Please joins us for the 3rd event in the Climate Justice Speaker Series"Climate Change and Human Rights" byDr. Craig Hart.
Counsel at Alston & Bird's Energy Infrastructure, Climate Change and Technology group
Climate Law Fellow at the Center for International Environmental Law,

Sponsored by the Climate Justice Speaker Series and the Yale Environmental Law Association.

Craig Hart is Counsel at Alston & Bird's Energy Infrastructure, Climate Changeand Technology group. He is also Executive Director of The Energy + EnvironmentFoundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening environmentaleducation in developing countries. Previously, he was Director of the Centerfor International Environmental Law's (CIEL) climate change program, where heserved as legal counsel to the Maldives and other small island developingstates. As legal counsel, Hart helped draft the Male' Declaration on the HumanDimensions of Global Climate Change, which was ultimately adopted by the UNHuman Rights Committee in March 2008.

Hart works with various types of renewable energy and carbon managementtechnologies. He recently advised the developer of a combined heat and powerbiomass power project in China to be registered under the Clean DevelopmentMechanism, and investors in their acquisition of a portfolio of carbon creditgenerating projects. Hart speaks and writes on the subjects of renewable energypolicy, climate change and works extensively on China energy and environmental issues. Craig Hart holds a J.D. from Berkeley, a Ph.D. from MIT and has written a forthcoming book entitled "Climate Change and the Private Sector."

The Climate Justice Speaker Series aims to stimulate discussion on the ethicaldimensions of climate change, by addressing the disparate impacts it will haveon the world's marginalized and poor, the challenges it poses to thepreservation of human rights, sovereignty, and intergenerational justice, andthe importance of devising just policy solutions.

The Climate Justice Speaker Series is a joint effort of following studentgroups: Environmental Justice at Yale, Climate SIG, SPIRET, Students for Urban Design Sustainability, Western Resource SIG, Yale Student Environmental Coalition, and Yale Scientists and Engineers for America.