Beyond Kyoto

Date:  November 14, 2007 Time:  7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Location:  2120 Grainger Hall Phone:  265-8038 Email:  wage@intl-institute.wisc.edu Contact:  Carrie Traud Sponsor:  Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) Co-Sponsor:  Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Global Studies, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Division of International Studies, UW Energy Institute, La Follette School of Public Affairs Cost:  Free and Open to the Public

This December in Bali, new international talks will be launched to determine the successor to the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. We know the problem is real. The science has spoken. But how do we move forward with a solution?

Join a distinguished panel of UW-Madison faculty to discuss what we have learned in the past ten years about environmental governance, and how science and politics frame our options in a post-Kyoto world.

Our panelists are:

Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences

Greg Nemet, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Environmental Studies

Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Population Health

To hear digital audio of the event, click here.
View the presentations: Greg Nemet, Jonathan Patz, Tracey Holloway

Speaker biographies:
Tracey Holloway is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin--Madison in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. She works with the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and is a member of the Energy Sources, Systems and Policy Cluster. Holloway earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University, working at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). As a graduate fellow through the Princeton Environmental Institute, she also completed a certificate in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Her undergraduate degree (Sc.B.) is from Brown University in Applied Mathematics, and her post-doctoral work was done at Columbia University's Earth Institute. Prof. Holloway's research examines air pollution chemistry and transport at regional and global scales, especially the mechanisms underlying transport across international borders. East Asia and the Great Lakes Region of North America are two active study regions, for which she employs the EPA Community Multi-scale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) to assess regional air pollution, and the Model of Ozone and Related Tracers (MOZART) to analyze pollution on global scales. She is also interested in the role of models in the policy process, particularly atmospheric chemistry models and their application to energy use strategies, public health assessments, and international environmental treaties. Her work has been supported by grants from the Department of Defense, NASA, and the EPA.

Greg Nemet is an Assistant Professor at the La Follette School of  Public Affairs and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at  the University of Wisconsin, where he is also a member of the Energy  Sources and Policy cluster.  His research and teaching focus on 
improving understanding of the environmental, technical, and economic dynamics of the global energy system.  A primary research focus is on the ways in which science and technology policy affect the rate and direction of technological change, particularly for low-carbon energy technologies.

Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directs a university-wide initiative on Global Environmental Health. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and also an Affiliate Scientist of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

He has served as Co-chair for the health sector expert panel of the US National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change, Convening Lead Author for the United Nations/World Bank Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and lead author on several United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports and WHO monographs on climate change. He is Co-Editor for the journal, Ecohealth: Conservation Medicine and Ecosystem Sustainability, and Co-editor of the textbook, Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective (2001), and has written over 50 peer-reviewed papers addressing the health effects of global environmental change.

WAGE would like to thank the following UW-Madison co-sponsors: Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Energy Institute, Division of International Studies, Global Studies, and La Follette School of Public Affairs.