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The Paris Agreement established a framework for the nationally determined climate targets put forward by more than 180 countries in the past year, and a new process for revisiting of these targets every five years. In this talk, Dr. Nathan Hultman will discuss how the process unfolded, starting with the U.S,–China joint announcement. He will highlight and discuss a few notable targets, including that of the United States, and will describe how these targets aggregate over the coming decade. Finally, he will address the question of how we might reach our global climate goals—including keeping warming to no more than 2 or even 1.5°C—under the targets and the approach established by Paris, and what that would imply for the global energy system.
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Nathan Hultman
Dr. Nathan Hultman is Associate Professor and Director of the Environmental & Energy Policy program at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He is also Associate Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between the University of Maryland and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. For the past two years, he served as Deputy Associate Director for Energy & Climate Change in the White House Council on Environmental Quality, working on the US national climate target, our international engagement on targets, and the Paris process. He has participated in...
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Nathan Hultman
Dr. Nathan Hultman is Associate Professor and Director of the Environmental & Energy Policy program at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He is also Associate Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between the University of Maryland and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. For the past two years, he served as Deputy Associate Director for Energy & Climate Change in the White House Council on Environmental Quality, working on the US national climate target, our international engagement on targets, and the Paris process. He has participated in the UN climate process since the Kyoto meeting, and is a contributing author to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and Special Report on Renewable Energy. Prof. Hultman has also been a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. He was previously assistant professor in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He is also a former Fulbright Fellow and NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow in climate sciences. He holds an MS and PhD in Energy & Resources from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Physics.
Presenters
Nathan Hultman, University of Maryland
Time
11:00 a.m. ET
Location
SESYNC – 1 Park Place, Suite 300 Annapolis, MD 21401
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