"Speaking Truth to Power"

Small font | Large font  Print Page

Programs Offered

CEPP

Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP)

The Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP) at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) aims to bridge the gap between environmental theory and policy implementation.  It integrates interdisciplinary environmental theory and policy implementation through its seminars, workshops, and conferences. CEPP’s programs seek to educate, direct and motivate those in environmental public policy.  In particular, CEPP activities are geared to help fill the local and global need for competent environmental managers who are adept at policy-making within the context of limited and varying resources.

Recognizing that public policy is by nature interdisciplinary, CEPP aims to bring together faculty across the Berkeley campus.  It also draws on resources outside of the Berkeley campus through its Environmental Policy Practitioner in Residence and Visiting Lecturers programs.  Combined, this team represents some of the nation’s leading academic researchers, practitioners, and advocates of environmental public policy.  

Faculty

UCB Affiliates

Visiting Scholars

Contact Information

Phone: (510) 643-4762    Email: cepp@berkeley.edu

Topical Interests

  • Climate Change at Global and Regional Scales
  • R&D Policy in Developing and Developed Nations
  • Innovations in Environmental Technologies
  • Policies to Facilitate Distributive Power Generation and Clean Energy Systems
  • Water Policy and Politics
  • Environmental Agency Management
  • Not In My Backyard (NIMBY)
  • Regional Air Quality Policy
  • Environmental Policy Education
  • Environment, Trade and Green Markets
  • Corporate Environmental Management
  • Comparative Environmental Policy and Legal Structures
  • Environmental Quality Monitoring and Compliance
  • Environmental and Economic Development
back to top

Environmental Policy Seminar Series

Special Event

Spring 2008 Seminar Series

  • April 16: The Role of U.S. State Climate Efforts
    Featured Speaker: Josh Bushinsky, Western Policy Coordinator, Pew Center on Global Climate Change Post Federal Policy Passage
  • March 19: Greenhouse Gas Management: An Energy Company Perspective
    Featured Speaker: John Cain, Principal Carbon Management Advisor, Chevron Corporation
  • Feb 2008: China’s Role in Global Warming
    Featured Speaker: Robert Collier, Visiting Scholar
  • Special Event: January 31: Focus the Nation Global Warming Solutions for America
    Featured Speakers: Fran Pavley, Former California State Assemblywoman; Dr. Steven Chu, Nobel Prize Laureate. Director of LBNL; Fabian Nunez, Speaker of the California State Assembly

Fall 2007 Seminar Series

  • November 28: China's Global Environmental Footprint
    Featured Speaker: Dr. Peter Bosshard, Policy Director at International Rivers
  • October 31: Challenges to Financing Energy Development Projects in Africa
    Featured Speaker: Aaron Zubaty, VP, Renewable Energy Acquisitions at MAP
  • September 27: British Energy Policy- Delivering on UK and EU Climate Change Goals
    Featured Speaker: Susie Gilbert, Economic Adviser for the UK Government
  • Special Event: October 2: BERC Annual Lecture
    Featured Speaker: Dr. Michael Walsh, Executive Vice President of the Chicago Climate Exchange

Spring 2007 Seminar Series

Fall 2006 Seminar Series

  • September 27: From Science to Regulation – Air Quality Successes & Challenges
    Featured Speaker: Peter Hess, President of the Air & Waste Management Association
  • October 16: Better regulation--2 years into the Barroso Commission Download pdf
    Featured Speaker: Ragnar Lofstedt, Professor of Risk Management and the Director of King's Centre of Risk Management, King's College London, UK
  • November 8: Climate Change Science and the Supreme Court
    Featured Speaker: Inez Fung, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, UC Berkeley
  • Special Event: November 28: The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
    Featured Speaker: Dimitri Zenghelis, UK government economic adviser who spent the last year working with Sir Nicholas Stern on the Stern Review on Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown

Spring 2006 Seminar Series

  • March 6: Corporate Social Responsibility
    Featured Speaker: David Vogel, Solomon P. Lee Distinguished Professorship in Business Ethics at Haas School of Business, Professor of the Political Science Department
  • April 4: Crossing borders for water in the Middle East
    Featured Speaker: Clive Lipchin, Research Director of Arava Institute North America
  • May 1: Caleep Initiative
    Featured Speaker: Roland Hwang, Vehicles Policy Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Special Event: February 16-17: California and the Future of Environmental Policy

Fall 2005 Seminar Series

  • October 31: Dive In: The Future of the Oceans & 5 Big Reasons Why You Should Care
    Speaker: Kate Wing, Oceans Policy Analyst, Natural Resources Defense Council
  • November 8: AB 1493 California’s Landmark Climate Change Legislation Covering Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    Featured Speaker: Fran Pavley, California Assembly member & Sponsor of AB 1493
  • December 1: Integrated Approaches for Air Quality Progress
    Featured Speaker: Deborah Jordan, EPA Region IX Air Division Director

Spring 2005 Seminar Series

  • February 17: International Environmental Law in Real Time
    Featured Speaker: Neil Popovic, Shareholder, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP & Lecturer in International Environmental Law at Boalt Hall
  • April 6: What Can Electric Utilities Do to Reduce their Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
    Featured Speaker: Adam Diamant, Manager of Economic Analysis, Electric Power Research Institute’s Global Climate Program
  • April 20: Policy and Innovation in Environmental Technologies for Power Production
    Featured Speaker: Margaret Taylor, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy

Fall 2004 Seminar Series

  • October 15: The Changing Nature of Regulation in Europe
    Featured Speaker: Ragnar Lofstedt, Professor of Risk Management, King’s College, London
  • November 10: Water and Land-Use: The New Policy Convergence in California
    Featured Speaker: Paul Stanton Kibel, Environmental Law Partner, Fitzgerald Abbott & Beardsley & Adjunct Professor, Golden Gate University School of Law
  • November 18: U.S. Climate Policy Initiatives at the State and Local Level Featured Speaker: Dr. Mark Trexler, President of Trexler Climate and Energy Services (TC+ES)
  • December 1: Paying for Government Environmental Functions Featured Speaker: Michael O'Hare, Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UCB

Spring 2004 Seminar Series

  • March 15: The Impacts and Management of Genetically Modified Varieties in Developing Countries
    Featured Speaker: David Zilberman, Professor, College of Natural Resources, UCB
  • April 12: The Role of Management-Based Environmental Regulation
    Featured Speaker: Cary Coglianese, Professor, Harvard JFK School of Government and Irvine Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School
  • May 3: Modular Regulation
    Featured Speaker: Daniel A. Farber, Professor, Boalt School of Law, UCB

Fall 2003 Seminar Series

  • Oct 20: Solar Power Niche Player or Major Energy Option?
    Featured Speaker: Mason Wilrich, Nth Power Technologies
  • Nov 17: Energy and the Presidential Candidates
    Featured Speaker: Dan Kammen, Professor, Energy Resources Group and the Goldman School of Public Policy & Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory
  • Dec 8: Payments for Environmental Services: To Whom, Where and How Much? (see linked paper)
    Featured Speaker: Alain de Janvry, Professor of Agricultural & Resource Economics and Public Policy

Spring 2003 Seminar Series

  • Feb 10: Integrated Environment Management: Quality and Transparency
    Featured Speaker: Raul Arriaga, Undersecretary of the Environment of Mexico
  • Jun 2: Workshop: Corporate Environmental Performance and the Effectiveness of Government Interventions
    Featured Speakers:
    • Determinants of Environmental Compliance: Plant, Firm, and Enforcement Factors Wayne B. Gray, Clark University and Ronald J. Shadbegian, University of Massachusetts
    • haping Corporate Environmental Behavior: The Impact of Enforcement and Non-Enforcement Tools Donald Haider-Markel, University of Kansas
    • Tracking Deterrent Messages in Environmental Enforcement Robert A. Kagan, Neil Gunningham, Dorothy Thornton, U.C. Berkeley
    • Normative, Social, and Calculated Motivations for Compliance: Marine Facilities and Water Pollution Peter J. May, University of Washington
    • The Effect of Government Actions on Innovation in Environmental Control Technology Margaret Taylor, UC Berkeley
  • Special Event: May 12: General Deterrance and Corporate Environmental Behavior
    Featured Speakers: Robert Kagan, Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLC) and Dorothy Thornton, Associate Researcher CLSC

Fall 2002 Seminar Series

  • Nov 4: We Can Only Solve ALL of the Worlds's Environmental Problems
    Featured Speaker: Huey Johnson, President of Resource Renewal Institute
  • Nov 6: Self-Enforcing Climate-Change Treaties: A Strategic Analysis Featured Speaker: Roy Radner, Stern School of Business, New York University
  • Dec 2: Cal/EPA's Accomplishments to Date and Priorities for the Next Four Years Featured Speaker: Winston Hickox, Secretary of California EPA
back to top

International Environmental Capacity Building Program

GSPP's offers a certificate course in Strategic Management of Environmental Policy.

Agency: Mexico's Ministry of the Environment (SEMARNAT) and the National Institute of Ecology (INE)
Participants: Highest ranking state and federal environmental authorities
Dates: Ongoing
Location: Mexico
Next session: Summer/Fall 2008
Sponsors: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - Government of Mexico (SEMARNAT) & National Institute of Ecology (INE)

back to top

Environmental Policy Practitioner in Residence and Visiting Lecturers

Past CEPP-Sponsored Courses

Water Policy in the West

This course provides a survey of the history, legal framework, stakeholders and current pressing debates regarding the allocation of western water resources. Although much of the seminar focuses on California water policy issues, other regional issues are also addressed including those affecting the Pacific Northwest and the larger Colorado River Basin.

Co-Lecturers: Paul Stanton Kibel and Michael Hanemann
Location: GSPP
Offered: Fall 2005

Paul Stanton Kibel is a partner with the water and natural resources practice group at Fitzgerald, Abbott & Beardsley in Oakland. He holds an LL.M. from U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall Law School and a B.A. from Colgate University. Since 2001 he has served as Co-Chair of the Natural Resources Subsection of the California State Bar, and he has previously taught Urban Environmental Policy at Stanford University and Golden Gate University School of Law. He is the author of the several books and articles relating to water policy.

Michael Hanemann is Professor of Agricultural Economics at U.C. Berkeley and with the faculty of GSPP.

A User’s Guide to the Making of Environmental Policy

This course explores the often overlooked details that policy makers encounter when creating environmental policy. This seminar hosted international guests from the World Bank, EPA, NGOs and other institutions working on environmental issues.

Lecturer: Juan Carlos Belausteguigoitia
Location: GSPP
Offered: Fall 2001

Juan Carlos Belausteguigoitia is an Environmental Policy Practitioner in Residence. Prior to his semester at GSPP, Dr. Belausteguigoitia served as the Planning Undersecretary at the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources of the recent Zedillo administration. His responsibilities included environmental education and training, decentralization, environmental information and statistics, regional development, regulatory improvements and development programs. His office was the first Undersecretariat in the Mexican Government to be certified by the International Standards Organization (ISO).

back to top

Last Updated:  08/2008