Hutton Honors College

Toward a Global Environmental Policy:
What's Next After Copenhagen?

Discussion Breakfast with Environmental Policy Specialist
Pamela Chasek

Friday, March 5, 2010 * 8-9:15 a.m. * HHC Building (811 E. Seventh St.) * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

How can global environmental policies be set? Who is responsible for taking the steps necessary for change? —governments? —advocacy groups? —every individual? Was the December Copenhagen summit a step forward? Or a backward slide? Can such summits be effective? Or is another approach needed? What comes next?

Join environmental policy specialist Pamela Chasek for a discussion of the possibilities and the options and some perspective on the best choices. Chasek is the co-founder and executive editor of Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a daily publication that is distributed to UN negotiations participants and printed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Chasek is also the director of the International Studies Program and an associate professor of government at Manhattan College, and her research interests include international environmental policy and U.S. foreign policy, with a focus on Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. In 2007, Chasek traveled to New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholar grant to research her project, "Small Islands, Big Issues: Formulating Regional and International Responses to Environmental Problems in the South Pacific." Chasek has published numerous articles and books, including Global Environmental Politics; Earth Negotiations: Analyzing Thirty Years of Environmental Policy; and The Global Environment in the Twenty-first Century: Prospects for International Cooperation. Chasek's visit to campus is sponsored by the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

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