Innovation Policies to Support Low Emission Development
Webinar Discussant
Prof. Nathan Hultman
Director of Environmental Policy program at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Webinar
Date : September 27, 2012
Time : 10:00AM ET
Language : English
DESCRIPTION
Meeting climate change goals requires significant efforts to diffuse existing technologies and to develop and deploy new ones. Public and private investment need to be ramped up by a combination of “technology-push” and “market-pull” policies. Diffusing low carbon technology requires much more than shipping ready-to-use equipment to developing countries; it requires building absorptive capacity and enhancing the ability of the public and private sectors to identify, adopt, adapt, improve, and employ the most appropriate technologies. In this webinar, Dr. Nathan Hultman, Director of Environmental Policy program at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, and Fellow at the Brookings Institution, explains the importance of innovation in the energy sector and how innovation policies can support a transition towards a low carbon economy.
About the speaker:
Dr. Nathan Hultman is Associate Professor and Director of Environmental and Energy Policy Programs at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland. He is a nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Associate Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Hultman’s expertise is in international climate policy, energy technologies, and private sector decisions to undertake low-carbon investments. His current projects focus on energy technology innovation in developing countries; low-carbon investment decisions in Brazil, India, Korea, and South Africa; and the CDM and Technology Mechanism under the UNFCCC. He has participated in the UN climate process since the Kyoto meeting and is a contributing author to the IPCC. He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Science, Innovation, & Society and Environmental Change Institute. Dr Hultman holds a Ph.D. in Energy & Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.
About the speaker:
Dr. Nathan Hultman is Associate Professor and Director of Environmental and Energy Policy Programs at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland. He is a nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Associate Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Hultman’s expertise is in international climate policy, energy technologies, and private sector decisions to undertake low-carbon investments. His current projects focus on energy technology innovation in developing countries; low-carbon investment decisions in Brazil, India, Korea, and South Africa; and the CDM and Technology Mechanism under the UNFCCC. He has participated in the UN climate process since the Kyoto meeting and is a contributing author to the IPCC. He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Science, Innovation, & Society and Environmental Change Institute. Dr Hultman holds a Ph.D. in Energy & Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.