Presentations and Posts

 

Overview of Price-based Climate Policies

Plenary for Making Climate Policy Work in Difficult Economic Times

 

Details on Price-based Climate Policies: Auction, Offsets, Protecting Household Budgets

Workshop for Making Climate Policy Work in Difficult Economic Times

 

Output-Based Rebates for Energy Intensive Industries

Panel for Making Climate Policy Work in Difficult Economic Times

 

Communicating Risks: Climate Change & Security

Briefing for an energy and environmental security analysis team

 

Areas of Cooperation on Climate & Energy Policy for California and EU

Contribution to the Transatlantic Cooperation Dialogue hosted by University of California

 

Climate Policy Strategies for Driving a Clean Energy Revolution

Presentation for the Presidio School of Management

 

Rules Make Markets: Outlook for Financing Energy Efficiency

Presentation for the ACEEE Energy Efficiency Finance Forum

 

Obama Administration and Alternative Imperative Energy

Presentation for Climate Change & Security at Copenhagen, convened at the Brookings Institute by the Institute for Environmental Security

 

U.S. Energy & Climate Policy on the Road Ahead

Click here for Audio Recording to accompany the presentation

Presentation to Sustainable Leadership Business Forum at Hanson Bridgett

 

Global Warming 101

Presentation for labor organizers at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference

 

Technology & Policy Implications in Climate Policy Scenario Analysis: Two Decompositions

Presentation to a federal climate policy analysis team

 

The Essential Role of Complementary Policies in Climate Policy Design

Presentation to a federal climate policy development team

 

Energy Intensive Industries

Presentation to EETD Team at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

 

Climate Diplomacy Update: Context for Discussion of International Institutions

Presentation to the Aspen Institute

 

UNFCCC International Climate Negotiations in Poznan

Debrief memo

 

Science Issues for a New Administration and a New Conference

Presentation to the American Geophysical Union

 

Overview of Cap-and-Trade Design Elements

Presentation to Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)

 

Rules Make the Market: Climate Policy Insights for the Clean Energy Economy

Presentation for the New Voice of Business

 

Climate Policy Design Pro-Series

Full set of six presentations covering 20+ topics

 

Competitiveness Concerns Raised by Price-Based Climate Policies

Memo describes a policy design to address competitiveness concerns among energy-intensive manufacturers of global

 

Output Based Rebates/Allocation for Energy-Intensive Industries

Memo describes a policy design to address competitiveness concerns among energy-intensive manufacturers of global commodities (e.g. iron, steel, pulp, cement, glass, and some chemicals)

 

Updating Price Buffers for Cap-and-Trade Price Control

Memo describes an automatic price control provision to mitigate spikes and crashes in a carbon market. 

 

Introduction to Cap-and-Trade: An Illustration of Managed Scarcity Using Musical Chairs

 

 

 

Cherry%20Festival%20at%20the%20Tidal%20Basin%20-%20medHolmes Hummel is a Lecturer and Policy Specialist at the UC-Berkeley Energy Resources Group, and previously served as a Congressional Science Fellow focused on energy and climate policy development.  Over the last ten years, Dr. Hummel has tackled energy sufficiency, security, and sustainability problems from the vantage point of Silicon Valley companies, development banks, and international energy analysts.  Recognized as a “visionary, action-oriented emerging leader” by the Environmental Leadership Program, Dr. Hummel holds a PhD from Stanford, exploring energy technology and policy implications of paths to climate stabilization.