Leveraging Climate Data and Services to Manage Climate Change

July 21, 2010 • 6:30 – 8:30 pm EDT

Climate change will have serious, pervasive, and unavoidable effects on economic and national security. Managing these consequences, and mitigating them when possible, is a new and difficult task for governments.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted an event on leveraging climate data and services to manage climate change and the creation of a national climate service.  The event focused on what must be done to improve our ability to collect, aggregate, and share accurate data and make it broadly accessible to decisionmakers, industry, academics, and the public at large.
 
Speakers:
 
Thomas R. Karl
Director of the National Climatic Data Center, NOAA
Chair of the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
 
Dr. Jack Kaye 
Associate Director for Research and Analysis, NASA Earth Science Division
NASA Principal to the U.S. Global Change Research Program 
 
Dr. Ana Unruh-Cohen
Deputy Staff Director, Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming 
U.S. House of Representatives 
 
Dr. Johannes Loschnigg 
Senior Policy Analyst, Energy and Environment Division
Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President 
 
The CSIS report, Earth Observation for Climate Change will be released at this event. 
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James Andrew Lewis
Senior Vice President; Pritzker Chair; and Director, Strategic Technologies Program
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Sarah Ladislaw

Sarah Ladislaw

Former Senior Associate (Non-resident), Energy Security and Climate Change Program