Sustain What? Friday Journalist / Expert Gaggle: Biden + Climate Change = ?
On this show we’ve looked at next steps for U.S. climate science integrity and science advice (links below). Now we’re going deeper on President-elect Joe Biden’s climate agenda as he and Vice President-elected Kamala Harris urgently shift from campaign mode to governing.
There’s profoundly consequential uncertainty ahead given the pivotal January Georgia runoff vote. But plenty is clear on what’s needed, and why the path ahead is epically hard.
Here are our guests.
Hillary Aidun is a Climate Law Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute. She focuses on climate litigation and regulatory battles and efforts to expand renewable energy.
Juliet Eilperin is a Pulitzer-prize-winning Washington Post reporter and author long focused on both climate science and politics.
Zeke Hausfather, is the director of climate and energy work at the Breakthrough Institute. He is a climate scientist and energy systems analyst whose research focuses on observational temperature records, climate models, and mitigation technologies. He spent 10 years working as a data scientist and entrepreneur in the clean-energy tech sector.
Joseph Majkut is the director of climate policy at the Niskanen Center. He has a Ph.D. in atmospheric and ocean science from Princeton but his expertise spans climate science and policy and methods for decision-making under uncertainty.
Daniel Raimi is a Fellow at Resources for the Future and a lecturer at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He works on a range of energy policy issues with a focus on oil and gas regulation and taxation and climate change policy.
Your host, as always, is Andy Revkin, founding director of the Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability and a survivor of more than 35 years on the climate beat - most of that time as a reporter and online Dot Earth columnist for The New York Times.
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