Rutgers Climate Symposium 2019
Science and Society: Perspectives On a Green New Deal

Livingston Student Center   |   Piscataway, NJ
November 20, 2019

AGENDA

8:15  AM    
 Check-In (Student Center Concourse) 
 Poster Session Set-up (Livingston Student Center Concourse)
 Light Breakfast (Livingston Student Center Livingston Hall)

9:00  AM   
 Welcome and Keynote Address (Livingston Hall)
​  Welcome
  Robert Goodman, Executive Dean, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
  Peter March, Executive Dean, School of Arts and Sciences

  On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal 
  Naomi Klein, Rutgers University 
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10:15 AM    
 Break 

10:45 AM   
 Science and Society Perspectives on A Green New Deal Plenary Panel (Livingston Hall) 
  Climate Change Lessons from the Old New Deal
  Neil Maher, New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Ocean Justice and the Blue New Deal
  Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ocean Collectiv

  The Case for a Green New Deal for Housing
  Daniel Aldana Cohen, University of Pennsylvania 

​  Is There a Climate Science Case for the Green New Deal? 
  J. Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia

12:30 PM    Lunch (Livingston Hall)
1:00 PM       Poster Session (Concourse)
3:00 PM     Adjourn 

​Rutgers Climate Symposium is made possible through the generous support of the Frank Sposato Memorial Endowment

PDF available for download here.