Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 12, 2004|Volume 33, Number 11

Environmental experts will explore
the effects of the U.S. elections

The effect that the recent presidential election may have on international environmental initiatives will be explored in a panel discussion taking place at Yale on Monday, Nov. 15.

Titled "Environment and Multilateralism: Perspectives After the U.S. Election," the event is sponsored by the Center for Environmental Law and Policy at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. It will take place noon-1:30 p.m. in the GM Room at 55 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served.

The panelists are all top environmental experts at major international institutions. They will explore how international organizations approach global environmental problems, whether multilateralism in global environmental governance is the best solution and how they will proceed in light of the U.S. election.

The participants will be:

Kirk Hamilton, lead environmental economist/team leader of the Policy and Economics Team, Environment Department, World Bank. Hamilton manages a team that deals with such issues as environmental indicators, valuation, poverty-environment links and macroeconomics and the environment. It also offers guidance on environmental aspects of the World Bank's country assistance strategies, and works to make environmental issues a "mainstream" component of the World Bank's programs.

Larry Kohler, head of the Washington Office of the International Labor Organization (ILO). Kohler serves as the ILO's special adviser of international economic and financial institutions and is a specialist on sustainable development in the Bureau of External Relations and Partnerships.

Derek Yach, professor and head of the Global Health Division in Yale's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and former executive director of non-communicable diseases and mental health at the World Health Organization (WHO). At WHO, Yach developed a new global "Health for All" policy; at Yale, he is pursuing research on the impact of globalization on health and expanding the involvement of developing countries in chronic disease prevention and control.

Scott Vaughan, director of the Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment, Organization of American States (OAS), and former counselor to the World Trade Organization. The unit that Vaughan directs supports the OAS member states in matters related to sustainable development and the environment, with a particular emphasis in linking environmental policies with core economic, rural development, poverty alleviation and economic integration.

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