ICCF News

ICCF Hosts Forums on Asia-Pacific Partnership in Five Asian Cities

ICCF Managing Director Dr. Margo Thorning speaks at ICCF forum in Seoul. Mr. Kim Chan-woo, Senior Minister for Environmental & Scientific Affairs, Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, (center) and Professor Park Jin-won, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Yonsei University, also addressed forum participants.

The International Council for Capital Formation sponsored symposiums in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, and Delhi in late October and early November 2006 to discuss strategies that can promote new technologies, encourage energy efficiency and enhance energy supplies while promoting economic growth. “Countries in the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP) – Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea and the U.S. – have decided to tackle the issue of strong growth in energy demand by developing new energy efficient technologies, encouraging technology transfer and promoting economic growth,” Dr. Margo Thorning, ICCF managing director, noted in

Click here to read the ICCF report, “The Asia-Pacific Partnership: Its Role in Promoting a Positive Climate for Investment, Economic Growth, and Greenhouse Gas Reduction,” in English. (To read the report in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, click on the appropriate country flag to the left of the screen.)

Click here to see Dr. Thorning’s power point presentation on the Asia-Pacific Partnership.

Click here to read Dr. Thorning’s op-ed in the South China Morning Post.

U.S. Under Secretary Dobriansky Speaks at ICCF Roundtable

The Hon. Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs, U.S. Department of State, addressed diplomats from nearly 20 nations at the ICCF’s roundtable in Washington, D.C. on 28 September 2006. The roundtable focused on “The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Development and Climate: How Will It Impact Asia and Other Economies.” Discussants at the session included Amin MA, second secretary for Economic Affairs, Embassy of China; Manoj Joshi, economic counselor, Embassy of India; and Kyong-yul Lee, economic counselor, Embassy of Korea. Also speaking at the roundtable was Dr. W. David Montgomery, vice president, CRA International, who commented on “The Asia-Pacific Partnership: Its Role in Promoting a Positive Climate for Investment, Economic Growth and Greenhouse Gas Reductions.” Dr. Margo Thorning, ICCF Managing Director, moderated the discussion.

A Marshall Plan for Global Warming

“The heat-trapping gases that are a necessary byproduct of economic activity pose difficult policy challenges for the world’s leading economies. One sensible, and politically achievable, way forward is the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6),” Dr. Margo Thorning, ICCF managing director, told readers of the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s English language newspaper, in an op-ed published on 25 October 2006.

Please click here to read Dr. Thorning’s op-ed.

ICCF Brings Brussels into Dialogue on Potential Asia-Pacific Pact According to a new economic analysis released 28 June 2006 by the International Council for Capital Formation, market-based institutional reforms in China and India and other developing countries could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by almost as much as the Kyoto Protocol while increasing economic growth. The new study, "The Asia Pacific Partnership: Its Role in Promoting A Positive Climate for Investment, Economic Growth and Greenhouse Gas Reductions" by Drs. W. David Montgomery and Sugandha D.

Dr. Harlan Watson, Senior Climate Negotiator and Special Representative, U.S. Department of State (center), discusses talks with forum participants. (Photo by Photo European Parliament)

To read the Montgomery-Tuladhar analysis, please click here.

Climate Change Should be Tackled by Growth

Dr. Margo Thorning, Managing Director, International Council for Capital Formation, urged in a letter to the editor in the July-August edition of E! Sharp that economic growth is a viable solution to climate change. In her letter, Dr. Thorning, stated that research showed that if economic freedom and growth could be accelerated in developing countries then emissions intensity would decline as these countries became richer.

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UN Commission on Sustainable Development Hears ICCF Views

ICCF Managing Director Dr. Margo Thorning spoke before the UN Commission on Sustainable Development on May 5, 2006 as it ended the first week of its two-week session on the challenges and opportunities related to investing in energy and industrial development. Appearing with Dr. Thorning on the panel were Faith Birol, Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency in Paris and Christine Woerlen, Climate Change Focal Area, Global Environment Facility.

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ICCF Managing Director Appears before U.S. Senate Subcommittee
on Global Climate Change and Impacts

Dr. Margo Thorning, Managing Director, International Council for Capital Formation, appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Global Climate Change and Impacts on April 5, 2006 as an invited witness on a panel of climate policy experts. Dr. Thorning’s testimony focused on “The Impact of Voluntary Measures and the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” Also on the panel were David Doniger, climate policy director, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Dr. David Montgomery, vice president of CRA International and co-head of CRA’s global environment practice.

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The Cost of Kyoto for Europe and Alternative Courses After 2012

During and ICCF presentation at anIstituto Bruno Leoni workshop in Strasbourg, Dr. Margo Thorning, managing director, International Council for Capital Formation, presented an analysis of "The Cost of Kyoto for Europe and Alternative Courses After 2012" at the 17 January 2006 workshop sponsored by Istituto Bruno Leoni in Strasbourg, France.

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ICCF's Margo Thorning Examines the Economic Effects of Cutting CO2 Emissions

In this OnPoint Interview with E&E Television, Margo Thorning, managing director of the International Council for Capital Formation, explains how Kyoto will affect European economies.

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ICCF Studies Prompt International Media Focus

Coal Hearted: Blair dumped on over warming
MSNBC News -- November 14, 2005

Kyoto Poses Economic Threat to Germany, U.K.: Study
The Calgary Herald -- November 8, 2005

KYOTO: STUDIO, ITALIA RISCHIA +13% PREZZI ENERGIA
E -2% PIL ICCF, 200.000 POSTI PERSI IN 2010
ANSA News ( Italian) -- November 7, 2005

Kyoto Protocol Will Cut Europe's Economic Growth
Bloomberg News -- November 7, 2005

Kyoto to ‘Reduce Europe’s Growth’
BBC News -- November 7, 2005

Europe Risks Economic Damage from Kyoto - Study
Reuters News -- November 7, 2005

Europe Risks Economic Damage from Kyoto
The New Zealand Herald -- November 7, 2005

Europe Risks Economic Damage from Kyoto - Study
ABC News -- November 6, 2005

EU Energy Supplies: Integrating Climate Change Policies and Renewable Energy Standards with the Goal of a Secure Energy Future
A Workshop Sponsored by the International Council for Capital Formation in Brussels

Reports on the Economic Cost of the Kyoto Protocol to Italy, Spain and the U.K.
October 18, 2005

• Executive Summary of the Research “Kyoto Protocol and Beyond”
  
  
• Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: The Economic Cost to Italy
  
  
• Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: The Economic Cost to Spain
  
  
• Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: The Economic Cost to U.K.
  
  
• Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: The Economic Cost to Germany

Presentation Shows Europe Cost Effective Strategies for Climate Control
April 28, 2005

Think Tanks Warn "Cost of Kyoto 10 to 15 Times Over EU Predictions"
January 10, 2004

Climate Change Policy and Economic Growth: A Way Forward to Ensure Both
December 14, 2004

Leading Economist Declares "The Kyoto Protocol isn't a step forward, it's a step backward"
December 14, 2004

Breakfast on Climate Change Policy And Global Economic Development

Dr. Margo Thorning, managing Director of the International Council for Capital Formation, joined U.S. and European companies at a breakfast hosted by the U.S. Mission to discuss climate change policy and cost effective strategies. Click on the link below to view Dr. Thorning's power point presentation on this timely topic.

Margo Thorning : Climate Change Policy: Cost Effective Strategies (PPT)

Conference on Climate Change Policy And Global Economic Development

Dr. Margo Thorning, managing Director of the International Council for Capital Formation, Mr. Julian Morris, Director of International Policy Network and Dr. Andrei Illarionov, Senior Economic Advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, discussed the impact of reductions in CO2 on the economies of both developing and industrialized countries which have ratified the Kyoto Protocol Friday October 1, 2004 at a Press Conference hosted by ICCF.

Click on the links below for highlights of this timely presentation:

Andrei Illarionov: The Kyoto Protocol: An Assault on Economic Growth, Environment, Public Safety, Science and Human Civilization Itself (PPT)

Margo Thorning: Climate Change Policy And Global Economic Development (PDF)

Margo Thorning: Climate Change Policy And Global Economic Development (PPT)

Julian Morris: Climate Change & Sustainable Development (PDF)

Julian Morris: Climate Change & Sustainable Development (PPT)