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The Worldwatch Institute and the United Nations Foundation
invite you to attend
Renewable Energy at the Tipping
Point
Recent
growth has been explosive, but where’s it headed now,
and what impact will it have on carbon
emissions?
FEATURING
Eric Martinot
Senior Fellow, Worldwatch
Institute
Lead Author and Research
Director, Renewables 2007 Global Status Report
Michael Liebreich
Co-Founder and CEO, New Energy
Finance
INTRODUCTION
BY
Reid Detchon
Executive Director, Energy and Climate, United
Nations Foundation
MODERATED BY
Christopher Flavin
President, Worldwatch
Institute
Monday, June
16th, 2008
2:30 pm to 4
pm
The United Nations Foundation
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Michael Liebreich is an experienced venture capitalist and entrepreneur focusing on the media, technology and business services sector. Michael founded New Energy Finance in early 2004 after a period spent researching clean energy technologies and advising investors. Michael spent 5 years with McKinsey & Company in their London office, working throughout Europe and North America, specializing in operations and finance. Michael is also a member of the Advisory Board for the WilderHill Clean Energy Index (ECO), which is tracked by an independent Exchange Traded Fund , the PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Portfolio, symbol PBW.
Eric Martinot is a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a senior research fellow with the Worldwatch Institute. Prior to coming to China, he spent four years with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) at the World Bank, where he managed the renewable energy program for developing countries, guided strategy, and synthesized knowledge and experience with renewable energy markets, policies, and projects around the world. He is the author of over 65 publications, including the recent REN21/Worldwatch Institute Renewables Global Status Report.
Reid Detchon is Executive Director of Energy and Climate at the United Nations Foundation. He is also the Executive Director of the Energy Future Coalition, a broad-based non-partisan public policy initiative supported by the UN Foundation that seeks to bring about change in U.S. energy policy. From 1989 to 1993 Reid served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Previously he was principal speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush. Reid worked for five years in the U.S. Senate, advising Senator John Danforth of Missouri on energy and environmental issues and serving as his legislative director.
Christopher Flavin is President of the Worldwatch Institute and a leading voice on the potential for new energy options and strategies to replace fossil fuels. He is co-author of three books on energy, including Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution, which anticipated many of the changes now underway in world energy markets. Flavin is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and serves as a Board Member of the Climate Institute. He is also a member of the Greentech Innovation Network, an initiative of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and serves on the Advisory Board of the Cumulus Climate Fund in London.
