William R. Wagner

Session V Discussion with Carol Werner

Question: You talked about the 20 meetings around the country. What other public input has there been in any of this process?

Luncheon Discussion with T.J Glauthier

Question: In preparation for your discussions with the new Congress, are absolute numbers changing from what you had done before November 8, or are you simply trying to reestablish the reasons behind these programs in order to sell them to the new Congress?

Luncheon Discussion with Karl Hausker

Question: From a corporate perspective, what are the pros and cons for corporations participating in these voluntary programs? What is the sweetener for them doing it?

Discussion with Robert Watson

Question: A small but influential number of scientists remain skeptical about climate change as a significant concern. How do you respond to the skeptics?

Discussion with Jonathan Pershing and Elizabeth Thorndike

Ms. Werner: Yesterday the UK indicated that they would be the first national action plan review starting in January. Do you want to comment on that?

Discussion with M. Granger Morgan, William Nitze, and Jonathan Pershing

Ms. Werner: The U.S. plan says that measures will meet stabilization and you say the U.S. is the only country to do so. But if the reality is that the U.S. has a gap, no matter how large, is this not in a sense false advertising?

Discussion with Irving Mintzer

Ms. Werner: On the issue of your upcoming trip to Africa what do you think of the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Africa, with the exception of South Africa and Egypt? Per capita, CO2 emissions in Africa are the lowest in the world.

Discussion with Richard Findlay, Mark Hammond, Satoshi Tanaka, Wolfram Schoett, and John Topping

Mr. Jhirad: What plans, if any, are being made to address the long-term necessity for significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels? To stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the next century would require significant reductions beyond the goal for 2000. This gets into the whole realm of R&D policy for the long term, but it also gets into the short term. There are many areas: regulations, standards, taxes, physical incentives, voluntary measures and market measures. There are a whole host of these policy instruments, both regulatory and market-based, and some combinations.

Session IV Discussion with Richard Findlay and Wolfram Schoett

Mr. Jhirad: We were very impressed by the inventories that have been put together and their evolution. I think the German figures are very ambitious and very impressive, and especially the discussion of some policies instruments. I think to an American audience,

Discussion with Mark Hammond, Jennifer Morgan, Wolfram Schoett, and John Topping

10 per gallon of gasoline is absolutely inconceivable. I was shocked at having to pay