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Committee on America's Climate Choices

  • Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
  • Full Statement of Task (pdf)

    The Committee on America's Climate Choices will be responsible for providing overall direction, coordination, and integration of the on America's Climate Choices suite of activities. The committee will organize the Summit on on America's Climate Choices, facilitate coordination and collaboration among the study panels, convene additional workshops or joint meetings as needed, and write a final report that integrates the panel reports and answers the final four key questions to be addressed by the study:

    - What short-term actions can be taken to respond effectively to climate change?
    - What promising long-term strategies, investments, and opportunities could be pursued to respond to climate change?
    - What are the major scientific and technological advances needed to better understand and respond effectively to climate change?
    - What are the major impediments to responding effectively to climate change, and what can be done to overcome these impediments?


    The members of the Committee on America's Climate Choices are:

    Albert Carnesale (Chair), University of California, Los Angeles
    William L. Chameides (Vice Chair), Duke University
    Donald F. Boesch, University of Maryland, Cambridge
    Marilyn A. Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Jonathan Cannon, University of Virginia
    Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University
    Dr. George C. Eads, CRA International
    Robert W. Fri, Resources for the Future
    James E. Geringer, Environmental Systems Research Institute
    Charles O. Holliday, Jr., DuPont
    Katharine L. Jacobs, University of Arizona
    Thomas R. Karl, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    Diana M. Liverman, University of Oxford
    Pamela A. Matson, Stanford University
    Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden
    Richard L. Schmalensee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Philip R. Sharp, Resources for the Future
    Peggy M. Shepard, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
    Robert H. Socolow, Princeton University
    Susan Solomon, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    Bjorn Stigson, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
    Thomas J. Wilbanks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Peter Zandan, Public Strategies, Inc.

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