Global Climate Change: Individual, Private Sector, and State Responses March 23, 2007

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After the United States elected not to join the Kyoto Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, voluntary international and domestic U.S. programs, citizens, corporations, and states have moved forward independently with an array of responses to the problem. Participants in three panels weighed in on the success of these efforts. Scholarship from the symposium participants was featured in a dedicated future issue of the Journal.

PANEL 1 Individual Responses to Climate Change: Social Norms, Values, and Expectations

Panelists:
  • John Dernbach, Widener Law School
  • Andrew Green, University of Toronto
  • Michael Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt University School of Law
Moderator: Leon Szeptycki, University of Virginia School of Law

Keynote/Lunch, Caplin Pavilion
Ruth Greenspan Bell, Resources for the Future, Director of International Institutional Development and Environmental Assistance (IIDEA)
Moderator: Jonathan Cannon, University of Virginia School of Law

PANEL 2 Private Sector Responses to Climate Change: Motivations in the Domestic Arena, 
Panelists:
  • William Bumpers, Baker Botts
  • Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan
  • Perry E. Wallace, Washington College of Law, American University
Moderator: Andrea Larson, University of Virginia Darden School of Business

PANEL 3 State Responses to Climate Change: Independent and Regional Commitments, Purcell Reading Room
Panelists:
  • Kevin Doran, University of Colorado
  • David Hodas, Widener Law School
  • Robert McKinstry, Pennsylvania State University
  • Thomas Peterson, Center for Climate Strategies
  • Barry Rabe, University of Michigan
Moderator: James Ryan, University of Virginia School of Law