Fighting Climate Change: The Future of Carbon-Trading in California
Speaker Series
03/10/2011, 06:00pm-08:00pm
Location: IR/PS Robinson Complex, Room 3201
Open to: Public, Students, Alumni
Event email: irps-csworker@ucsd.edu
Speaker: Greg Arnold, Managing Partner, CE2 Capital Partners
David Victor, Professor, IR/PS
Feliz Ventura (MPIA '07), Senior Consultant, Chamberlain Economics
Lauren Faber, Assistant Secretary for Climate Change Programs, Cal/EPA
An Environmental Policy and Business Forum event
The Net Impact Chapter of IR/PS presents the Winter 2011 Environmental Policy and Business Forum. The Forum aims to bring together entrepreneurs, students, government representatives, and venture capitalists working on the environmental challenges of today's world.
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Panelists:
Greg Arnold, Managing Partner, CE2 Capital Partners
Greg Arnold is co-founder and Managing Partner of CE2 Capital Partners. Mr. Arnold began his career as an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co. At Goldman, Sachs & Co., he focused on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions advisories for energy and power companies. Over his career, Mr. Arnold has had a number of senior deal making roles in large corporations and growth companies, including as President of Passlogix, Inc., a security software company he co-Founded.
Mr. Arnold earned an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. from the University of California at San Diego. Mr. Arnold is on the boards of the UC San Diego Dean's Council in Physical Sciences and Passlogix, Inc. and a Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
David Victor, Professor, UCSD
David Victor is a professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and director of the School's new Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. Looking across a wide array of issues from environment and energy to human rights, trade and security, the Laboratory explores when (and why) international laws actually work.
Most recently, Victor served as director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he was also a professor at Stanford Law School. Previously, he directed the science and technology program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York, where he directed the Council's task force on energy, co-chaired by Jim Schlesinger and John Deutch, and was senior adviser to the task force on climate change, chaired by governors George Pataki and Tom Vilsack. Victor's research at Stanford and the Council examined ways to improve management of the nation's $50 billion strategic oil reserve, strategies for managing investment in "geoengineering," and a wide array of other topics related to technological innovation and the impact of innovation on economic growth. His research also examined global forest policy, global warming, and genetic engineering of food crops.
Feliz Ventura, Senior Consultant, Chamberlain Economics
Feliz M. Ventura has focused on climate change policy and commerce throughout her career.
During her time as Clean Technology Program Manager for Washington State, Feliz took part in the state's effort to craft forest carbon offset rules for the Western Climate Initiative, produced policy recommendations on fostering low-carbon economic growth, and consulted for clean technology companies entering foreign markets. As a Senior Consultant with Chamberlain Economics, Feliz has analyzed federal cap and trade legislation forwarded in the Senate and House of Representatives for private and non-profit clients. Feliz earned her undergraduate degree from Pomona College in Claremont, CA and is an IR/PS alumna from the Class of 2007.
Lauren Faber, Assistant Secretary for Climate Change Programs, Cal/EPA, Sacramento, CA
In February 2010, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Lauren Faber to Assistant Secretary for Climate Change Programs for the California Environmental Protection Agency.
At Cal/EPA Faber focuses on the design and implementation of California’s cap and trade program and coordination with the Western Climate Initiative. She also leads California’s budding policy on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation. Before joining Cal/EPA, Faber served as Senior Director for Lighthouse Consulting Group, where she advised on comprehensive climate change and energy strategies for domestic and international companies, and non-government organizations.
Faber also served over four years at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. as the Senior Policy Advisor for climate change and energy. In this capacity, she advised the UK Government on its strategic engagement with the U.S. government, as well as with the business, labor and non-profit communities. She was responsible for maintaining strong relationships with Congress and the Administration, with specific expertise in emissions trading, competitiveness, international climate finance and negotiations for a post-2012 international agreement on climate change.
Faber began her career as a fellow with the Natural Resources Defense Council and then moved on to work with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. Faber holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Earth Systems, with a Minor in Economics from Stanford University, and a Master’s degree in Climate and Society from Columbia University.
Additional Information
Registration
The evening includes a hors d'oeuvres reception, and registration is required:
Non-students; business and community members: $15 registration fee. Non-students, register here through our secured registration page.
Student admission is free:
IR/PS students register at IRPSCAREERS.
Non-IR/PS students contact David Robertson at darobertson@ucsd.edu.
The forum is a presentation of Net Impact, the Environmental Policy and Business Forum, and IR/PS.
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Contact David Robertson at (858) 534-1104 for more information.
