[Note: The California Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA) became InterEnvironment Institute in February 2010. CIPA continues as a program of IE. See the home page for details.]

InterEnvironment Institute has followed climate change issues since the late1980s, both in California and at the international level. Several InterEnvironment Board members and Senior Fellows are involved in policy research and development on climate change and closely related problems.

Workshop at the 2008 IUCN World Conservation Congress

Click here for information about "Climate Change as an Opportunity for  Conservationists to Build New Alliances," an InterEnvironment-sponsored workshop at the Barcelona Congress. Panelists included InterEnvironment Senior Fellows John Davidson and Dan Mazmanian, and InterEnvironment President Ted Trzyna.           

InterClimate Network

InterEnvironment Institute assisted in starting a new international initiative called InterClimate Network, and Institute President Ted Trzyna is on its Advisory Board.  

Based in the United Kingdom and launched in June 2008 with a major three-year grant from Barclays Bank, InterClimate Network is led by John Davidson (brief biography). Its first project, the International Climate Challenge, focuses on involving those under 25 years of age, especially 16-to-19-year-olds, in finding solutions to climate change, starting with causes and effects of global warming in their local areas. This project works mainly through secondary schools. The expectation is that student participants will engage their families and, though them, local and national leaders.

The first stage of this InterClimate Network project involves 50 schools each in parts of England and Kenya. The second stage will do the same in the Indian state of Maharashtra (Mumbai and Pune). Further stages may include schools in the Cape region of South Africa and a feasibility study for including California in the program.    

InterClimate Network's main academic partner organization is the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute.

The new organization's Web site, www.InterClimate.org, is under construction.

Other international involvement

InterEnvironment Institute is accredited to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and participates as an observer at meetings of the Convention's Conference of Parties. Most recently, Ted Trzyna and John Davidson attended the 2007 annual meeting (COP 13) in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

In Brazil, working in partnership with the Brazilian Foundation for Conservation of Nature, InterEnvironment Institute has explored using innovative approaches to carbon sequestration through forest protection and restoration.

California

Climate change is being included in InterEnvironment's California activities described elsewhere on this Web site (see the home page).

In California, InterEnvironment has advised the Public Health Institute on increasing awareness of projected impacts of global climate change on public health in the state.

Revised 2/2011.