Sustainable Futures Speaker Series ~ February 18

February 15, 2016

Dear colleagues and friends,

We are pleased to announce Andrea Tuttle as the first speaker in the Spring 2016 Sustainable Futures Speaker Series. Andrea will speak on Thursday, February 18 from 5:30 to 7:00 PM in Founders Hall room 118 (FH 118) on the HSU campus. The title of her talk is “Report from Paris: Observations from the UNFCCC COP 21 Climate Negotiations.” This event is a featured presentation of HSU’s International Education Week.

Andrea works as an advocate for robust forest and climate policies. She participated in the early design of California’s climate program and forest protocols which are now a compliance instrument in the cap-and-trade system. She is a former Director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and now serves on the boards of the Pacific Forest Trust and U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities. Through her career she has been active in California land-use and environmental policy, serving on the state Coastal Commission, the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, and as a principal consultant in the state Senate. She consults internationally and for the past nine years has attended the UNFCCC climate negotiations as an Observer, especially tracking the REDD+ policies and finance mechanisms to reduce deforestation and degradation in the tropics. Andrea is a Cal Berkeley grad with a B.A. in Biological Sciences and Ph.D. in Environmental Planning. She has lived in Arcata with her husband Don since the 1970’s.

Global climate change is one of the defining environmental and social challenges of our times, and many view the agreement that was reached in the climate negotiations in Paris as a promising and historic early step in the global effort to address the problem. Andrea's talk provides an opportunity to hear a first-hand account of the negotiations from someone who has attended many UNFCCC meetings over the years. She will discuss the outcomes, and she will also describe what it was like to be there during the historic meeting. If you have an interest in climate change and the associated policy and politics, this is not a talk that you will want to miss. We hope that you will attend. 

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