Energy and Climate Action Planning
June 25, 2010
Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
UO in Portland, White Stag Block 152
Presenter:
Joshua Skov
Overview
This one-day workshop is targeted at individuals in business or government who have responsibility for energy and/or climate action planning. This course has three simultaneous aims:
- To explain the links between energy use and carbon footprints,
- To provide tools for joint planning of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions reductions, including several concrete strategies around fuel use, electricity sourcing, demand-side management, and other purchasing decisions, and
- To engage participants with a structured peer exchange using current planning details from their own organizations.
Audience
Given the peer exchange activity and other topic details, attendees should fall into one of the following categories:
- Point-people for energy and/or climate issues in large organizations
- Executives with energy and/or climate concerns in their management portfolios
- Members of technical disciplines who seek to link their specific expertise to other energy and climate topics
NOTE: It is highly recommended that participants bring materials (such as energy or climate action plans) from their organizations in order to gain from and add to the peer exchange activities. These materials need not be detailed or complete.
Course Description
Morning:
Participants will begin by rigorously identifying the areas of overlap between patterns of energy use and sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The relationship between energy and greenhouse gas emissions is qualitatively well acknowledged, but its details require some scrutiny, especially in order to provide insights for individual organizations. Comparisons of energy- and carbon-intensity of various activities will build intuition for shaping the direction of a combined climate and energy strategy. Participants will then review several existing climate and energy action plans from corporations, municipal government and higher education institutions, with a focus on broadly relevant plan elements and themes.
Afternoon:
Participants will review strategies and messaging from materials brought with them to the session, individually critiquing these materials using the activity structure provided as a way to share technical and organizational insights. A short section on supply chain analysis and management will provide a simple framework for roughly scaling financial risk exposure through a cost of carbon, energy price volatility, and the two combined. This workshop will conclude with a brief section on adaptation strategies as part of climate action planning.
Depending on availability, there will be one or more guest speakers to showcase examples of combined energy and climate action planning, with discussion of the opportunities and challenges in this joint approach.
All participants are expected to bring:
- Existing planning or communications materials (internal or external) for review, critique, and improvement through in-class activities.
- Product, service, or operations data that may be relevant.
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