When: Monday, November 14th from 12:30-1:45pm

Where: Mugar 200, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford

The Energy and Climate Policy Research Seminar Series

presents

Renewable Energy and Climate Change: The IPCC Report

with Professor William Moomaw,

Lead Author, IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (2011),

and Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy

(A light lunch will be served (no RSVPs – first come first served)

William Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy and Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at The Fletcher School. He has worked on stratospheric ozone, climate, energy, forests, water and sustainable development issues for over 20 years. He has served as a lead author for five Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports addressing mitigation options in the context of development, including this latest report on Renewable Energy and Climate Change released earlier this year. He has co-authored a report on nitrogen pollution for the EPA Science Advisory Board and a report on Financing Forests for the UN, written reports for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and is co-author of an upcoming book on International Forest Diplomacy. He was also a member of the Technical Steering Committee that published new forest management recommendations for Massachusetts that have since been adopted. He has led training sessions for climate, environment and resource negotiators, and facilitated international environmental negotiations. He has advised corporations, governments, UN agencies and The World Bank on climate, sustainable energy and forest issues. He serves on the board of directors of several climate organizations and the Consensus Building institute.  He lives with his wife, Margot, in a zero net energy home in Massachusetts that is powered by grid connected solar energy, and heated by a ground source heat pump.

The Energy and Climate Policy Research Seminar Series is convened by Professor Kelly Sims Gallagher and sponsored by the Energy, Climate, and Innovation Program at Fletcher’s Center for International Environment and Resource Policy.