I will be joining a climatechange think-tank in NYU tomorrow, March 29 at 3:45 PM. Come and "think-tank" with us!
PANELISTS:
Jan Dash has a PhD in theoretical physics from UC
Berkeley, and has published over 50 papers in scientific journals. Jan is the
UU-UNO Climate Initiative Chair and Managing Editor of their Climate Portal at http://climate.uua.org/. He is a Matchmaker for the Climate
Science Rapid Response Team whose
goal is to provide authoritative scientific answers to media questions. Jan is
the author of the popular “one-liner”
responses to climate
contrarian/denier/faux-skeptic fallacies. He was the Editor of the Climate Statement Summary
and Recommendations to Governments of
the UN Committee on Sustainable Development (Co-NGO, NY), delivered to leaders at the Copenhagen and subsequent
UN Climate Conferences. Previously Jan was Directeur de Recherche at the Centre
de Physique Théorique CNRS in Marseille, France. Relevant to the economic
impacts of global warming, Jan has worked for 25 years in quantitative risk
management at various financial institutions, and wrote a book on the subject.
He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Courant Institute of NYU and Visiting
Research Scholar at Fordham U.
Esperanza Garcia is invited to speak at international conferences, including the UN, on the importance of young people’s engagement in global affairs and environmental sustainability. The topic she presents on "Youth Mobilization and Global Climate Governance" tells the story of how our young generation is mobilizing to find solutions of the greatest challenges our time. In this talk, she will highlight how young people engage themselves in international affairs, politics, and international climate negotiations and how they impact the progress of these events. She also gives examples on how their international experience inspire, empower, and motivate these young leaders in making a difference in their own communities and home-country. Biography can be found here.
