Dennis Tirpak

Dennis Tirpak is an expert on Climate Change.

He was the director of Global Climate Change Policy at the United States Environmental Protection Agency for ten years. He was the Coordinator of Science and Technology at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for nine years. He was the head of the climate change unit at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for three years. He has also worked on the Montreal Protocol and held positions in industry with Texaco and Alcoa.

He is one of the coordinating lead authors of the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore in 2007 .He currently advises national governments and industry as an associate with the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Canada and a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C.

He was the Chairman of The International Scientific Steering Committee for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change Symposium on Stabilisation of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations which took place at the invitation of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2005.

In 1989 he co-authored the first report to Congress The Potential Effects Of Global Climate Change on the United States and has written a scientific and policy history on climate change and contributed to many publications including the New York Times in an op-ed titled How Green is My Taxi

See also

• Global Warming
• Montreal Protocol

Joel Smith and Dennis Tirpak. "The Potential Effects Of Global Climate Change On The United States." United States Environmental Protection Agency, Report to Congress, (December 1989)

Alan D. Hecht and Dennis Tirpak. "Framework Agreement on Climate Change: A Scientific and Policy History." Climatic Change 29, no.4 (April 1995)

Dennis Tirpak. "The Scientific Basis for National and International Policies, Instruments and Co-operative Arrangements" (December 2008) http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/presentations/poznan-COP-14/dennis-tirpak.pdf

References

Dennis Tirpak Biography http://www.oecd.org/speaker/0,3343,en_21571361_39644413_40652256_1_1_1_1,00.html

BBC Article on Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4234467.stm

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