Internationally acclaimed energy-policy expert and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Daniel Kammen will present at Brickworks in Friday Harbor, Oct. 23. Kammen will speak on and facilitate a discussion about local and global climate and energy solutions.

“Dramatic changes are taking place in the energy options available to people, communities and nations interested in pursuing low-carbon pathways,”  Kammen said.

Kammen will describe the successes and challenges that are taking place in homes across the globe in implementing successful low-carbon pathways focusing on small community scale efforts to decarbonize, to actions on the national scale in the European Union, United States and China. He will also examine and discuss the prospects for a global accord in the upcoming Paris climate talks, and what this could mean for energy and climate risks worldwide.

Kammen is a distinguished professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley and the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory.

He has been a lead author on reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1999 and shared the IPCC’s 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”

He is on the Advisory Committee for Energy and Environment for the X-Prize Foundation and served as the World Bank Group’s chief technical specialist for renewable energy and energy efficiency.

The reception starts at 6:30 p.m. and the talk begins at 7 p.m., sponsored by San Juan Islands Conservation District, Islands Energy, and OPALCO. For more info visit www.sanjuanislandscd.org or call 360-378-6621.