Climate Change: Intersections of Climate and Policy

Climate Change: Intersections of Climate and Policy
January 9, 2009

ESA co-sponsored a congressional briefing to address the scientific and public policy-related aspects of climate change.

Featured speakers:

• Timothy Wirth, former US Representative and Senator and lead US negotiator at the Kyoto Climate Conference
• Susan Solomon, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who co-chaired Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment & Security
• Ted Parson, Professor of Law and of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan