| Donald A. Brown, Esq.
Project Coordinator
Collaborative Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change
Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University, PA, USA
Director
Pennsylvania
Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy
Pennsylvania Dept of Environmental Protection, Harrisburg, PA, USA
Ethical dimensions of climate change
Environmental ethics expert Don Brown brings an impressive background of awareness
and educational initiatives on climate change and environmental justice issues to the April EcoRes Forum E-Conference table. At its secretariat at the Rock Ethics Institute at Pennsylvania State University, Brown serves as project coordinator for the Collaborative Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change, a joint initiative of eight international institutions. In addition to its activity portfolio, the program maintains an online climate change ethics bibliography and hosts an ongoing commentary project on climate change policy and science. (Bonus blog subscription)
Brown is also currently Director of the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy, an initiative composed of more than 50 Pennsylvania universities and the Pennsylvania Departments of Environmental Protection and Conservation and Natural Resources. Previously, Brown has served with various UN organizations, the US Environmental Protection Agency and worked in senior positions with several Pennsylvania and New Jersey environmental programs. Prior to this involvement, Brown lectured on sustainable development and environmental law at several American universities.
A prolific author, Brown has published widely on the need to integrate environmental ethics across the board in climate change decision-making fora around the world. Lead author of the UN “White Paper on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change”, which made headlines when presented at the November COP gathering in Nairobi, Don also acts as Senior Counsel for Sustainable Development for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Brown’s 2002 book American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States Response to Global Warming, in which he analyses (and finds wanting) the American response to climate change, will be of special interest to Forum participants. Mr. Brown believes that the key to reforming environmental decision-making is to make explicit, and therefore subject to express ethical reflection, controversial normative and ethical assumptions hidden in the policy languages of science, economics, and law.
The EcoRes Forum is honored to welcome Donald Brown to the April E-Conference Panel of Experts and wishes to recognize his signficiant contributions in the field of climate change ethics.
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