COP 15 and PCIA Side Events

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The United Nations Climate Change Conference will take place at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between December 7 and December 18, 2009. The conference includes the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 5th Meeting of the Parties (COP/MOP 5) to the Kyoto Protocol.

Five side events of interest to PCIA Partners will be held:

1) Workshop and Briefing for DOEs:
In October 2009 the CDM Small Scale Working Group organized a workshop to improve usability of methodologies focused on household energy use and in particular non-renewable biomass. An outcome of the workshop was that Designated Operational Entities (DOEs) frequently struggled to understand the complexities and the challenges of operating successful cooking stove projects. As a result many projects have experienced delays in validation and verification. The workshop is about briefing DOEs on the key concepts, methodological development and best practices behind household energy projects and introducing a dose of reality. The aim is to provide a platform to explore how existing methodologies are interpreted and how the key reporting risks of stove projects can be mitigated. Date and time of side event still to be determined.

2) Cleaner Cook Stoves for Developing Countries: Improving Health, Reducing Climate Change:
Date: 12/09/09- Wednesday
Time: 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Learn about the connection between household solid fuel use and health and climate change. A panel of environment and health experts will present research showing how cooking is contributing to global warming through CO2 and black carbon emissions, and how improved cook stoves, with limited assistance from the carbon offset markets, are helping to mitigate emissions. Panelists will highlight efforts to commercialize the dissemination of efficient stoves (more than 800,000 in 2008), measure the impact on emissions, and provide guidance to certify carbon offsets for global markets.

Update: Presentations from this side event are now available at http://www.pciaonline.org/proceedings.

3) Brazil MRE Event
Date: 12/08/09- Tuesday
Time: 1:00 PM — 2:30 PM
Contact: Minister Andre Correa do Lago; alago@mre.gov.br
Gaia will discuss the contribution of ethanol stoves to GHG and black carbon reduction in the developing world. Biofuels are a low-carbon, renewable alternative for transportation fuels, for small-scale electricity generation, and for cooking, heating, lighting, and other small appliance uses.

4) Gaia Association
Date: 12/12/09- Saturday
Time: 9:00 AM — 10:30 AM
Contact: Gaia Association with Stockholm Environment Institute - Mr. Milkyas Debebe; milkyasd@projectgaia.com
Climate and health benefits of cleaner fuels and cooking stoves in developing countries: This event reviews the climate and health impacts of GHG and black carbon emissions due to household cooking with traditional biomass fuels. Experts from Gaia (Ethiopia), Stockholm Environment Institute, University of Oxford, Clean Air Task Force, IEI Global, USI Brazil, and others will show the significant potential for climate and health benefits through cleaner fuels and stoves.
Program Outline
Chairman: Francis X. Johnson, Stockholm Environment Institute
1.Cooking to Live – A short film by Jake Boritt linking the themes of gender, health, environment and climate change
2.Gaia/Project Gaia Initiatives in Ethiopia and beyond – Milkyas Debebe and Harry Stokes
3.Cooking and Carbon - Philip Mann, Carbon Specialist, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
4.Climate Impacts of Black Carbon Emissions - Ellen Baum, Senior Scientist, Clean Air Task Force
5.Mitigating Black Carbon from Traditional Household Use of Biomass - Professor Sribas C. Bhattacharya, President, International Energy Initiative
6.Health Impacts - Elizabeth Bates, Household Energy Specialist, Project Gaia
GHG and Black Carbon Issues – Professor Örjan Gustafsson, Stockholm University (invited)
7.Food, Fuel and Ethanol Micro distilleries – Eduardo Mallmann, Usinas Sociais Inteligentes S/A
Panel Discussion—Q & A and Public Participation

5) Danish Climate Consortium (sponsored by Novozymes)
Date: 12/16/09- Wednesday
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Contact: Justin Perrettson, Novozymes A/S; jdpo@novozymes.com
Panel Moderator: Dr. Jens Riese, McKinsey (Dr. Riese will introduce McKinsey’s work “Pathways to a low Carbon economy”)
Panel Members will include Jeff Broin, Founder and CEO, Poet, United States, Milkyas Debebe, Gaia Association, Ethiopia, Yue Guojun, Assistant President, China National Cereal, Oil & Foodstuff Corporation (COFCO) China, Niels Henriksen, CEO, Inbicon, Denmark, Marcos Sawaya Jank, CEO, UNICA, Brazil, Steen Riisgaard, President and CEO, Novozymes, Denmark and Ajay Vashee, President, International Federation of Agricultural Producers, France. Keynote Speech: “Global energy security in a climate affected world,” General Wesley Clark, Co-Chairman, Growth Energy, United States