Realistic Climate Solutions: Local to the Global Policy

The event will feature the perspectives of four individuals who have worked on realistic and equitable policy solutions to climate change at every level of governance: local, state, national, and global. In the first half of the program, each speaker will describe their experience and ideas for creating realistic solutions to climate change in their particular political context. The second half of the program will feature a discussion among the panelists as well as a question and answer session with the audience.  The event is intended to offer diverse perspectives for making progress on the challenge of climate change across political scales, based on the substantial experience of each panelist working on the issue.

Panelists

• Eileen Claussen, climate and energy policy administrator, diplomat, and founder of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Executive in Residence at the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business at Elon University 
• Robert Inglis, former congressman from South Carolina, and Executive Director of RepublicEN
• Eduardo Garcia, California assembly member and co-sponsor of the bill to renew California’s groundbreaking cap and trade program through 2030
• Greg Ballard, former Mayor of Indianapolis