William Moomaw, Ph.D. Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, will discuss climate change and the Kyoto Protocol in his lecture, titled Kyoto Protocol: What’s at Stake in Copenhagen.
Moomaw will address the importance of next month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The UN conference will create a global framework for climate change mitigation beyond 2012 when the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions runs out.
Moomaw specializes in translating science and technology into policy terms using interdisciplinary tools. His most notable publications are on climate change, energy policy, nitrogen pollution, forestry financing and management, and theoretical topics such as the Environmental Kuznets Curve.
Moomaw is the director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a senior director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment. He was coordinating lead author of the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chapter on greenhouse gas emissions reduction, and for the special report on renewable energy due in 2010. The work of the IPCC was recognized with the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
This event will be held in the NHIOP auditorium. It is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by The Sen. Thomas J. Dodd Center for the Study of International Affairs and Law.