Gabe Chan and Andrew Fang presented on their work in progress on "Co-Benefits of Cap-and-Trade: How are local air pollution and health benefits distributed in California?" at the UMN Applied Economics Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars.
APPAM Fall Research Conference
Gabe presented on community solar as part of the panel on “Re-Distributing Power through Electricity System Transformation” and Chinese carbon crediting as part of the panel on “Globalizing the Clean Energy Transition – Implications for National and International Public Policy” at the APPAM Fall Research Conference in Washington, DC. Andrew Fang presented a poster on the environmental co-benefits of California’s cap and trade program.
Andrew Fang presents the poster, “Co-Benefits of Cap-and-Trade: How Are Local Air Pollution and Health Benefits Distributed in California?” at the APPAM Fall Research Conference.
Freeman Seminar
Gabe will be presenting on issue linkage of gender and climate change in international climate finance. The seminar will cover research published in a recent Lab report, Issue Linkage in the Climate Regime: Gender Policies in Climate Finance.
Energy Policy Research Conference
Gabe will be presenting on Minnesota's community solar programs on the Policy Implementation & Public Perception panel. Lab collaborator, Stephanie Lenhart, will be presenting on distributed energy resources in municipal and cooperative utilities at the annual Energy Policy Research Conference in Boise, ID.
Minnesota Rural Electric Association
Gabe presented on the “The Challenges and Opportunities of Distributed Energy Resources for Municipal Utilities and Electric Cooperatives” at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Rural Electric Association/Rural Electric Management Association Fall CEO Meeting.
ASES Solar 2018 Conference
Gabe will be presenting on increasing access to community solar programs on the Broadening Access to Solar: Community Solar Vision at the annual American Solar Energy Society conference in Boulder, CO.
Adaptation Futures Conference
Member of the Chan Lab (Gabe Chan, Lindsey Forsberg, and Sam Holte) will be hosting a workshop on gender mainstreaming in climate adaptation policy with IUCN and the Adaptation Fund at the Adaptation Futures Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
See a policy brief summarizing our research here.
Read a summary of our experience at the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy website.
Carlson School of Management Energy Conference
Gabe delivered one of the opening presentations at the Carlson School of Management’s 2018 Energy Conference: The Business of Energy Transition.
Clean Energy Research Teams Conference
Members of the Chan Lab will be participating in the 2018 CERTs Conference in St. Cloud, MN on Community Driven Clean Energy
Workshop on Eradicating Poverty through Energy Innovation
Gabe will be participating in a workshop on eradicating energy poverty through energy innovation at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society.
Seminar at SPEA at University of Indiana, Bloomington
Gabe will be presenting work on wind energy in China and community solar at the School for Public and Environmental Affairs at University of Indiana, Bloomington
US/International Association for Energy Economics Conference
Gabe will be presenting the Lab's work on community shared solar in Houston, TX.
APPAM Fall Research Conference
Gabe will be presenting the Lab's work on community shared solar in Chicago, IL.
Energy Policy Research Conference
Matt Grimley presented the Lab's work on Minnesota's Community Solar Garden program at the Energy Policy Research Conference in Park City, Utah. The team's work presented at the conference will be featured in an upcoming issue of the Electricity Journal.
APPAM International Conference
Gabe presented the Lab's research on the Sustainable Development Mechanism in Brussels, Belgium on a panel on the Environmental-Energy Nexus. The abstract of the paper can be found here.
Environmental Initiative
Gabe was a panelist at the Environmental Initiative’s Policy Forum Series on “The Changing Federal-State Relationship & Minnesota’s Environment.”
APPAM 2017 California Student Conference
At this Riverside, CA graduate-student policy conference, Matt Grimley presented the team's research on community solar gardens with Isaac Evans and Ben Ihde on hand to help him field questions. Their abstract can be found here.
APPAM 2017 Washington, DC Student Conference
Haley Bloomquist, Brianna Denk, and Ally Hillstrom presented their research on the architecture of the sustainable development mechanism at this national policy conference. Their abstract can be found here.
Ashfaqul Chowdhury (MS-STEP, '17) and Jill Rook (MS-STEP, '17) also presented research on international collaborations on research and development at this conference, and their research can be found here.
Ben and Peder win Acara Challenge International Division
Ben Ihde and Peder Garnaas-Halvorson and their teammates from CFANS and the Carlson School won the top prize of $5000 in the international division of the Acara Challenge, a yearly competition among student entrepreneurs who focus on addressing social and environmental challenges. Their company, Kaloli Energy, delivers responsibly-sourced charcoal to customers' homes in Kampala, Uganda to displace tree-based charcoal which destroys ecosystem resources.
UMN College of Biological Sciences
Gabe was a panelist at the University of Minnesota’s College of Biological Sciences event, “The Petri Dish: Where Do We Go From Here.”