Law, Politics & Government

#19: Alexander Verbeek

In this two-part podcast Yale World Fellow Alexander Verbeek, strategic policy advisory on global issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, discusses how to build an robust social network — and how to use it effectively to communicate key issues and build a global community (part 1). He then looks at how we might address some of the most critical environmental issues with an integrated approach that has governments working together with industry, civil society, and think tanks (part 2). 

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#18: Thora Arnorsdottir

In this podcast Thora Arnorsdottir, senior news editor at the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, documentary film producer, and 2014 Yale World Fellow, discusses her 2012 candidacy for the Presidency of Iceland, and the environmental issues, from natural resource management and green energy to the pressures of increased tourism on fragile ecosystems, that helped shape her platform – and how those issues are evolving today.

#13: Matt Daggett

In this podcast, Matt Daggett, Greenpeace International’s global campaign leader for forests, visits with Amy Mount, Yale F&ES ‘14, about the organization’s theory of change and climate policy in the US. 

#12: Tom Kizzia

Tom Kizzia’s recent book, Pilgrim’s Wilderness, details the strange (but true) journey of the self-proclaimed Papa Pilgrim, who established his wife and fifteen children in America’s largest national park in south-central Alaska. In this podcast, Kizzia visits with Amy Mount, Yale F&ES ‘14, about how the Pilgrims touched off one of the most-visible controversies between environmentalists, government officials and local land-rights advocates in a generation. 

#11: Mary Wood

In this podcast Marissa Knodel, Yale F&ES ‘15, visits with Mary Wood, faculty director of the nationally acclaimed Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program at the University of Oregon School of Law, about her recent book, Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age. The book highlights flaws in current environmental law practices and offers transformational change based on the public trust doctrine. An ancient and enduring principle, the trust doctrine asserts public property rights to crucial resources.

#10: Leon Billings & Tom Jorling

In this podcast, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Associate Director Josh Galperin visits with former US Senate staffers Leon Billings and Tom Jorling about the policies and personalities that led to the first major environmental laws in the nation – and what the history of environmental lawmaking can tell us about the political stalemate we face today.

#1: Julian Aguon

Julian Aguon is a Pacific human rights lawyer and law scholar whose work centers on the rights of non-self-governing and indigenous peoples in international law. Having for years lived and worked in Guam and the surrounding islands of Micronesia, Julian commands intimate knowledge of the peoples, governments and legal systems of these small island states and thrives on working across legal, political and cultural landscapes.

#3: Rit Aggarwala

The 63 cities in the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group contain 8 percent of the world’s population, have a GDP the size of China’s – and the potential to reduce the global carbon emissions by a billion tons. In this podcast Rit Aggarwala, the former director of long-term planning and sustainability for New York City, discusses megacities’ leadership in addressing climate change and PlaNYC, with its goal to reduce New York City’s carbon footprint by more than 30 percent by 2030.

A Letter from Singapore

Center Director Professor Dan Esty traveled to Singapore earlier this year to spend several weeks as a visiting lecturer at the Yale-NUS College. Esty spent the first half of the spring 2018 semester teaching, while also engaging with scholars and stakeholders at events across Singapore to explore issues related to international climate change law and policy.

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