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Michael Oppenheimer
Visiting Fellow
Visiting Professor of Law, NYU Law
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University
Michael, a regular visiting professor, is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is the director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School and faculty associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. In the spring term, he usually teaches the Global Environmental Law, Science and Governance seminar. The seminar has both NYU Law and Princeton students, and classes alternate between the campuses.
Recent Publications
Building Blocks: A Strategy for Near-Term Climate Action
The Paris Agreement cemented a new framework for global climate policy based on the voluntary and non-legally binding emission reduction actions by both developed and developing countries. The...
Read MoreA Building Blocks Strategy for Global Climate Change
The likely future global climate regime, based on nationally determined, non-legally binding commitments, is not by itself likely to produce emissions reductions sufficient to prevent dangerous climate change. There is,...
Read MoreBuilding a More Effective Global Climate Regime Bottom-Up
The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action holds out the promise of progress towards a climate treaty that includes greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limitations commitments by all major emitting...
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