Policy Guru Gus Speth Uses Poetry to Voice Climate Concerns
From 1993 to 1999, Gus Speth was Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chair of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality (Carter Administration); and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council. In 2009, he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
The author, co-author or editor of eleven books, Speth took to poetry late, publishing two books of poems (so far):
Initial data indicate ride-hailing isn’t as good for the environment as many assumed, at least not in its current form.
With a focused, practical bent, Joshua Skov, an instructor of management and sustainability at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon, and his colleagues sought to disentangle ride-hailing from other sources of carbon emissions in community-scale greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories.
“We know we have built cities too much around the car…. You use the car for everything in a car-dependent community.”
When doing so, they followed internationally recognized, voluntary greenhouse gas protocols and annual report results from various bodies, such as the compliance reports to the Compact of Mayors and the CDP Cities Survey, formerly called the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
Professional Biography:
Deepti’s business and economics background informs her understanding of the numbers involved in legal matters, whether related to business decisions or litigation.
Deepti was a summer associate with B&D in 2019 and re-joined the firm in November. She assists with FIFRA research and other related assignments. Her interest in law began as an undergraduate while studying abroad in Costa Rica, working with an indigenous group called the Boruca. Her international experience focuses on the circular economy and she continues to build expertise in Basel Convention and other international and federal laws related to waste recycling and disposal, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)/Paris Agreement, and carbon trading.