David G. Victor

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David G. Victor
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David G. Victor is a professor of international relations at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Victor is also an adjunct professor in Climate, Atmospheric Science & Physical Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Education[]

Victor received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his A.B. in History and Science from Harvard University.

Career[]

Victor is the co-director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (ILAR)[1] and of the campus-wide Deep Decarbonization Initiative,[2] which focuses on real world strategies for bringing the world to nearly zero emissions of warming gases.

At UC San Diego, Victor and the ILAR researchers analyze how international agreements function and why some agreements are much more effective than others. ILAR's research looks at all major areas of international cooperation, including environment, human rights, trade and investment. The lab also conducts experimental research to investigate how humans make the complex decisions that are typical of designing and implementing international agreements.[3]

Prior to joining UC San Diego, Victor served as director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) at Stanford University,[4] where he was a professor at Stanford Law School and taught energy and environmental law. PESD is an international, interdisciplinary program that draws on the fields of economics, political science, law, and management to investigate how the production and consumption of energy affect human welfare and environmental quality.[5] The program was funded by a $7.5 million grant from the oil giant BP.[6] Earlier in his career he also directed the science and technology program at the Council on Foreign Relations and led one of the first major assessments of the effectiveness of international environmental law at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.[7]

Victor was a convening lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).[8]

In 2016, Victor was appointed to Co-Chair, The Brookings Institution Energy Security and Climate initiative.[9]

In 2018, Victor filed a report as an expert witness on behalf of the federal government in the Juliana v. United States climate case, arguing that the United States government should bear no responsibility for climate change, due to the global nature of the problem and the "historical inevitability" of the development of the fossil-fuel energy system, among other reasons.[10][11]

Books[]

  • Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet, Cambridge University Press, 2011.[12]
  • Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming, Princeton University Press, 2004.[13]
  • Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2004[14]

References[]

  1. ^ ilar.ucsd.edu
  2. ^ "Deep Decarbonization Initiative".
  3. ^ "Research".
  4. ^ "FSI | PESD - David G. Victor".
  5. ^ "FSI | PESD".
  6. ^ "$7.5 million for energy-market research". Stanford Report. June 20, 2007.
  7. ^ "David Victor".
  8. ^ https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg3/ipcc_wg3_ar5_chapter1.pdf
  9. ^ "David G. Victor". 2016-09-06.
  10. ^ Yeo, Sophie (October 24, 2018). "How the Government Will Defend Itself Against Young People Suing Over Climate Change". Pacific Standard.
  11. ^ "Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States of America, et al. August 13, 2018 Expert Report. David G. Victor" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  12. ^ Victor, David G. (2011-03-10). Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet. ISBN 978-0521865012.
  13. ^ Victor, David G. (2004). The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming. ISBN 978-0691120263.
  14. ^ Victor, David G. (2004). Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options. ISBN 978-0876093436.
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