Speaker Bios and Program - UCLA Institute of the Environment and

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The California-Quebec Adventure: Linking Cap and Trade as a Path to Global Climate Action?
March 31, 2014
8:15 am
Registration
8:45 am
Welcome
Glen MacDonald, IOES
Nadia Scipio del Campo representing the Canadian Consul General in Los Angeles
Alain Houde, Head of Post, Quebec Delegation in LA
9:00 9:45 am
Keynote Panel: The Past, Present and Future of the California/Quebec Linkage
INTRODUCTION
Ann Carlson, Professor, UCLA School of Law
Jean-Yves Benoit, Director, Carbon Market Division, Climate Change Office, Quebec Ministry of Sustainable Development, Wildlife and Parks
Michael Gibbs, Assistant Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board
9:45 9:55 am
Break
9:55 -
The Economists: What are the benefits of this linkage? What are its drawbacks, and how should we
minimize them?
11:35 am
MODERATOR
Matt Kahn, Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Severin Bornstein, Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
J.R. DeShazo, Director, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, Professor, Department of International Business, HEC Montreal
11:45 1:00 pm
Networking Lunch
1:00 01:10 pm
Remarks
1:10 -
Law Panel:
James Villeneuve, Canadian Consul General for Los Angeles
2:40 pm
What implementation challenges and opportunities is the linkage creating? How are they being
addressed, and what more should be done?
MODERATOR
Katherine Trisolini, Professor, Loyola Law School
Jean-Yves Benoit, Director, Carbon Market Division, Climate Change Office, Québec Ministry of Sustainable Development, Wildlife and Parks
JP Brisson, Attorney, Latham & Watkins
Danny Cullenward, Philomathia Research Fellow ,UC Berkeley
Michael Gibbs, Assistant Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board
2:402:55 pm
Break
2:55 -
Looking forward and beyond: How can the California/Quebec linkage serve as a building block for
climate regulation outside these jurisdictions, including through enhanced international cooperation?
4:55 pm
What other jurisdictions are considering cap-and-trade programs, and are they thinking about linkage? Can international climate momentum
be built and sustained through subnational cooperation?
MODERATOR
Alex Wang, UCLA School of Law
Mark Jaccard, Professor, School of Resources and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Erick Lachapelle, Political Scientist, Adjunct Professor, University of Montreal
Erica Morehouse, Attorney, Environmental Defense Fund
Mark J. Wenzel, Ph.D., Climate Change Adviser, California Environmental Protection Agency
4:25 Summing Up
4:40 pm Ann Carlson and Matthew Kahn
4:40 pm
Cocktail Reception
Jean-Yves Benoit, Director, Carbon Market Division,
Climate Change Office, Québec
Mr. Jean-Yves Benoit holds a Bachelor’s degree
in Actuarial Mathematics and a Master’s degree
in Economics from the University of Montreal. He
worked for many year in the private sector before
joining, in 2006, Quebec’s Ministry of Sustainable
development, Environment, Wild Life and Parks . Mr.
Benoit is the Director of the Carbon Market Division. His team is responsible
for the development and implementation of Quebec’s cap and trade system and its linking with California’s system. He represents the government
of Quebec at the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) and is a member of the
Board of Directors of WCI Inc., a non-profit organization created to support
the implementation of WCI’s Regional Cap-and-Trade Program.
Severin Bornstein, Haas School of Business, UC
Berkeley
Mr. Borenstein is E.T. Grether Professor of Business
Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School
of Business and Co-Director of the Energy Institute at Haas. He is also Director of the University
of California Energy Institute. He received his A.B.
from U.C. Berkeley and Ph.D. in Economics from
M.I.T. His research focuses on business competition, strategy, and regulation. He has published extensively on the airline industry, the oil and gasoline
industries, and electricity markets. His current research projects include the
economics of renewable energy, economic policies for reducing greenhouse
gases, alternative models of retail electricity pricing, and competitive dynamics in the airline industry. Borenstein is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. He served on the
Board of Governors of the California Power Exchange from 1997 to 2003.
During 1999-2000, he was a member of the California Attorney General’s Gasoline Price Task Force. In 2010-11, Borenstein was a member of
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood’s Future of Aviation Advisory
Committee. In 2012-13, he served on the Emissions Market Assessment
Committee, which advised the California Air Resources Board on the operation of California’s Cap and Trade market for greenhouse gases.
JP Brisson, Latham & Watkins
Jean-Philippe Brisson is a leading environmental lawyer who has more than 15 years of experience advising
oil and gas, industrial and financial institution clients
on a wide range of energy and environmental matters
globally. JP is a partner in Latham’s Environmental,
Land and Resources Department and Co-chair of
its Air Quality and Climate Change Practice. He is
ranked by Chambers USA and Chambers Global for his work in this area and
is a recipient of a 2012 Burton Award for Legal Achievement and a Climate
Action Reserve CARROT Award. JP represents several large emitters and
commodities market makers in connection with structured offset and allowance transactions and compliance and enforcement issues under AB32. He
is part of the team at Latham & Watkins that represents industry in connection with the offset litigation under AB32 and he has participated on behalf
of clients in the preparation of a number of industry standard agreements
for the sale and purchase of environmental commodities. He was previously
Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Global Commodities business where he
helped establish Goldman’s US carbon trading desk and worked on a number
of private equity transactions.
Ann Carlson, UCLA School of Law
Ann Carlson is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law, and the inaugural Faculty Director
of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the
Environment at the UCLA School of Law. She is also
on the faculty of the UCLA Institute of the Environment. Professor Carlson is one of the country’s
leading scholars of climate change law and policy.
Two of her articles, Iterative Federalism and Climate Change and Takings on the
Ground, have been selected by the Land Use and Environmental Law Review as
among the top five environmental articles of the year, and her work has been
published in leading journals including the UCLA, California, Northwestern
and Michigan law reviews. She is co-author (with Daniel Farber and Jody
Freeman) of a leading casebook, Environmental Law (8th ed.).
She recently served on a National Academy of Sciences panel, America’s
Climate Choices: Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change, and she
is currently serving on an American Academy of Arts and Sciences panel
studying the future of America’s energy systems. Carlson is also a frequent
commentator and speaker on environmental issues, particularly on climate
change, and she blogs at Legal Planet (http://legalplanet.wordpress.com).
Professor Carlson teaches Property, Environmental Law, Climate Change Law
and Policy, and a Climate and Energy Lawworkshop. She is an outstanding
teacher who was the 2011 recipient of the University’s Eby Award for the
Art of Teaching and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as the
2006 recipient of the Law School’s Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. Carlson received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School
in 1989 and her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of California at
Santa Barbara in 1982. She served as the law school’s academic associate
dean from 2004-2006, and is currently Vice Dean for Faculty Recruitment
and Intellectual Life.
Danny Cullenward, UC Berkeley
Danny Cullenward is the inaugural Philomathia Research Fellow at the Berkeley Energy and Climate
Institute (BECI) at the University of California,
Berkeley. His research integrates insights form energy economics and law to support the development
of effective, science-based climate policy. Danny
recently represented a group of climate scientists
in an amicus brief to the Ninth Circuit, successfully
supporting the constitutionality of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
He holds a JD from Stanford Law School and a PhD in Environment & Resources (EIPER) from Stanford University.
J.R. DeShazo, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
J.R. DeShazo is the Director of the Luskin Center
for Innovation at UCLA. He also is a Professor and
Vice Chair of the Department of Public Policy in the
Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA, where he
is an expert in economics, public finance and organizational governance. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban
Planning from Harvard University and a M.Sc. in
Economics from Oxford University, where he was a
Rhodes Scholar. He was the Director of the Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center
for Regional Policy Studies at UCLA for 5 years (2004-2011). Dr. DeShazo’s
recent research has focused on local public finance, regulatory reform, climate change policy, and solar energy policy. He advises the Los Angeles City
Council and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, among
key agencies. He has previously advised the US Environmental Protection
Agency, the United Nations, McArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, and
the National Science Foundation, among others.
Michael Gibbs, Assistant Executive Officer, California
Air Resources Board
Michael Gibbs is Assistant Executive Officer of the
California Air Resources Board. In this capacity,
Mr. Gibbs focuses on climate and energy programs.
Mr. Gibbs has more than 30 years of experience in
energy and environmental policy analysis and program implementation. He has worked on emission
inventory methods, emission reduction analyses, and program development
throughout his career. Mr. Gibbs holds a Bachelors of Science degree in
Civil Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon
University, and a Masters degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University.
Alain Houde, Head of Post, Quebec Delegation in Los
Angeles (invited)
Alain Houde has been Québec’s Delegate in Los Angeles since March 2011. In this capacity, he represents
Québec in 13 western US states, including California,
Arizona, Washington and Nevada. A graduate of the
HEC Montréal business school (École des hautes
études commerciales de Montréal), Mr. Houde has
dedicated himself to Québec’s economic development since 1986. After a
seven-year career in the private sector, he joined the Québec government
in 1993 and held various managerial positions within the Ministère du Développement économique, de l’Innovation et de l’Exportation (Department of
Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade - MDEIE) and Transformation alimentaire Québec (TRANSAQ), in which he helped Québec
develop trade relations with the United States and Asian countries such as
Japan, China, India and South Korea. His other duties included promoting
foreign investments in Québec, supporting local products, developing export
markets for Québec food products and heading MDEIE activities on the island of Montreal. In addition, he oversaw the organization of the economic
components of the Québec-China mission in 2005 and the Québec-India
mission in 2006, and helped create the prestigious Forum of Heads of Foreign Companies in Québec event, which was held for the fifth time in 2013.
Mr. Houde has been a member of the boards of directors of the QuébecJapan Business Forum and the Conseil de promotion de l’agroalimentaire
québécois (Québec Agri-Food Promotion Council - Aliments du Québec).
He currently sits on the board of directors of the Western Climate Initiative,
Inc. Alain Houde and his spouse, Martine Renaud, have two children, Renaud
and Émile, who were born in Montreal.
Mark Jaccard, Professor, School of Resources and
Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver
Mark has been a professor since 1986 in the School
of Resource and Environmental Management at
Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University. The only exception is 1992 to 1997, when he took a leave of
absence to serve as Chair and CEO of the British
Columbia Utilities Commission. His PhD is from
the Energy Economics and Policy Institute at the University of Grenoble.
He has published over 100 academic papers, most of these related to his
principal research focus: the design and application of energy-economy
models that assess the effectiveness of sustainable energy and climate policies. For this career research, he was named a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada in 2009 and British Columbia’s Academic of the Year in 2008.
He has contributed to several major processes and assessments, including
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (93-96 and 2010-2012),
the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (1995-2001 and 2007-2009), Canada’s National Roundtable
on the Environment and the Economy (2006-2009), British Columbia’s
Climate Action Team (2007-2009), and the Global Energy Assessment
(2008-2012). In 2006, his book, Sustainable Fossil Fuels, won the Donner
Prize for top policy book in Canada. At Simon Fraser University he teaches
graduate and undergraduate versions of an interdisciplinary course in energy
and materials sustainability, covering basic physics, technologies, economics,
policy and human cognition and behavior.
Recent publications include:
Matthew Kahn, UCLA Institute of the Environment
and Sustainability
Matthew E. Kahn is a Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, the Department of Public Policy, the Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Law
School. He is a research associate at the National
Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow
at IZA. He also serves as a Non-Resident Scholar at the NYU Stern School
of Business at the Urbanization Project and as a Non-Resident Scholar at
the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research. Before joining
the UCLA faculty in January 2007, he taught at Columbia and the Fletcher
School at Tufts University.
He has served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Stanford and as the
Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University
of Singapore.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He is the
author of Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (Brookings Institution Press 2006) and the co-author of Heroes and Cowards: The Social
Face of War (Princeton University Press 2009). In September 2010, Basic
Books published his book titled Climatopolis . In July 2013, he published
his book titled: Fundamentals of Environmental Economics: Solving Urban
Pollution Problems. His research focuses on environmental, urban, real estate, and energy economics. Matt serves as the Director of Research for the
UCLA Anderson School’s Ziman Real Estate Center.
Erick Lachapelle, Assistant Professor, University of
Montreal
Erick Lachapelle is an assistant professor of political
science at l’Université de Montréal, where he teaches courses on environmental politics, public policy,
and research methods. His research focuses on the
politics of environmental and energy policy in North
American jurisdictions and across OECD countries.
He is currently engaged in projects examining comparative environmental policy, the politics of scientific expertise, and public
attitudes towards risk, fracking, and climate change. His research has appeared in, among others, the Policy Studies Journal, Climate Policy, the Review
of Policy Research, Canadian Foreign Policy, and the Review of Constitutional
Studies.
Glen MacDonald, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Glen M. MacDonald is Director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment
and Sustainability. He has a B.A. in Geography from UC Berkeley, an M.Sc
in Geography from the University of Calgary, and a
Ph.D. in Botany (with a minor in Geology) from the
University of Toronto. After conducting research in
remote Arctic sites in Canada, Dr. MacDonald obtained a faculty position in the Geography department of McMaster University, Canada and was later
appointed an adjunct faculty member in both Biology and Geology. In 1989 he was elected a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge and conducted research in the Botany
Department there. Dr. MacDonald relocated to UCLA as a Full Professor
in the Department of Geography with a joint appointment in Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology. He also served as the Chair of Geography at UCLA. In
2009 he was a Christensen Visiting Fellow at Saint Catherine’s College at
the University of Oxford. In July 2009 he was appointed a UC Presidential
Chair and Director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. The focus of his research is climatic and environmental change and
the impact of such changes on ecosystems and humans.
Erica Morehouse, Attorney, Environmental Defenses
Fund
Before focusing on climate policy during law school,
Erica authored a peer-reviewed paper on the population genetics of a fungal frog pathogen and spent
a year in Sub-Saharan Africa studying market-based
fisheries management. She has B.A. in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University and
received her J.D. from UC Davis School of Law. Since joining the Environmental Defense Fund in 2009,she has been focusing on transportation and
the policy and legal aspects of implementing California’s landmark Global
Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32).
Nadia Scipio del Campo, Consul – Foreign Policy & Diplomacy Service, Consulate General of Canada, Los Angeles
Nadia Scipio del Campo joined the Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles in September 2011 and
is responsible for Canada’s political/economic and
public affairs program in Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona. Her work in the United States focuses on partnership building and raising awareness in
the areas of energy & environment, border issues, defence/security and government relations. Nadia was most recently Consul for Political/Economic
and Public Affairs at the Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco from
2007-2011. From 2004-2006 she was Public Affairs Manager at the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi, India.
She has held positions in Ottawa, Canada at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Canada-US Relations, Southeast Asia Political Affairs, and in media relations. Nadia’s international experience includes
teaching assignments in Japan, Ecuador and Guatemala, and she speaks
French and Spanish. Originally from Montreal, Nadia has a degree in geology and environmental studies from Queen’s University, and worked in
the energy and environment sectors in Calgary and Montreal before joining
the Canadian Foreign Service. She is a graduate of the 2009 Leadership
California Issues & Trends program and recently served on the Board of the
Friends of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women.
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, Professor, Department of International Business,
HEC Montreal
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné is the International Economics and Governance
chair and Chairman of the International Business department at HEC Mon-
tréal. Previously, he was for several years a faculty
member of INSEAD (in Fontainebleau, France) and
the École polytechnique of Montreal. He holds a PhD
in Management science/Operations research from
Yale University. His main research areas are the economics of incentives and organization, environmental
economics and policy, risk management, and environmental innovation. His publications can be found
in major journals such as Econometrica, Management Science, and the Journal
of Environmental Economics and Management. His recent work focuses on
executive compensation, global supply chains and the environment, the environmental goods and services industry, and policy making under scientific
uncertainty. In 2004, he was nominated a Fellow of the European Economic
Association. In 2006, he won (with co-author Pauline Barrieu of the London
School of Economics) the Finance and Sustainability European Research Award
for the article “On Precautionary Policies” published in Management Science.
Katherine Trisolini, Loyola Law School
An environmental law scholar, Professor Trisolini’s
research focuses on regulatory responses to climate
change. Prior to joining the Loyola faculty, Trisolini
was an Environmental Law Fellow at UCLA School
of Law from August 2007 to July 2009. At UCLA,
in addition to conducting research on climate change
policy, she taught environmental law, a seminar on
local governments and the environment, the environmental law clinic, and seminars on the judicial process. Trisolini practiced
environmental law as an Associate Attorney at Chatten-Brown & Carstens
in Santa Monica from March 2004 to July 2007 and as a Fellow at Shute,
Mihaly & Weinberger in San Francisco. She clerked for then Chief Judge
Consuelo B. Marshall of United States District Court for the Central District of California and for the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Trisolini graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School where she was a teaching assistant for
Dean Paul Brest’s course on Decisionmaking and Professional Judgment and
for Professor Laurence Friedman’s undergraduate political science course
on the American legal system. She served on the Stanford Law Review and
the Stanford Journal of International Law. While in law school she worked
for the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Protection
Agency’s Office of General Counsel, and the American Civil Liberties Union
Immigrants’ Rights Project.
James Villeneuve, Consul General of Canada Los Angeles
James Villeneuve was appointed Consul General
of Canada, Los Angeles in February 2014. He is
Canada’s senior representative in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada. Prior to his appointment,
Mr. Villeneuve worked for Anheuser Busch InBev,
the world’s largest brewing company and the parent company of Labatt Breweries, for more than 27
years. He started with Labatt in Toronto in sales and marketing and was later
transferred to Vancouver, where he was regional director of government affairs for Western Canada. In 1995, Mr. Villeneuve returned to Toronto to
manage Labatt’s rebranding initiative and to run the company’s corporate
and sports properties. He later became director of corporate affairs and then
vice-president of corporate affairs for Canada. From 2007 to 2009, Mr.
Villeneuve worked in Brussels to lead InBev’s global corporate affairs practice. After InBev purchased Anheuser Busch in 2009, Mr. Villeneuve moved
to St. Louis to lead the company’s North American corporate affairs department. Mr. Villeneuve has served on many boards during his career, including
the Toronto Economic Development Commission, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the 2008 Toronto Olympic Bid, the Granville Island Trust,
the Association of Canadian Advertisers, Carleton University, the Canadian
Club, Teach for America, the United Way and the Regional Chamber and
Growth Association in St. Louis. He received a Bachelor’s degree from Carleton University in 1985. Mr. Villeneuve is married to Kim Walker-Villeneuve
and they have two children, Grace and Andrew.
Alex Wang, UCLA School of Law
Alex Wang is an Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA
School of Law. His primary research and teaching interests are in environmental law, Chinese law,
comparative law, and torts. He has been a visiting
assistant professor at UC Berkeley School of Law.
Prior to 2011, Wang was a senior attorney for the
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) based
in Beijing and the founding director of NRDC’s China Environmental Law
& Governance Project for nearly six years. In this capacity, he worked with
China’s government agencies, legal community, and environmental groups
to improve environmental rule of law and strengthen the role of the public
in environmental protection. He helped to establish NRDC’s Beijing office
in 2006. He was a Fulbright Fellow to China from 2004-05. Prior to that,
Mr. Wang was an attorney at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
LLP in New York City, where he worked on mergers & acquisitions, securities matters, and pro bono Endangered Species Act litigation. Wang holds a
J.D. from NYU School of Law, and earned his B.S. in Biology with distinction
from Duke University. He is a board member of the Institute of Public &
Environmental Affairs (IPE), a leading Chinese environmental organization.
He is also a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations,
where he was a fellow from 2008-10, and a member of the Advisory Board
to the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. He is a regular speaker on issues related to China and environmental protection.
Mark J. Wenzel, Ph.D, Climate Change Adviser, California Environmental Protection Agency
Mark Wenzel is a Climate Change Adviser at the
California Environmental Protection Agency, where
he has worked on the California Cap-and-Trade Program, the Western Climate Initiative, carbon market oversight, and the California Low Carbon Fuel
Standard. Prior to joining Cal/EPA, he worked for
the California Air Resources Board’s Office of Climate Change and for U.S.
Senator Christopher J. Dodd as the 2006 – 2007 American Geophysical
Union/American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Science Fellow. Mark earned a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Science from
the University of California, Berkeley in 2006.
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