Lessening Air Air pollution, Preserving Wellness and Mitigating Local weather Modify
CHAIR:
Yewande Aramide Awe, Sr Environmental Engineer, Environment, Natural Sources and Blue Overall economy World-wide Exercise, Globe Lender
SPEAKERS:
Bjorn Larsen, Worldwide Development Economist and Advisor
George Thurston, Director of the Application in Publicity Assessment and Human Overall health Results, Section of Environmental Medicine, New York University
Matthew Alvarado, Vice President, Analysis and Advancement at Atmospheric and Environmental Research
Grzegorz Peszko, Lead Economist, Globe Lender
Bjorn Larsen is an Intercontinental Development Economist and Advisor to intercontinental and bilateral progress agencies, consulting companies, and analysis institutions with 30 decades of expert encounter. His major fields of consulting and exploration are environmental wellbeing and organic resource management from more than 50 international locations in Asia, Central and South The usa, Europe, Center East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa, and training shipping and meeting presentation in around 20 international locations. In the very last 20 years as a guide, he has prepared about 100 investigate and plan studies and papers and has 25 publications in professional journals and publications. His clients incorporate Governments, Planet Bank, H2o and Sanitation System, Copenhagen Consensus Middle (Denmark), UNICEF, Environment Wellness Corporation, DFID, AusAid and CIDA, Resources for the Foreseeable future (United states), Financial Investigate Forum (Egypt), Environmental Resources Management (British isles), ECON (Norway), and Unilever Exploration (United kingdom).
George Thurston is Director of the System in Publicity Assessment and Overall health Consequences in the Section of Environmental Medication at New York College (NYU) and major scholar on the human health and fitness results of air pollution. His investigate has concentrated on the human health and fitness effects of air air pollution, especially with regards to wonderful particulate make any difference (PM2.5). His work has involved reports of air pollution exposure and their health and fitness results in panels of particular person human subjects, as very well as large cohorts. In 1987, he published the to start with analysis documenting the affiliation between PM2.5 mass and its components with mortality, as well as the 1st paper employing resource apportionment strategies to relate particular PM2.5 sources with mortality, primarily coal burning. In 2012, Professor Thurston was awarded the prestigious “Haagen Smit Prize” by the scientific journal Atmospheric Surroundings. He has also been a chief in bringing researchers and medical professionals with each other to achieve consensus on critical troubles. He led the the latest American Thoracic Culture and European Respiratory Culture Joint Assertion: What Constitutes an Adverse Result of Air Pollution? and gained the 2017 American Thoracic Society’s Public Assistance Award. Professor Thurston has also been a pioneer investigating the human health co-rewards of climate transform mitigation, first publishing in Science on the situation in 2001
Matthew Alvarado potential customers AER’s Study and Development Division, liable for scientific investigation in the areas of air excellent, satellite distant sensing, numerical climate prediction, physical oceanography, local climate science, cloud microphysics, and seasonal forecasting. Dr. Alvarado’s analysis skills features atmospheric chemistry, air high quality, and radiative transfer modeling. He has led many profitable investigation initiatives as a principal investigator for government, non-earnings, and marketplace purchasers. A scientist at AER because 2010, Dr. Alvarado obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Local weather Physics and Chemistry from MIT and was a Postdoctoral Investigation Fellow in Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard University.
Grzegorz Peszko is a Direct Economist in the Atmosphere, Pure Useful resource and Blue Economy Worldwide Follow of the Planet Bank. He earlier labored in the EBRD, the OECD, the Krakow University of Economics, the Polish Ministry of Setting, the Harvard Institute for Worldwide Progress, consulting corporations, Polish Radio and Television set and as a tram driver. His study, plan and undertaking get the job done concentrate on integration of financial, fiscal, electricity, environmental and local weather economics and policy. He has over 25 many years of experience in regulatory, power, environmental and purely natural means economics as properly as in economic and fiscal instruments throughout the world’s locations and countries. Mr. Peszko was the lead creator of the IPCC 3rd Assessment Report and participated in the style and design of flexible mechanisms underneath the Kyoto Protocol. He revealed extensively and served in the board of an academic journal. He holds a PhD in economics from the Krakow University of Economics, MSc in pure source economics from the University College or university London and MSc in Political Sciences from the Krakow Jagiellonian University.
