[Env seminars] Lecture on Climate Change and Developing Countries, March 18

[Karen Gibson]

Upcoming Event:


Developing Countries' Contribution to the Climate Change Issue: The 
Case of India


Lecture by
Leena Srivastava
Executive Director, The Energy and Resources Institute <http://www.teriin.org/>


Friday, March 18
2:00 PM
MIT Building 6 Room 120
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public reception to follow


Summary: Progress on full developed country participation in 
addressing the problem of climate change is being held up due to the 
perceived non-participation of developing countries. Is this 
perception true? What are the barriers to taking on commitments? What 
is going to be India's role in the future? What can it do to respond 
to the threat of climate change?

Biography: Leena Srivastava is currently the Executive Director, 
TERI, New Delhi, and Senior Vice President of TERI-North America. She 
was the Director of the Regulatory Studies and Governance Division, 
TERI from April 1999-March 2003 and of the Policy Analysis Division 
for five years before that. TERI is an independent not-for-profit 
research institution working in the areas of energy, environment and 
sustainable development.

Dr. Srivastava has been the Dean, Faculty of Policy and Planning, 
TERI School of Advanced Studies since June 2000 where she teaches 
doctoral courses on Energy Policy and Planning and Infrastructure 
Economics. She has a Ph.D. in Energy Economics from the Indian 
Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. She has a number of 
publications to her credit and is on the Editorial Boards of various 
international journals dealing with energy and environment issues.

Dr. Srivastava was a Coordinating Lead Author on Working Group III of 
the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC and is currently the Anchor 
for Sustainable Development and Climate Change for the Fourth 
Assessment Report.



Sponsored by:

MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
MIT Students for Global Sustainability



More Info:

Beth Conlin
Education Program
MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment 
<mailto:bconlin at mit.edu>bconlin at mit.edu
617-452-3199


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