Events | Future of Fuels: Stakeholder Forum on Fuel Sustainability Opportunities

From spring to fall 2013, BSR's Future of Fuels will host a series of special-invitation forums. At this gathering, a cross-sector network of fuel practitioners will investigate key sustainability issues facing the major types of transportation fuel and sketch out an agenda for business to more productively address them—highlighting gaps and efforts that need to redoubled.

Participants will share perspectives, meet representatives from other leading organizations, and play an integral role in driving an agenda to build common ground among fuel sustainability initiatives.

Agenda

2:30-2:45 | Welcome

2:45-3:30 | The Nature of Fuel Sustainability

Speakers: Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future | Michael Marx, Sierra Club | Andrew Ritchie, Shell

Discussion on the nature of fuel sustainability, including an overview of the challenges, tradeoffs, and risks from proactively pursuing sustainability. Speakers will also discuss the market outlook for fuels and the need to consider market drivers when evaluating fuel sustainability.

3:30-4:15 | Oil and Gas

Speakers: Adam Brandt, Stanford University | Karen Hamberg, Westport | Peter MacConnachie, Suncor | Assheton Steward Carter, Equitable Origin

Survey of fossil fuel sustainability issues covering conventional and unconventional sources, with a focus on oil sands and fracked tight oil/gas. Improvement areas to discuss include better production impacts, EH&S in operations, CO2-enhanced recovery, production footprint management, local benefits, and resource “blessing.”

4:15-5:00 | Biofuels

Speakers: Richard Crowther, Coca-Cola | Matt Rudolf, Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels | Chris Sommerville, UC Berkeley Energy Biosciences Institute | David Stern, IPIECA Biofuels Task Force

Overview of biofuel issues with coverage of first generation, second generation, and advanced biofuels. Improvement areas that will be discussed include enhanced feedstock selection, production guidelines, EH&S, efficiency, local benefits, production footprint impacts, food-energy-water nexus, and cumulative impacts.

5:00-5:45 | Electric Vehicles

Speakers: Ulric Kwan, PG&E | Matt Zerega, SDG&E | Steve Leffin, UPS | Dawn Fenton, Volvo Group

Discussion on opportunities to address challenges to wide-scale adoption of commercial electric vehicles in the context of sustainability, including battery lifecycle issues, expanded power generation, and need for infrastructure upgrades.

5:45-6:00 | Discussion and Conclusions

BSR will review opportunities and challenges discussed during the day around improving knowledge gaps, scaling up better production practices, and driving game-changing innovation.

6:00-8:00 | Networking Reception

Location TBD

Participants

Registered participants include representatives from American Beverage Association, California Biodiesel Initiative, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, City and County of San Francisco (Clean Vehicle Programs), DuPont, E2, EnergyEarth, Environmental Defense Fund, ForestEthics, Genentech, Humboldt State University, IKEA, International Council for Clean Transportation, Lumina, Pembina Institute, PepsiCo, Resources for the Future, Rockefeller & Company, SAP, SCS Global Services, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Stanford University’s School of Earth Sciences, Statoil, Sysco, United Airlines, Union of Concerned Scientists, University of California at Davis’s Institute of Transportation Studies, Walmart, the Walt Disney Company, and World Resources Institute.

Following this in-person-only event, we will host a series of webinars to dive deeprs into the sustainability improvement opportunities of different fuels—conventional fossil fuel, unconventional fossil fuel, biofuel, and electric vehicles. For more information, contact futureoffuels@bsr.org.

Read more on Future of Fuels' Stakeholder Forum Series, which will include six in-person and teleconference events between spring and fall 2013.