Evolving Climate Change Law and Policy: Placing Arctic and Other Developments in Context

The School of Law hosted an international, interdisciplinary conference, The Big Thaw: Policy, Governance and Climate Change in the Circumpolar North bringing together experts in science, law, sociology, and other fields to explore the pressing issue of climate change in the arctic from multiple perspectives. The conference is sponsored by the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, the UB Department of Anthropology, SUNY Buffalo Law School, and the NSF Office of Polar Programs (Arctic Social Sciences Program).

An opening panel and CLE event, Evolving Climate Change Law and Policy: Placing Arctic and Other Developments in Context featured domestic climate change legal experts. Two free CLE credits were available for attorneys attending the opening panel.

Regulating in the face of a changing world: legal remedies for and legal issues faced by communities threatened by climate change, Michael B. Gerrard, eminent climate change expert and former president of the American Bar Association’s Section on Energy, Environment and Recourses, who currently serves as the Director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School.

Global Climate Change Negotiations Then and Now: Adaptation and Diversification in a Warming World, Cinnamon Carlarne, internationally-renowned Professor of Law from The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law.

Will Action on Short Lived Climate Forcers Give the Arctic Time to Adapt?, Mark Roberts, Senior Counsel and International Policy Advisor for the Environmental Investigation Agency.

This event was part of the University at Buffalo Earth Week celebration.

CLE: The University at Buffalo School of Law will offer a total of 2.0 non-transitional CLE credits in the area of Professional Practice for the Thursday panel. The School of Law has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education in the State of New York for the period of March 11, 2011 - March 10, 2014. For further information on the School of Law’s CLE policy, contact Lisa Mueller at 645-3176.