The Center for Environmental Policy, American University School of Public Affairs, presented��the William K. Reilly Awards for Environmental Leadership to George McGraw, Founder and CEO of DigDeep, and Environmental Justice Pioneer, Vernice Miller-Travis on April 17, 2024.��

Co-sponsored by the WCL Program on Environmental and Energy Law and E&W Law.

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The Inflation Reduction Act:
Climate and Energy Progress and Opportunities
March 21, 2024��

The��Center for Environmental Policy, in partnership with ICMA, the World Resources Institute and the Security and Sustainability Forum convened the “Inflation Reduction Act: Climate and Energy Progress and Opportunities" symposium at ArentFox Schiff on March 21.��Speakers focused on the ways in which communities of all sizes and in all locations are working towards a clean energy transformation and climate resilience.��

Keynote speaker Tonantzin Carmona, Senior Advisor for Policy and Implementation at the Department of Treasury discussed elective pay, the innovative tool that allows local governments and nonprofits to take advantage of IRA benefits quickly and with limited red tape. She outlined the criteria and avenues for accessing federal tax credits using elective pay.

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WaterPitch! The Water Startup Matching Extravaganza, March 19, 2024

Co-hosted by CEP, this one day event matches water startup founders & entrepreneurs, investors & funders, clients & entrepreneur support organizations throughout North America and around the world to advance innovative solutions for water challenges.��

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Alternative Tuesdays February-May 2023 at 1pm EST

This webinar series, sponsored by American University’s Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) and the not-for-profit think tank Energy Innovation, reframes causes and solutions of climate change as “sectoral” issues. Over six 75-minute webinars, experts introduced the problem and presented the challenges and successes of efforts to cut emissions in the energy, industry, transportation and buildings, and land use sectors. The final session featured a roundtable discussion on possibilities for implementing a more “sector-based” analysis to complement extant theories of change in the climate mitigation space.

Neither mitigator nor adapter: Climate neglect and denial in a vulnerable Brazil (2013-2021)

April 28, 2022, 1:30-3:00 pm (ET)

In this installment of the����series,��Joana Castro Pereira, Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI) and Eduardo Viola, of the University of Brasilia will share their research on the��politics of climate change neglect and denial in Brazil. As��one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters (accounting for approximately 3% of global emissions), Brazil is also highly vulnerable to climate change.��

Presenters will share the main policies implemented in the country’s major emitting sectors, and the potential and limitations of the national climate change adaptation plan as well as the challenges to its implementation. Focusing on the 2013-2021 period, presenters will discuss the policies implemented in the country’s major emitting sectors, the potential and limitations of the national climate change adaptation plan as well as the challenges to its implementation.

Looking Ahead: A Roadmap for Healthy Air & Equitable Climate Action for the Biden Administration

Thursday February 4, 2021 | 3:00pm��- 4:30pm EST

This event was featured a conversation about opportunities for the Biden-Harris Administration to advance climate action and the promise of the Clean Air Act - healthy air for all communities. On this virtual panel we heard the perspectives of an environmental justice leader, a state air regulator, a legal expert and a utility industry official.��In order to ensure healthy air, immediate action on climate change is critical. In this discussion, subject matter experts explored ways the Administration can help to deliver equitable and health-focused climate solutions by supporting full implementation of the Clean Air Act, improving air quality monitoring technologies and reporting, fostering the growth of clean, non-combustible energy and low-emission and zero-emission vehicles, and other promising approaches.

This event was hosted by The American Lung Association and American University's Centers for Environmental Policy and Environmental Filmmaking

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A Good Life on a Finite Earth��wins Charles Levine Prize

Each year, the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on the Structure of Governance sponsors the Levine Prize, named in honor of Charles H. Levine, an acclaimed member who served on the editorial board of its official journal, Governance. A distinguished committee awards the prize to the best book on comparative administration or public policy published in the previous year.

This year’s committee has selected “A Good Life on a Finite Earth: The Political Economy of Green Growth,” by CEP Director Daniel J. Fiorino, as the 2019 recipient of the Levine Award.