Nino David Jordan
Energy use from buildings and the production of construction materials are major contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions. Should we tear down an old house and replace it with a more energy efficient one? What is a sustainable building? Should the built environment of the emerging economies become a mirror image of the industrialized countries’? International and transnational actors are increasingly engaged in providing answers to these questions. In doing so, they put different emphases on the energy efficiency of buildings and the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their construction. A contest between rival development pathways has erupted amidst the global campaign to improve the energy efficiency of buildings.
Nino David Jordan is a Doctoral Researcher at the University College London Institute for Sustainable Resources and a Visiting Researcher at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. In his doctoral research he focuses on the role of information for corporate lobbying on climate change policy. He also coordinates the development of the RECREATE Green Horizons Scoreboard on eco-innovation for the European Commission. Nino has taught on climate change politics at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences and worked for the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). He has an M.A. in International Relations from Jacobs University Bremen and the University of Bremen as well as a B.A. in Political Science from the latter.
This event is sponsored by the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy.