Authors & Contact links
The Greenhouse Development Rights framework was developed and modeled by Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou of EcoEquity and Sivan Kartha and Eric Kemp-Benedict of the Stockholm Environment Institute. The authors can be contacted at gdrs_authors@googlegroups.com .
Paul Baer
Paul Baer is an internationally recognized expert on issues of equity and climate change, with training in ecological economics, ethics, philosophy of science, risk analysis and simulation modeling. He completed his PhD in 2005 at UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group; his dissertation examined the interconnection between equity, risk and scientific uncertainty – three topics at the heart of the climate problem. He also has a BA in Economics from Stanford University and a Masters in Environmental Planning and Management from Louisiana State University. He recently completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at Stanford University’s Center for Environmental Science and Policy, addressing the interaction of climate change and forest fire in Alaska. He is currently the Research Director for EcoEquity (http://www.ecoequity.org), a climate-advocacy organization he co-founded in 2000 with Tom Athanasiou, with whom he also co-authored the 2002 book Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming (Seven Stories Press). His recent work includes High Stakes: Designing Emissions Pathways to Reduce the Risk of Dangerous Climate Change (with Mike Mastrandrea, published by the Institute for Public Policy Research).
Tom Athanasiou
Tom Athanasiou is a long-time left green, a former software engineer, a technology critic and, most recently, a climate justice activist. His interests have wandered from the nature and limits of artificial intelligence technology to, most recently, injustice as, in itself, a wellspring of ecological crisis. Tom is the author of Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor and the co-author of Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming. In the late 1990s, Tom began to focus on global climate justice. In 2000, with Paul Baer, he founded EcoEquity, an activist think tank focused on the development and promotion of fair and potentially viable approaches to emergency climate stabilization. This work has taken shape as the Greenhouse Development Rights Framework. Tom is now the director of EcoEquity. In his spare time, he is developing a new book, the working title of which is A New Deal for the Greenhouse Century.
Sivan Kartha
Sivan Kartha is a Senior Scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute whose research and publications pertain to climate change and sustainable development. He is Director of SEI’s Climate and Energy Program, focusing on equity and efficiency in the formation of an international climate regime, and has worked with policymakers, private sector actors, foundations and NGOs in countries throughout the world. Sivan also works on the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the burgeoning
biofuel economy in developing countries.
Eric Kemp-Benedict
Eric Kemp-Benedict is a Senior Scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute. His work focuses on sustainable development planning and scenario analysis. Past and current projects include scenario development for the Global Scenario Group, UNEP›s Global Environment Outlook, the Comprehensive Assessment of Freshwater in Agriculture, and studies in West Africa, the Baltic Sea, and China. In his facilitation and capacity-building work, he actively develops and applies tools and methods for participatory and study-specific sustainability analyses. As a scenario modeler, he specializes in the development of application-specific models within a participatory framework. In addition to scenario analysis and scenario modeling in general, Dr. Kemp-Benedict’s particular areas of interest include water, livestock and land use, poverty and income distribution, and social dynamics.