UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 33, Page 7
May 27, 1993
Energy center to work with U.N

     The University's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) in
the College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, has become a consultant to
the United Nations panel that will help formulate policy issues for the
next Earth Summit.
     CEEP, formerly the Center for Energy and Urban Policy Research, 
through director John Byrne, was contacted last winter by the
co-chairperson of one of the working groups of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and asked if the center would take an active
role in compiling a report on the social and economic impact of global
warming and how technology and policy changes might mitigate it.
     Byrne and CEEP associate director Young-Doo Wang were approached by
Hoesung Lee, co-chairperson of Working Group III and president of the Korea
Energy Economics Institute, to serve as advisers.  Lee asked them to assist
him in implementing the group's work plan, conducting workshops and
analyzing data.
     Lee, Byrne and Wang have worked together since 1988, when they were
part of an international research team, funded by the World Bank, to put
together a structure that the bank could use to promote energy conservation
and the use of renewables in  four developing Asian nations.
     The IPCC's second assessment report should be complete by 1995.
     The first assessment report was the foundation for the United Nation's
Framework Treaty on Climate Change signed by more than 150 nations at the
Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro last June.  The Bush administration refused
to sign the treaty at the time.  The Clinton administration has since added
the U.S to the list of treaty signers.
                                        -Barbara Garrison