UN’s COP28 climate summit: IU experts available to comment

Jessica O’Reilly, associate professor of international studies, is currently leading IU’s delegation at the UN’s climate change conference, COP28, in Dubai. She can comment on the COP generally, as well as climate policy and governance, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Global Stocktake, the signature event of the meeting.

Kelly Eskew is a clinical professor of business law and ethics in the IU Kelley School of Business. She teaches in the areas of climate law and policy, business and human rights, sustainability law and policy, and business and global poverty alleviation.

Hilary E. Kahn is associate vice chancellor for international affairs at IU Indianapolis and Indiana University associate vice president for international affairs. She is an associate professor of anthropology, editor for the “Framing the Global” book series with IU Press, and a member of APLU’s Commission of International Initiatives Executive Committee. She is also the chair of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of International Education.

Siân Mooney is a professor and the dean of the top-ranked O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. She has worked on complex, multidisciplinary issues that affect environment, natural resources and society. 

Luis Fernando Chaves is an associate professor in the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. He has been studying insect vectors and the diseases they transmit since he was an undergraduate in Venezuela.

Ben Kravitz, an expert in climate modeling studies of solar geoengineering, is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at IU Bloomington. He is the co-founder and coordinator of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project, or GeoMIP, a collaboration between climate modeling centers throughout the world to better understand the expected climate effects of various geoengineering scenarios.

Christine Picard is an associate professor in the Department of Biology and the director of the Forensic and Investigative Sciences program at IU Indianapolis. She is also the co-director of the Center for Environmental Sustainability Through Insect Farming, an NSF-funded research center dedicated to advancing insects as food and feed.

Landon Yoder is an assistant professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He researches farmers’ decision-making on soil conservation practices, such as cover crops, and the governance challenges of reducing water-quality degradation from agriculture. He can comment on the management factors that farmers consider when deciding to adopt cover crops and the value of cover crops as a natural climate solution.