2016 Dialog: Paris Agreement on Climate Change and U.S. Clean Power Plan

Eleventh Annual Dialog on Sustainability

 

The Consortium for Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability (CESAS) and its partners hosted the Eleventh Annual Dialog on Sustainability: Paris Agreement on Climate Change and U.S. Clean Power Plan, Saturday, July 23, 2016 in Fiedler Hall Auditorium and Atrium, in the Engineering Complex at Kansas State University.

This dialog focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

You can view the agenda from this dialog here.

 

Speakers

Gary Anderson, Active Member of Lutherans Restoring Creation and the Sierra Club

Dorothy Barnett, leads the Climate and Energy Project

Lowell Bliss, Director of Eden Vigil and the author of Environmental Missions: Planting Churches and Trees

Yvonne Cather, Chair of the Sierra Club - Kansas Chapter

Larry Erickson, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Center for Hazardous Substance Research at KSU, President of the Kansas Natural Resource Council

Don Ford, Renewable Business Solutions Director with Westar Energy

Olga Khakova, Program Director with the Climate and Energy Project

Bimal Paul, Professor of Geography at KSU; Official Delegate representing Bangladesh at the U.N. Paris conference and coauthor of the book Climate Change in Bangladesh: Confronting Impending Disasters

Rorik Peterson, EDP Renewables North America

Zack Pistora, Legislative Director of the Sierra Club - Kansas Chapter and Board Member of the Kansas Natural Resource Council

Donna Schenk-Hamlin, Center for Engagement and Community Development and the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy at KSU

Noni Strand, Lutheran Restoring Creation team in Kansas and Missouri

Scott White, Project Analyst with CromwellSolar

 

Presentations:

Clean Power Plan

Paris Agreement on Climate Change - B. Paul

Solar Energy in Kansas - S. White

Wind Energy in Kansas - R. Peterson

 

Thank you to our sponsors:

Gold Sponsor

  • Consortium for Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability (CESAS)

Silver Sponsor

  • Cromwell Solar

Bronze Sponsor

  • Kansas Natural Resource Council (KNRC)

In-Kind Sponsors

  • Briggs Auto Group / Nissan Group of North America

  • Center for Engagement and Community Development

  • Center for Hazardous Substance Research

  • Climate & Energy Project

  • EDP Renewables North America

  • Eden Vigil

  • Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy

  • Kansas Chapter of the Sierra Club

  • Kansas Women's Environmental Network

  • KSU Student and Faculty Services

  • Lutherans Restoring Creation

  • Mark Moser, LLC

  • Westar Energy