David Bradford Seminars Archive

Can one coherently want to protect the climate and prioritize the worse-off at the same time? Climate impacts will be mostly in the future, when the economy is wealthier. Therefore, should future generations pay for adaptation or should the present generation mitigate for the sake of its richer descendants? In this talk I examine three ways in...

Dr. Robert McLeman is Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses the human impacts of environmental change, with particular attention to the effects of climate on migration and displacement.

Jodi is a wildlife corridor ecologist and conservationist, with over 20 years of experience managing large-scale conservation programs. She enjoys applying science-based solutions to complex conservation challenges and works to advance conservation by leading science and community-based and collaborative conservation efforts.

To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, global emissions of CO2 must fall to zero by roughly mid-century and go net negative soon thereafter. Rich, developed nations like the United States have the means, and arguably the obligation, to lead the pace of transition. What will it take for the United States to build a net-zero emissions...