Robert I. Bell
Professor
Business Management
Location: 208s Whitehead Hall
Phone: 718.951.5154
Fax: 718.951.4385
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Robert I. Bell's Web site
Robert Bell, chairman, Department of Finance and Business Management, is the author of The Green Bubble - Waste Into Wealth: The New Energy Revolution (New York: Abbeville Press, 2008; originally published by Editions Scali, Paris, 2006; French edition, La bulle verte (Paris: Editions Scali, 2007)). He was the featured speaker at the Fast 50 awards ceremony at the Paris Bourse, November 2007; and the inaugural speaker, the HEC-Deloitte Club of Energy and Finance, La Maison des Polytechniciens, Paris, November 2007. He was the green keynote speaker at the international real estate congress, MIPIM, Cannes, March 2009. He was a keynote speaker at the G20, Seoul, Korea on Nov. 9, 2010. He proposed Green Redemption Funds to finance the transition to renewable energy. Bell's previous books include Beursbedrog (Amersterdam: De Arbeiderspers, 2003); Les peches capitaux de la haute technologie (Paris: Seuil, 1998); and Impure Science (New York: Wiley, 1992).
Education:
Ph.D., Brunel University - 1972 (Cybernetics)
Areas of Expertise:
Green investment, transition out of fossil fuels, role of conflicts of interest in financial markets, high-tech civilian and/or military mega-projects, science fraud.
Books and Publications
Energies de la mer, a French publication devoted to offshore wind energy, published on April 14, 2022, a more extensive version of my Le Monde article. It included a map of the gas pipelines from Russia, and a graph showing the explosion in the price of natural gas in the EU. It emphasized that the EU should stop trading with the enemy, morally compromising to get Russian natural gas and oil. The EU should, instead, accept that it is in an undeclared war with Russia, and massively and immediately develop its wind and solar resources to replace the Russian imports. https://www.energiesdelamer.eu/2022/04/14/rompre-le-dilemme-de-lunion-europeenne-par-robert-bell/
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2022
Le Monde published, "The Inflation Reduction Act of Joe Biden promotes an approach to the green transformation which is the inverse of those that have failed." The article was based on years of advocating what became the Biden approach: According to Hopscotch, the events company that organized the most important of the UN climate conferences, Cop21 in Paris in 2015, I was literally the only one at COP21 who advocated tax incentives rather than carbon taxes or cap and trade systems. Those approaches had utterly failed to deliver us from the ravages of global warming. See entries for 2014 and 2015 for other stages and publications where I advocated the tax shelter approach. https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2022/09/17/le-plan-anti-inflation-de-joe-biden-promeut-une-transformation-verte-selon-une-approche-inverse-a-celles-qui-ont-echoue_6142068_3232.html
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2022
Le Monde published, on July 16, 2022, my article, "The EU could produce sufficient bio-methane to replace Russian natural gas," In this article, I show that there is no need to import any natural gas, from anyplace (not just Russia-Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Texas); the EU, if it made the effort, could replace all of it by a combination of wind power, solar energy, and bio-methane. « L'UE pourrait produire suffisamment de biométhane pour remplacer le gaz russe »https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2022/07/16/l-ue-pourrait-produire-suffisamment-de-biomethane-pour-remplacer-le-gaz-russe_6135036_3232.html
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2022
Le Monde, on December 6, 2022, published my article suggesting that, contrary to the claims of EU officials, the President of France, and many economists, a competitive "race to the bottom" of tax cuts and incentives for investments in renewable energy, provoked by Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, would be the fastest way to deliver the vast sums necessary to escape the worst of global warming, and would rapidly create jobs and prosperity.
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2022/12/06/climat-des-subventions-communes-entre-allies-et-amis-pour-lutter-contre-le-rechauffement-sont-peut-etre-la-meilleure-chose-que-l-on-puisse-faire_6153125_3232.html
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2022
Le Monde, the French language newspaper of record, published, on April 10, 2022, my article, "War in Ukraine: The energy systems that are fastest and cheapest to build in an emergency are photovoltaic and wind turbines" Guerre en Ukraine : « Les systèmes énergétiques les plus rapides et les moins chers à construire dans l'urgence sont l'éolien terrestre et le solaire » https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2022/04/10/guerre-en-ukraine-les-systemes-energetiques-les-plus-rapides-et-les-moins-chers-a-construire-dans-l-urgence-sont-l-eolien-terrestre-et-le-solaire_6121462_3232.html
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2022
Le Monde, "The 100 days of Joe Biden: How big will the energy transformation program be?" 26 March 2021,
co-authored with Paris based top management consultant Patrick Mathieu
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2021/03/26/les-100-jours-de-joe-biden-de-quelle-ampleur-sera-la-politique-de-transformation-energetique_6074566_3232.html (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2021
Le Monde, on October 8, 2021 published, "The submarine crisis: the secrecy that has surrounded the agreement AUKUS (Australia, UK, US) is not a surprise." It was based on my 1992 book, Impure Science (Wiley, N.Y) and my 1998 book, Les peches capitaux de la haute technologie (Seuil, Paris), the Dutch version: De Bodemloze Put,1998. The French book, on big projects, was well known to major editors because the Channel Tunnel company, Eurotunnel, sought an injunction to stop it, even getting against me a criminal indictment for "incitation of terrorism." The French judge refused the injunction, threw out the criminal charge, and awarded me and my publisher damages. Eurotunnel never appealed; the judgment became legal precedent in France, changing French law to now allow the press to criticize public utilities on questions of safety. https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2021/10/08/crise-des-sous-marins-le-secret-qui-a-entoure-l-accord-aukus-n-est-pas-une-surprise_6097630_3232.html
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2021
On 28 March 2021, the nationally syndicated radio commentator, Ian Masters, interviewed me for his show Background Briefing, based on my Le Monde article
https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/march-28-2021-justin-levitt-philip-zelikow-robert-bell/id886953283?i=1000514756251 (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2021
"Assassinat du chef du programme nucleaire iranien: que dirait Sherlock Holmes," by Robert I. Bell and Thomas W. Casstevens; Slate.fr, 15 December 2020. Professor Casstevens is my former professor at U.C. Berkeley and Professor Emeritus, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, and former adviser to the AID in Turkey and Tunisia. We showed that there are easily other suspects besides Israel in the assassination, and at least one, Russia, had far greater access, far more to gain and much less at risk than did Israel.
http://www.slate.fr/story/198163/tribune-iran-assassinat-mohsen-fakhrizadeh-scientifique-programme-nucleaire-israel-hypotheses (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2020
Le Monde, Paris, 23 October 2020, "Renewable energy: it is the United States that is probably going to again win the race,"
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2020/10/23/energies-renouvelables-ce-sont-les-etats-unis-qui-vont-probablement-encore-gagner-la-course_6057105_3232.html (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2020
"« Les producteurs de pétrole américains auraient tout à gagner » à une guerre dans le Golfe"
LE MONDE ECONOMIE | 11 mai 2018
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2018/05/11/les-producteurs-de-petrole-americains-auraient-tout-a-gagner-a-une-guerre-dans-le-golfe_5297458_3232.html?xtmc=&xtcr=1 (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018
SJTU Paris Tech Review 2016-03-22
"Green investment: if the stick doesn?t work, better try the carrot"
http://sptreview.org/en/author/robertbell1/ (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
23 October 2015 Le Monde published my article on how Volkswagen could get out of the hole it had dug for itself: http://abonnes.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2015/10/23/comment-volkswagen-peut-se-faire-pardonner_4795668_3234.html
An English translation is available here: http://robertibell.com/?page_id=286
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
I wrote the Afterword for Understanding the World of Energy 2.0, by Myriam Maestroni, published by Dhow Editions in 2015. See http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-world-energy-Myriam-Maestroni-ebook/dp/B00VANSPG2 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Le Monde, 24 February 2015: http://abonnes.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2015/02/24/le-ratio-espoir-deluge-pour-modele_4582293_3232.html. This is available in English at: http://robertibell.com/?page_id=249 (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
The main French financial paper, Les Echos, published on 13 October 2015 an article on tax sheltering renewable energy investment:
http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/editos-analyses/021300791340-defiscalisons-les-energies-renouvelables-1164930.php?UcVqbdA0GZ4erGuV.99
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
I wrote the first article proposing (certainly in French, to my knowledge in any language) that, rather than taxing carbon, we should simply de-tax investment in renewable energy as a faster route out of global warming. It was published in late December in the French Catholic Daily, Le Croix: http://www.la-croix.com/Articles-du-Forum/Ne-taxez-plus-le-carbone-detaxez-les-energies-renouvelables-2014-12-30-1260314
This is available in English here: http://robertibell.com/?page_id=223
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
Bell, R., J.M. Chevalier and M. Derdevet. Afterword. Comprendre le nouveau monde de l'energie, by Myriam Maestroni. 259-67. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Bell, Robert and Corinne Lepage. "Projet Volt Gaz Volt." MEP Project for the French Energy transition. Available at: www.transition-energetique.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/cahiers/projet-vgv_contribution.pdf. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
"Impure Science, de Robert Bell," by the Collective "Indépendance des Chercheurs" (France) 2. Courier International, Jan. 31. http://science21.blogs.courrierinternational.com/archive/2012/01/31/impure-science-de-robert-bell.html. A discussion of my 1992 book Impure Science, with its description of conflicts of interest in medical research, and showing its startling relevance to sometimes lethal 2012 French medical science fraud cases. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2012
At the personal request of French presidential candidate and former Minister Corinne Lepage, I developed the energy program for her campaign. The details were published in both French and English by Planetworkshops in Paris on April 2: "Des Clefs pour une Économie Verte Francaise,"
http://www.planetworkshops.org/fr/post/1030/des-clefs-pour-une-economie-verte-francaise.html;
"The Keys to a Green French Economy," http://www.planetworkshops.org/en/post/1031/the-keys-to-a-green-french-economy.html. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
Bell, Robert and Oleg Rusetsky. "Ce qu'on ne dit pas sur le miracle gazier américain" op-ed article. Les Echos, Dec. 27 (Paris). Rusetsky is a researcher for and former student of Professor Bell. Les Echos is the major financial newspaper in the French language. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
Bell, Robert and Oleg Rusetsky. "Gaz de schiste: faut-il remercier Hollande." La Tribune, Oct. 23 (Paris). http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20121023trib000726616/gaz-de-schiste-faut-il-remercier-hollande-.html. Copyright Reutershare2. Summary: En interdisant pour la durée du quinquennat la technique de la fracturation hydraulique pour exploiter les ressources en gaz de schiste que recèlerait le sous-sol français, le président de la République a paradoxalement pris une décision économique autant qu'une mesure de précaution environnementale. L'exemple américain montre en effet que l'exploitation des gaz de schiste est une véritable catastrophe financière. Rusetsky est ancien étudiant-chercheur du Professeur Bell dans le «Business Program » de Brooklyn College. Il vit à New-York. This article has been reproduced on many French-language websites worldwide and has been widely cited by major French political and industrial figures. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
"Doing Good While Doing Well: Will Companies and Organizations Step Up to the Challenge in the New Green Economy?" interview with me and reproduction of my 2010 Paris Tech Review article. Truthout, Feb. 2. Available at http://www.truth-out.org/doing-good-while-doing-well-will-companies-and-organizations-step-up-challenge-new-green-economy6738. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"La societe civile peut mener la bataille du climat"; full-page interview with me. La Croix, Paris (French Catholic daily), Jan. 14. Available at http://robertibell.com/
ROBERT_BELL_38869.pdf. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"The Green Redemption Fund--Questions au Professor Robert Bell." La Revue de la Terre, Paris April-June. Interview in which I detailed a carbon tax not on CO2 emissions but directly on fossil fuels and nuclear based on their barrel-of-oil-equivalent. It would yield about 12 billion euro annually in France and could be used in the manner of COFACE to insure roughly 120 billion euro in accounts receivable in renewable energy asset investments. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"Une taxe carbone peut vraiment sauver l'Europe" (A carbon tax can truly save Europe). Les Echos, Paris, (main French financial newspaper). Exclusive interview. Oct. 5. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"Are You Prepared for a Green Bubble?" Paris Tech Review April. Published in French and English (inaugural issue of online Review for the Grandes Ecoles of France). English link: http://www.paristechreview.com/2010/04/14/are-you-prepared-for-a-green-bubble/#. French link: http://www.paristechreview.com/2010/04/14/etes-vous-prets-pour-la-bulle-verte/#. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
"La course aux énergies renouvelables va sortir le monde de la récession" interview with me. Le monde economie Paris, Sept. 2. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2008
The Green Bubble: Waste into Wealth: The New Energy Revolution. New York: Abbeville Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2008
La Bulle Verte: La Ruee vers l'Or des Energies Renouvelables. Paris: Scali. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2007
The Green Bubble: Waste into Wealth: The New Energy Revolution. Paris: Scali. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2006
Bell, R.I., H.H. Friedman and L.W. Friedman. "Conflict of Interest: The Common Thread Underlying Ethical Lapses." Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies 10.1: 4-8. http://ejbo.jyu.fi/pdf/ejbo_vol10_no1_pages_4-8.pdf. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2005
Creative Work
"La Scandaleuse Subvention au Nucléaire: Une assurance dérisoire pour une responsabilité colossale." http://www.planetworkshops.org/fr/post/776/la-scandaleuse-subvention-au-nucleaire.htmlhttp://www.planetworkshops.org/fr/post/776/la-scandaleuse-subvention-au-nucleaire.html. February. 2012
"The Biggest Nuclear Subsidy: Pathetically Inadequate Insurance for a Colossal Liability." http://www.planetworkshops.org/en/post/777/the-biggest-nuclear-subsidy:-pathetically-inadequate-insurance-for-a-colossal-liability-by-robert-bell-ph.d..html. January. 2012
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
On August 31, 2022, I gave a power point presentation titled, "The US Net Zero Strategy: Biden Delivers" at the e5t Summer University (an international conference) in La Rochelle, France. A video of it can be seen here: https://robertibell.com/videos/
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
On August 25, 2021 I gave a power-point presentation at the e5t Summer University (an international conference) in La Rochelle, France. The theme of the conference was The Circular Economy and Waste to Energy. My presentation was titled "Human sewage and abandoned coal mine methane gas" A video can be seen here: https://robertibell.com/videos/
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Power point presentation: "Renewable energy--Covid-19 triggers an investment race," E5T Summer University, La Rochelle, France, 21 October 2020. The theme of the conference: New winds, new horizons to construct the post carbon world. On a panel on the consequences of the Covid-19 crisis on the energy transformation, I argued that the crisis would have the effect of electing Joe Biden as president, and he would launch a major energy infrastructure program that would trigger a worldwide investment race out of fossil fuels and into renewables. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
The publication Energies de la mer, interviewed me at the La Rochelle conference based on my invited talk there. I had emphasized the essentially unlimited potential of wind energy, especially from floating wind turbines, and had suggested that this would likely be a big part of Biden's energy plan. In fact, he subsequently proposed a 30 GW plan for the US--a massive increase, as the US now has less than one GW of offshore wind.
https://www.energiesdelamer.eu/2020/11/03/luniversite-dete-de5t-a-la-rochelle-joue-sur-leconomie-du-bas-carbone/ (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
I gave an invited talk and power point presentation at a conference in Tunisia. "Can human sewage get us out of global warming?" Theme of conference: La transition energetique en afrique: unis pour construire l'avenir,
Universite de printemps, e5t Tunis 1ere edition, Tunis 24, 25 Avril 2019
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/2dea8f_ae2befd1a72f47e0a4617a597dcf3f5e.pdf (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Power point presentation titled, "Can human sewage be used to combat global warming, pollution, and pandemics?" Presented at the Suma Capital and Foundation E5T international conference in Barcelona on 18 November 2019, on The Challenge of the Energy Transition and the Circular Economy, Although a focus was on pandemics, I of course did not know that a few months later the world would be gripped by one. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
At COP21 I gave a talk on tax sheltering investment in renewable energy as the fastest way to solve global warming at Le Bourget: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3hhq6m_plateau-tv-le-bourget-professor-robert-i-bell-eng_tv
(I believe that I am the only person from Brooklyn College, perhaps all of CUNY, to have publicly intervened, with video records, at COP21.)
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
At the UN Climate Conference in Paris, COP21, I participated in the main public panel discussion in SolutionsCop21, Friday, December 4 at Grand Palais. Here is a video of my talk: http://robertibell.com/?page_id=273. According to the organizers of the entire COP21 conference, the events firm Hopscotch, I was the only one on any stage of Cop21 to advocate tax sheltering investment in renewable energy rather than the standard, and finally useless, even counter-productive, approach advocated by many prominent economists-- impose a carbon tax on emissions. Biden's Inflation Reduction Act precisely uses the approach I advocated. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
I gave a talk on tax sheltering renewable energy investment at the e5t Conference at La Rochelle, France, 26 August, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu4uThWJ2Mg (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
I gave a talk on tax sheltering renewable energy investment at the IPAG Business School, Paris on 23 November 2015: http://presse.ipag.fr/communique/44835/Conference-Transition-energetique-Quelles-perspectives-avant-COP-21 Here?s a photo of my intervention: http://aniafreindorf.photoshelter.com/image/I00009uepnqu4I78
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
I gave the first public talk on ending global warming by tax sheltering investment in renewable energy infrastructure, at a conference at the European Space Agency organized by GreenCross, on 8 June 2015. At this event I signed, as a ?personnalités qualifies,? the Paris Declaration « Climate ? OCEAN Objective » For more on this event, including photos, please see http://gcft.fr/WP/climat-objectif-ocean-co-construisons-les-propositions-de-locean/ (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
I was invited by a graduate students association at the Sorbonne to give a talk on what I thought would be the prospects for COP21.
The full report can be found at : http://www.nouvelle-europe.eu/blog/la-cop-21-sera-un-echec-moins-de-recompenser-les-bonnes-conduites-conference-avec-robert-bell
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
On July 6, 2015, I organized and chaired a roundtable discussion at the Atelier de la Terre Global Conference at Chantilly on giving tax advantages (especially tax shelters) to renewable energy investment: See http://www.globalconference2015.org/
On my panel were: Abdoulaye BALDÉ, Ministre de l?Environnement et du Développement Durable, Senegal; Ahmed BAROUDI, Director General, Société d?Investissements Énergétiques ? SIE, Morocco ; Christian De Perthuis, Professor of Economics, Chair and President, Climate Economics, Paris-Dauphine University ; Corinne Lepage, Former Minister of Ecology, France.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
On 8 September 2014, I spoke at the e5t Conference in La Rochelle. My speech can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRNnnCOHwbE (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Organizer and moderater, "Nucléaire et gaz de schiste: quelle part d'incertitude pouvons-nous accepter" panel discussion." Les Ateliers de la Terre, IXème edition of the Global Conference. L'Abbaye de Fontevraud, France. June 4-5. Panelists included Chantal Jouanno, Sénatrice de Paris; Fondatrice, Écolo-Éthik (France); Sylvain Lapoix, independent journalist (France); Kosuke Okahara, documentary photographer (Japan); and Deborah Rogers, executive director, Energy Policy Forum (United States). A video of the panel is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz3qoo6E26U&index=4&list=PL-af-tltEp3B2EWH9nhH-fuaDh9SZilKr. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Le stockage d'energies, un enjeu cle de competitivite pour les entreprises francaises" panel (I spoke on Project Volt Gas Volt). ATEE Conference on Energy Storage, opened by the French Minister of Economic Recovery, Arnoud Montebourg. http://atee.fr/sites/default/files/1-plaquettejourneesstockage_denergies_5-6-11.pdf. Nov. 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Myths and Realities Regarding Renewable Energies." Dinner speaker, MIT Alumni Club of France, Les Salons des Arts et Métiers, Paris. http://france.alumclub.mit.edu/s/1314/clubs-classes-interior.aspx?sid=1314&gid=146&pgid=252&ecid=&crid=0&calpgid=3127&calcid=15065&scontid=20449. Nov. 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Host, special panel, "Volt Gas Volt Initiative: Accelerator of the Energy Transition and of the Way Out of Nuclear Energy" special panel host. Planetworkshops Global Conference/UNESCO-Paris. Pierre Radanne, a top French energy expert, moderated a discussion of the viability of Project Volt Gas Volt, initiated by Corinne Lepage, member of the European Parliament, and Robert I. Bell, Brooklyn College Professor of Management, as the breakthrough technology that can make renewable energy stable and continuous, and a realistic solution to the energy crisis. On the panel were Dr. Hermann Pengg, Project Manager of the Audi program on this technology, and Nicolas Imbert, head of Green Cross France. June 4. Program: http://www.planetworkshops.org/en/441/program/ (see June 4, 6 pm); video: http://www.planetworkshops.org/fr/571/videos/; photos: http://www.planetworkshops.org/en/503/photos/ (photos 131 through 146); press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10803362.htm. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Lepage, Corinne (European Union Member of Parliament (and former French Minister of Environment)) and Robert Bell. "Project Volt Gas Volt." Press conference. EU Parliament. Originally developed for the French energy transition, Project VGV offers a comprehensive solution to global warming, energy independence (nearly everywhere), and most of the pollution due to fossil fuels. Brussels, May 29. Video of Brussels EU Parliament Press Conference: http://vimeo.com/67340645; Liberation article on press conference: http://www.liberation.fr/economie/2013/05/30/corinne-lepage-veut-transformer-l-electricite-en-gaz_906832; Greencarcongress entry on Project VGV: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2013/06/vgv-20130602.html. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Morning talk on energy transition and the emergence of a new eco-energy paradigm; dinner speech on Project Volt Gas Volt. Universite d'été e5t, La Rochelle Business School (Groupe Sup de Co).
Program: http://www.e5t.fr/programme/programme-detaille; photo: http://www.e5t.fr/programme/speakers/14-programme/speakers/117-robert-bell. Aug. 28-29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
On March 28, EU Parliament Member Corinne Lepage and I held a press conference at the Paris office of the European Parliament. We announced Projet VGV (Volt Gaz Volt). It is an official contribution to the proposed French energy transition. See:
http://www.planetworkshops.org/fr/post/1928/projet-volt-gaz-volt-une-solution-pour-la-transition-energetique..html
http://www.energiesactu.fr/innovation/vgv-une-solution-rentable-pour-stocker-lenergie
http://energie2007.fr/actualites/fiche/4443
http://www.cdurable.info/Projet-Volt-Gaz-Volt-Energies-renouvelables-Corinne-Lepage-Robert-I-Bell.html
http://www.tecsol.fr/news/indexnews.asp?Id=4367
http://www.corinnelepage.eu/cp-contribution-au-debat-sur-la-transition-energetique-c-lepage-et-r-i-bell/
http://energie.lexpansion.com/energies-renouvelables/le-methane-solution-a-l-intermittence-des-renouvelables-_a-33-7745.html (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Croissance verte: Outil de developpement en Afrique" panel. Global Conference--Rabat Round, Atelier de la terre. Rabat, Morocco, May 16. I explained why there would be neither a "shale gas revolution" nor a "nuclear renaissance," and how to finance the transition into renewable energy. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Roundtable organized by major French Bank, Natixis: Moderator is major French editorialists at biggest French financial daily, Les Echos.
TABLE RONDE 1: QUELS LEVIERS POUR UNE CROISSANCE DURABLE ?
Modérateur : Jean-Marc Vittori Les Echos
(Trois interventions de 10 minutes)
Prise de parole de Brice Lalonde :
Point sur les négociations mondiales ; émergence ou non d'une gouvernance planétaire ; règles du jeu et mécanismes financiers.
(Brice Lalonde is a former French ambassador for climate change negotiations of France. He was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as executive coordinator for Rio+ 20 on Jan. 1, 2011.)
Prise de parole de Robert Bell: (oreillette pour la traduction) Jean-Marc Vittori rappelle le canal de traduction
Robert Bell : les pistes technologiques. Conclusion sur la question du financement.
Prise de parole de Michel Lepetit: Michel Lepetit: le dilemme des investisseurs.
Paris, Nov. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Establishing Green Redemption Funds." Twenty-person roundtable, How to Maintain an Ambitious Environmental Policy in Times of Crisis, chaired by James W. Hunt III, chief of environmental and energy services, city of Boston. U.S. Embassy, Paris. Oct. 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Green Growth?" keynote speech. Dalkia Convention. Porto, Portugal, May 11. (Dalkia is the energy services branch of Veolia Environnement, a global company with headquarters in Paris.) (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Green Jobs," End of Welfare panel, Young Movement, Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education, June 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Green Redemption Funds--A Financial Solution to the Climate Crisis." Revolutions Underway Panel. Les Ateliers de la Terre Global Conference--International Forum for a Sustainable Development. Evian, France, Sept. 26-28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"The Green Redemption Fund." Closing speech for Les Respirations d'Enghien-Les-Bains. Oct. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Charman, Panel on Low Emission Zones. Les Respirations D'Enghien-Les-Bains. Panelists were Martin Lutz, head of air quality management, city of Berlin; Charles Buckingham, policy monitoring manager, Transport for London; Domonique Carre, deputy mayor eor Ecology of Pierrefitte-Sur-Seine and in charge of transport for an association of 10 towns north of Paris, Plaine Commune. Oct. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011
I was invited by the French Minister of Ecology, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, to participate in a five-person (including the minister of ecology) panel discussion at NYU School of Law: "From Fast-start to Long-term Finance for Climate Protection: The Need for New Funding Sources." I proposed an EU-wide tax on barrel of oil equivalent (10 euros per barrel) to be collected at the point of importation or production, the money to be locked up in a Green Redemption Fund and used to insure accounts receivables for green investments. April 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
I was invited by the French Minister of Ecology, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, to participate in a private roundtable discussion on financing climate change with European experts from public and private finance organizations and hosted by the NYU School of Law. April 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011
"Green Business--Today, Tomorrow and Beyond 2020." PowerPoint presentation. 2020Exton Consulting. Paris, Summer University, Sept. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"Moral Leadership and Green Redemption" keynote speech. G20 Universal Ethics Summit. Seoul, Korea, Nov. 9. Video of speech at http://www.dailymotion.com/
video/xg8inc_g20-seoul-robert-bell-green-redemption-speech-full-text_tech. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"Environnement--Et la planete, un consensus est-il possible, indispensable?" Les rencontres de Cannes. France, Nov. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"L'Amerique d'Obama va-t-elle relever le defi?" Green keynote speaker. Les Respirations d'Enghien-les-Bains. France, Nov. 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"La croissance verte: mythe ou condition sine qua non de renaissance economique?" Think Tank, Societe et Consommation. Maison de la Recherche. Paris, Dec. 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"What Are Bubbles and Why the Next One Will Be Green." MEDEF 2009, Summer University. Paris, Sept. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Will Green Growth Result in the Biggest Boom in History?" Green keynote speaker. MIPIM 2009. Cannes, France, March 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Will Obama's Green Growth Strategies Produce a New Energy Revolution?" keynote speech. 4th Annuual Environment Forum. ODDO Securities. Paris, June 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"About the Green Bubble." Presentation for company management of Veolia Proprete. Brussels, Sept. 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"Green Tech: Europe's High Card." Technology Fast 50 Conference and National Awards Ceremony. Paris, Nov. 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"Investing in Renewable Energy." Inaugural speaker for Club of Energy and Finance. La Maison des Polytechniciens. Paris. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"Is Clean Growth Possible?" International Clean Air Conference--Les Respirations. Enghien Les Bains, France, Nov. 9-11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"Sources of Renewable Energy and Reductions of Greenhouse Gases." 17th Ecological Meeting of the French Senate. Paris, Nov. 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
