Climate Science and the Fight for Social Justice
Yale Blue Green—SF Bay Area Chapter
Webinar, April 18, 2023, 1:00-2:00
Zoom
What is the Just Energy Transition?: Climate Science and the Fight for Social Justice, UC Berkeley Professor Dan Kammen (YC Parent ’19)
Dan Kammen, UC Berkeley professor and proud Yale ’19 parent, has been at the forefront of the global effort to achieve a clean energy future. He has also been focused on the need to balance that goal with the need to support communities that are at greatest risk from climate change. In his talk, Professor Kammen will show how economic, social, racial and gender issues are shaping the development of climate policy, and he will argue that governments need to pursue a “just energy transition” that is inclusive and equitable. As he observes: “The recognition that social injustice is in many ways tied to our existing, fossil-fuel intensive economy has led to important calls for a 'climate-justice' nexus to protect the planet, people, and nature.”
This year, Kammen is serving as Senior Advisor for Energy Innovation at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), having previously served as the World Bank’s first Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. He has authored or co-authored 12 books, written more than 300 peer-reviewed journal publications, and has testified more than 40 times to U.S. state and federal congressional briefings, and has provided various governments with more than 50 technical reports. See his full bio.
