How can policymakers balance global climate agreements with local conditions? How can scientists shape policy?
In a panel convened by the MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies, three experts sat down to tackle these questions on September 25 during Yale @ Climate Week NYC.
Dr. Maria Ivanova, Director of the Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, led a conversation with Carlos Alvarado Quesada, former President of Costa Rica, and Philip Osano, Director of the Africa Centre of the Stockholm Environment Institute, in a talk titled “Flipping the Model: Leveraging Academic Perspectives to Reinvent Multilateralism.” Ivanova, M.E.M ’99, M.A. ’99, Ph.D ’06, began the panel by emphasizing the importance of mentorship across generations.
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