Live Webinar

Climate Change: How Bad Will it Be, and What Must be Done?

Inter-Disciplinary Panels of Leading Experts Answer these Questions on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 | 9:00 am – 1:15 pm

Please Note:

All attendees will receive an email confirmation including a zoom invite by 5pm the day before the program with details of how to access the webinar.





Program Fees:

Free to City Bar and NYSBA members | $15 for non-member attorneys | Free to the publi c.

Members of the NYSBA and non-lawyers please call Customer Relations at 212.382.6663 to register.

Description:

Climate change will drastically alter many facets of our lives, including where we live, the way we build, what we eat, how we produce electricity, and how we use transportation. But as the 50th anniversary of Earth Day approaches, many people are not aware of the scope of climate change or what is being done and will be done to address it. This program aims to address that knowledge gap.

Welcome:

J. Kevin Healy , Co-Chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, Senior Counsel, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, LLP



Resiliency Panel:

This panel of experts will provide an overview of resiliency problems and solutions and discuss the science of extreme weather and risk management, resiliency efforts and environmental justice, and efforts to protect New York State.

Sarah Kapnick , Physical Scientist & Deputy Division Leader at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Alice Hill, Senior Fellow for Climate Change Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, formerly with the White House and U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security and co-author of Building a Resilient Tomorrow

Tomi Vest, General Counsel, NYC Mayor’s Office on Resiliency

Annel Hernandez, Associate Director, NYC Environmental Justice Alliance

Welcome:

Carl Howard

, Counsel, U.S. EPA, Region 2, Co-Chair, Global Climate Change Committee, NYSBA, Environmental & Energy Law Section





Decarbonization Panel:

This panel of experts will provide an overview of the efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuels, and discuss topics including decarbonization in the energy, food and agriculture, and transportation sectors, decarbonization efforts and environmental justice, and New York’s roadmap to a Statewide carbon-neutral building stock by mid-century.

Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, author of Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States

Peter Lehner, Managing Attorney, Earthjustice

Kate Kurera, Deputy Director, Environmental Advocates of New York

Greg Hale, Senior Adviser, NYSERDA

Lew Daly, Senior Policy Analyst and Senior Advisor, Policy Development, Demos



Program Chairs:

Matthew J. Sinkman, New York Attorney General’s Office, Environmental Protection Bureau

J. Kevin Healy, Co-Chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, Senior Counsel, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, LLP

Amy E. Turner, Co-Chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, Senior Fellow, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Carl Howard, Counsel, U.S. EPA, Region 2, Co-Chair, Global Climate Change Committee, NYS Bar Association, Environmental & Energy Law Section



Sponsored by:



Environmental and Energy Law Section and the Real Property Law Section, of the New York State Bar Association

New York City Climate Action Alliance

Environmental Law Committee of the New York City Bar AssociationEnvironmental and Energy Law Section and the Real Property Law Section, of the New York State Bar AssociationNew York City Climate Action Alliance



