How very, very sad. My condolences to all those of you whom knew him
closely. The world has lost a critical voice!
Susi
On 9/8/2016 5:17 AM, Roberts, J. Timmons wrote:
I want people to know that a giant in the scholarly and policy world
of climate justice died yesterday, Paul Baer. He was a brilliant
scholar, a strategic thinker dedicated to making an impact in this
unequal world, he was kind, and he was often troubled. Below is pasted
a memoriam written by Tom Athanasiou., his longtime collaborator at
EcoEquity.org. Their 2002 book /Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global
Warming/ (http://catalog.sevenstories.com/products/dead-heat) had a
big impact on my work, and Paul and Tom showed me around the UN
negotiations hall in 2003 in Buenos Aires. Paul your ideas were an
inspiration to me. We will miss you.
Timmons
In Memoriam: Paul Baer (1962 – 2016)
pbaer-smThis morning, while preparing for a meeting, I learned that
Paul Baer, my friend and EcoEquity’s co-founder, had just committed
suicide. If you’re also a friend of his, you may know part of the
story, which was long and often agonizing.
Paul and I met in late 1999, just before the dramatic 6^th Conference
of Parties in The Hague. I was giving a brown bag talk up at the
Lawrence Berkeley Lab, one called “After the Kyoto Protocol.”
Afterwards, we talked and talked, and it turned out that we agreed on
a very great deal indeed. What better way to celebrate such accord
than to found an organization? Thus, EcoEquity was born.
The tragedy of Paul’s death is underscored by the fact that it
occurred just before the Paris Agreement enters into force. When it
does, it’s going to thrust us into a world of new complexities, and
new possibilities. And, no doubt, new infamies. It’s a world he
should have lived to see, and to work within.
Back in 2002, Paul and I wrote a book together, one called Dead Heat:
Global Justice and Global Warming
<https://smile.amazon.com/Dead-Heat-Global-Justice-Warming/dp/1583224777/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473285723&sr=8-1&keywords=dead+heat+global+justice>.
(We were trying for a broad audience, so we used the J word). It’s
still a nice piece of work, though we were at the time too heavily
influenced by per-capita approaches to global climate equity. I know
Paul would agree with this judgement, because he was a co-developer,
along with myself and Sivan Kartha of the Stockholm Environment
Institute, of the Greenhouse Development Rights framework (archived
here <http://gdrights.org/>), which went on to have a considerable
influence on the global fair-shares debate. GDRs, in case you don’t
know, evolved into the Climate Equity Reference Project
<https://climateequityreference.org/>, and Paul’s fingerprints are all
over it.
Here, from a 2015 grant proposal, is Paul’s last bio:
“Paul Baer is an internationally recognized expert on issues of
equity and climate change, with training in ecological economics,
ethics, philosophy of science, risk analysis and simulation
modeling. Paul has been the Research Director for EcoEquity since
2000, when he co-founded the group with Tom Athanasiou, with whom
he also co-authored the 2002 book /Dead Heat: Global Justice and
Global Warming/ (Seven Stories Press). Together with Tom and
colleagues at the Stockholm Environment Institute, he is a
co-author of the Greenhouse Development Rights framework, an
influential equity-based proposal for sharing the costs of global
climate policy. His work has been published in a number of
interdisciplinary journals and several published anthologies,
including /Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change/ (Adger et
al., eds. MIT Press 2006), /Climate Change Science and
Policy/ (Schneider et al., eds, Island Press 2009) and /Climate
Ethics: Essential Readings/ (Gardiner et al., eds, Oxford
University Press, 2010).
From 2009-2013 he was on the faculty of the School of Public
Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he taught
statistics, climate policy, environmental policy, and ecological
economics. He holds a PhD from the Energy and Resources Group at
the University of California, Berkeley, as well an MA in
Environmental Planning and Management from Louisiana State
University and a BA in Economics from Stanford University.”
Bye Paul. I am so sorry for your trouble. Really sorry.
Tom Athanasiou
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Timmons
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www.climatedevlab.brown.edu <http://www.climatedevlab.brown.edu>
Collaboration|Impact|Mentorship|Sustainability|Justice
Just out June 2016: /The Globalization and Environment Reader/. Peter
Newell and Timmons Roberts.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118964136.html
J. Timmons Roberts
Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology
Brown University https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jr17
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, 2012-14
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