Event Series: Global Agenda 2008 - International Politics of Climate Change
Title of Event: Achieving Energy Security Through Sound Public Policy

Guest Speaker: John Hofmeirster - President, Shell Oil
Date: Wednesday May 7, 2008
Time: 4:30 slt
Location: University of Delaware, stadium entrance (138, 226, 29)
or http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/221/215/33

Event Information:
Staving off global warming depends on reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere. But those emissions come, in large part, from the transportation sector of the industrial world’s economy, and from manufacturing and production industries which rely on petroleum products for fuel.

Oil producers and the auto industry have been reluctant to shift away from oil-based products, and the energy industry is among the world’s most profitable. How can we reconcile the high demand for petroleum in the industrial world with the need to reduce carbon emissions? Can the United States have a sound energy policy to sustain its economy without threatening the very lives of people in less developed countries who could be hurt by climate change? The President of Shell Oil Company is a spokesman for the energy industry on these and related questions.

John Hofmeister is the next guest in the University of Delaware’s Global Agenda speaker series called “Boiling Point: international politics of climate change.” Wednesday, May 7 at 4:30pm slt.

Web Site(s):
http://www.udel.edu/global/

Podcast of previous Global Agenda speakers
http://www.ums.udel.edu/podcast/