CEES Analysts Invited to Present at Copenhagen Climate Congress

Elias Quinn (‘09) and Adam Reed (’08), analysts at Colorado Law’s Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES), will be travelling to Copenhagen to present their work at the Copenhagen Climate Congress 2009. The Congress is the premier scientific lead-in meeting to the Conference-of-Parties 15 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.  The Congress aims to compile existing and emerging scientific data to guide public officials in making enlightened decisions with respect to the balancing of adaptation and mitigation in the societal response to climate change.

Reed and Quinn have been invited to present posters and give remarks at the “Potentials and Limits of Biofuels” and “Integrating National and International Approaches” sessions.  Reed will present “Life-cycle analysis and renewable fuel goals: a regulator’s Scylla and Charybdis.”  Quinn will present “Attempts to insulate carbon-regulated economies from under-regulated imports, and the inadvertent integration of the world’s carbon markets under NAFTA,” based on an article he published in Climate and Carbon Law Review in February 2008.

Funding for their trip to Copenhagen is being provided by the CU Renewable & Sustainable Energy Initiative and the Colorado Energy Research Institute.