Newswise — CSU’s Peter Backlund, associate director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability, heads to Paris next week for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21), a United Nations-organized annual meeting for nearly 200 countries that want to take action on climate change.
Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, Jr., director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University, will take part in panel discussions on the carbon market and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, and U.S. state actions to achieve greenhouse gas reduction at COP21.
For Backlund — a former senior advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and leading member of the National Center for Atmospheric Research—this marks his 11th trip to a COP.
The upcoming meeting is being billed as the “most important climate meeting ever held,” but Backlund said the public, researchers and policymakers should temper their expectations.
The CSU delegation attending COP21 also includes:
• Gillian Bowser, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Warner College of Natural Resources• Maria Fernandez-Gimenez, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Warner College of Natural Resources• Julia Klein, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Warner College of Natural Resources• Dale Lockwood, School of Global Environmental Sustainability and Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences• Anthony Marchese, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
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