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Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change


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    This panel will address the question: "What can be done to limit the magnitude of future climate change?"

    The panel will describe, analyze, and assess strategies for reducing the net future human influence on climate, including both technology and policy options (this is sometimes referred to as "mitigation of climate change"). The panel will focus on actions to reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions and other human drivers of climate change, such as changes in land use, but will also consider the international dimensions of climate stabilization. The costs, benefits, limitations, tradeoffs, and uncertainties associated with different options and strategies should be assessed qualitatively and, to the extent practicable, quantitatively, using the scenarios of future climate change and vulnerability developed in coordination with the Committee on America's Climate Choices. The panel will also strive to keep abreast of the wide range of proposals currently being advanced by policymakers at a number of levels to limit the future magnitude of climate change, and strive to frame their recommendations in the context of these developments.

    The members of the Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change are:

    Mr. Robert W. Fri (Chair)
    Resources for the Future

    Dr. Marilyn A. Brown (Vice Chair)
    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Dr. Doug Arent
    National Renewable Energy Laboratory

    Ms. Ann Carlson
    University of California, Los Angeles

    Ms. Majora Carter
    Majora Carter Group, LLC

    Dr. Leon Clarke
    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

    Mr. Francisco de la Chesnaye
    Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

    Dr. George C. Eads
    CRA International

    Dr. Genevieve Giuliano
    University of Southern California

    Dr. Andrew J. Hoffman
    University of Michigan

    Dr. Robert O. Keohane
    Princeton University

    Dr. Loren Lutzenhiser
    Portland State University

    Dr. Bruce McCarl
    Texas A&M University-College Station

    Dr. Mack McFarland
    DuPont Fluoroproducts

    Dr. Edward S. Rubin
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Dr. Thomas H. Tietenberg
    Colby College (Retired)

    Dr. James A. Trainham, III
    Sundrop Fuels Inc.



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