The spring 2008 Global Agenda series, titled “Boiling Point: International Politics of Climate Change,” is organized and mediated by Ralph Begleiter, Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence at UD. All lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. on the designated Wednesday, and are held in Mitchell Hall.
Upcoming Global Agenda presentations also include:
Wednesday, April 9: John Byrne, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at UD and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at UD, as well as a member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Panel on Climate Change, will lecture on the importance of making sustainable energy into public policy.
Wednesday, April 23: “Making Climate Change Policy for the U.S. Government” with Daniel Reifsnyder, deputy assistant secretary of state for environment. He is responsible for a broad range of issues related to environmental protection and conservation. Reifsnyder has been developing, negotiating and implementing climate change policy for the United States government since 1989. He was a member of the U.S. diplomatic team at the Bali climate change conference last_December.
Wednesday, May 7: John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Company and adviser to the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Department of Energy, will lecture on achieving energy security through sound public policy.
Wednesday, May 14: “Implications for National Security” with Maj. Gen. Richard L. Engel USAF (Ret), who is U.S. Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He has served as a senior military analyst with the Strategic Assessments Group of the Office of Transnational issues of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The series is free and open to the public. For more information, visit [www.udel.edu/global].
Global Agenda series presentations also are being simulcast on Second Life, an Internet-based 3-D virtual world entirely created by its residents, which can be accessed at: [http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/151/26].
