Climate change and the Paris Agreement, Iowa City, Iowa, February 11, 2021

Schnoor, Jerald L.

Lyness, Janet

2021-02-11

Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
Community Television Service (Iowa City, Iowa)

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This program touches briefly on the science of climate change and the events of 2020- including the California drought and wildfires, the unprecedented number of hurricanes which made landfall in the US, and the midwestern derecho. Then, Professor Schnoor addresses updates on the Biden administration's plans to uphold the Paris Climate Agreement. Policies in China and the EU are also discussed, together with the lack of funding for vulnerable and affected nations.
Jerald Schnoor is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (elected in 1999) for his pioneering work using mathematical models in science policy decisions. He testified several times before Congress on environmental protection, including the importance of passing the 1990 Clean Air Act. From 2003-2014, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal Environmental Science and Technology and of ES&T Letters in 2013-2014. He chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development from 2000-2004, and served on the EPA Science Advisory Board and the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council for NIEHS (2007-2011).
In 2010, Schnoor received the Simon W. Freese Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize from the National Water Research Institute (NWRI) for his research and leadership in water sustainability and climate change. In 2013, he was awarded an Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in 2015, the Perry L. McCarty AEESP Founders' Award for sustained and outstanding contributions to environmental engineering education, research, and practice. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) presented to Jerry the 2016 Dixy Lee Ray Award "for outstanding achievement in environmental protection through improvements in technology, science, and policy". Most recently, the American Chemical Society bestowed the 2019 Creative Advances in Environmental Science & Technology national award for pioneering phytoremediation. In summary, Schnoor's mathematical models of acid deposition and water quality and his research using plants in phytoremediation have been foundational to the field of environmental engineering.

Speaker: Jerry Schnoor, University of Iowa professor of engineering
host: Janet Lyness
Via Zoom while the pandemic curtailed how we were able to gather in public.

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Schnoor, Jerald L.
Lyness, Janet

Conference of the Parties (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) (21st : 2015 : Paris, France)

2020-2030

United States

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