Daniel Lashof, from the Natural Resources Defence Council, will outline how representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are involved in UN and international negotiations. He will illuminate the range of views among civil-society groups on the climate negotiations, how civil-society activists advocate for change within the UN, and what possibilities and limitations citizens face when trying to shape global environmental politics.
4:00-5:30 p.m.--O'Hara Student Center, 4024 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Daniel Lashof
Dr. Lashof is the director of National Resources Defence Council’s climate and clean air program and is active in the areas of solutions to global warming, national energy policy, and climate science. He is involved in developing federal standards and legislation to place enforceable limits on carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutants and to reduce America's dependence on oil. He has followed international climate negotiations since their inception and is a lead author of the Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the role of land-use change and forestry in exacerbating or mitigating global warming. He holds a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from Harvard University and a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Registration is only required for groups larger than five.
To register contact Elaine Linn (email: eel58@pitt.edu)
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Fundamental Readings:
Peter Willetts – The Role of NGOs in Global Governance
Daniel Lashof – Mission Impossible? [Climate-Change NGOs at the Global and the National Levels]
Jason Mark -- Naomi Klein: Green Groups May Be More Damaging Than Climate Change Deniers
John Vidal and Fiona Harvey – Green Groups Walk Out of UN Climate Talks
Supplemental Sources:
Carbon Disclosure Project
Federalism to the Rescue: US State and Local Government Climate Policy
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