CBH Talk | Confronting Climate Change Part 3: Solutions
Columbia Law's Michael Burger, Tulane's Jesse Keenan, and adaptation scientist Nadia Seeteram explore legal, policy, and community pathways to climate action.
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The third installment of CBH's climate series turns from diagnosis to treatment—and brings the people who are actually designing legal and policy tools for a hotter world.
The final installment of the Center for Brooklyn History’s three-part Confronting Climate Change series shifts from the politics of denial and the science of warming to the harder question of what to do. The evening draws together the legal architects of climate policy, researchers modeling what urban adaptation looks like in practice, and someone who has run the buyout programs that relocate communities from flooding land.
Michael Burger is Executive Director of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, one of the leading centers for climate litigation and policy research in the country. Jesse M. Keenan is a Tulane University professor and author of North: The Future of Post-Climate America, which examines where—and how—people will actually live as the climate changes. Nadia Seeteram is an adaptation scientist who directs buyout programs for New York State.
Rebecca Hersher of NPR’s Climate Desk, who has moderated the full three-part series, returns to close the conversation. Presented with support from Con Edison. Free and open to the public.