CU Boulder at COP28: Addressing Climate Change Through Innovation

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Beginning Nov. 30, world leaders and climate experts are gathering in Dubai for the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) to address the climate crisis and help vulnerable communities adapt. Learn more about CU Boulder's expertise and involvement in COP28.

   Right Here, Right Now press conference

A press conference was held by the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance on Friday, Dec. 8, to announce draft Human Rights Climate Commitments. Watch the recording and learn more about the commitments.

Faculty experts on Climate Change, Solutions

Faculty experts from CU Boulder are available to discuss climate change and its potential solutions. To arrange an interview, contact CU Boulder media relations at cunews@colorado.edu.

 

Waleed Abdalati

Executive Director, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES)
Expertise: Contributions of ice sheets to sea level rise

James Anaya

Distinguished Professor, Law School
Expertise: International human rights including in its relation to climate change, Indigenous rights
 *Anaya is attending COP28

Maxwell Boykoff

Professor, Department of Environmental Studies and CIRES
Expertise: Decarbonization politics, science-policy decision-making
*Boykoff is attending COP28

Amanda Carrico

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies
Expertise: Social and psychological conditions for pro-environmental action, climate change and migration

Clint Carroll

Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies 
Expertise: Native American environmental knowledge, practices, and justice
 

Pedro DiNezio

Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Expertise: Extreme weather events, impacts of global climate fluctuations, El Niño and La Niña

Paul Komor

Senior Research Associate, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)
Expertise: Policies and technologies needed to phase out fossil fuels 

Oana Luca

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Expertise: Electrochemical carbon capture

Twila Moon

Deputy Lead Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center and CIRES
Expertise: Glaciers

Lucy Pao

Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering
Expertise: Wind turbine design

Wil Srubar

Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Expertise: Alternative Cement and Concrete Materials​

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