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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: EUS Colloquium: "Climate Policy Post Paris: Student Action to Change the Future” Monday, February 8, 2016 Eban Goodstein, Director, Bard Center for Environmental Policy"Climate Policy Post Paris: Student Action to Change the Future”Last December, for the first time, both the US and China made major commitments to cut global warming pollution. President Obama promised that the US would reduce emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. Combined with the action in other countries, if all the commitments are borne out, the world will move from an 8 degree F future warming, to a 6 degree F scenario. Also, under the Paris accords, countries are supposed to return in 2020 with a new round of proposed cuts to get us closer to limiting warming to 4 degrees F. This talk will focus on how we got to this point, and what students and citizens cans do now to be part of changing the future. The talk closes with a focus on the Power Dialog, a national initiative spearheaded by the Bard Center for Environmental Policy to engage students nationwide in face-to-face discussion with state policy-makers in charge of implementing the US commitment in Paris. Time: 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102 Sponsor: Environmental and Urban Studies Program Contact: Kris Feder. E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://eus.bard.edu If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://inside.bard.edu/campus/services/career/calendar/