Upcoming Seminars
Kathleen Segerson is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut. She is an environmental economist, with a strong interest in collaborative interdisciplinary work. Her research within economics is primarily applied theory focused on the incentive effects of alternative…
- Kathleen SegersonAffiliationBoard of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut
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Dr. P. Grace Tee Lewis is a Senior Health Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. Dr. Tee Lewis has expertise in environmental epidemiology, community air monitoring, and geospatial screening and mapping tools to address environmental, climate and health equity. Her research interests include health impacts of criteria and hazardous…
Abstract: Running-Grass will provide background and an update on the significant and evolving role of the Environmental Justice Council in the Implementation of the 2021 Healthy Environment for All Act (HEAL) which is the state’s Environmental Justice Law. The Act mandated the establishment of an Environmental…
Bio: Geoff Mann is Distinguished Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and currently a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His writing appears in the London…
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Senator Andrew Zwicker is a physicist and a member of the New Jersey Senate representing Central NJ's 16th Legislative District. He serves as Chair of the Legislative Oversight Committee, Vice-Chair of the Higher Education and Labor Committees, and sits on the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Additionally, he is a member of the…
Abstract: Forests are at the forefront of nature-based climate solutions, and this has stimulated a global investment into their protection. Yet, focusing on carbon, many nature-based climate solutions do not automatically protect biodiversity. I will discuss the need to include biodiversity conservation as a major goal for…
David Sandalow is the Inaugural Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy and Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He founded and directs the Center’s US-China Program and is author of the
Trade policy is often cast as a solution to the free-riding problem in international climate agreements. This paper uncovers the extent to which trade policy can deliver on this promise. We introduce global supply chains of carbon and climate externality into a multi-country, multi-industry general equilibrium model of trade. By deriving…
Abstract: We develop and implement a new method for identifying wasted subsidies, and use it to provide systematic evidence on the misallocation of carbon offsets in the Clean Development Mechanism---the world's largest carbon offset program. Using newly constructed data on the locations and characteristics of over 1,000 wind farms in…
M.V. Ramana is the…
Join us for a livestream conversation with Princeton University's delegates attending COP28 in Dubai. We'll hear from them about their experiences over the first several days of the COP meetings and key issues they are following, with a chance to ask questions.
Climate-change related decisions have three characteristics that set them apart from other simpler choices. They (i) involve an intergenerational public good, (ii) often require collective action and coordination to be effective, and (iii) typically have elements of deep uncertainty. Organized around these three choice characteristics, I will…
Dr. Emily Grubert is a civil engineer and environmental sociologist whose research focuses on justice-oriented deep decarbonization and decision support tools related to large infrastructure systems, with emphasis on evaluation of dynamic life cycle socioenvironmental impacts and the effects of different value systems on decision pathways…
- Emily GrubertAffiliationAssociate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy, University of Notre Dame
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Eric Tate is a Professor in the Princeton University Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment. He conducts research in the areas of flood hazards, social inequity, and water resources, using spatial indicators to explore interactions among society and environment that generate disasters. He currently serves on the Board of…
On March 8, 2022, and again on January 23, 2023, President Biden nominated Joseph Goffman to serve as Assistant Administrator in the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) of the US Environmental Protection Agency. Since January 2021, he has served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator Performing Delegated Duties of Assistant Administrator…
Overexploitation is an important driver of global biodiversity loss. While the international trade of wildlife and wildlife products (e.g., ivory) is now recognized as a major threat to biodiversity, within-country overexploitation of wildlife is very poorly understood. In his talk, Dan will first present his new research that provides the…
Farrukh Khan is a senior Pakistani diplomat. He joined the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1995. He has served in several national and international positions, including Chef De Cabinet and Deputy Chef De Cabinet to the 75th President of the UN General Assembly and Senior Manager (Climate Finance) at the Executive Office of the then UN Secretary…
Joanna Lewis will present findings from her new book Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China's Clean Energy Sector. Drawing on decades of work in clean energy…
In an era defined by environmental challenges, the world is witnessing a transformative journey undertaken in parallel by global corporations, non-governmental organizations, and government institutions. Discussion on the collaborative efforts and shared aspirations of these diverse entities as they converge to address the pressing issues of…
- Angela Fasnacht
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Please note that this seminar will begin at 12:30pm, rather than the usual 12:15pm start. The speaker will be broadcast to our audience in Wallace Hall from SPIA's Washington, DC office, or attendees may register directly for the Zoom Webinar.
Kelly Crawford is Senior Advisor for Energy and Environmental…
David J. Hayes is a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Since returning to Stanford in January 2023, Hayes has been working through Stanford’s Law School and the new Doerr Sustainability School on climate matters, with a special focus on climate resilience and…
The coincidences of oil, financial, and war crises can be traced back historically many decades. As governments struggle to update energy policies to respond to today's energy crisis, it is important to recognize the phases of past cycles and to consider how climate change-related policies and technology breakthroughs might influence the cycle…
Daniel Jacob is the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Caltech. His research covers a wide range of topics in atmospheric chemistry, from air quality to climate…
University cardholders are invited to join us in person in Wallace 300 over lunch to watch the Zoom webinar. The speaker will be joining us remotely over Zoom. If you prefer to watch remotely, please sign up directly for the Zoom link.
Professor Patrick Devine-Wright’s expertise spans human geography and…
The consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly visible in the form of more severe wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding. As the science linking these disasters to climate change has grown more robust, it has led to pressure on politicians to acknowledge the connection. While an analysis of U.S. Congressional press releases reveals a…
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran will discuss the major points from her new book, "America's Energy Gamble: People, Economy and Planet," which dissects the Trump administration's energy policy and how the country can return to an energy transition that benefits both the economy and the environment. How did the pro-fossil Trump administration entrench…
Over the past two years, passage of successive infrastructure-related bills by the U.S. Congress - Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, Chips+, Infrastructure, Investment & Jobs Act, and Inflation Reduction Act - equals historic levels of investment by the federal government in transitioning to a clean energy economy and upgrading infrastructure…
Bio: Danae is an Assistant Professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Sustainability in Arizona State University. Danae's research studies the distributional consequences of environmental policy and environmental justice. Her work uses applied causal inference methods with remote…
India is in the middle of a historic energy transition. A big part of this is the expected reduction of coal in India's energy mix. Drawing on the economic and political history of the Indian coal industry over the last half century this talk will discuss some of the emerging trends in the industry, and discuss the possible futures of coal in…
Abstract: Sea level rise poses an existential threat to Jakarta, which faces frequent and worsening flooding. The government has responded with a proposed sea wall. In this setting, I study how government intervention complicates long-run adaptation to climate change. I show that government intervention creates coastal moral hazard, and I…
Mr. Bhatia is an attorney, advocate and expert on fiscal matters and public policy with over 25 years of experience championing government / democracy reforms and public and private coalitions to achieve fiscally responsible policy targets, economic development, quality education and renewable energy goals. He is currently the
Agent-based modeling – in which system-level outcomes emerge from interactions among individuals and their environment – can provide unique insights in the study of livelihoods decision-making and adaptation responses to climate hazards and shocks. However, finding empirical support for the underlying behavioral assumptions in ABM can be…
Tobias Schmidt is Associate (tenured) Professor and head of the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG) at ETH Zurich. He also serves as the director of Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP). He is currently a visiting fellow at Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment as well as the Center for Policy Research…
Particulate matter dramatically lowers life expectancy in India, especially in north India where crop residue burning is a significant contributor to the air pollution burden. We use a randomized controlled trial in the state of Punjab to test the efficacy of conditional cash transfers (i.e., payments for ecosystem services, or PES) in reducing…
Environmental justice communities, those disproportionately affected by pollutants, are simultaneously exposed to multiple environmental stressors and also experience social and cultural factors that may heighten their health risks in comparison to other communities. Availability of fine-grained, community-level data is limited to support said…
Climate change is impacting biodiversity, ecosystem function, and human well-being. Regions with stable climates can act as climate refugia that will be critical to safeguarding climate-sensitive species. However, such refugia may only be “ecologically viable” if they are not heavily degraded by human activities. This talk presents a new model…
The world needs to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century for a chance at limiting warming to less than 1.5°C. Last year, the Canadian government followed the lead of other nations and legislated a goal of net-zero by 2050. Achieving this goal requires shifting from incremental to transformational approaches to public policy,…
Daniel Simberloff is the Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Tennessee. He received his A.B. (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) from Harvard University and was a faculty member at Florida State University from 1968 through 1997, when he joined the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University…
Bio: Dr. Ali Nouri leads the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs as an Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy. He was previously serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in that office. Prior to joining the Biden Administration, Dr. Nouri was the President of the Federation of American…
Veda Vaidyanathan is part of the tenth cohort of Fung Global Fellows at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies for the 2022-23 academic year and specializes in Asia-Africa interactions. As a visiting associate fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) in New Delhi and an associate at the Harvard University Asia…
Area-based conservation is key to safeguarding biodiversity, ensuring ecosystem functions, and delivering ecosystem services to communities. However, only ~17% of the world’s land area is under some form of protection, prompting international calls to protect at least 30% by 2030. This talk highlights the potential gains in biodiversity…
The combined impact of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 marks the first time that the full financial might of the federal government is aligned behind the transition to clean energy. The wide ranging set of policies in the two acts includes tax…
The Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance is hosting Dr. Thomas Hale in their International Relations Faculty Colloquium. C-PREE is co-sponsoring the talk. Please note that the seminar is open to Princeton University community members only.
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Scholars typically model the politics of global…
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Professor Archibong's research areas include development economics, political economy, economic history and environmental economics with an African regional focus. …
Kyle Meng is an Associate Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Management and the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Climate and Energy Program Director at the Environmental Markets Solutions Lab. An environmental…
Present nitrogen management in agriculture appears to have serious flaws, reflected in poor nitrogen use efficiency, massive nitrogen leakage into the environment, and contamination of waterbodies and the atmosphere. Modern production systems have become “nitrate-centric” (where >95% of nitrogen uptake is from soil nitrates).
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Nate Morris, Chairman & CEO of Rubicon will discuss how his business model approaches and embraces new technologies that change the way we think about, value, monetize and reuse…
Between 1966 and 1996, France conducted 193 atmospheric and underground nuclear weapons tests in Polynesia in the Southern Pacific Ocean, affecting the environment and the health of local communities and of French veterans involved in the testing program. The talk, based on the recently published book
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In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and…
Macro-economic assessments of climate impacts lack an analysis of the distribution of daily rainfall, which can resolve both complex societal impact channels and anthropogenically forced changes. Here, using a global panel of subnational economic output for 1,554 regions worldwide over the past 40 years, we show that …
Michael Davidson is an assistant professor joint with the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Davidson’s teaching and research focus on the engineering implications and institutional conflicts inherent in deploying low-carbon energy at scale…
Dr. Carole Dalin is Associate Professor in Sustainable Food Systems, and the Research Director of the Institute for Sustainable Resources at University College London (UCL).
Dalin just received funding from the European Research Council to lead the
The change towards climate neutrality, or net zero emissions by 2050 will require fundamental systemic transitions in the core systems of our societies, including the energy, the food, the mobility, and the built environment systems. With the European Green Deal the European Union is framing a science-based policy agenda with the ambition to…