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Donald A. Brown, director of the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy, will speak on climate change at 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 26, in Gagnon Lecture Hall, Hugel Science Center.
Brown has written and spoken extensively on the need to integrate environmental ethics, science, economics, and law. The author of American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States Response to Global Warming, he will be guest lecturer in the Environmental Law and Policy course taught by Diane Elliott. His most recent paper is the White Paper on Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change.
The Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy is comprised of 56 Pennsylvania colleges and universities and the states’s Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Brown is also project coordinator for the Collaborative Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change. This program is a collaboration of 17 institutions around the world interested in the ethical dimensions of climate change for which Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University is the secretariat.
Brown is also senior counsel for sustainable development of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Before holding these positions he was project manager for United Nations Organizations, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International Environmental Policy from 1995-98. In this capacity, Brown, among other things, represented the EPA on delegations to United Nations that negotiated sustainable development issues including climate change, water quantity and quality, toxic substances, and biodiversity. Brown has also served in a number of senior legal and policy positions with the Pennsylvania and New Jersey environmental programs, worked as an engineer and taught philosophy, environmental law, and sustainable development at a number of universities.