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Agenda

Retreat Agenda

June 10, 2025
8:30 a.m.	Registration and Breakfast \| Bainbridge Room
9:00 a.m.	Welcome and Overview \| Carnahan Room Iain McCulloch, Director, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University
9:05 a.m.	Fireside Chat about Climate Goals: Aiming for the Best but Planning for the Worst Why ambitious climate goals set out by the Paris Agreement, like mid-century net-zero plans, are far beyond reach, and why they are counterproductive to research, policy, investment, and decarbonization. Wei Peng, Moderator, Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University Armond Cohen, Executive Director, Clean Air Task Force Navroz Dubash, Professor of Public and International Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University
10:15 a.m.	Break (20 mins)
10:35 a.m.	Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Researchers and industry professionals will highlight the importance of deploying a diverse array of energy technologies at speed and scale, with a focus on electrification and expansion of wind, solar, and clean firm generation capacity, along with supporting linear infrastructure. Experts will discuss what it would take to assure the necessary mobilization of capital, accelerated infrastructure delivery, durable social license, and workforce readiness needed to achieve decarbonization goals. Laura Leonard, Moderator, Group President, Technology Solutions, Worley Scott Hobart, Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Mercator Partners Jesse Jenkins, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University
11:50 a.m.	Lunch \| Gratella Room, Lower Level
1:20 p.m.	Living with Serious Climate Change What is needed to cope with a 2.5- 3.5 °C increase in global average surface temperatures? In what geographies and systems will this level of change be unmanageable? This session will start with a focus on agriculture and food security and then pivot to consideration of economic development strategies and investment environments needed to integrate climate resilience into national planning, financial systems, infrastructure development, and regulatory frameworks. Richard Moss, Moderator, Senior Scientist, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Non-resident Fellow, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University Ekaterina Gratcheva, Senior Advisor on Climate and Sustainable Finance at the International Monetary Fund’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department Julie Rozenberg, Senior Economist in the office of the World Bank Regional Director for Sustainable Development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
2:35 p.m.	Break (20 minutes)
2:55 p.m.	Plan B and Risky Backstop Solutions Panelists will overview…Depending on our success adopting technologies and increasing resilience and adaptation measures, impacts could still be more severe than anticipated. What backstops/backup plans are available to alleviate or delay catastrophe, and how can we prepare to make those decisions and implementations Barbara Buckinx, Moderator, Research Scholar and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Sikina Jinnah, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
4:10 p.m.	Wrap-up Discussion and Next Steps Wei Peng, Moderator, Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University Chris Greig, Associate Director for External Partnerships, Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Senior Research Scientist at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University
4:30 p.m.	Poster Session and Reception \| Bainbridge Room

Speakers and Panelists

Speakers and Panelists

Ekaterina Gratcheva | Sikina Jinnah | Alan Robock

Ekaterina (Katya) Gratcheva

Senior Advisor on Climate and Sustainable Finance at the International Monetary Fund’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department

Dr. Ekaterina (Katya) Gratcheva is an advisor on sustainable and climate finance at the IMF’s Capital and Monetary Market department, focusing on the implementation of the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust to help low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries build resilience to external shocks and ensure sustainable growth.

She is a non-resident fellow for two Princeton centers, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance. In her prior roles, she led the finance function in Climate Investment Funds, which has mobilized over $70 billion for climate action in 72 developing and middle-income countries. Before that, she held several senior positions in the World Bank, focusing on providing policy advice to central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and pension funds, facilitating long-term finance through capital markets, and strengthening the role of financial institutions in development finance, as well as managing the World Bank’s assets and liabilities. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow State University, and a doctorate in Operations Research from George Washington University.

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Sikina Jinnah

Professor of Environmental Studies, Associate Director of the Center for Reimagining Leadership (CRL) at UC Santa Cruz, and Director of CRL’s Climate Justice Scholars Program

Dr. Sikina Jinnah is a Professor of Environmental Studies, Associate Director of the Center for Reimagining Leadership (CRL) at UC Santa Cruz, and Director of CRL’s Climate Justice Scholars Program. Her research focuses on global environmental governance in the areas of climate change, climate engineering, and the nexus between international trade and environmental politics. She is the author or editor of 7 books and over 50 articles and book chapters. Her first book, Post-treaty Politics (MIT Press), received the 2016 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book in international environmental affairs from the International Studies Association. Her 2020 book “Greening through Trade: How US Trade Policy Influences Environmental Protection Abroad” was one of 3 finalists for the Canadian Political Science Association’s prize for best book in international affairs. She is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, serves on the Editorial Committee for UC Press, and was a member of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Atmospheric Methane Removal.

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Alan Robock

Distinguished Professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

Alan Robock is a Distinguished Professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970 with a B.A. in Meteorology, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an S.M. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1977, both in Meteorology. Before graduate school, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. He was a professor at the University of Maryland, 1977-1997, and the State Climatologist of Maryland, 1991-1997, before coming to Rutgers in 1998. Prof. Robock has published more than 500 articles, including more than 290 peer-reviewed papers. His areas of research include climate intervention (geoengineering) and the climatic effects of nuclear war and volcanic eruptions. He is the co-founder and co-leader of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). He serves as Editor of Reviews of Geophysics, the most highly cited journal in the Earth Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a recipient of the AMS Jule Charney Medal. Prof. Robock was a Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Princeton University

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Ekaterina (Katya) Gratcheva

Sikina Jinnah

Alan Robock