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Climate Change. Challenges. Solutions.

Note: The April 17th session will be open only to Northeastern students taking the course for credit.

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Links to the video recordings of each session will be posted here within a few days after each course.

Date	Topic	Featured Lecturers
January
9	Science & Ethics	James Anderson, Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Principal Investigator of the Anderson Research Group on the Chemistry and Physics of Climate and Earth System Change at Harvard University
	View the videos	Ron Sandler, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Ethics Institute, and Research Associate in the Environmental Justice Research Collaborative; Northeastern University
	Sandler’s Presentation
16	The Governance ChallengeHamel’s Presentation	Sonia Hamel, An advisor to governments and foundations on energy, transportation, and climate change policy. Past director of Air Policy and Planning in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and special assistant in the Office for Commonwealth Development
	View the videos	Bill Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
23	Economy & Business	Mindy Lubber, President and founding board member of Ceres and director Ceres’ Investor Network on Climate Risk
	View the videos	Mark Buckley, Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Staples, Inc.
		Lee Kane, EcoCzar/Forager, Whole Foods Market
30	MitigationJacoby’s Presentation	Henry “Jake” Jacoby, William F. Pounds Professor of Management Emertitus, Professor of Applied Economics, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
	View the videos
February
6	Energy Efficiency	Dick Henry, Jr., Executive Director, Jordan Institute
	View the videos	Douglas Foy, President of Serrafix Corporation and formerly President of the Conservation Law Foundation
13	Climate & National SecurityTitley’s Presentation	David Titley, Rear Admiral, US Navy – Retired; Former Deputy Under Secretary for Operations at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Former Director, Task Force Climate Change, US Navy; Former Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance; Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
	View the videos
20	Transportation	Stephanie Pollack, Professor of Practice in Law and Public Policy, Associate Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
	View the videos	Al Biehler, Distinguished Service Professor of Transportation Systems and Policy, Executive Director of the University Transportation Center, and Adjunct Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University; former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
27	Fission & FrackingView the videos	Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Co-Chair, Industrial Performance Center at MIT

March
6	Spring Break – No Class


13	New opportunities for fossil fuels	Mike Jesanis, An advisor to companies, governments, and non-profits in traditional and emerging energy fields, former President and CEO of National Grid USA
	View the videos	Cutler Cleveland, Professor, Department of Earth and Environment, Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University; Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth; Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy
		N. Jonathan Peress, Vice President and Director, Clean Energy and Climate Change, Conservation Law Foundation
20	Renewable Energy Solutions	Lewis Milford, President and founder of Clean Energy Group and the Clean Energy States Alliance, non-resident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
	View the videos	Jim Gordon, CEO, Cape Wind Associates and President, Energy Management Inc.
	Presentations	Greg Watson, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources

27	Adaptation (cities)	Larry Atkinson, Director Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Initiative and the Samuel Fay Solver Professor of Oceanography in the Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University
	View the videos	Brian Helmuth, Professor, Department of Marine and Environmental Science and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Director, Sustainability, Science and Policy Initiative, Northeastern University
	Helmuth’s Presentation Atkinson’s Presentation Suarez’s Presentation	Pablo Suarez, Associate Director for Research and Innovation, Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre
April
3	The Food Security Challenge
	View the videos	Molly Anderson, Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems, College of the Atlantic
	Reilly’s Presentation	John Reilly, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Center for Environmental Policy Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management
10	Geoengineering Solutions	Armond Cohen,Co-founder and Executive Director of the Clean Air Task Force, founder and leader of the Conservation Law Foundation’s Energy Project
	FINAL SESSIONView the videos	John Steinbruner, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland; Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM); past Director, Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution
	Steinbruner’s Presentation Cohen’s Presentation Blackstock’s Presentation	Jason Blackstock, Visiting Fellow, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford
17	Science, Ethics, Economics and Technology Revisited	Host Faculty Moderators
	Note: The April 17th session will be open only to Northeastern students taking the course for credit.

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