updated: February 19, 2008