Oct 21
Lunch & Conversation: Environment & Policy
Just us for lunch and conversation with Alex Barron '00, who graduated from Carleton in 2000 with a BA in chemistry and earned his PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princetwon University. His graduate research examined interactions between plants, soils and the atmosphere.
He applied his training as a scientist to policy design--in Congress, at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and in the White House. In Congress, he worked in both the Senate and House of Representatives to design comprehensive climate legislation (including the American Clean Energy and Security Act) and covered international climate negotiations.
His current research focuses on the design for climate policies to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and avoid catastrophic climate change. This includes evaluating how policies have worked in the past, designing specific policy incentives to reduce emissions, and working to improve the tools that policy makers use when designing those policies.