Fall Schedule 2010
STEP seminars are held in Wallace Hall 300 (unless specified otherwise )
12 noon until 1pm
(Lunch is served at 11:45a)
September 27th, 2010 " The Future of Nuclear Waste Disposal in the U.S."
Allison MacFarlane
Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University
October 4th, 2010 ("Action, As If Climate Mattered")
Stephen Andersen
Director of Research, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) and Co-Chair, United Nations Montreal Protocol Technology and Economics Assessment Panel (TEAP).
October 11th, 2010 " Negotiating Climate Change: Mandates, Principles, Strategies and Metrics"
Dennis Clare
Senior Law Fellow, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development
and delegate to the UNFCCC for the Federated States of Micronesia
October 25th, 2010 "Proliferation-Resistant Nuclear Energy: The Emerging Role of Thorium and New Reactor Technologies"
Seth Grae
November 1st, 2010
NO STEP Seminar - Break Week
November 8th, 2010 "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Regulation: Perils and Pitfalls"
Amy Sinden
November 15th, 2010 "Japan's Policy Debate over Climate Change"
Fumihiko Yoshida
Global Issues Editiorial Writer, Asahi Shimbun (Japan's New York Times)
November 29th, 2010 'Assessing China's Emission Control Options: Carbon Taxes, Sulfur Mandates, and More"
Chris Nielsen
December 6th, 2010 " How Would We Act If We Took Climate Change Seriously"
Robert Socolow
Professor- Princeton University and Co-Director Carbon Mitigation Initiative