Climate Change in a Changing World: Meeting the Needs of Humanity and the Planet

Dr. Steven Hamburg is an ecosystem ecologist specializing in the impacts of disturbance on forest structure and function. He is currently Chief Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, on leave from Brown University. At Brown he serves as Research Director of the Global Environment Program at the Watson Institute in International Studies. His research activities have most recently focused on linking climate change impacts to climate change mitigation, including in the corporate sector. He has served as an advisor to both corporations and non-governmental organizations and was awarded an Environmental Merit award by the US Environmental Protection Agency for his climate change-related activities. He has published widely including in Nature and Science and has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He currently works on climate change mitigation issues with the corporate sector.

Co-sponsored by The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, the MIT Center for Environmental Health Science, MIT Joint Program on Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. The event is free and open to the public.