Past Events

On October 19th, the Kleinman Center will award its fourth annual Carnot Prize for distinguished contributions in energy policy to the Honorable Piyush Goyal, Indian minister of railways and coal.

Join the Kleinman Center and the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology for a panel discussion on methane and climate action, featuring Ben Ratner from the Environmental Defense Fund and Catherine Hausman from the School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. 

Three years after the climate summit in Paris, the euphoria has largely evaporated. Although we agreed on targets holding the temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 °F), there has been little sign of additional ambition in climate change mitigation since. 

Daniel Raimi, a senior research associate at Resources for the Future, discusses his new book, The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution.