The Road to Commercialization: Advanced Biofuels in the Public and Private Sectors -- PEW Conference

The Road to Commercialization: Advanced Biofuels in the Public and Private Sectors -- A Pew Charitable Trust Conference

Date: March 8, 2012
Location:
The Pew Charitable Trusts
901 E St. NW

Washington, DC 20004
Description:
The United States imports almost 50 percent of the oil it consumes and sends $1 billion a day overseas—some of it to regimes hostile to U.S. interests. Advanced biofuels, currently being tested and used by the Department of Defense as well as several commercial airlines, offer the nation a real opportunity to diversify and increase its use of domestic fuels while positioning U.S. companies and farmers to be global leaders in the industry. The departments of Defense, Agriculture, and Energy are working with the private sector to spur more production of advanced aviation and marine biofuels to power military and commercial transportation. This session will focus on the important role the public and private sectors can play in bringing these fuels to market in order to enhance security and provide widespread economic benefits.

Special Guest:

The Honorable John W. Warner
Panelists Include:

• Jim Rekoske, vice president of renewable energy and chemicals, Honeywell
• Jonathan Wolfson, CEO, Solazyme Inc.
• Nancy Young, vice president of environmental affairs, Airlines for America

When:

Continental breakfast, 8:30 a.m.
Program, 9-10:30 a.m.
RSVP:
Click here.

Media Contact:

Tracy Schario, 202.540.6582

Out of the Abyss: Transforming EU Rules to Protect the Deep Sea -- Pew

 Out of the Abyss: Transforming EU Rules to Protect the Deep Sea is a report by the Pew Research Center that summarises the current problems in the regulation of deep-sea fisheries in the northeast Atlantic by the EU, including weak catch and effort limits, lack of knowledge of the status of deep-sea fish stocks and the impact of fishing; incomplete deep-sea species coverage; deficient monitoring and control measures; significant data and reporting gaps; and a lack of sufficient measures to ensure sustainability and protect vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems such as cold-water coral reefs from the harmful impacts of bottom fisheries.

Various assessments have found that the EU’s deep-sea fisheries management regime for the northeast Atlantic is inadequate, poorly enforced, and inconsistent with EU and international principles, agreements and legal obligations for the sustainable management of fisheries. As a result, leading scientific authorities have concluded that the EU’s fisheries for deep-sea species in the northeast Atlantic are ‘outside safe biological limits’ and that deep-sea fishing should be significantly reduced or ended entirely.

2011 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference -- Pew Trust

Date: February 8, 2011 - February 10, 2011

Location:
Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
2660 Woodley Road NW

DC, Washington 20008


Description:

Now in its fourth year, the 2011 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference — February 8-10 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. — is the nation’s leading forum sharing ideas and strategies to build a green economy that creates good jobs, reduces global warming and confronts other environmental problems, and preserves America’s economic and environmental security.

The 2011 Conference — which will bring together thousands of labor, environmental, business, elected and community leaders — is focused putting into practice the ideas and strategies for a new green economy — and creating good green jobs — around the country.

Workshop: Tuesday, February 8, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

In December of 2010, the Pew Charitable Trusts released a report providing projections of global clean energy investments based on three possible policy scenarios. This report builds on Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? Growth, Competition, and Opportunity in the World’s Largest Economies, which was published by Pew in March of 2010. Guided by potential policy scenarios, the new report provides global, regional, and select country-specific investment trends and opportunities in the clean energy economy.

Phyllis Cuttino, Director of Pew’s Clean Energy Program, will briefly outline the global landscape for the clean energy economy, noting that those nations in the lead all have strong policy structures, and moderate a panel discussion on three key policies the United States should consider in order to stay in the global race.

"Looting the Seas" -- Pew Environmental Group

A special screening of a new documentary on the black market in bluefin tuna.

Please join the Pew Environment Group for a special screening of "Looting the Seas" on the plundering of the majestic bluefin tuna in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reporters Marina Walker Guevara and Kate Wilson, who led the seven-month investigation, will answer questions afterward.

Date: November 9, 2010 6:00-8:30 p.m.

Location:
The Pew Charitable Trusts
901 E Street, NW
10th Floor
Washington, DC 20004

Reception to follow.
Please RSVP to Maggie Germano, mgermano@pewtrusts.org, 202.540.6503

Outback Carbon: An assessment of carbon storage, sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions in remote Australia

This Pew Research Report dated July 2010 demostrates that protecting and sequestering carbon in the Australian ‘outback’ provides cheap options to help Australia make deep and early cuts to the nations projected emissions

Investing in Our Future: The Economic Case for Rebuilding Mid-Atlantic Fish Populations

This report by the Pew Trust Environmental Group prepared by John M. Gates dated 2009 provides a new analysis of the potential economic benefits of rebuilding depleted fish populations in the Mid-Atlantic. The study estimates direct economic benefits by comparing status quo management scenarios with scenarios where populations would have been rebuilt by 2007.

For both commercial and recreational fishing sectors, rebuilding populations of black
sea bass, bluefish, butterfish and summer flounder by 2007 would have generated an
additional $570 million per year in perpetuity in direct economic benefits.