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Speaker Series: Nathan Hultman on US Climate Policy

HSU’s Sustainable Futures Speaker Series presents Nathan Hultman, Associate Professor and Director of the Environmental Policy Program at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He is also a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Associate Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Hultman will give a free, public lecture at 5:30pm Thursday, October 10 in Gist Hall 218 on the Humboldt State University campus. The title of his talk is, “US Climate Policy and Prospects for a 2015 International Climate Agreement.”

Dr. Hultman’s research focuses on energy technology transitions in diverse development contexts; clean technology innovation; international climate policy; and private sector decisions to undertake low-carbon investments. He has participated in the UN climate process since the Kyoto meeting and is a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Before joining the University of Maryland, Dr. Hultman held a faculty appointment at Georgetown University and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Science, Innovation, & Society. He holds a Ph.D. in Energy & Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.

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