Trees as Climate Solutions: A Roundtable Debate

This event will be held ONLINE via Zoom:
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and will be livestreamed via Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/UMBCSocSci

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A recent New York Times opinion claims that “Focusing on trees as the big solution to climate change is a dangerous diversion.” True? False? Somewhere in between?

Roundtable panelists will debate the relative utility and disutility of tree planting, forest restoration, and forest conservation as solutions to global climate change. Further, panelists will discuss the contributions of individual and collective levels of behavioral changes to addressing climate change. 

Panelists:

• Erle Ellis, Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems

• Matthew Fagan, Assistant Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems

• Susan Sterett, Professor, Public Policy

• Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Public Policy and Political Science

• Blake Francis, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Philosophy