Fudan-Arab Lecture Series No.13

Title: 

Climate Impact: A Comparative Governance Framework for Learning Among Countries

Speaker: 

Prof. Dan Guttman, Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Adjunct Professor at IGPP Fudan University

Host: 

Prof. Yijia Jing, IGPP, Fudan University

Time: 

21:00-22:20 (Beijing Time), April 23rd

Venue: 

Zoom Meeting

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The Speaker：

Dan Guttman is a teacher and lawyer and has been a public servant. He served as Executive Director of a Presidential bioethics Commission, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, and directed Senate investigations of US government energy and environmental management. Following years of teaching at Johns Hopkins University in the US and 2004-6 years as China Fulbright scholar, he has taught and worked at US and China universities, developing comparative governance courses and programs-with an ongoing project focused on learning from country adaptation to climate change impacts. He is a Fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration, cochairing the International Affairs Panel, and was graduated from Yale Law School.

Abstract: 

2023 COP 28 proceedings make clear that challenges of adapting to climate impacts are now a priority comparable to focus on mitigation.  Floods, wildfires, drought and heat are causing great damage in locale which, on paper, were prepared. Mitigation actions, such as reducing fossil fuel use/increasing renewables, greening buildings, fit within the missions of traditional government organization. Greenhouse gas reductions in one country will have global effect. Adaptation, by contrast, is locally focused, requiring levels of data and analysis not now available and consideration of complex interactions among many human and natural systems. In 2021 scholars and practitioners from Australia, China and the US undertook to study how the countries are meeting climate impacts, and to see what can be learned from comparing governance efforts. This talk will summarize the initial report, and next steps.