David Victor
(Erik Jepsen, UCSD)
David G. Victor, professor at UCSD’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, will lecture on how regulation affects major energy markets around the world on Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 6 p.m. at the Solana Beach Library. Victor holds the Cowhey Center for Global Transformation Endowed Chair in Innovation and Public Policy and is co-director of the UCSD campus-wide Deep Decarbonization Initiative, which focuses on real world strategies for bringing the world to early zero emissions of warming gases.
He is an adjunct professor in climate, atmospheric science & physical oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Victor has taught energy and environmental law at Stanford Law School. He was a lead convenor of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations sanctioned international body with 195 country members that won the Nobel Prize in 2007. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Victor is the author of Global Warming Gridlock, recognized as one of the best books on energy issues of 2011. In 2022, published by Princeton University Press, he co-authored Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World. He lives in Solana Beach and his children attend school in Solana Beach and Del Mar.
Join the event at 6 p.m.at the Solana Beach Library, located at 157 Stevens Avenue, Solana Beach, 92075 on Tuesday, Nov. 14. The event and parking are free. The Lecture Series is co-sponsored by Solana Beach Community Connections and Friends of the Solana Beach Library.
If you’re a senior and need transportation to this event, contact info@SolanaBeachCC.org.
