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Princeton UniversityFall Term - 2008Mondays, 7-10pm, Robertson Hall 014INTRODUCTION, CLIENT, AND ASSIGNMENTCOURSE REQUIREMENTS AND PROCESSEVALUATIONREADINGSWEEKLY SCHEDULE (Readings, Assignments, and Guest Speakers)Readings:Readings:Black Carbon Emissions and Climate Change: A Technical Workshop held in San Diego in late 2004. This describes some of the opportunities and uncertainties associated with BC.FALL RECESS, October 26 - November 2: Field ResearchSome Web Sites on Climate Change, Black Carbon, Energy, Mitigation strategies, etc.:Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research. http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/index.shtmlUnion of Concerned Scientists. http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/An Inconvenient Truth movie web site. http://www.climatecrisis.net/The Energy Foundation. http://www.ef.org/programs.cfm?program=climatePew Center for Global Change. http://www.pewclimate.org/Real Climate web site (real science from climate scientists). http://www.realclimate.org/IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme. http://www.ieagreen.org.uk/publications.htmlNational Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. http://www.noaa.gov/Investor Network on Climate Risk. http://www.incr.com/CERES, Investors and Environmentalists for Sustainable Prosperity. http://www.ceres.org/Climate Institute. http://www.climate.org/climate_main.shtmlAdditional Material on Reserve in Stokes Library:Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Graduate Program WWS 591e Policy Workshop: Integrating Clean Air and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Strategies in Future Environmental Policy: A Focus on Black Carbon Fall Term - 2008 Mondays, 7-10pm, Robertson Hall 014 Denise L. Mauzerall Associate Professor Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program Office: 406 Robertson Hall Office Hours: By appointment Telephone: 609-258-2498 E-mail: [email protected] INTRODUCTION, CLIENT, AND ASSIGNMENT Climate change is a global environmental issue which will have increasingly undesirable effects around the world in our lifetimes. Air pollution is a local, regional and hemispheric issue that has adverse impacts on public health, agricultural yields and ecosystems. In many cases the emission of air pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHG) come from the same sources and addressing both together could have large co-benefits. However, policies to address the issues are currently separate. Integration of air quality and climate mitigation efforts will likely become a major issue in upcoming domestic legislative and policy debates. The topic is also important internationally as developing countries which face worsening air quality might be engaged in efforts to address climate change if technology and policy options were available that addressed both issues simultaneously. Black carbon (BC) is an aerosol (particulate) that is emitted in combustion processes. It has a positive radiative forcing and hence contributes to climate warming. Reductions in its emissions would provide a positive benefit to both human health and would help reduce climate warming. This workshop will examine ways in which BC emissions can be reduced domestically and internationally and whether and how such reductions should be placed within domestic or international air quality and/or climate agreements/legislation/ regulations. Our client is Mr. Robert Brenner, the Director of the Office of Policy Analysis and Review at the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a WWS alum. Brenner played a key role in the development, Congressional passage and implementation of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and has served for several years as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, EPA's senior career executive in air pollution control. He, and members of his staff, have been actively involved in deliberations on EPA’s rolein controlling GHG. The workshop will advise EPA on potential policy initiatives to jointly address climate change and air quality issues through domestic or international initiatives to reduce BC emissions under the new presidential administration which will take office in January 2008. The workshop’s task is to develop creative yet realistic, well-reasoned and supported policy recommendations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to facilitate domestic and international mitigation of BC emissions under unified air quality and climate initiatives. COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND PROCESS The workshop will prepare a coherent, integrated, collective final report, with a one-page executive summary, findings, recommendations, and supporting rigorous analyses, emphasizing policy recommendations (15-20 double-spaced pages, plus exhibits and supporting individually- or collectively-written appendices). In addition, a concise PowerPoint presentation for briefing the clients and perhaps other relevant audiences will also be prepared. Initial background readings, lectures, discussions, an introductory meeting with the EPA clients in Washington D.C., and informal briefings by pertinent governmental, scientific, and NGO experts will take place during Weeks 1-6. Additional day trips for meetings with key experts may also be arranged. Each workshop member will research and write a 10-15 page (double-spaced), well-referenced background paper on one of the key aspects of the workshop’s assignment during Weeks 1-6. The written paper will be submitted to the workshop. The key findings and recommendations from the papers will be presented orally by each workshop member to the entire group in Week 6, assisted by a concise PowerPoint presentation. Possible background paper topics include, but are not limited to, a list of questions on science issues, engineering/economic issues and policy design issues developed by our EPA clients and the instructor. The list will be posted on Blackboard under Week 2. Workshop members should select, define, and refine the individual paper topic in consultation with workshop members and the instructor. The workshop’s final collective report will not simply be a compendium of the individual background papers, although some background papers, with rewriting, may be included as appendices in the workshop’s final report. During the fall recess (October 28 - November 5, 2006), small groups of students may travel to various domestic and foreign destinations, e.g., California, Germany, United Kingdom, France, etc., to conduct interviews and gather


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