A welcome reception for Director Prakash Jha, eminent filmmaker from India, and Artist-in-Residence at the Chadha Center for Global India. We will screen two of Jha's award-winning documentaries, "Faces After the Storm" and "Sonal."
Speakers: João Biehl, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology. Chair, Department of Anthropology. Princeton University Michel Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Director, Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment. Princeton University Anu Ramaswami, Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Director, Chadha Center for Global India. Princeton University Elke Weber, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Psychology and the School of Public and International Affairs. Associate Director for Education, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Director, Fung Global Fellows Program. Princeton University Moderator: Deborah Yashar, Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and Intern
How can we chart pathways towards low-carbon, sustainable, and healthy cities? This workshop will feature three panel discussions on urban systems science, air pollution and decarbonization. Panelists include leading researchers from Princeton University and our network partners, as well as city policymakers from USA and India affiliated with the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network. This is a synthesis event of the NSF-supported Sustainable Healthy Cities Network. Panelists Anu Ramaswami, Princeton University Armistead (Ted) Russell, Georgia Tech Mark Zondlo, Princeton University Denise Mauzerall, Princeton University Ajay Nagpure, Princeton University Ashish Rao Ghorpade, ICLEI South Asia Mauricio Leon, Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities Agenda Panel 1: 12:00 – 1:00 PM<br /> Urban Systems Science for People and the Planet Panel 2: 1:00 – 2:00 PM<br /> Tackling Air Pollution: Learnings from India, China, and the US Panel 3: 4:30 – 5:30 PM<br /> Multi-Sect
Cities around the world have pledged to get to net-zero to help solve the climate crisis and now Princeton’s Anu Ramaswami has designed a Zero Emissions Calculator for Communities to help with the carbon math.
Princeton has been at the forefront of climate change research for more than a half-century. As the world prepares for the Glasgow summit, some of Princeton’s many experts scientists and scholars who are devoting their careers to environmental solutions are speaking to the moment.