Dan Galpern is an environmental and climate attorney and policy analyst. Since 2011, Dan has served as legal and policy adviser to the climate scientist James E. Hansen. He is also founder, General Counsel and Executive Director of Eugene, Oregon-based Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative, a non-profit, public interest organization that works nationally and internationally.

We reached Dan in The Hague, Netherlands, where he has been monitoring the just-completed proceedings before the International Court of Justice concerning the legal obligations of states in respect of climate change. Dan has also discussed the ICJ proceedings in at least two of his recent blog entrees at cprclimate.org/archive/blog/

This EinStrong Foundation episode summarizes some of the main findings of the October 2024 United Nations Environment Programme report on the emissions gap between promised and actual action against climate change No More Hot Air… Please! The episode also discusses what individuals, organizations, and governments can and should do to curb climate change. The podcast introduces listeners to the EinStrong Foundation’s groundbreaking technology that will help donors give directly to individuals in need while taking steps towards environmental and educational justice.

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While the U.S. and other national governance systems are arguably not taking sufficient and certainly not sufficiently urgent action against climate change, other inroads may work better. Further, new behavioral science shows new ways of persuading both corporations and individuals to think and act in better ways in relation to climate change. In this episode, EinStrong law and policy director Myanna Dellinger, Esq., will talk with Dr. Kristian S Nielsen of Cambridge University about private and public climate governance for climate change mitigation in the U.S. and beyond.

Dr. Kristian S Nielsen is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Kristian received a PhD from Copenhagen Business School in 2019 with a dissertation examining the role of self-regulation in environmental behavior change. Kristian's current research focuses on behavior change in the context of climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable clothing consumption.