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Steve Hamburg
Watson Institute For International Studies – Brown University
Filmed in June 2007.
- What is climate change? [0:55]
- What are some of the consequences of climate change? [0:50]
- How do we know that climate change is getting worse? [1:22]
- What are other pressing global environmental problems? [1:31]
- Can we preserve the environment and have economic growth? [1:42]
- What are alternative energy sources? [1:07]
- How can we reduce emissions? [1:52]
- What are different U.S. perspectives on climate change? [2:17]
- What are other countries’ perspectives on climate change? [2:43]
- What is the Kyoto Protocol? [1:25]
- What is carbon trading and is it an effective method to reduce emissions? [1:59]
- How did you get Walmart to become more eco-friendly? [2:00]
- Can the actions of individuals make a difference? [1:28]
Steve Hamburg is an associate Professor of Environmental Studies and is the Director of the Global Environment Program at the Watson Institute. He is an ecosystem ecologist specializing in the impacts of disturbance on forest structure and function. 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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for his climate change-related activities. At Brown, he is the advisor for the environmental science concentration and graduate advisor for the Center for Environmental Studies, as well as director of Watson’s Global Environment Program. He is the vice chair of the International Long Term Ecological Research Network, whose first secretariat is being established at Watson. He has published widely including in Nature and Science and has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Hamburg came to Brown in 1995 after spending a year at Environmental Defense working on climate change-related issues and nine years at the University of Kansas, where he directed the Environmental Studies Program and served as Environmental Ombudsman. He received his graduate training at Yale University, held a post-doctoral position at Stanford University, and was a Bullard Fellow at Harvard University.
