Gary Yohe

Gary Wynn Yohe is the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of economics at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, and Director of the John E. Andrus Public Affairs Center at Wesleyan. He holds a PhD from Yale University.

Yohe specializes in Microeconomic theory, Natural Resources, and Environmental Economics.[1] He is a researcher on the economics of climate change and integrated assessment modelling. Among other works, he is an editor of the book Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change and co-author (with Edwin Mansfield) of Microeconomics: Theory and Applications. He is a senior member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was awarded a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.[2] He has been involved with the IPCC since the mid 1990s, has served, among other capacities, as a Lead Author for four different chapters in the IPCC Third Assessment Report, and as Convening Lead Author for the last chapter of the contribution of Working Group II to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Yohe also worked with the Core Writing Team to prepare the overall Synthesis Report for the entire Assessment.[3]

"[H]e continues to work for the IPCC as it begins preparations for the Fifth Assessment Report that will be published in 2013. Dr. Yohe is also a member of the New York City Panel on Climate Change and the standing Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the National Academy of Sciences. He is currently serving on the Adaptation Panel of the National Academy of Sciences' initiative on America's Climate Choices and the National Research Council Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations."[4] He is also a standing member of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change.

He is one of the four co-signers of an open letter, dated March 12, 2010, from the IPCC regarding reports concerning possible errors in the IPCC "Fourth Assessment Report."[5]

Yohe regularly advises the US government.[6] He also frequently appears in the media.[7][8][9][10]

References

  1. ^ http://www.wesleyan.edu/econ/newteachingfields.html
  2. ^ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/press.html
  3. ^ http://www.wesleyan.edu/econ/newbios.html
  4. ^ http://www.wesleyan.edu/coe/thinktank/fellows.html
  5. ^ http://community.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2010/03/open_letter_from_us_scientists_on_climategate1.pdf
  6. ^ Senate hearing on the Stern Review
  7. ^ http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=59CD2384-E7F2-99DF-30A2AF2A5555875A Scientific American, Nov 26, 2007
  8. ^ http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/global-warming-cost.htm USA Today May 2, 2007
  9. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2DB103FF931A35752C0A9659C8B63 New York Times, Jan 2, 2003
  10. ^ http://edition.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/03/06/sea.level.enn/ CNN, Mar 6, 2000
  11. ^ http://fixtheclimate.com/component-1/the-result-prioritization/ OECD tax rising over time, to reduce carbon emissions

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