John Novak, executive director of the Electric Power Research Institute, explains how important this COP is based on his experience of attending the last fifteen COPs. He talks about the now-completed IEA roadmap for energy capture and storage, mandated by the G-8, and he expresses his hopes for technology transfer to be fully incorporated into an effective climate agreement. Also see John Novak speaking from Bonn in August 2009. And John Richardson, Ambassador to Argentina, from Australia, speaking from Buenos Aires in 2009